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-<boardmember id="gwagenknecht" type="committer">
-
- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
-
- <title>Software Engineer</title>
-
- <image> gwagenknecht.png </image>
-
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <phone>+49-179-144-8657</phone>
-
- <contact><![CDATA[
- Joliot-Curie-Str. 6 <br/>
- D-99510 Apolda <br/>
- Germany <br/>
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>Platform UI Committer, EclipseCon 2006 PC Member, Plug-in Developer</eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
- <p>If I would be elected as your representative I'd like to actively participate in this role and take care that
- your requests and opinions are well recognized and presented in the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
- <p>
- In my current job I'm also a member of a Project Management Circle and responsible for analyzing and reviewing established
- development processes and tools. One goal of this circle is to harmonize the different tools, isolated applications and
- isolated processes grown over years in different teams and departments. Based on the experiences gathered in this circle
- and my background in software development processes and developing and contributing to Eclipse I'd like to start a review
- of the tools involved into your daily work and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. </p>
- <p>
- I don't want to rapidly change any tools or underlying processes. I want to collect your pain and discuss any issues you
- have with the tools or the processes with you and the board. If possible and desirable there will be a smooth evolution of
- existing and well established tools. For example, I recently opened bug 121703 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=121703)
- to start a discussion about the Bugzilla customization strategy. And if there is a need for a new tool, I'll make sure that
- you will get the best tool available that integrates as smart as possible in your daily work.</p>
- <p>
- My work will be transparent and open for you. I'll will blog about my activities and inform you about results and points we discussed.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>I'm a Software Engineer living in Germany. My experiences range from creating business applications, e-commerce web applications
- and software development tools till interacting with business partners and senior management and building and shipping
- commercial software products.</p>
- <p>
- I like fishing, diving, family and a good beer or a fine glass of red wine. Enjoy my blog at http://wagenknecht.org/blog/.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- My current employer was one of the early adopters developing a complete development environment based on Eclipse. I was
- responsible for the technical leadership of this development environment. We developed a lot extensions and successfully adopted
- Eclipse from version 2.0 till the latest 3.2 milestones.
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
-
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- <name>Howard Lewis</name>
- <title> <![CDATA[
- Advisor/Board Member SlickEdit Inc.
- <br/>
- President & CEO Discovery Machine Inc.
- ]]> </title>
- <image>hlewis.jpg</image>
- <email> hlewis@discoverymachine.com </email>
- <phone> 919-819-4310 </phone>
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Discovery Machine, Inc.<br/>
- 454 Pine Street<br/>
- Suite 1A<br/>
- Williamsport, PA,<br/>
- USA 17701<br/>
- ]]> </contact>
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- Mr. Lewis is currently the Add-In Provider Representative to the Eclipse Foundation for
- SlickEdit Inc. and Discovery Machine, Inc. He currently sits on the Board of the Eclipse Foundation
- and is a member of the Compensation and Membership Committees. He has been an active part of the
- Eclipse 'movement'for several years.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis remains dedicated to helping make Eclipse THE preeminent open source movement.
- Preeminent as both the most useful and vibrant open source community and the most widely
- adopted commercial tool and deployment framework. He will continue to provide special focus
- on the needs of the Software Development, Knowledge Leverage and Life Sciences domains. He
- will continue to stay in contact will all members of the Add-in Provider community and
- actively promote the needs and growth of this key Eclipse Foundation membership body!
- </p>
- <p>
- Focus Summary:
- <ol>
- <li>Promotion of member joint marketing, sales, and business development initiatives</li>
- <li>Continue to actively promote the adoption of mechanisms/channels to leverage the huge Eclipse pull for members</li>
- <li>Continue to work to align the Eclipse Foundation priorities with the intent of promoting the interests of smaller Add-in Provider companies</li>
- <li>Provide further definition and verification of the prospect of an accepted certification business model</li>
- <li>Focus on Foundation budget priorities to increase member marketing and sales success</li>
- <li>Improve useful and timely communications via newsletters, blogs, email leverage etc.</li>
- <li>Look for opportunities to promote the Foundation in Asia and other under represented geographies</li>
- <li>Look for innovative ways to step-up the pace of deployment on Linux and Mac</li>
- <li>Give proper priority and attention to the Eclipse infrastructure needs of the Embedded Systems, Application Development, Business Intelligence and Life Sciences domains/vertical business areas </li>
- </ol>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Experience Summary: Mr. Lewis has over 40 years of leadership experience in all facets of
- software and services companies. He has managed or performed all duties in startups and
- Fortune 10 companies, alike. Mr. Lewis is currently President and CEO of Discovery Machine,
- Inc., an Advisor to SlickEdit Inc., Patent Wizards International, and Nevalon Technologies
- LLC. Mr. Lewis currently serves on the boards of Discovery Machine, The National Modeling,
- Simulation, Analysis and Training Coalition, the Eclipse Foundation, and SlickEdit. He also
- is the Representative for SlickEdit and Discovery Machine in the Eclipse Foundation and the
- Discovery Machine Representative in the BioSPICE open source community.
- </p>
- <p>Work History/Accomplishments:</p>
- <p>2004-Present</p>
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis is currently President and CEO of Discovery Machine, Inc., an Advisor to SlickEdit
- Inc., Patent Wizards International, and Nevalon Technologies LLC. Mr. Lewis currently
- serves on the boards of Discovery Machine, The National Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and
- Training Coalition, and SlickEdit. He also is the Add-in Provider Representative for
- SlickEdit and Discovery Machine in the Eclipse Foundation and the Discovery Machine
- Representative in the BioSPICE open source community.
- </p>
- <p>2003</p>
- Mr. Lewis joined ePic International, Inc., at the request of the Board of Directors, as
- President and CEO. He was charged with leading the stabilization and re-definition of the
- JV relationships in Asia and Australia, re-doing the PPM and seeking new funding. In 2
- months he determined that the company was too flawed and too much in debt to continue
- operation. Mr. Lewis led the task of placing the company into Chapter 7. He has recently
- completed a consulting engagement for the US bankruptcy court appointed trustee to help
- bring maximum return to the creditors of ePic International.
- </p>
- <p>2001-2002</p>
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis joined SlickEdit, Inc. as an Advisor and was soon appointed President and COO. At
- SlickEdit he led the re-branding and re-launch of the company. He helped in creating Sales
- and Business Development, Marketing and Product Management, and Development and Customer
- Support positions and supporting processes. He also brought in a top-notch team to fill
- these roles.
- </p>
- <p>1999-2000</p>
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis joined NxView Technologies, Inc. after leading the pre-funding business case
- analysis that led to the creation of NxView. He was integral in creating the following
- positions and recruiting the world-class team to fill these positions. He held positions
- as General Manager, Exec VP of Products and Services, Vice President of Research and
- Technical Strategy, Corporate Client Relations Executive and COO, during the formation and
- successful launch of NxView. At his retirement he oversaw all research and validation of key
- technology directions for NxView.
- </p>
- <p>1995-1998</p>
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis joined SEER Technologies, Inc. after completing a comprehensive study of the Seer
- Methodology and successfully completed Seer's training programs for the Seer•Method and
- Seer•HPS. While at SEER, Mr. Lewis held the following positions: Sr. Consultant, Sales
- Consulting Manager, Consulting Director of Eastern North America and retired as VP of
- Customer Relationships. He was recognized with the Founders and Top Gun Awards (the only
- non-sales person to achieve recognition as the top sales leader in the company). He also;
- Lead the definition and implementation of a company wide Customer Relationship process and
- was responsible for key customer executive relationships around the world. He also led the
- definition and start-up of major consulting engagements, in the Transportation,
- Manufacturing and Services Industries, performing wide-ranging leadership tasks ranging from
- overall I/T strategy development through engagement management.
- </p>
- <p>1995-Present</p>
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis has acted as an independent consultant since his retirement from IBM. He provides
- strategic and tactical business development services out of his home offices in Raleigh, NC,
- Emerald Isle, NC, and Lodi, NY. He dedicates a portion of his efforts as pro bono services
- to help stimulate not for profit and for profit initiatives, worldwide. He remains dedicated
- to helping others achieve their deserved success!
- </p>
- <p>1965-1995</p>
- <p>
- Mr. Lewis spent 30 years with IBM in Software Development and Management. His role as a
- corporate executive for the Worldwide Software Service Process was defining and implementing
- the quality process definition and metrics for the IBM Company. Mr. Lewis represented IBM
- on Software Quality initiatives at numerous conferences worldwide, including guest lecturing
- at Motorola University. He was also responsible for advanced design and strategy for some
- of the world's largest and most successful operating systems and application development
- products. He received numerous awards for technology, business and management leadership and
- was elected President of his IBM Presidents Class. Additionally, Mr. Lewis oversaw the
- creation and management of strategic relationships for the IBM Application Development and
- Systems Management businesses.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <b>About SlickEdit, Inc.</b>
- <p>
- SlickEdit Inc. provides software developers with Multilanguage development environments and
- the most advanced code editors available. Proven on Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X
- platforms, SlickEdit products enable even the most accomplished developers to code faster
- and meet increasingly aggressive deadlines.
- </p>
- <p>
- SlickEdit's best-of-breed products have created an award winning tradition over its 17-year
- history. From the numerous customer-based awards such as the Linux World Reader's Choice
- award and Programmer's Paradise Top Seller awards to the Editor's Choice award from e-Pro
- Magazine and the Software Development Hall of Fame award, SlickEdit products continually add
- to and expand on the product foundation of quality, speed, power and flexibility developed
- years ago by founder and CTO, J. Clark Maurer.
