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As promised in my last post, today we are rolling out the new Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). As I mentioned earlier, if you already have an active Eclipse CLA, you don’t have to do anything….your CLA remains active and you can convert to the new agreement when it expires after...

In addition to overhauling our IP processes, next week the Eclipse Foundation will be updating our contributor agreements. The changes we’ll be making include: Rename the CLA to the “Eclipse Contributor Agreement” or “ECA”. The reason we’re doing that is that in many circles within the free and open source...

Last month we announced the Eclipse IoT Day @ Thingmonk on September 12 in London, UK. We have now added two new speakers: Boris Adryan from Zühlke Engineering will be talk about Information Models and Ontologies for IoT. I first met Boris when he was speaking at a previous Thingmonk...

One of my favourite IoT events is the Thingmonk conference produced by Redmonk. The speakers and attendees are always amazing and provide great insight into the IoT community in the UK and Europe. This year the speaker line-up for Thingmonk is looking awesome so I expect to learn lots again...

As part of the project creation process, the Eclipse Foundation assumes ownership of the project’s name. As a legal entity, the Eclipse Foundation owns all Eclipse project and corresponding product trademarks on behalf of the the Eclipse community. This prevents companies and others from misusing or misrepresenting their products as...

At our recent face-to-face Board meeting earlier this month, an agreement in principle was made to move ahead with the largest overhaul of our intellectual property processes since the inception of the Eclipse Foundation 12 years ago. Now, don’t get too excited because months of work are going to be...

The Eclipse Neon release is now out. I also noticed Eclipse Marketplace just passed the 20 million successful install milestone. Wow, that is a lot of developers using Eclipse Marketplace. For the Neon release, there are two key features that I think will accelerate the use of Eclipse Marketplace Client...

Presented by Antoine Thomas & Christopher Guindon. Eclipse projects often need to maintain user data or state information that can persist across multiple computers or workspaces. The Eclipse User Storage Service (USS) is here to help solve this problem. The Eclipse USS is a new storage service from the Eclipse...

I’ve been running various queries against our Git index database. I decided to see who are our longest standing contributors. I had to draw the line somewhere, so I set the cut off at 4,000 days between their first commit and their last. Here is the list of our longest...

In my last post, I made reference to all the people named Dave that have contributed to Eclipse over the years. I thought that I’d share a little more information about the query behind that. We maintain a database that indexes all of the commits in all of our Git...