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In February & March 2017, we conducted the third annual IoT Developer Survey and 713 of you took the time to complete it! Thank you for contributing to this initiative. It might only a small sample, but it gives many IoT community, companies, and individuals a glimpse into what is...

In less than two weeks, we will be at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA. We’re really excited! We will be involved in many aspects of the conference including the Red Hat IoT Partner Showcase, where we will be demoing something very cool! Stay tuned for the details. Benjamin...

For the last 3 years we have been tracking the trends of the IoT developer community through the IoT Developer Survey [ 2015] [ 2016]. Today, we released the third edition of the IoT Developer Survey 2017. As in previous years, the report provides some interesting insights into what IoT...

The Eclipse Foundation is in the process of revising the Eclipse Public License (EPL). Refreshing a popular open source license is a big job, and one that we have been chipping away at for over a year. The EPL and its predecessor the Common Public License have been around for...

Last week we launched a survey to solicit opinions about open source foundations and the general Eclipse community. A key thing we hope to accomplish with this survey is to gauge how people perceive the Eclipse brand? The Eclipse community has substantially grown and change over the last number of...

Some time ago, the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors passed the following resolution. RESOLVED, that previously approved dependencies of Eclipse projects can be reviewed and approved by the EMO as follows: a) Service releases (e.g. x.y., bug fixes, security fixes) will require no review. b) Minor revisions (e.g. x..) will...

Each month, I work with various technical experts to create and publish a new issue of the Eclipse Newsletter. The theme changes every month; this month it was Eclipse IoT! The articles feature four great IoT projects: Eclipse Hono, Eclipse ioFog, Eclipse Kapua, and Eclipse Vorto. Thank you to the...

Tim O’Reilly use to talk a lot about encouraging people to ‘ Work on stuff that matters‘. Unfortunately, the IoT industry is often not the best example of this principle. The twitter feed ‘ Internet of Shit‘ chronicles IoT solutions that should never have been built. For IoT to be...

In case you missed the Eclipse IoT announcement last week, the Open IoT Challenge 3.0 winners were announced! And the winners are… Congratulations to the InMoodForLife team for coming in first. Their solution analyzes and monitors the sleep patterns of individuals affected by bipolar disorder. The goal of the solution...

The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (and the other Java developer variants) is itself a Java application that’s used to build Java applications. That relationship can be a bit weird to wrap your brain around. Written almost entirely in Java, the Eclipse IDE requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to...