PDE Soiree
Chris Aniszczyk (IBM), Brian Bauman (IBM), Wassim Melhem (Embarcadero Technologies)
Eclipse As A Platform · Birds Of A Feather
Tuesday, 19:30, 1 hour 15 minutes | Room 209/210 | 
Chris Aniszczyk
Brian Bauman
Wassim Melhem
The PDE team is hosting a soiree!!!
The BOF will consist of PDE committers, PDE contributors, some Equinox committers and possibly those jaded Maven or old school OSGi folks :)
Come join the fun as we discuss:
- PDE's hidden treasures
- the profound impact that contributors have made to PDE in the 3.4 release
- how to make it easier for people to contribute to PDE
- new enhancements like plug-in spy and solving the identifier problem
- top annoyances in PDE
Chris Aniszczyk is an Eclipse committer at IBM Lotus who works on OSGi-related things. His primary focus these days is improving Eclipse's Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) and spreading the Eclipse love inside of IBM's Lotus organization. He is an open source enthusiast at heart, specializing in open source advocacy. He evangelizes about Eclipse in his blog, and he's honored to represent the Eclipse committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. He's always available to discuss open source and Eclipse over a frosty beverage.
Wassim Melhem is an Eclipse committer, blogger, and a program manager at Embarcadero Technologies leading the powerful PowerSQL IDE.
Prior to that, Wassim worked at the IBM Toronto laboratory for seven years where he led the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) since the Eclipse 2.1 release through to the RCP renaissance and into the new age of OSGi runtimes.
Wassim spent his early 20's sequencing DNA and implementing XML and Java code-generating tools for the MQSeries family of runtimes.
Wassim holds a Bachelor of Mathematics with Honors in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
