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I’m running for election to the affiliate member seat on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation. If you are an OSI affiliate organization, I would appreciate your vote. Here is a little information about why I am running for the...

Our Jakarta EE Working group is growing! Please meet our new member jadeva GmbH! We talked to the enthusiastic and engaging duo Stephan Zubke, CTO is one of the initial founders of the company, and Claudia Geiger, CEO of the company, who provided a bit more information about the company...

Intellectual property management is important for Eclipse projects. As a committer, you are our first line of defense when it comes to identifying and mitigating intellectual property issues. Over the past year or so, you’ve likely heard and seen rumblings of some of the innovations that we’ve been making in...

Dropping barriers to open up opportunities for contribution is a critical activity for Eclipse open source projects. Ideally, Eclipse open source project teams should be actively soliciting contribution, growing participation in the project, and otherwise being good open source citizens. Minimally, though, Eclipse project teams must engage in practices that...

Welcome to the sixty-first issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Tanja and I have been touring JUGs over the last couple of months. So far, we have visited JUGs (virtually) in India, South Africa, Sweden, Serbia, the USA, Poland, Germany, and Spain. And we don’t want to stop there! Please reach...

Since I last published a community update post in October, we’ve been busy in many areas focused on raising the profile of the Working Group and providing assistance to our projects. ECD Tools accelerates the adoption of Cloud IDE and container-based workspace management, through the adoption of standards, engagement with...

The Eclipse Foundation has a policy regarding the resolution and responsible disclosure of identified vulnerabilities. The short version is that this is one of the rare areas where open source transparency and openness ideals may be curtailed for a period of time while a vulnerability is addressed privately; but that...

Welcome to the sixtieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned last week, the release plan for Jakarta EE 9.1 has been published. The target release date is the end of March 2021. GlassFish 6.1 now compiles and runs on Java SE 11, and the work with getting it...

To help you keep track of everything going on in the Eclipse community, we’re publishing the 2021 editorial calendar for the Eclipse Community Newsletter. Here is what you can expect in your inbox each month:

Welcome to the fifty-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I wrote a post about Compatible implementations of Jakarta EE specifications and how to get listed on the specification pages. This week, we got LeadPony Joy 2.1.0 listed as a compatible implementation of Jakarta JSON Processing 2.0. Great work...