- </p>
- <p>
- Along with producing award-winning products, SlickEdit is considered to be an Employer of
- Choice and has achieved recognition as one of the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 technology
- companies for four consecutive years. SlickEdit is committed to continuing this tradition of
- excellence.
- </p>
- <p>
- SlickEdit Inc. is a privately held, small business with headquarters in the heart of the
- renowned Research Triangle, NC. </p>
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Jochen Krause</name>
- <title>Managing Director, Innoopract</title>
- <image>jkrause.png</image>
- <email>jochen.krause@innoopract.com</email>
- <phone>(503) 608-7972</phone>
- <contact><![CDATA[
- Innoopract, <br/>
- Stephanienstr. 20, <br/>
- 76133 Karlsruhe <br/>
- Germany
- ]]>
- </contact>
- <eclipse_affiliation>Jochen is a member of the Webtools Project PMC and an active promoter of Eclipse in Europe</eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[My vision for Eclipse:
- <p>
- Making Eclipse a long-term success based on a broad community and a successful ecosystem.
- Eclipse is a fantastic success story built on great technology and Open Source - and as well
- on the broad number of large and
- small companies that support it. It will be pivotal for the long term success of Eclipse to foster business adoption
- as well as technological excellence. We need to be agile not only on the development side,
- but as well in steadily improving the Eclipse Foundation and the ecosystem.</p>
- <p>
- My three most important objectives:
- <ul>
- <li>Building the Ecosystem: strive for providing more value to membership (e.g.
- market data, member section on eclipse.org). Help to develop better networking and
- collaboration between members. Engage with members to provide success stories,
- use cases.</li>
- <li>Represent and promote the business interests of the Add-In Providers at the board, most
- of them small to medium sized companies</li>
- <li>Leverage an European based board representation to help add-in providers in an successful
- and rapidly growing European market.</li>
- </p>
- <p>Please contact me if you have any questions.</p>]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>As Founder and President of Innoopract, a recognized specialist in Eclipse distribution and
- visual web application development tools, Jochen has been pivotal for Innoopract's success in
- the Eclipse market. Jochen works closely with European fortune 500 companies to help them
- evaluate Eclipse and develop their strategies for basing their tool and / or application strategies
- on Eclipse. Over the last several years of helping these enterprises, he has gained a deep understanding
- of the opportunities and difficulties with Eclipse tool and service offerings, and the needs for
- effective distribution channels and promotion. </p>
- <p>
- Since Innoopract joined the Eclipse foundation in June of 2003, Jochen has played an active role in
- furthering the goals of the consortium and then the Foundation. He is a member of the Web Tools PMC,
- was a member of the Independent Entity Committee, has been a driving force behind promoting Eclipse
- in Europe, is a frequent speaker at events as well as regular author of articles on Eclipse and
- Eclipse projects. </p>
- <p>
- Innoopract's company strategy is entirely focused on Eclipse. The company offers an Eclipse distribution,
- Eclipse-based tools for Rich Internet applications, Eclipse consulting, Eclipse implementation, support
- and training. Innoopract is recognized as the leading provider of Eclipse services and consulting in Germany.</p>
- <p>
- Jochen holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and has an
- extensive business and technology background. He has been a successful entrepreneur in the software
- development space for 14 years.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p><a href="www.innopract.com">Innoopract</a> is a software and service company that helps developers and corporations
- make the most of their investment in development tools and platforms - based on Eclipse. The company was
- among the first Eclipse members in Europe and is a founding member of the Eclipse foundation. Innoopract
- provides products and services for the effective adoption of Eclipse in the Enterprise. Well known Innoopract
- tools are W4T and Yoxos - the Eclipse distribution. </p>
- <p>
- Innoopract is a member of the EclipsePluginCentral Alliance, providing a useful service to the Eclipse
- Eco-System: www.eclipseplugincentral.com. </p>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="jmcaffer" type="committer">
-
- <name> Jeff McAffer </name>
-
- <title> Senior Software Engineer </title>
-
- <image> jmcaffer.jpg </image>
-
- <email> jeff_mcaffer@ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <phone> +1 613 726 5531 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- 2670 Queensview Drive, <br/>
- Ottawa, Ontario, <br/>
- Canada K2B 8K1
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/equinox">Equinox</a> and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform">RCP</a> lead, Eclipse PMC member
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-We started Eclipse six years ago with a vision of a platform for composing function and creating toolsets for varying users in a wide range of domains. This has been a roaring success. The user-base and developer community have grown beyond our wildest dreams. Eclipse dominates the open source tooling market and the word "Eclipse" is now synonymous with "quality", "industrial strength" and "componentized".
-</p><p>
-The addition of many new language and tooling domains as well as RCP, OSGi and other technologies is a further testament to the draw of our technology and community. As a committer, you should be proud.
-</p><p>
-This success is not without challenges however.
-</p><p>
-<b>Growth :</b> The Eclipse community is growing by leaps and bounds. It seems every week there is a new project proposal to review. This is exciting but many of you have concerns about the strain this puts on the notions of quality and consistency that underly Eclipse. The good news is that tooling and infrastructure can help!
-<ul>
-<li>API and version management. API and versioning are at the heart of the Eclipse component model. The new plug-in versioning scheme helps you express your intent while efforts like the WTP API tools help you manage your use of API. Work in these areas should be continued, expanded, and promoted across all projects in Eclipse.</li>
-
-<li>Bug management. We need to look for new and innovative ways of handling the thousands of bug reports that flow into the system on a monthly basis. Whether it is automated duplicate searching or human assistance, we need help!</li>
-
-<li>Release engineering and build support. The new build farm is an excellent idea. We must continually look for additional infrastructure and ideas that make the life of a committer, your life, easier.</li>
-
-<li>New project support. Teams attempting to start a project at Eclipse need help such as standard layouts, processes and structures, project mentors, reviews and interaction from the rest of the community.</li>
-</ul>
-<br/>
-<b>Distributing your output :</b> The Callisto release train is a bold and valuable experiment for both the project teams and our consumers. We should press forward, make it a success, learn from it, repeat it and broaden its scope. In addition, we should invest in new and innovative ways of distributing Eclipse plug-ins. For example,
-<br/>- Plug-in repositories
-<br/>- BitTorrent Update sites
-<br/>- Dynamic download packaging
-<br/>- Packaging and delivery consistency across projects
-<br/>- Update technology investigation and use
-</p><p>
-<b>Synergies :</b> Eclipse has grown beyond the Platform, beyond WTP, beyond <any individual project>. There are tremendous untapped synergies lurking. RCP and BIRT, DTP, Higgins, ECF, etc., WTP and DTP, STP. Some individual project teams are interacting here and there, but the power and usefulness of Eclipse as a whole would sky-rocket with modest but widespread investments in integration. We should promote and facilitate this interaction.
-</p><p>
-Similarly, we increasingly intersect with other open source communities such as Apache. The Foundation can play a pivotal role in promoting collaboration and cooperation with these communities.
-</p><p>
-<b>Fine Print :</b> It is surprising how often a discussion related to open source software turns into a discussion of licenses, IP, export laws, .... As committers we typically have only a rudimentary understanding of what it all means but yet getting it right is vitally important. We should look for practical but effective ways of lowering the legal barriers that block your progress and prevent your output from being used. For example, fast turn-around on legal reviews, documents of understanding between parties, license clarification or modification as needed, dual licensing, ...
