Since the beginning of the Eclipse Foundation in 2004 we have had two corporate logos, both of which happened to be the same logo as used by the Eclipse IDE. For a long time that was a good idea, as the Eclipse IDE was definitely our flagship project.
However, as the role of our Foundation has changed, that has made less and less sense. With exciting new technologies such as Jakarta EE, IoT, machine learning, quantum computing, etc., tying our identity to just one of our 350 projects makes it a lot more difficult to explain. Our visual identity needs to line up with our role as a platform and environment for developers and organizations to collaborate.
To that end, we are going to soon be rolling out a new logo and website look-and-feel for the Eclipse Foundation. Our web team lead Christopher Guindon has blogged about what the new website look-and-feel will be like. It includes both a refresh in the look and feel, while still making it simple for developers to get to their favorite projects and downloads.
But first, I get the exciting job of sharing our new logo with the world. We really like it, and hope you do too!
