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In an effort to provide a more robust solution to our Contributor Validation Service on GitHub, we created the Eclipse ECA Validation Github App that can be installed on any GitHub account, organization or repository. The goal of this new GitHub App is to make sure that every contributor is...

Today the Eclipse IoT Working Group announced major milestones as IoT’s largest Open Source community: 41 member companies, 37 projects, and 350 contributors. It’s hard to believe that it all started in 2011 with just three projects and the basic goal to reduce the complexity of developing machine-to-machine IoT solutions...

The Eclipse IoT Working Group launched the 2019 IoT Developer Survey earlier on in February. This is an annual survey that delivers valuable insight into programing languages, platforms and infrastructure for building IoT solutions. As always the results are shared with everyone. You can find the insights and key findings...

I am happy to announce that Frédéric Desbiens has joined the Eclipse Foundation as Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing. Frédéric joins the Eclipse Foundation from Pivotal Software where he was product manager for Pivotal's contributions to the Cloud Foundry open source BOSH project. Previously he worked at Cisco Systems...

The Eclipse IoT Working Group is pleased to launch the 2019 IoT Developer Survey. If you are involved in developing Internet of Things solutions and services, we want to hear from you! The purpose of the survey is to gain a better understanding of the requirements, priorities, and perceptions of...

Here’s to 2019! ? For 2019, the Eclipse Newsletter has some exciting topics that are coming your way. Typically, we feature articles written by technical experts from our community that revolve around a specific theme. Our goal with the newsletter is to deliver great content that educates, motivates, and inspires...

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. In...

Saturday, February 2, 2019 marks the 15th birthday of the Eclipse Foundation. That was the day that it was publicly and officially announced, and the opening day of the first ever EclipseCon conference. The creation of the Eclipse Foundation was quite an event at the time. It was really the...

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! Jakartablogs.ee is the new blog home for our global community to stay up to date on the latest Jakarta EE news, technologies, best practices, and...

One key difference between Eclipse open source software projects as defined by the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), and open source specification projects as defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process (EFSP) is that specification projects must be aligned with exactly one specification committee. More generally, specification projects are aligned with...