-</p><p>
-I would be honoured to serve as your representative and work to further the goals and ideas outlined above.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> Jeff leads the Eclipse Equinox and Eclipse RCP teams. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). He is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC and has been involved in Eclipse from the beginning. He is currently interested in helping realize Eclipse's original vision as a platform for composing general sets of application function to solve real problems. Previous lives included work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> IBM, OSGi Core Platform Expert Group member
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="kmaetzel" type="committer">
-
- <name> Kai-Uwe Maetzel </name>
-
- <title> Senior Software Engineer </title>
-
- <image> kmaetzel.jpg </image>
-
- <email> kai-uwe_maetzel@ch.ibm.com </email>
-
- <phone> +41 44 267 65 25 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Oberdorfstrasse 8, <br/>
- CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland<br/><br/>
- 15350 SW KOLL PKWY, <br/>
- BEAVERTON OR 97006, USA
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- 2005 Committer Representative on the Board of Directors,<br/>
- Platform and JDT Text Committer,<br/>
- JDT UI Committer
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <h4>The look back</h4>
- <p>I have been serving as committer representative on the Board of Directors since April 2005. The work areas I proposed in my first election statement were driven by our needs as committers. Back then, I had a limited understanding of how the Board directs the work of the Eclipse Foundation, and I didn't know to what degree or how quickly we could realistically expect solutions to our problems. After 10 months on the Board working with the Foundation - certainly an interesting and challenging environment - I have a good picture of how to work towards a solutions for our problems. Let's look back at the events and achievements that are particularly interesting for the committers.</p>
- <ul>
- <li>After initial problems during the introduction of the new infrastructure, the availability and reliability of the Foundation provided services have been significantly improved and stabilized to a high level. The Board and the Foundation are sensitive to the importance of a highly reliable infrastructure to the committers. The Foundation is constantly monitoring the availability of their services and reporting the data regularly to the Board.</li>
- <li>New infrastructure services such as live web stats, the wiki and, under the umbrella of the Barnraising Project, virtual servers for the projects have been introduced. Build environments for eclipse.org projects and tools allowing PMC and committers to self-manage their CVSs and bugzilla components are planned or already underway.</li>
- <li>Bug management is still missing the necessary improvements. This issue however is acknowledged by the Foundation and the 2006 budget allows the Foundation to address it.</li>
- <li>We all agree on the importance of the quality of our projects. In order to provide projects with an environment that allows them to mature effectively, the Eclipse development process has been refined. In addition, the eclipse.org dashboards mark the first attempt to visualize some aspects of quality.</li>
- <li>Cross-project committer meetings with associated code camps are beginning to take off. We have had meetings in Portland and Ottawa and will see a significant increase in number and frequency in 2006.</li>
- <li>The Callisto release train is recognized as a distinctive eclipse.org feature. The Foundation is ready to provide the necessary support to ensure the success of the release train. The planning council and the projects now need to define what form this support should take.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>What has been my personal contribution to these achievements? I worked with eclipse committers to identify issues hampering their work and to find possible solutions. I worked to form an alliance with the other committer representatives to solve these issues. We worked together to raise the awareness of the Board and the Eclipse Foundation staff of the problems, their possible solutions, and their potential financial impact. We spent a great deal of time in discussion, persuading the Board to support the implementation of solutions, and monitoring initiatives to ensure things were moving in the right direction. Yes, being a committer representative is a political task and, as a developer, I had to get used to it.</p>
- <p>The joint effort of all committer representatives on the Board - Scott, John, and I - helped to continuously focus the work of the Foundation on issues important for the committers. Go to Mike's blog where he writes about the <a href="http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/2005/11/open-budgeting.html">2006 budget</a>. Have a look at the "Projects and Committers" section of the proposed <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/2006BudgetPrograms">programs</a>. The section talks about infrastructure, quality, cross-team collaboration, and the Callisto release train. I hope you agree that these are the directions that will positively impact you as a committer.</p>
- <h4>Continuing to move forward</h4>
- <p>For 2006, we need to continue work in the areas we identified in 2005. We have made good progress, nevertheless, I believe these are still the important issues:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>infrastructure improvements</li>
- <li>technological innovation</li>
- <li>cross-project collaboration</li>
- <li>continuous focus on quality</li>
- </ul>
- <p>See the details in my <a href="2006/kmaetzel2005.php">original 2005 statement</a>. In addition, I'm convinced
- that making the Callisto release train a success must be a top priority. I'm a strong believer in the
- potential of the release train idea. It benefits us, the committers, and also the contributors and the
- entire Ecosystem. As a committer representative, in cooperation with the Planning and Architecture councils,
- I will help to promote the awareness and responsiveness of the Foundation to the requirements of the release train.</p>
-
- <p>I am ready to work hard to achieve solutions for these issues and the new issues that you, the committers bring forward.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Kai is one of the original committers
- on the Eclipse project and one
- of the three original developers of the Eclipse Java tooling. He was
- leading the Eclipse Platform Text component and was in charge of the editors of
- the JDT UI component. He teaches Eclipse tutorials, regularly gives presentations
- about Eclipse at conferences and in the industry, and has organized and
- participated in numerous code camps. Kai was lead of the UI side of the
- IBM VisualAge Micro Edition in its later days and authored its version
- and configuration management client component. Prior to joining OTI, and
- then IBM, he co-authored Beyond-SNiFF, a distributed, service-based IDE
- for large scale C++ projects commercialized as SNiFF+.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> IBM </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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- <p>The success of Eclipse is of genuine interest to the Eclipse committers.
- The success requires the committers to work effectively. As committer
- representative I will:</p>
- <ol>
- <li>Enable the continuous success of Eclipse.</li>
- <li>Communicate the varied perspectives and needs of the international
- Eclipse committer community to all the other parties represented by
- the Eclipse Foundation.</li>
- <li>Work closely together with all the other parties represented by the
- Eclipse Foundation to get their best possible support that continues
- to allow the committers to work effectively and to produce results that
- satisfy the needs of all the parties.</li>
- </ol>
- <p>In the scope of these general responsibilities, I would like to address
- the following in the next year:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>We must continue to improve our infrastructure. Last year we made
- progress. Considerable improvements are to be put in place in the spring
- of this year. In addition to actively supporting this process, improvements
- to our bug reporting system are necessary. Components dealing with high
- bug report traffic pay a non-trivial overhead for managing those bug
- reports. A considerable portion of the overhead is generated by the
- need to request the bug reporters to complete bug reports with required
- information such as build ids; by transferring the bug reports to the
- correct product and component; by identifying duplicates; and by explaining
- reporters what severity, priority, and state express and by whom they
- may be manipulated. Improvements to the bug reporting system can be
- implemented to minimize the overhead. Changes to be investigated are
- an improved bug reporting form, tool supported duplication identification
- and management, and a more fine grained rights management.</li>
- <li>The work on the first Eclipse projects was started about four years
- ago. They are maturing. This maturing can pose risks to technical innovation,
- if left unmanaged. In close cooperation with all the parties represented
- by the Eclipse Foundation we should explore what can be done to keep
- our development performance as high as it is and to sustain and extend
- our current technical leadership.</li>
- <li>Eclipse is the home of numerous projects that build onto each other.
- We, the committers, have to work with all the other parties to ensure
- a steady flow of contributions and concrete collaborations between the
- projects in order to let the projects’ scopes and boundaries naturally
- evolve beyond their initial specification. We should work with the Eclipse
- Foundation to explore options to encourage and foster these collaborations.</li>
- <li>We, the Eclipse committers, publicly connect our names with the brand
- ’Eclipse’. We are interested that the ’Eclipse’ brand gains reputation
- and sustains its level of quality. We should work with the Eclipse Foundation
- to explore ways in which the committers of new projects can be supported
- in adopting the essential process attributes of existing, successful
- Eclipse projects. Such attributes are starting small and concrete, convince
- by delivering, and grow on previous concrete successes.</li>
- </ul>
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- <h6>Quick Links</h6>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="../">Election Home</a></li>
- <li><a href="../nominees.php">Candidates</a></li>
- <li><a href="../keydates.php">Key Dates</a></li>
- <li><a href="../election_process.php">Election Process</a></li>
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-
<boardmember id="mtaylor" type="addin">
- <name> Mike Taylor </name>
-
<title> President/CEO Instantiations </title>
-
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- <email> mike_taylor@instantiations.com </email>
- <phone> 503 598-4911 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Instantiations, Inc. 18101 <br/>
- S.W. Boones Ferry Rd., Suite 200 <br/>
- Portland, OR 97224
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- Since 1999 my professional life has been focused around Eclipse. Building open
- source and commercial technologies, establishing a profitable Eclipse-based company, and growing the
- Eclipse community have been my priorities. Instantiations is all Eclipse all the time.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
- My vision is to:
- <ul>
- <li>Make Eclipse a powerful "profitability platform" for Add-in providers.</li>
- <li>Make the name "Eclipse" a competitive differentiator/advantage similar to "Intel Inside".
- <li>Increase ROI for Add-in Provider membership in the Eclipse Foundation.</li>
- <li>Create an "Eclipse User Council" that brings together key users (not necessarily members) from major
- industries (i.e. automotive, healthcare, insurance, etc, etc.) to offer suggestions to the Foundation on
- technology and marketing direction.
- <li>Implement an <a href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">"EPIC-like"</a> portal within eclipse.org that
- emphasizes Foundation members and gives each a highly visible zone in which to promote their products and
- services to the community and potential customers.</li>
- <li>and of course, to assure that Eclipse technology remains the best on the planet!</li>
- </ul> ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <ul>
- <li> Deeply involved in Eclipse technology and ecosystem since 1999</li>
- <li> Former Member of Eclipse Consortium Board of Stewards</li>
-
<li> Member of EclipseCon 2006 Program Committee</li>
- <li> Chair of the Eclipse Marketing Committee from 2002-2005</li>
- <li> Lead project to establish Eclipse brand and logos</li>
- <li> Member of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2005)</li>
-
<li> Chair of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2006)</li>
-
<li> Member of Eclipse Governance Committee (that designed and formed the Eclipse Foundation)</li>
- <li> Founding member of <a href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">EPIC</a>, a leading Eclipse portal</li>
-
<li> Leads company dedicated to Eclipse. Instantiations has lead eclipse open source projects,
- contributed code, participated in forming the Foundation and lead numerous Eclipse-focused committees. </li>
- <li> Over 25 years of experience in the software industry.</li>
- </ul> <br/><br/>
- <a href="http://www.instantiations.com/moreaboutmike.htm">...more about Mike</a>]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- <ul>
- <li>Instantiations, Inc, provider of WindowBuilder Pro, SWT Designer, and CodePro Analytix. Instantiations
- is a technology company totally focused on Eclipse. Instantiations has lead the KOI and Pollinate projects.</li>
- <li>Founding member of the <a href=" http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-2.html">Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance</a>.</li>
- </ul> ]]>
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- <name>Rich Main</name>
- <title>Director, Java Development Environments at SAS</title>
- <image>rmain.jpg</image>
- <email> rich.main@sas.com </email>
- <phone> 919-531-5594 </phone>
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- SAS Campus Drive <br/>
- R3246 <br/>
- Cary, NC 27513 <br/>
- ]]>
- </contact>
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- I have been the SAS representative to Eclipse for the past 3 1/2 years, and participated actively
- in the formulation of the current Eclipse Foundation development process and bylaws, the Eclipse Public License,
- and the IP Policy. I have been an elected Add-In Provider Member Representative to the Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors for the past 2 years.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- At SAS, we see Eclipse as being critical to the long-term viability of Java as a platform for enterprise application
- development and deployment. As a result, we are committed to working within the Eclipse community to foster an
- environment that supports continuing innovation while also increasing the end-user focus of the Eclipse development process.
