Open source has won. Now comes the hard part
What the 2026 State of Open Source Report reveals about governance, sustainability, and why foundations matter more than ever.
Progress Update on IP @ Eclipse
As promised in my last post, today we are rolling out the new Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). As I mentioned...
Contributor Agreement Update
In addition to overhauling our IP processes, next week the Eclipse Foundation will be updating our contributor agreements. The changes...
Eclipse IoT Day @ Thingmonk: New speakers
Last month we announced the Eclipse IoT Day @ Thingmonk on September 12 in London, UK. We have now added...
Eclipse IoT Day @ Thingmonk
One of my favourite IoT events is the Thingmonk conference produced by Redmonk. The speakers and attendees are always amazing...
Eclipse Project Branding and Trademarks
As part of the project creation process, the Eclipse Foundation assumes ownership of the project’s name. As a legal entity...
Overhauling IP Management at the Eclipse Foundation
At our recent face-to-face Board meeting earlier this month, an agreement in principle was made to move ahead with the...
Eclipse Marketplace: Neon and 20 Million
The Eclipse Neon release is now out. I also noticed Eclipse Marketplace just passed the 20 million successful install milestone...
Longest Serving Eclipse Neon Contributors
I’ve been running various queries against our Git index database. I decided to see who are our longest standing contributors...
Eclipse Contributors Since the Beginning of Time
In my last post, I made reference to all the people named Dave that have contributed to Eclipse over the...
UUID Removal from Neon
Two weeks ago, we informed the Eclipse community cross-projects mailing list that a unique user id (UUID) had been introduced...
OMA Survey Points to Importance of Open Standards and Open Source
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) recently published a survey about the trends of open source and open standards in the...
These Are the Daves I Know
Over the years, many people have contributed to Eclipse projects, including some thirty-nine software developers (39) named Dave or David...