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Dec 10, 2010The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) resigns their seat on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC).
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Dec 09, 2010The Eclipse Foundation opened nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community Awards.
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