- This is a necessary component of taking Eclipse to the "next level" as it grows from supporting just developers to
- also supporting end-user consumer organizations. At the same time, the vibrant community that has been such a critical
- part of Eclipse’s success thus far must be preserved and nurtured. This community is the engine that fuels the
- innovation and drives growing adoption of Eclipse across the software industry. In this respect, it is crucially
- important that the Add-in Provider representatives on the board forge relationships with each of the other Add-in Provider
- members to understand and represent the full range of Add-in Provider member needs. Finally, we need to work with
- standards organizations to drive adoption of Eclipse based technology as industry standards. This will ensure that
- Eclipse is everywhere our end-users need to be. To that end, I would appreciate your vote of support!
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- I am the Director of Java Development Environments at SAS. In that role, I oversee the development of a
- number of Eclipse based technologies, including SAS AppDev Studio™, an enterprise business intelligence
- application development suite built on top of the Eclipse IDE, and the Eclipse RCP based SAS Rich Client
- Platform, which serves as the basis for a number of our vertical market business intelligence solutions.
- In addition to these duties, I work actively within the Java community as a member of organizations such
- as the Eclipse Foundation and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee to ensure that the Java
- platform supports development and deployment of robust enterprise applications. I graduated from Duke
- University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and have over 20 years of software
- development experience.
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true
- enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at 40,000 sites – including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE
- Global 500® – to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate
- and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading
- data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For
- nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®.
- <br/><br/>
- For more information about SAS, visit us on the web at <a href="http://www.sas.com">http://www.sas.com</a>.
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
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-
- <name>Scott Lewis</name>
-
- <title>Software Engineer</title>
-
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-
- <email>slewis@composent.com</email>
-
- <phone>503-756-8719</phone>
-
- <contact><![CDATA[
- 2606 NE 38th Ave, <br/>
- Portland OR, <br/>
- USA, 97212
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- 2005 committer representative on the Board of Directors.
- <br/>
- Project lead for Eclipse Communication Framework
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
- As the 2005 committer Board representative I have worked to:
- <ol>
- <li>Improve the communication and teamwork effectiveness across all Eclipse Foundation projects </li>
- <li>Advocate for and implement improved Foundation infrastructure and process</li>
- <li>Represent at the Board level the needs of the committers from both small and large EF projects</li>
- </ol>
- <p>If re-elected for 2006, I will redouble my efforts in these three areas, particularly by supporting
- the distributed teamwork and communication needs of the Eclipse committer community. </p>
-
- <p> I believe the ECF project provides an opportunity to support the Eclipse community's communications needs with
- systems created fully in the spirit of Eclipse: open (both software and protocol), extensible, interoperable,
- and integrated. </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>Dr. Scott Lewis has been a professional software engineer and architect for 18 years at workplaces
- such as AT&T Bell Laboratories, Intel Architecture Laboratories, and software startups of his own and other's creation.
- Although interested in several technical areas, he's most interested in communications and distributed systems
- design and implementation. He's the author of academic as well as professional articles, and would love to write
- a book on ECF in the coming year. Scott is passionate about making Eclipse/Eclipse RCP an open platform for
- integrated and interoperable communications applications.</bio>
-
- <affiliation>Principal at Composent, Inc. Software Architect at Cayuse, Inc.</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Shaun Smith</name>
-
- <title>Product Manager, Oracle TopLink</title>
-
- <image> ssmith.jpg
- </image>
-
- <email>shaun.smith@oracle.com</email>
-
- <phone>1-403-681-8953</phone>
-
- <contact><![CDATA[
-Oracle Corp<br/>
-Suite 2600<br/>
-144 4th Avenue SW<br/>
-Calgary, Alberta<br/>
-Canada T2P 3N4 ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- I'm project co-lead of the Dali EJB Object-Relational Mapping Project which is
- building frameworks and tools for the upcoming EJB 3.0 persistence specification and
- a product manager with add-in provider Oracle Corp.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
- <p>
- I've been using Eclipse since just before 1.0 so I've had plenty
- of experience using Eclipse to build Java SE and Java EE applications.
- But my experience using Eclipse did not completely prepare me for what
- is involved in building add-in frameworks and tools for Eclipse. There's
- a lot you need to know if you are going to do this and unfortunately, while the
- processes are well defined, the road isn't as clear as it could be. There
- are many questions new add-in providers have and finding those answers isn't
- always straightforward.
- </p><p>
- To help add-in providers build the Eclipse ecosystem I would like to see a
- mentoring program established for new projects. Having a designated mentor
- for each new project that is willing to answer questions about standard
- Eclipse approaches, conventions, and technologies would speed the development
- of add-ins and result in more consistent code that is more easily incorporated into
- the ecosystem. There are informal information gathering routes such as the mailing lists
- and newsgroups but as someone who has been a mentor on many projects I know the value
- of having a specific person you can go to for help.
- </p><p>
- There are many individuals with years of Eclipse experience and while many of them
- are deeply involved with active projects, it would benefit the Eclipse community greatly
- if they would lend some of their expertise to those just starting out. Eclipse Foundation
- support for a mentoring program would provide a means to connect those with experience
- to share with those who need it.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- I've been an OO programmer and mentor for almost twenty years and have been
- working in Smalltalk, Java, C++, and (more recently) Ruby since I got
- my first job out of university. Having been around that long I've seen
- plenty of IDE's come and go. Coming from the Smalltalk community I used
- the development environments of all major vendors including IBM
- Smalltalk/VisualAge. For Java development I moved to VisualAge for Java
- and then eventually to Eclipse. All of these environment provided incremental
- compilation--how anyone survives without incremental compilation is beyond
- me!
- </p><p>
- For 11 years I was a consultant involved with the development of enterprise
- systems and mentoring companies in OO technology. My focus in the last
- few years has been on test driven development of
- systems that use object persistence and I've been active in the Agile software
- development community both presenting at and helping organize conferences
- and workshops. I served on the program and organizing committees of XP/Agile Universe 2004
- and was community liason for Canada. I was also on the organizing committee of Agile 2005 and again
- performed the role of community liason for Canada. I'm currently a product manager for Oracle
- TopLink which is the leading commercial Java product for mapping between
- objects and relational databases (and now between objects and XML).
- </p><p>
- I'm an admitted early adopter and am likely to download very early builds
- of something new and cool and I'm really excited to be involved in an Eclipse
- project building support for the new industry standard Java persistence API!
- </p> ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- Oracle's business is information--how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it; providing the
- software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from
- their business systems. Oracle's Information Architecture is composed of integrated, standards-based
- technologies for infrastructure and applications. Our involvement in the Eclipse Foundation and Open
- Source helps us ensure that we have tooling support using open, readily available components as much
- as possible to reduce costs, streamline management and maintenance, and increase adaptability for our
- customers. That's why Oracle has joined the Eclipse Software Foundation and is leading projects to
- provide support for Java technologies like JavaServer Faces (JSF), BPEL, and Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0.
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="tragan" type="addin">
-
- <name> Tracy Ragan </name>
-
- <title> CEO, Catalyst Systems </title>
-
- <image> tragan.jpg </image>
-
- <email> Tracy.Ragan@openmake.com </email>
-
- <phone> 505.424.6440 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- 213 W. Institute Place, #404, <br/>
- Chicago, IL <br/>
- USA, 60610
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- In early 2002 I started hearing about the "Eclipse Project" from a few of our Openmake developers.
- I took a closer look and was immediately surprised by what I found, an open source effort focused
- around a common IDE platform. By the end of 2002, I had become a "founding steward" of this new and
- exciting community. I've watched the Eclipse organization grow and change, always adding my "2 cents"
- along the way. Some of you may know me from my involvement in our early marketing efforts such as the
- JavaOne show floor games, t-shirts, Eclipse logo designs as well as my technical involvement in the
- heated debates regarding Swing vs. SWT. Others may know Catalyst Systems from our involvement in the
- ALF project. My experience working with the Eclipse community for the last 4 years has given me a strong
- understanding of how an Add-in Provider can benefit by getting involved in this very dynamic organization.
- I look forward to serving on the Eclipse Board and continuing to add in my "2 cents".
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- My vision for Eclipse is Add-in Provider member involvement. Involvement with Eclipse from Add-in Provider
- companies is a critical component of the overall success of Eclipse. Some Add-in Providers have learned how
- to stay involved even as Eclipse has grown. I believe there are many more Add-in Providers who want to be active,
- not passive, members of Eclipse but simply don't know how. Add-in Providers need to be better organized so that
- they can more easily see how to get involved. This may be done by simply adding an "Add-in Provider Help Wanted"
- page on the Eclipse web site. In addition, Add-in providers need to be recognized as a core pillar of Eclipse.
- This can be done through better recognition programs for active Add-in Providers and an increased focus on Add-in
- Providers through Public Relations contacts. Add-in Provider contribution is important. What we don't want is
- for the Eclipse organization to evolve to a place where Add-in Providers simply serve as an audience to the
- Strategic Members. We are the "members at large" and represent one of the core pillars of this organization.
