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As we posted yesterday, the EclipseCon conference is coming up next week. It will feature many open source movers and shakers, including Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. Mike previously held executive positions at Oracle, IBM and WebGain. Under his watch, the Eclipse Foundation has grown to over 185 corporate members worldwide, over 90 open source projects, and over 1,000 Eclipse committers. In advance of the conference, we checked in with Mike on what will be discussed there, and what he sees ahead for open source.

Next week, March 23rd to 26th, EclipseCon takes place in Santa Clara, California. Eclipse is a very large open source community focused on open develpment platforms, and extensible frameworks and tools, overseen by The Eclipse Foundation. The conference is an annual event, and this year's will feature a number of high-profile speakers, including developers and software leads from Microsoft, IBM and other companies and organizations. The first 30 OStatic readers who register for the conference can get a $300 discount (normally $1,795 if bought in advance) by entering the following code upon registration: OSTATECON09. Here's more about what to expect at EclipseCon.