I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at Open Source Community Day 2025 in Madrid. This two-day event gathered attendees and speakers involved in EU research projects all over Europe. It is not my usual crowd, so it was interesting to see how this community works. I must...
A few years ago, I noticed that things were changing in the Eclipse Foundation's (EF) IT operations: we were adding servers, and lots of them. Trays of 3U mega-machines, packing 14 compute units each, with on-board switches, immense fans and drawing much electrical power, providing our community with CPU cycles...
The global software ecosystem runs on open source infrastructure. As demand grows, we invite the businesses who rely on it most to play a larger role in sustaining it. Open source infrastructure is the backbone of the global digital economy. From registries to runtimes, open source underpins the tools, frameworks...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The discussions regarding inclusion of new specifications in Jakarta EE 12 continued in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. Jakarta Query and Jakarta NoSQL are the most likely candidates. In addition, potentially fold the Jakarta Debugging Support for...
The second edition of the Jalapeño unconference was held in Cancun, Mexico September 13-14. The intention by having it this weekend was to get the Mexican Java community to be able to bring their family for the long weekend since September 15 is a holiday in Mexico. This didn’t really...
Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I attended Community Over Code 2025 in Minneapolis. And, as I am writing this, I am in Cancun for this year’s edition of Jalapeño. Jakarta EE 12 moves forward toward the first milestone. We are still...
Community Over Code is a very community oriented conference, and the 2025 edition was no exception. It is by and for the ASF committers and projects. The usual greeting phrase is not “What is your name?” , “Where are you from?” ,or “Where do you work?”, but rather “What (Apache)...
The OpenHarmony Technical Conference in Florence on September 3, 2025, served as a pivotal gathering, showcasing a vibrant and rapidly expanding ecosystem for smart devices. Far more than just a series of technical talks, the event highlighted the strategic collaboration between OpenAtom OpenHarmony and Eclipse Oniro, positioning Oniro as a...
The Eclipse SDV Working Group’s progress is reflected not only in the growing number of member companies and projects, but also in the community’s deepening engagement, as confirmed by recent analysis spanning the last two years of Eclipse SDV’s activity within the EU-funded FEDERATE initiative. Founded in 2022, the Eclipse...
Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege of expanding my open source developer advocacy to include countries in the Global South — Brazil last year, and Nigeria this year. What struck me during these trips is that a country lagging behind wealthier, industrialised economies doesn’t mean being left...