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- I have served as the CEO for Catalyst Systems since 1995. I started my IT career as a mainframe programmer in the
- mid 1980s and moved into C programming mainly in OS/2 PM by the late 1980s. I worked as an independent consultant
- for 8 years before forming Catalyst Systems with my partner Steve Taylor. Since that time we have created the now
- emerging market of Enterprise Build Management tools with Openmake the leader and most complete solution available.
- We have done this without any level of VC funding by letting Openmake fund itself. The experience of growing Catalyst
- Systems will be extremely valuable when is comes to serving as a member of the Eclipse Board.
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- Catalyst Systems Corporation is the leading vendor of Enterprise Build Management Solutions. Openmake, our flagship
- product, was launched in June of 1995. Since that time Openmake has revolutionized the way developers manage their
- build process by eliminating the low-value, high-cost task of maintaining manual make and Ant/XML build scripts.
- Catalyst enjoys close partnerships with other Eclipse Members such as Serena Software, Computer Associates, MKS Inc.,
- and IBM.
- </affiliation>
-
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-<boardmember id="twagner" type="committer">
-
- <type> committer </type>
-
- <name> Tim Wagner </name>
-
- <title> Sr. Manager, BEA Workshop </title>
-
- <image> twagner.jpg </image>
-
- <email> twagner@bea.com </email>
-
- <phone> 206.926.2945 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Suite 100, <br/>
- 999 N. Northlake Way, <br/>
- Seattle, WA <br/>
- USA, 98103
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- My primary Eclipse role is in the Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project, where I
- serve as PMC lead. During my tenure with WTP we've had two major and one minor
- releases, including our 1.0 ship and first API declarations. My goals for WTP
- are to ensure a quality platform and highly usable tools, with a short term focus on
- stability, reliability, and performance. Due to my WTP role, I also
- evangelize (in print and online forums) for WTP and Eclipse as a whole.
- <br/><br/>
- I also represent BEA on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning Councils, and am an
- alternative representative to the Requirements Council. For the upcoming
- Eclipse Conference in Santa Clara I serve as program chair.]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> In the course of my work with WTP and BEA, I've been involved in a number
- of issues of concern to committers: services (and service levels) available from
- the Eclipse Foundation infrastructure, IP policies and their application, the
- Eclipse development process, and collaboration within and across Eclipse projects,
- including outreach to developers beyond just those with corporate affiliation.
- I believe there are several topics that require additional attention to continue
- growing and improving the developer and committer community: ensuring that
- contributions from individuals can be effectively absorbed by the projects,
- addressing the "silos" that tend to form around projects (especially the large,
- established ones), and continuing to ensure that we're providing committers with
- all the tools necessary to accomplish their jobs - especially communication and
- build infrastructure.
- </vision>
-
- <bio> As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, my PhD research focused on the integration
- of compiler technologies with IDEs. My professional career includes working for Borland, BEA,
- Amazon, and an XQuery-based data integration startup, Nimble Technology. Improving and expanding
- IDE technologies and simplifying the task of authoring complex apps (J2EE and otherwise)
- continues to be a focus of my professional career. I hold a number of patents in the
- areas of IDEs, database integration, and language analysis.
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> BEA Systems provides award-winning solutions for application development
- with its WebLogic Platform and a broad range of SOA solutions with its AquaLogic
- products. Within BEA I manage the Workshop team responsible for Eclipse integration
- with WTP and JDT.
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="twilliams" type="addin">
-
- <name> Todd Williams </name>
-
- <title> Vice President - Technology </title>
-
- <image> twilliams.jpg </image>
-
- <email> todd.williams@genuitec.com </email>
-
- <phone> 972-691-5717 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Genuitec, LLC<br/>
- 2505 Powderhorn Drive<br/>
- Plano, Texas 75025
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- I’ve been serving as Genuitec’s Eclipse Foundation representative since early 2003 and as an elected board member for both 2004 and 2005.
- Currently, I serve as the chairman of the Foundation’s membership committee and am also a member of the Web Tools Project’s requirements group.
- For the past four years I’ve been constantly evangelizing Eclipse technology through numerous consulting opportunities, speaking engagements
- and magazine articles, including one article written in early 2002 that became the genesis of the Eclipse rich client platform.
- More detail on what I’ve been doing lately with Eclipse can be found by Googling: "Todd Williams" Eclipse
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- Executive Summary
- <ul>
- <li>Emphasize the requirements of the add-in provider community over other ecosystem participants</li>
- <li>Advocate the commercial interests of add-in providers so Eclipse continues to be a sound investment</li>
- <li>Provide time to adjust to innovations by promoting managed, predictable development cycles</li>
- <li>Protect add-in provider value by emphasizing flexible, extensible frameworks over commercially competitive tools</li>
- <li>Promote the expansion of Eclipse into new and emerging market segments to engender new business opportunities</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- By most measures, Eclipse is already one of the most successful software technologies ever created. But why is Eclipse different from other
- similar efforts that have gone before it and failed? And, what must we do to preserve Eclipse’s uniqueness so that it can to continue to flourish?
- The answers to these questions should continue to drive the actions of the Foundation.</p>
- <p>
- In my opinion, the success of Eclipse stems from the unique, managed balance between the needs of its three diverse communities: the committers,
- the add-in providers, and the end users. To gain critical mass, Eclipse began by catering to the needs of the end users. But, now that there are
- hundreds of products in the add-in ecosystem and an explosion of interest in the rich client platform, the makeup of the Eclipse community is
- rapidly changing and its needs will continue to change.</p>
- <p>
- As Eclipse evolves, we must continue to delicately adjust our focus to maintain our community synergy.
- For example, if we were to cater to the desires of the end users too heavily,
- we could actually remove the incentive to becoming an add-in provider or adopting Eclipse as a platform entirely.
- Since the initial investment required to build and market a product is so large,
- commercial product investment would simply be seen as too
- risky given that our target markets would quickly be commoditized by our own platform.
- To prevent this self-commoditization, we must proactively manage the pace, transparency, and
- predictibility of our innovations. However, to remain viable for any of us in the long-term,
- the Foundation must now increase its efforts around creating and fostering commercial opportunity for its members.
- As a result, strongly encouraging the Foundation to focus on our shared commerical objectives will continue to be my primary concern going forward.</p>
- <p>
- Eclipse is constantly expanding, evolving, and surprising all of us. By embracing its evolution and further enhancing our market synergy,
- I believe we can continue to expand the Eclipse ecosystem in all of its current segments while creating commercial opportunity in several
- diverse new markets. Software visionary Alan Kay once said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it".
- I agree, and that’s what I believe we’re doing right now at Eclipse. </p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- At Genuitec I run both the R&D Lab and Consulting Practice for Eclipse Technology. These dual roles provide me with a unique
- perspective on innovation and its commercial applications with Eclipse technology. Additionally, I have over twenty years of experience in
- the development of computing infrastructures, large scale distributed software architectures, and the optimization of
- development processes, techniques, and tools.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>Genuitec L.L.C. is a leading provider of innovative Eclipse-based technology products, training, and consulting services.
- Genuitec’s flagship product, MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, is a full-featured J2EE IDE that enhances Eclipse with hundreds
- of addtional features that enable highly productive enterprise Java development. A MyEclipse subscription is available for
- $29.95 / developer / year and includes all software updates and technical support. </p>
- <p>
- Genuitec also offers training and expert consulting and development services for the Eclipse SDK and Rich Client Platforms.
- Genuitec joined the Eclipse Foundation early in 2003 and actively participates in steering the strategy and direction of the
- Eclipse Foundation as a member of its board of directors. Genuitec L.L.C. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. </p>
- ]]> </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Wenfeng Li</name>
- <title>Vice President of Product Development, Actuate Corporation </title>
- <image> wli.jpg </image>
- <email> wli@actuate.com </email>
- <phone> +1-650-281-4713 </phone>
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Actuate Corporation, <br/>
- 701 Gateway Blvd, <br/>
- South San Francisco, CA, <br/>
- 94404, USA
- ]]>
- </contact>
- <eclipse_affiliation> PMC Lead for the Eclipse BIRT Project </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- As Eclipse becomes more and more successful, many additional projects are being proposed or created
- every month. The number and diversity of committers has also increased dramatically. Many committers
- find it difficult to keep up with the changes in the community. There isn't enough time to read all the
- new project proposals, nor enough time to learn what is happening in other projects, and as a result,
- committers find it difficult to interact or engage in in-depth discussion with their counterparts on
- other projects. I would like to work to improve the exchange and flow of information between committers
- on different projects to build a better sense of community. In addition, I would like to provide assistance
- to represent the concern and needs from the large (and growing) population of Eclipse committers in Asia.
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Wenfeng Li became an Eclipse committer in 2004. He currently serves as the PMC lead for the Eclipse BIRT
- project, responsible for architecture and planning. Wenfeng is also a VP of development at Actuate
- Cooperation, where he led the development of Actuate's enterprise reporting product suite. Prior to that,
- he was an architect and development manager at MicroStrategy, where he was responsible for the development
- of its version 7 Intelligence Server. He is a co-inventor of three patents in business intelligence
- technology, and received his bachelor degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China
- and his masters degree from University of Maryland at College Park.
