Eclipse Foundation

What is Eclipse?

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 13:19 by Ian Skerrett

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 years, so we really want to know how people answer the question ‘What is Eclipse?’

Service Releases of Third Party Content in the Eclipse IP Due Diligence Process

Monday, April 3, 2017 - 16:59 by Wayne Beaton

Some time ago, the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors passed the following resolution.

RESOLVED, that previously approved dependencies of Eclipse projects can be reviewed and approved by the EMO as follows: a) Service releases (e.g. x.y., bug fixes, security fixes) will require no review. b) Minor revisions (e.g. x..) will require a reduced review by the EMO. c) Major revisions (e.g. ..) will require a full review by the EMO.

4 New IoT Articles — Eclipse Newsletter

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 07:54 by Roxanne Joncas

Each month, I work with various technical experts to create and publish a new issue of the Eclipse Newsletter. The theme changes every month; this month it was Eclipse IoT! The articles feature four great IoT projects: Eclipse Hono, Eclipse ioFog, Eclipse Kapua, and Eclipse Vorto. Thank you to the authors for taking the time to write this content.

Work on IoT that Matters

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 10:45 by Ian Skerrett

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 successful we need more example of how IoT can make substantial and meaningful change in our lives.

Open IoT Challenge 3.0 — Winners

Monday, March 20, 2017 - 06:07 by Roxanne Joncas

In case you missed the Eclipse IoT announcement last week, the Open IoT Challenge 3.0 winners were announced!

Run Eclipse IDE on One Version of Java, but Target Another

Friday, March 10, 2017 - 14:05 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (and the other Java developer variants) is itself a Java application that’s used to build Java applications. That relationship can be a bit weird to wrap your brain around.

I’m going to Devoxx US, and you should go as well!

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 10:13 by Mikaël Barbero

For the very first time, a Devoxx conference is happening in the USA, in San Jose, CA. It starts on March 21, 2017 and is 3 days long. Devoxx conferences are famous in Europe (organized in Belgium, France, UK, Poland and Morocco) for their high quality talks from amazing speakers. They are also very high rated because it is organized by developers for developers.

RFPs for new Friends of Eclipse Enhancement Program (FEEP) projects posted

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 06:25 by Mikaël Barbero

The Eclipse Foundation is actively seeking bids on 10 new FEEP Development Efforts, along with 5 outstanding Development Efforts that have not yet been bid. The objective is to have this work completed in the 1st quarter of 2017.

EclipseConverge 2017 Submissions are open

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 06:22 by Mikaël Barbero

The call for papers for EclipseConverge 2017 is open. It is the first step toward what ought to be another great Eclipse event. For those who may not know, Eclipse Converge is a new event for the Eclipse community. It is a one-day summit dedicated exclusively to Eclipse technologies, with the goal of allowing our North American developer community to meet and share ideas.

Back to school update on FEEP

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 06:15 by Mikaël Barbero

You remember the Friends of Eclipse Enhancement Program, right? It is a program that utilizes all the donations made through the Friends of Eclipse program to make significant and meaningful improvements and enhancements to the Eclipse IDE/Platform. I think it is a good time for me to provide you with an update about what we have done in the last quarter with this program.

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