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Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The due date for submitting plan reviews for specifications that are candidates for Jakarta EE 11 is May 30. And that date is fast approaching! The pull requests for those that are ready are labeled as Plan Review in...

This was my second time speaking at Infoshare in Gdańsk, Poland. The conference is pretty huge. Rumor has it they were expecting more than 6500 participants over two days, and the exhibition floor was absolutely massive! With a focus on startups, investors, marketers, and the like, the audience on the...

Most of what we do at the Eclipse Foundation happens in public. Our mailing lists and code repositories are open to all. Anyone can freely download, modify, and redistribute our code and slide decks with little to no strings attached. This kind of openness is the mark of truly successful...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is only a little over a week until the plan reviews are due for the component specifications. You can check out the content of the reviews in the pull requests labeled Plan Review in the Jakarta EE Specification...

Open VSX working group forming, March and April contributor awards to Rodrigo Pinto and the STMicroelectronics respectively, JKube 1.12 release, and 1.36 and 2023-02 community releases of Theia

The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools contributor award for September goes to Yining Wang for her contributions to github.com/eclipse/openvsx and github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org, it's deployment at Open VSX Registry.

This year, EclipseCon is set to take place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, from October 16 to 19, 2023. This year’s conference is already shaping up to be a must-attend event for the entire community. With a new program chair and significant changes to the tracks, EclipseCon 2023 promises to be an...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am back from my trip to Devoxx UK, and this time I will enjoy 10 days at home before heading off to Gdańsk to speak at Infoshare 2023. I had a talk there in 2021 as well, so...

The 10th edition of Devoxx UK was just as awesome as the previous ones. Even with train strikes looming over London, the attendance was, by my guesstimate, somewhere around 1200. This was my fourth speaking appearance at the conference since 2016, It is always a pleasure coming back to London...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am home from an absolutely amazing Devoxx Greece 2023! The 1200 of you that were there know what I am talking about. But don’t despair if you weren’t able to attend this conference. A new opportunity comes up...