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> Actuate Corporation
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="aniszczyk" type="committer">
-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Eclipse Committer </title>
-
- <image>caniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email> <![CDATA[
- zx@us.ibm.com ]]> </email>
-
- <phone>+1.860.839.2465 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- IBM Austin Labs<br>
- 11501 Burnet Road<br>
-Austin TX 78758-3400<br>
-BNT 901 / 3B-003
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde">PDE</a>) Committer<br>
- Eclipse Communications Framework (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf">ECF</a>) Committer<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Technology (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/emft">EMFT</a>) Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the community so Eclipse can prosper. In order to build a prosperous community of committers, developers and users, there needs to be effective communication across all parties. I will use communication channels like my <a href="http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com">blog</a>, planet eclipse, newsgroups, mailing lists
-and IRC to:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Gather suggestions from committers, developers and users</li>
-<li>Keep a wiki and send periodic updates on what I (and the other representatives) have accomplished for committers</li>
-</ul>
-<p>I have many ideas on how to make Eclipse more successful, but my main commitment will be to quality. Eclipse is growing quickly and there needs to be an emphasis on ensuring the quality that made Eclipse successful in the first place will be represented across all projects.
-To ensure high quality and consistency across all eclipse.org projects I will:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Ensure that our standards of quality are upheld by committers, new and old alike</li>
-<li>Uphold high standards for gaining commit rights</li>
-<li>Support higher criteria for joining Eclipse release trains</li>
-<li>Make our processes more transparent</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Other interests of mine are to:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Build bridges with Eclipse and other open source (like Apache) or commercial projects</li>
-<li>Discuss creating Eclipse committer mashups</li>
-<li>Get more Eclipse committers blogging so they can experience the community</li>
-<li>Create an Eclipse world tour to entice new developers (and companies) to Eclipse and connect with existing Eclipse enthusiasts</li>
-</ul>
-<p>In the end, my goal is to ensure high quality across all eclipse.org projects, be transparent about the board's activities and have the honor to represent you, the committers, to my fullest abilities.</p
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Chris is an Eclipse committer at IBM Lotus who focuses on OSGi-related development. His primary focus these days is improving Eclipse's Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) and spreading the Eclipse love inside of IBM's Lotus organization. Chris lives and breathes Eclipse through evangelizing about Eclipse in his blog (and various other publications). He also regularly attends conferences and universities to give presentations about Eclipse.</p>
-<p>In the Eclipse community, Chris is responsible for maintaining the public forum known as <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse</a> and growing Eclipse's <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/IRC">IRC</a> presence. In his spare time, he has been working on finishing a graduate business degree from the <a href="http://www.utexas.edu">University of Texas at Austin</a>.</p>
-
- ]]> </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM, Gentoo Linux
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="fourgeau" type="addin">
-
- <name> Eliane Fourgeau </name>
-
- <title> COO, TNI-Software </title>
-
- <image> fourgeau.jpg </image>
-
- <email> eliane.fourgeau@tni-software.com </email>
-
- <phone> +33.01.73.54.00.20 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- 174-178 Quai de Jemmapes<br>
- 75010 Paris<br>
- France<br>
- www.tni-software.com
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My various career steps have always been guided by a true passion for new technologies that can have a major impact on our markets. It has been my conviction since the early stage of its foundation that Eclipse would be one of these, and I am excited about adding my contribution to the realm. I will dedicate it to helping Add-in Providers, especially European ones, strengthen the prominence of Eclipse in various verticals where they can offer unique differentiators and compelling contributions, while leveraging the huge Eclipse pull for members.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>I am an EDA entrepreneurial veteran with extensive European and USA managerial experience in strategic business development and sales for high-tech startups as well as for prominent design automation companies.
-In my 20+ year career in the software industry I've had to take my share of the serial challenges faced by various industry sectors: (Automotive, Aerospace, Defense, Telecom, Consumer and Semiconductor) for the development of complex ICs and Embedded Systems.</p>
-<p>I received a Master of Telecommunications and Computer Science from ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications) in Paris.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>TNI-Software is a Software company providing Consultancy and Tools for the Design, Implementation and Test of software
- dominant Embedded Systems for automotive, aerospace and other transportation industries.</p>
- <p>Since December 2004, the company has been a Premium Member of the world-renowned AUTOSAR automotive
- standardization partnership aiming at establishing an open standard for automotive E/E architecture.
- TNI-Software has been developing AUTOSAR Builder, an open, Eclipse based suite of tools for AUTOSAR.</p>
- <p>The company joined the Eclipse foundation early in 2006 and is now actively involved, together with a few
- other AUTOSAR Core and Premium members, in an initiative aiming at launching an Eclipse project for an open tool
- development platform for AUTOSAR.</p>
- <p>In October 2006, together with other Eclipse members sponsoring the event,
- TNI-Software organized Eclipse Now You Can in Paris, a one-day event (and a smashing success)
- focusing on synergies and convergence between what is happening in the Eclipse open source community and today's growing industrial needs.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="kamutzki" type="addin">
-
- <name> Hans Kamutzki </name>
- <title> </title>
-
- <image> kamutzki.jpg </image>
-
- <email>hka@microdoc.de</email>
-
- <phone> +49.89.551.969.0 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- MicroDoc GmbH<br>
- Elektrastrasse 6<br>
- D-81925 Munich<br>
- Germany
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- Eclipse is an intrinsic element of MicroDoc's technology portfolio. The unique
- combination of technical flexibility and economical promises of a commercially usable open source
- platform made Hans Kamutzki decide to have his developers deep dive into Eclipse as early as 2002.
- Since then MicroDoc is closely following the path of Eclipse technology. As head of the embedded Java
- operations within MicroDoc, Hans is actively promoting the eRCP (embedded Rich Client Platform) in customer
- projects and internal product development.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>My vision as a candidate for the Eclipse Board is:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Support the growth of the Eclipse Eco System as a pervasive industrial strength software platform for servers,
-clients and mobile/embedded devices.</li>
-<li>Help to establish Eclipse in research and education to make sure graduates can seamlessly be integrated
-into industrial SW production.</li>
-<li>Strengthen the influence of European add-in providers in the community.</li>
-<li>Address legal issues in the framework of European legislation raised by the fact that EPL and other
-important provision are US law based.</li>
-<li>Help to develop a clear understanding of the legal/commercial implications of the use of software under the EPL in Europe.</li>
-</ul>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio>
- Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich. He studied Physics and Computer Science in
- Bonn and Munich, Germany and focussed on realtime image processing and process control in the early days of his
- professional work. For a "device and algorithm for the automatic detection of objects" he was co-awarded a German
- and European patent. After many years of development and project management practice in Smalltalk and Java,
- Hans now runs the Embedded Java operations in MicroDoc, working mainly in business development and legal/contractual matters.
- </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<p>MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in 1991 by Hendrik Hofer and Hans Kamutzki.
-In the 90, MicroDoc's focus was on object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki was a main contributor to a
-MicroDoc product called "Object for Notes", a technical Smalltalk to Lotus Notes gateway, that was licensed to IBM in 1995.
-He worked as a technical and operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent several month with integration work in the
-RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements.</p>
-<p>Even before Java became a mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided a number of product components
-to the international market of reusable components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks,
-an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance tools as well as some contributions to
-IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a large airline.</p>
-<p>Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is used as a development platform,
-but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP and eRCP clients and server applications.
-As MicroDoc is building end to end solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and
-embedded devices) the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are essential building blocks for harmonizing the architecture
-in many MicroDoc projects today. As a Managing Directory, Hans is in charge for the embedded Java business as well
-as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today.</p>
- ]]> </affiliation>
-
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-<boardmember id="komissarchik" type="committer">
-
- <name>
- Konstantin Komissarchik
- </name>
-
- <title>
- </title>
-
- <image>komissarchik.jpg
- </image>
-
- <email>
- kosta@bea.com
- </email>
-
- <phone>
- 206.926.2962
- </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-BEA Systems, Inc.<br>
-999 North Northlake Way<br>
-Seattle, WA 98103
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- Web Tools Platform
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- I am a committer on the Web Tools project and a team lead
- at BEA working on a product with close ties to Eclipse. I am also currently serving as an elected
- Committer Representative and I am running for re-election this year. I am running again because a lot of
- work remains to be done to accomplish the goals that I set out for myself when I ran for this position
- last year. I am passionate about bringing committers from different projects together and enabling them
- to be collaborate in creating a cohesive user experience rather than the silo effect that is so evident
- in Eclipse today. There are many aspects or reasons for the situation that we find ourselves in today. Some
- of them are social. Some of them are infrastructural. It is the second one where I think the Eclipse Foundation
- can make the biggest difference. Imagine if there was a way to easily create micro-components for projects to
- collaborate on a feature or two. Imagine if build was a service provided by the foundation (just like CVS) and
- every project didn’t have to struggle with this on their own. Some progress has been made, but there is a lot more
- work still left to do. If you vote for me, I promise to keep pushing to break down the silos.</p>
-
- <p>Those who are interested in learning more about one aspect of what I am trying to accomplish should
- visit http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nexus_Project.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio>
- I am a software developer with BEA Systems and have been a committer on the
- Web Tools Platform since its first release. I have designed and implemented
- the Faceted Project Framework which made it possible for people to easily
- extend capabilities of WTP projects. In my prior life, I have worked on
- compilers, custom servers and network protocol design. I have graduated from
- the University of Washington with BS in Computer Science.
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- BEA Systems, Inc.
