Blog Posts

    An $8.7 Billion Shared Investment: Sizing the Economic Value of Eclipse Community Collaboration

    Monday, September 10, 2018 - 17:08 by Thabang Mashologu
    What is the value of the code contributed by the Eclipse community? Inspired by a 2015 Linux Foundation study of the value of open source collaboration, we estimate that the roughly 162 million total physical source lines of code in Eclipse repositories represent an $8.7 billion USD shared technology investment...

    How many lines of open source code are hosted at the Eclipse Foundation?

    Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 13:46 by Benjamin Cabé
    Spoiler alert: 162 million! That’s right, as of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects hosted at the Eclipse Foundation and if you look across the 1120 Git repositories that this represents, you will find over 162 million physical source lines of code. But beyond this number, let’s look...

    Open Source for the Greater Good

    Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 12:15 by Thabang Mashologu
    The Eclipse Foundation is joining forces with IBM and other leading organizations in the Call for Code initiative to promote the development of open source solutions to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. The Foundation is proud to support tackling one of the world’s greatest challenges through the creation of...

    We Are Open

    Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 14:31 by Thabang Mashologu
    Back in April, our Executive Director Mike Milinkovich blogged about a new logo and redesigned website for the Eclipse Foundation. Our new branding is meant to reflect the Foundation’s role beyond the Eclipse IDE. We are proud of our heritage and successfully launched the Eclipse Photon release recently to a...

    Eclipse Marketplace Client, Photon Edition not opening in certain cases

    Friday, June 29, 2018 - 10:30 by Christopher Guindon
    The Eclipse Marketplace Client, Photon edition has a bug where it fails to open in certain cases. If nothing happens when you try to access the Eclipse Marketplace via “Help > Eclipse Marketplace”, please update the Marketplace Client plug-in by doing the following: Go to Help > Install New Software...

    Jakarta EE, Eclipse MicroProfile and Cloud-Native at EclipseCon France

    Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 15:59 by Tatjana Obradovic
    These are exciting times for the Java community! EclipseCon France (ECF) 2018, the first ECF since Oracle contributed Java EE to Eclipse Foundation, surely reflected that. The Jakarta EE brand, now firmly accepted by the community, received heightened visibility at ECF via a track dedicated to Jakarta EE and related...

    Jakarta EE Marketing and Social Media Update

    Tuesday, June 26, 2018 - 13:13 by Thabang Mashologu
    I recently read a great post about the often misunderstood, yet important role of marketing in open source community advocacy. To paraphrase the author, open source marketers succeed when they deliver relevant content to developers and commercial decision makers, enable communication, and highlight the achievements of community members. That thinking...