EclipseCon 2010 Demographics

each year when people register for eclipsecon we ask a small number of questions to better understand who is attending. as is the tradition , i publish the data so everyone can get a feel for who was at eclipsecon.

for eclipsecon 2010, the top line summary is that the attendee profile continues to be very technical and very experienced with eclipse. a common misconception is the eclipsecon is only for committers and people building eclipse based products, however 30% are using eclipse as a tool platform for internal it development and 19% are building internal applications based on eclipse. another take away is that the attendee profile is very very similar to 2009.

year of experience using eclipse

73% of attendees have been working with eclipse 3 or more years. as you can imagine this is a very experienced crowd at eclipsecon.   frankly as eclipse is more established i am not sure how useful this question becomes.  maybe we should ask “how long have you been using equinox or emf”?

hard core technical

once again eclipsecon demonstrates it is a conference for hard core technical people. 67% considered themselves a developer or architect, and if you include development managers that numbers is 77%.  next year i think i will start a club for us marketing types; maybe we should even get special shirts.

a diverse community

often people will say to me eclipsecon is for people working on the eclipse projects , meaning the attendees are committers or employees of member companies. in fact, only 33% said their companies create commercial eclipse based products (typical of companies working on eclipse project). 30% use eclipse as the tool to build internal applications and 19% use eclipse as the platform for their internal application. there continues to be a lot of enterprise developers attending eclipsecon.

popular projects

the most popular projects being used by eclipsecon attendees continue to be jdt, emf, rcp, equinox, mylyn, etc. we didn’t include a list of all the eclipse projects but i don’t think this ranking should surprise anyone.

thanks to everyone that completed the registration questions.   see you next year at eclipsecon 2011 !

from http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/eclipsecon-2010-demographics/