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="lewis" type="addin">
-
-<name>Howard H. Lewis</name>
-
-<title>Advisor/Board Member, SlickEdit Inc.; President and CEO,
-Discovery Machine Inc.</title>
-
-<image>lewis.jpg </image>
-
-<email>hlewis@slickedit.com </email>
-<email>hlewis@discoverymachine.com</email>
-
-<phone>919.819.4310</phone>
-
-<contact> <![CDATA[
-SlickEdit, Inc.<br>
-3000 Aerial Center Pkwy <br>
-Suite 120 <br>
-Morrisville, NC 27560<br>
-]]> </contact>
-
-<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<p>Mr. Lewis is currently the Add-In Provider Representative to the Eclipse Foundation for SlickEdit Inc. and Discovery
-Machine, Inc. He currently sits on the Board of the Eclipse Foundation and is a member of the
-Compensation and Membership Committies and an EPIC Project Committer. He has been an active part of the Eclipse 'movement'
-for several years. </p>
-]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-<vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>Mr. Lewis remains dedicated to helping make Eclipse THE preeminent open source movement.
- Preeminent as both the most useful and vibrant open source community and the most widely
- addopted commercial and non-commercial tool and RPC based deployment framework.
- He will continue to provide special focus on the needs of the Software Development, Knowledge Leverage and Life Sciences domains. He will continue to stay in contact will all members of the Add-in Provider community and actively promote the needs and growth of this key Eclipse Foundation membership body! </p>
-<p>Focus Summary:</p>
-<ol>
-<li>Promotion of member joint marketing, sales, and business development initiatives</li>
-<li>Continue to actively promote the adoption of mechanisms/channels to leverage the huge Eclipse pull for members; with a specific focus on EPIC related opportunities</li>
-<li>Continue to work to align the Eclipse Foundation priorities with the intent of promoting the interests of smaller Add-in Provider companies</li>
-<li>Provide further definition and verification of a very well accepted and very high quality business model</li>
-<li>Focus on Foundation budget priorities to increase member marketing and sales success</li>
-<li>Improve useful and timely communications via newsletters, blogs, email leverage etc.</li>
-<li>Look for opportunities to promote the Foundation in all under represented geographies</li>
-<li>Look for innovative ways to step-up the pace of deployment on Linux and Mac</li>
-<li>Give proper priority and attention to the Eclipse infrastructure needs of the Embedded Systems, Application Development, Business Intelligence and Life Sciences domains/vertical business areas</li>
-</ol>
-]]> </vision>
-
-<bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Experience Summary:</p>
-<p>Mr. Lewis has over 40 years of leadership experience in all facets of software and
-services companies. He has managed or performed all duties in startups and
-Fortune 10 companies, alike. Mr. Lewis is currently President and CEO of Discovery Machine, Inc., an
-Advisor to SlickEdit Inc., and Nevalon Technologies LLC. Mr. Lewis currently serves on the boards of Discovery Machine,
-the Eclipse Foundation, and SlickEdit. He also is the Representative for SlickEdit and Discovery Machine in the Eclipse Foundation and the Discovery Machine Representative in the BioSPICE open source community.</p>
-
-<p>Work History/Accomplishments:</p>
-<p>2004-Present</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis is currently President and CEO of Discovery Machine, Inc.,
-an Advisor to SlickEdit Inc., and Nevalon Technologies LLC.
-Mr. Lewis currently serves on the boards of Discovery Machine and SlickEdit.
-He also is the Add-in Provider Representative for SlickEdit and Discovery Machine
-in the Eclipse Foundation and the Discovery Machine Representative in the BioSPICE open source community.</p>
-
-<p>2003</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis joined ePic International, Inc., at the request of the Board of Directors, as President and CEO. He was charged with leading the stabilization and re-definition of the JV relationships in Asia and Australia, re-doing the PPM and seeking new funding. In 2 months he determined that the company was too flawed and too much in debt to continue operation. Mr. Lewis led the task of placing the company into Chapter 7. He has recently completed a consulting engagement for the US bankruptcy court appointed trustee to help bring maximum return to the creditors of ePic International.</p>
-
-<p>2001-2002</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis joined SlickEdit, Inc. as an Advisor and was soon appointed President and COO. At SlickEdit he led the re-branding and re-launch of the company. He helped in creating Sales and Business Development, Marketing and Product Management, and Development and Customer Support positions and supporting processes. He also brought in a top-notch team to fill these roles.</p>
-
-<p>1999-2000</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis joined NxView Technologies, Inc. after leading the pre-funding business case analysis that led to the creation of NxView. He was integral in creating the following positions and recruiting the world-class team to fill these positions. He held positions as General Manager, Exec VP of Products and Services, Vice President of Research and Technical Strategy, Corporate Client Relations Executive and COO, during the formation and successful launch of NxView. At his retirement he oversaw all research and validation of key technology directions for NxView.</p>
-
-<p>1995-1998</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis joined SEER Technologies, Inc. after completing a comprehensive study of the Seer Methodology and successfully
-completed Seer's training programs for the SeeriMethod and SeeriHPS. While at SEER, Mr. Lewis held the following positions: Sr. Consultant, Sales Consulting Manager, Consulting Director of Eastern North America and retired as VP of Customer Relationships. He was recognized with the Founders and Top Gun Awards (the only non-sales person to achieve recognition as the top sales leader in the company). He also; Lead the definition and implementation of a company wide Customer Relationship process and was responsible for key customer executive relationships around the world. He also led the definition and start-up of major consulting engagements, in the Transportation, Manufacturing and Services Industries, performing wide-ranging leadership tasks ranging from overall I/T strategy development through engagement management.</p>
-
-<p>1995-Present</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis has acted as an independent consultant since his retirement from IBM. He provides strategic and tactical business development services out of his home offices in Raleigh, NC, Emerald Isle, NC, and Lodi, NY. He dedicates a portion of his efforts as pro bono services to help stimulate not for profit and for profit initiatives, worldwide. He remains dedicated to helping others achieve their deserved success!</p>
-
-<p>1965-1995</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Lewis spent 30 years with IBM in Software Development and Management. His role as a corporate executive for the Worldwide Software Service Process was defining and implementing the quality process definition and metrics for the IBM Company. Mr. Lewis represented IBM on Software Quality initiatives at numerous conferences worldwide, including guest lecturing at Motorola University. He was also responsible for advanced design and strategy for some of the world's largest and most successful operating systems and application development products. He received numerous awards for technology, business and management leadership and was elected President of his IBM Presidents Class. Additionally, Mr. Lewis oversaw the creation and management of strategic relationships for the IBM Application Development and Systems Management businesses.</p>
-
-]]> </bio>
-
-<affiliation> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>About SlickEdit Inc.</p>
-
-<p>SlickEdit Inc. provides software developers with multilanguage development environments and the most advanced code editors
-available. Proven on Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X platforms, SlickEdit products enable even the most accomplished
-developers to code faster and meet increasingly aggressive deadlines.</p>
-
-<p>SlickEdit's best-of-breed products have created an award winning tradition over its 17-year history. From the numerous
-customer-based awards such as the Linux World Reader's Choice award and Programmer's Paradise Top Seller awards to the
-Editor's Choice award from e-Pro Magazine and the Software Development Hall of Fame award, SlickEdit products continually
-add to and expand on the product foundation of quality, speed, power and flexibility developed years ago by founder and CTO, J. Clark Maurer.</p>
-
-<p>Along with producing award-winning products, SlickEdit is considered to be an Employer of Choice and has achieved
-recognition as one of the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 technology companies for four consecutive years. SlickEdit is committed to
-continuing this tradition of excellence.</p>
-
-<p>SlickEdit Inc. is a privately held, small business with headquarters in the heart of the renowned Research Triangle, NC.</p>
-
-<p>About Discovery Machine, Inc.</p>
-
-<p>Solving the fundamental challenges of knowledge leverage and human behavior modeling:</p>
-
-<p>Founded in 1999, Discovery Machine Inc. immediately gained success for it's revolutionary approach to
-knowledge acquisition and engineering. DMI is focused on making the transfer of knowledge easily accessible to non-technical experts.</p>
-
-<p>DMI provides custom solutions, software tools, comprehensive services and training to a broad range of
-industries that include national defense, homeland security, aerospace, manufacturing, and life sciences.</p>
-
-<p>Discovery Machine Inc. is a privately held, woman owned, small business with headquarters in Williamsport, PA., and
-offices in Raleigh, N.C.</p>
-]]> </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="mcaffer" type="committer">
-
- <name> Jeff McAffer </name>
-
- <title> Senior Technical Staff Member </title>
-
- <image> mcaffer.jpg </image>
- <email> jeff_mcaffer@ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <phone> +1.613.726.5531 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- 2670 Queensview Drive<br>
- Ottawa, Ontario<br>
- Canada K2B 8K1 ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<a href="http://eclipse.org/equinox">Equinox</a>, <a href="http://eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> and
-<a href="http://eclipse.org/rcp">RCP</a> lead, Eclipse project and Tools project PMC member,
-Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors Committer representative (2006) ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-Last year during the 2006 committer elections,
-I outlined how Eclipse has been a roaring success in a number of areas
- (IDEs and various tooling platforms/extensions, RCP, OSGi etc.) and how Eclipse as a whole was equated
- with "quality", "industrial strength" and "componentization".
- Over the past year we have renewed our committment to quality and extended the reach of
- Eclipse technologies to new languages and environments including the use of Eclipse as a server-side runtime. This is all very exciting.
-</p>
-<p>
-In my 2006 vision statement I also highlighted several challenges facing Eclipse as a technology and as a community.
