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Open Source: Can you afford not to get involved?

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 15:33 by Thabang Mashologu

Recently, the streaming data analytics startup Confluent announced that it had closed a $125 million Series D funding round. With the company’s value pegged at $2.5 billion, Confluent became the latest open source “unicorn.”

To say that the open source community is on a roll would be an understatement.

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Jakartablogs.ee is Live! PS: Bloggers, We Need You!

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 05:24 by Thabang Mashologu

Just in time for the Eclipse 5.1 GA release January 29, 2019, we are happy to announce that our new Jakartablogs.ee blog aggregator is live!

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Participate in the 2018 Eclipse Foundation Brand Survey

Friday, November 2, 2018 - 16:03 by Thabang Mashologu

2018 has been a busy year so far! The Eclipse Foundation introduced a new Foundation logo, revamped the www.eclipse.org website, launched the Jakarta EE brand, and the list goes on. 

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Welcome Jameka

Friday, October 5, 2018 - 14:29 by Thabang Mashologu

I am thrilled to announce that Jameka Woodberry has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Marketing Specialist based in Europe.

Jameka comes to us from SAP, where she managed marketing programs for the EMEA region. Jameka has an MA in Business Psychology and an MBA in International Business with a focus on Marketing and Communications. Her wonderful personality and ample experience will be great assets to the Eclipse community.

Jameka is originally from California and is currently based in Wiesloch, Germany.  

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An $8.7 Billion Shared Investment: Sizing the Economic Value of Eclipse Community Collaboration

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 17:08 by Thabang Mashologu

What is the value of the code contributed by the Eclipse community? Inspired by a 2015 Linux Foundation study of the value of open source collaboration, we estimate that the roughly 162 million total physical source lines of code in Eclipse repositories represent an $8.7 billion USD shared technology investment by our community.

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Open Source for the Greater Good

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 12:15 by Thabang Mashologu

The Eclipse Foundation is joining forces with IBM and other leading organizations in the Call for Code initiative to promote the development of open source solutions to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. The Foundation is proud to support tackling one of the world’s greatest challenges through the creation of sustainable technology that helps people. We encourage the Eclipse community to contribute their considerable talents to this worthy cause!

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We Are Open

Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 14:31 by Thabang Mashologu

Back in April, our Executive Director Mike Milinkovich blogged about a new logo and redesigned website for the Eclipse Foundation. Our new branding is meant to reflect the Foundation’s role beyond the Eclipse IDE. We are proud of our heritage and successfully launched the Eclipse Photon release recently to a global base of over 4 million active users.

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Take Your Code to the Next Level with Eclipse Photon

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 17:48 by Thabang Mashologu

The Eclipse Photon release is here and available for download!

Join over 4 million active users of the Eclipse IDE and take your coding to the next level with Eclipse Photon.

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Jakarta EE Marketing and Social Media Update

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 - 13:13 by Thabang Mashologu

I recently read a great post about the often misunderstood, yet important role of marketing in open source community advocacy. To paraphrase the author, open source marketers succeed when they deliver relevant content to developers and commercial decision makers, enable communication, and highlight the achievements of community members.

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Updates to our Privacy Policy

Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 18:32 by Thabang Mashologu

As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect across the European Union on Friday, May 25. GDPR sets out to  provide individuals with more control over their personal data. 

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