The Friends of Eclipse program allows individuals to support and contribute back to the Eclipse community. Over the last several years, the program has been a great success and the donations help support many of the services provided by the Foundation. In 2014, participation in the Friends of Eclipse was...
Several weeks ago, the Git community announced a new 2.2.1 release which fixed a serious security vulnerability. You can read more here and here. The Eclipse JGit project had their fix available the day that the vulnerability was announced. However, since the vast majority of Eclipse users get their Eclipse...
A quick reminder to everyone that we are accepting applications for the Open IoT Challenge until next week, January 17. There are many exciting projects being proposed by developers all around the world, from wireless home automation solutions to geolocation solutions for quadcopters, and many more, so don’t wait and...
The feedback following the announcement of the Open IoT challenge has been fantastic! The good news is that we’ve already improved the prize pool, and we are also happy to announce that the best applications will be eligible to get $150 worth of hardware parts required to build the final...
2014 is almost over, and one of the first big events for Eclipse IoT next year will be EclipseCon 2015, March 9-12 in Burlingame, California. If you haven’t seen the EclipseCon program already, I highly encourage you to check out all the great sessions that we have selected as part...
The Internet of Things industry has taken off over the last two years. One activity I have been monitoring is how industry consortiums have been responding to IoT. At Eclipse IoT we have a goal of implementing open IoT standards, so understanding how different consortiums, old and new, are serving...
If you follow our regular IoT hangouts, you probably have seen this presentation of the Espruino Pico already: If you don’t, you really want to check out espruino.com! Espruino is an Open Source and Open Hardware project that provides a super-tiny implementation of Javascript that runs on micro-controllers. The Espruino...
Three years ago, Sierra Wireless, IBM and Eurotech teamed up to create a Working Group that would help address Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) market fragmentation by promoting the use of open source implementations and open standards. It’s incredible how much our community has grown since then, and...
This post was originally published on the Bosch Connected World Blog. The Internet of Things is poised to become the next wave of technology to fundamentally change how humanity works, plays, and interacts with their environment. It is expected to transform everything from manufacturing to care for the elderly. The...
This morning, the Eclipse Foundation announced a new industry initiative focused on building tooling platforms for the cloud. The team prepared an FAQ, but I thought it might be helpful to publish it here as well. What is being announced? Eclipse is announcing the formation of a new Top Level...