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I am extremely happy to let you know that The Apache Software Foundation (Apache, ASF) has joined Jakarta EE Working Group! Apache needs no introduction, but let me remind everyone about their involvement with Jakarta EE / Java EE community goes way back, with Apache TomEE and Apache TomCat implementations...

Here’s a scenario: you work for an organization that contributes to open source and you’ve hired a developer to work on your favourite open source project. You need to make them a committer. How do you do that? I get this sort of request every so often: “we’ve hired so-and-so...

“Developers don’t like marketing” — This comes from a common misconception about what marketing is and what we do. For the marketing team at the Eclipse Foundation, marketing means developer and community outreach, ecosystem building, and driving project awareness and industry adoption.

Welcome to the seventy-second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the Jakarta EE Platform call this week, we decided to ask the specification projects for feedback on whether October 15, 2021 is an achievable date for having their specifications ready for release. So far, the feedback has been positive. It...

Originally posted on October 26/2017. This post is based on a talk that Gunnar Wagenknecht and I delivered at the Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 and Devoxx US 2017. This content was published in the All Eyes on Open Source issue of JAX Magazine. Running an open source project is...

We’ve been fielding a number of questions lately about the intersection of our spec process and patents. A couple of these community discussions have gone off in directions that are off target, factually incorrect, or both. Therefore, the purpose of this short FAQ is to explain the patent license options...

On Tuesday, the Eclipse ioFog project team announced the release of Eclipse ioFog 2.0, and I invite everyone to join me in congratulating them and the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group for the achievement. Thanks to the community’s efforts, the release delivers new EdgeOps functionality that makes it faster and...

We’re excited to introduce you to the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast! This show aims to uncover valuable practical insights about building business through open source participation and commercial innovation. By speaking to people who are giving back to open source communities while running successful businesses, we hope to inform, engage...

The Eclipse Foundation Development Process (EDP) describes a release as anything that is distributed for adoption outside of the committers of a project (effectively, if you stamp something with a version number and tell the general audience to download it, it’s a release). Appropriately labeled nightly, integration, and milestone builds...

The Eclipse Theia project was born just 4 years ago. Kudos and thanks to all the organizations that have supported and built the project into the success that it is today. In addition to these original contributors, there continues to be significant growth in the number of companies contributing to...