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The Jakarta EE Platform Project calls are open for participation from anyone. If you are not able to attend a call, you can always browse to the Meeting Minutes for an update on the current discussion topics and decisions. So, how do I get started with contributing to Jakarta EE...

One of the key roles of he Eclipse Architecture Council is to maintain the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). Maintenance usually takes the form of an update every year or so. Updates to the EDP are approved by the Eclipse Board of Directors. The Architecture Council records issues that need to...

Edge computing, a distributed computing architecture that brings compute power and storage physically closer to applications in order to improve performance and increase efficiency, is forecast to generate a market worth $16.5 billion within the next five years (Allied Market Research, 2019). The Eclipse Foundation is the home of two...

The Eclipse Foundation has several agreements that we use to ensure that contributors understand the terms by which they make their contributions and, especially, to give them an opportunity to assert that they have the necessary rights to make those contributions under the terms of the corresponding project license. The...

I am happy to announce that my team is ready to deploy a new version of our GitHub Sync Toolset on November 26, 2019 from 10:00 to 11:00 am EST. We are not expecting any disruption of service but it’s possible that some committers may lose write access to their...

Now that Jakarta EE 8 has been available for a couple of months, I want to share news about some of the great committee work that’s been happening. I also want to tell you about our latest Jakarta EE-compatible product, and make sure you have links to the recordings of...

The Eclipse IoT working group is launching a campaign to identify the adopters of Eclipse IoT open source projects. Companies — whether or not they are working group members — can be listed as adopters. Adopters are organizations that voluntarily show their support for the Eclipse IoT projects they have...

I’ll start this discussion with some background… Under the original Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property (IP) Policy, every bit of third party content needed to be thoroughly reviewed before it could be used by an Eclipse project. And the reviews were thorough: license scan, provenance check, scan for anomalies, … Reviews...

Sharon Corbett drafted this message that the IP Team has been posting on some of our CQs. I’d like to share it more broadly. The Eclipse Board of Directors approved changes to the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy on October 21, 2019. The most significant change relates to how we will...

It has been a lot of talk about processes in the Jakarta and MicroProfile community lately, so I just want to remind us all about this item from the Agile Manifesto. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. https://agilemanifesto.org/ That said, some process is needed. Especially for work with specifications...