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Once again we are hosting an Eclipse IoT Day in London on September 11. Like last year, we are co-locating with the awesome Thingmonk event, one of my favourite IoT events of the year. Thingmonk brings together some of the best thinkers in IoT so it is always a great...

This week, the Eclipse Newsletter features 8 articles about LSP! What is LSP? It stands for the Language Server Protocol. A new protocol that aims at minimizing the adversity IDE developers and language developers face all the time. The LSP developed by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code, […] is a...

It is hard to believe the Eclipse IoT Working Group was launch over 5 years ago on November 1, 2011, at the time we called it Eclipse M2M. A lot has changed over these 5 years, including the name, and the IoT industry has matured to be one of the...

Today we are announcing the Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds, a new initiative for driving adoption of open source and open standards in the industry. For more than five years, over 30 open source projects have been calling Eclipse IoT home. Yet, it doesn’t necessarily make it easy for people to...

For the last 3 years we have been tracking the trends of the IoT developer community through the IoT Developer Survey [ 2015] [ 2016]. Today, we released the third edition of the IoT Developer Survey 2017. As in previous years, the report provides some interesting insights into what IoT...

Last week we launched a survey to solicit opinions about open source foundations and the general Eclipse community. A key thing we hope to accomplish with this survey is to gauge how people perceive the Eclipse brand? The Eclipse community has substantially grown and change over the last number of...

Tim O’Reilly use to talk a lot about encouraging people to ‘ Work on stuff that matters‘. Unfortunately, the IoT industry is often not the best example of this principle. The twitter feed ‘ Internet of Shit‘ chronicles IoT solutions that should never have been built. For IoT to be...

Next year’s Eclipse simultaneous release name has been chosen by the community. In 2018, the simultaneous release name will be Eclipse Photon! Personally, I think it’s an awesome name #EclipsePhoton. I can’t wait to see the design we come up with for the official release! I’m sure Kat Hirsch has...

We are planning another Eclipse IoT Day, this time in San Jose, CA on March 20. It will be co-located with Eclipse Converge and Devoxx US. In San Jose, the schedule will be highlighting many of the new projects and participants in the Eclipse IoT community, including: A session on...

The micro:bit is one of the best IoT prototyping platforms I’ve come across in the past few months. The main MCU is a Nordic nRF51822 with 16K RAM and 256K Flash. A Freescale KL26Z is used for conveniently implementing a USB interface as well as a mass storage driver so...