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My second trip to Barcelona in less than two weeks was to DevBCN. This community-driven conference is always a pleasure to speak at. And it doesn’t hurt that it is located in Barcelona… This time we had an Eclipse Foundation booth staffed by Carmen, Arjan, and yours truly. We even...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! There were no conferences for me last week. In the upcoming week, I am going back to Barcelona for DevBCN. As in previous years, we have a booth. You can find me there and have a chat about Jakarta...

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the successful implementation of two-factor authentication (2FA) for all committers on both gitlab.eclipse.org and github.com. This initiative, aimed at bolstering the security of our source code repositories, mandates that all users with write access to an Eclipse Project repository (commonly known as committers)...

On the 23rd of June in Songshan Lake, where the Huawei Developer Conference will take place, Oniro in cooperation with OpenHarmony is organising a workshop to present the opportunities created by the unique approach the cooperation between the two initiatives has taken. In an era where global collaboration is key...

Eclipsecon 23 was a blast for Oniro last year! We had an incredibly active participation, with talks, a booth featuring several demos, and a BoF session highlighting the new direction Oniro was taking. This year, Eclipsecon is evolving into the Open Community Experience (OCX), an exciting event where all the...

We’re excited to announce some of the early bird talks that will take place at OCX in Mainz, Germany, from 22-24 October 2024. OCX includes several collocated conferences, such as EclipseCon, Open Community for Java, and Open Community for Automotive, among others. EclipseCon will be the focal point for all...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This was again a busy week with two conferences back-to-back. First I went to Sofia, Bulgaria for JPrime before I continued to Barcelona, Spain for Spring I/O. Both conferences are great, well-organized events with a welcoming community. So, over...

This was my first time attending and speaking at Spring I/O. The conference is located in Barcelona and attracts around 1200 attendees from all over the World. The two-day conference has four parallel tracks as well as two workshop tracks. Spring I/O is an extremely well-organized conference. Everything flows smoothly...

Today, we are announcing the deprecation of the Eclipse User Storage Service SDK (the Eclipse project) and the Eclipse User Storage Service API (hosted and maintained by the Eclipse Foundation). The Eclipse User Storage Service (USS) API was created in 2015 to enable Eclipse projects to store and retrieve user...

JPrime in Sofia is one of my favorite conferences. The event has two tracks, which means that you always have a good crowd even if there is a superstar speaker in the other room at the same time. The venue has a big outdoor patio and is surrounded by a...