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The Eclipse Foundation's IoT and Edge Working Groups are conducting their annual Developer Survey. For reference, you can find the results and insights from previous years surveys here. Please take a few moments now to provide your input. This year's survey wraps up on October 5, 2021.

The Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors recently approved the creation of the Eclipse Automotive Top-Level Project. This new project provides a space for open source projects to explore ideas and technologies addressing challenges in the automotive, mobility and transportation domain. In a recent report [1.] 451 Research said, “The Eclipse...

On October 16th, 2020 the OSGi Alliance announced to its membership and community that it had entered into an agreement with the Eclipse Foundation to establish an Eclipse OSGi Working Group, and for the working group to be the home of the continued evolution of the OSGi specifications. Many of...

Automated driving and autonomous mobility are hot topics these days and open source software is playing an increasingly important role in their development. So, it’s not surprising that there are a few very interesting automotive and autonomous driving talks lined up for EclipseCon 2020. The automotive talks at EclipseCon 2020...

I am happy to announce that effective July 6th, Brian King will join the Eclipse Foundation as Cloud Development Tools Community Manager, with worldwide responsibility to drive community growth around open source cloud development tools. As Community Manager, Brian will join the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group to drive...

For the sixth year running the Eclipse IoT Working Group is conducting its Developer Survey. This year is like no other and what better way to understand how the pandemic is affecting the IoT landscape? Please take a few moments to provide your input. The survey wraps up on June...

The Jakarta EE Working Group has launched the Jakarta EE Developer Survey for 2020. This is an annual survey that delivers valuable insight into enterprise and cloud native programming, platforms, microservices and infrastructure. As always, the results will be shared with everyone. You can find the insights and key findings...

Sparkplug is an open source specification defining a protocol to improve the interoperability and scalability of IIoT solutions. In Orlando today at the ARC Advisory Group’s 24th Annual Industry Forum, the Eclipse Foundation announced the formation of the Sparkplug Working Group. The objective of the working group is to drive...

I am happy to announce that effective October 1st, Ivar Grimstad will join the Eclipse Foundation in the role of Jakarta EE Developer Advocate. Ivar is a well-known speaker on the international conference scene and presents often on Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile. He is active in the Jakarta EE...

The Jakarta EE Working Group is launching the Jakarta EE Developer Survey for 2019. This is an annual survey that delivers valuable insight into enterprise and cloud native programming languages, platforms, and infrastructure. As always, the results will be shared with everyone. You can find the insights and key findings...