-Over the past year I, and the other committer representatives, have been working hard at addressing these issues
-and have had considerable success. One of the areas in which frankly we have failed, is in communicating effectively
-the progress achieved. Belatedly then, I include below a summary of the areas in which I have been most interested
-and most able to contribute to improving the lives of committers and the larger Eclipse community.
-</p>
-<ul>
-<li><b>Development process</b> : Bjorn Freeman-Benson put an enormous amount of effort into updating the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Development_Process_2006_Revision_Final">Eclipse Development Process</a> to be more practical and to better match what is happening today. I strongly supported and actively participated in this effort.</li>
-<li><b>Mentoring</b> : As part of the new <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Development_Process_2006_Revision_Final">Eclipse Development Process</a>, I pushed hard to ensure committers have access to a pool of qualified <b>mentors</b> who can help guide projects though startup, creation, graduation and release. This has significant potential to make life in Eclipse easier while simultaneously improving the quality of our projects and releases.</li>
-<li><b>API tools</b> : In 2006 work in API tooling and version management has continued. In particular, I have been actively championing and contributing to work in the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/PDE_UI_Incubator_ApiTools">PDE incubator's API Tools work area</a> with the aim of including at least some support in Eclipse 3.3.</li>
-<li><b>Parallel IP process</b> : Many new and expanding projects have hit the "IP wall". I was able to contribute the idea of a parallel process for projects in incubation thus enabling innovation while retaining the stability and consumability people have come to expect of our more established project releases.</li>
-<li><b>Orbit</b> : Part of the increased burden on the IP process has been driven by an increased number of third party libraries being consumed by Eclipse projects. With this came duplication of effort and inconsistency of approach as each project independently "bundled" these libraries for their use. To mitigate this and consolidate these efforts I proposed and drove to creation the <a href="http://eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit project</a>.</li>
-<li><b>Collaboration</b> : Eclipse is increasingly involved with standards-based technology and other open source projects. In 2006 I strongly supported the board decision to join related organizations and subsequently the Foundation has joined the JCP, OSGi and OMG. This paves the way for committers having access to TCKs and other standards related material.</li>
-<li><b>EclipseCon</b> : EclipseCon continues to be an important venue for Eclipse committers and consumers. I was pleased to serve on the EclipseCon 2007 Program Committee reviewing papers and helping coordinate sessions in the RCP, Fundamentals, OSGi and Tools tracks.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3>Looking forward</h3>
-<p>
-What challenges then does 2007 hold? Overall my focus for 2007 will be on improving quality
-(of life in Eclipse and of our projects) and driving anything that improves the integration and
-synergy between our projects. Specifically I will focus on a handful of areas in which we can make concrete progress over the next 12 months.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Growth</b> : The Eclipse community continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
-We added, on average, one new project every month in 2006 (20% increase) and on average
-there were 8 projects in the proposal phase at any given point in time! Phenomenal!
-Growth and scale, however, continue to be concerns for the community. The new development process and
-mentoring provisions form a sound basis but considerable effort will be required to implement the plan.
-The Foundation and the community must take this on as a top priority.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Europa</b> : <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/callisto/">Callisto</a> as an experiment was a resounding success.
-For Europa to build on that success we need to make it easier for you to contribute your components and easier
-for our users to consume your facilities.
-Efforts such as the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/packaging/">Packaging project</a> and the work going
-on in <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/kepler/">Kepler</a>
-and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Buckminster">Buckminster</a> are of particular importance.
-Also pressing is the need to instill an even higher <b>quality ethic</b> across all Eclipse projects contributing to Europa.
-Projects riding the release train must be held to a higher standard.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Synergies</b> : Once again this year seeking out and exploiting synergies is key to the overall
-advancement of Eclipse. We need more events such as the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Build_Workshop">Build
-workshop</a> that pull committers together to focus on a common problem. Workshops on provisioning and server-side Eclipse,
-further build workshops and workshops on other crosscutting areas of Eclipse should be held. Similarly,
-we continue to intersect significantly with other open source communities such as Apache. The Foundation
-must continue to promote collaboration and cooperation with these communities.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Fine Print</b> : It would be foolhardy to claim that the IP process problems have been resolved.
-Several steps have been taken and progress has been made on the contribution request backlog.
-Recent changes to the IP policy will free incubating projects to progress.
-In 2007 we must monitor the IP review queue trends and continue looking for further opportunities for improvement.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Feedback</b> : As I mentioned above, over the past year the committer-elected board members have failed to
-communicate frequently and openly with the community. In 2007 we must make an explicit and regular effort to
-report on issues and progress so as to keep you informed and get your input and ideas.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Summary</b> : My experience in starting several projects and being on two PMCs gives me a unique
-perspective on the needs of the Eclipse committer community. I would be honoured to serve again on the
-board of directors and work to further the goals and ideas outlined above.
-</p>
-
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse <a href="http://eclipse.org/equinox">Equinox OSGi</a>,
-<a href="http://eclipse.org/rcp">RCP</a> and <a href="http://eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> teams and is a
-Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Rational. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform
-and a co-author of <a href="http://eclipsercp.org">The Eclipse Rich Client Platform</a> (Addison-Wesley).
-He is a member of the <a href="http://eclipse.org/eclipse/team-leaders.php">Eclipse Project PMC</a>,
-the <a href="http://eclipse.org/tools/team-leaders.php">Tools Project PMC</a> and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors.
-Jeff is currently interested all aspects of Eclipse componentry from developing and building bundles to deploying,
-installing and ultimately running them. Previous lives included work in distributed/parallel OO computing
-(Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a
-PhD at the University of Tokyo.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> IBM, OSGi Core Platform Expert Group member
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
- <title>Senior Technical Staff Member</title>
- <image> merks.jpg </image>
- <email>merks@ca.ibm.com</email>
- <phone> 905.413.3265 </phone>
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-D3/0RB8/8200/MKM<br>
-IBM Toronto Software Lab<br>
-8200 Warden Ave.<br>
-Markham, Ont.<br>
-L6G 1C7
- ]]> </contact>
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-Eclipse Modeling Project Co-lead<br>
-Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>Eclipse's momentum is driven primarily by the committer community, and
-that's you and me.
-We live in a very exciting world that's rapidly changing in ways that
-ensure that the individual has more influence than ever before.</p>
-<p>As a committer representative on the board, I intend to help promote the
-rights and privileges of committers and to take forward the issues and
-concerns that are brought to me.
-I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, not a
-politician.</p>
-<p>I believe that helping others is its own reward and with more than 3,000
-answers to questions on Eclipse's newsgroups last year, my track record of
-helpfulness speaks for itself.</p>
-
-<p>Rights and privileges certainly don't come without responsibilities and
-that's something every committer should take very seriously.
-We are collectively responsible for fostering a diverse, growing community
-that encourages and strives for the type of excellence that has made
-Eclipse what it is today.
-But our stellar reputation is easily tarnished by the actions of a small
-few, so that's something we should all guard against.</p>
-<p>I'm a firm believer in the right balance of rules: not so many as to be
-exclusionary or overly restrictive, as if there were a formula for
-goodness, but enough to ensure that the system functions smoothly.
-I believe that last year's coordinated release of Callisto is a great
-example of how well a diverse community can cooperate to achieve a common
-goal
-with just the right balance of restrictions and freedoms;
-Callisto was the single largest coordinated multi-vendor software release
-our planet has ever seen, which I believe represents a turning point in our
-industry.</p>
-<p>This year's Europa release will set an even higher benchmark, and I'd like
-to think my team and I can help in some small way to further this goal.
-As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only
-Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-We are Eclipse!</p>
- ]]> </vision>
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Ed Merks is the project lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and
-a co-lead of the top-level Modeling project. He has many years of in-depth
-experience in the design and implementation of languages, frameworks, and
-application development environments. He has been an active committer at
-Eclipse since 2002, with more than 1/2 million lines of committed code, and
-was one of the three finalists for last year's top committer award. He
-holds a Ph.D. in computing science and is a co-author of the authoritative
-"Eclipse Modeling Framework, A Developer's Guide" (Addison-Wesley 2003). He
-works for IBM Rational Software at the Toronto Lab.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-IBM Rational Software, Toronto Lab
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Tracy Ragan</name>
-
- <title>Chief Operations Officer</title>
-
- <image>ragan.jpg</image>
-
- <email>tracy.ragan@openmake.com</email>
-
- <phone>505.424.6440</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-Catalyst Systems Corporation<br>
-213 W. Institute Place #404<br>
-Chicago, IL 60610<br>
-www.openmake.com ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>In early 2002 Tracy started hearing about the "Eclipse Project"
- from a few of the Openmake developers. She took a closer look and was immediately
- surprised by what she found, an open source effort focused around a common IDE
- platform. By the end of 2002, Tracy had become a "founding steward" of this new and
- exciting community, and the first women on the board.</p>
- <p>Tracy has been a very active
- member of Eclipse always adding her "2 cents" along the way. Some of you may know her
- from her involvement in early marketing efforts such as the JavaOne show floor games,
- t-shirts, Eclipse logo designs as well as technical involvement in the
- heated debates regarding Swing vs. SWT. Others may know Catalyst Systems through their
- involvement in the ALF project. </p>
- <p>Tracy's experience working with the Eclipse community
- for the last 5 years has given her a strong understanding of how an Add-in Provider
- can benefit by getting involved in this very dynamic organization.</p>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Involvement with Eclipse from Add-in Provider companies is a critical
- component of the overall success of Eclipse. Some Add-in Providers have learned
- how to stay involved even as Eclipse has grown. I believe there are many more
- Add-in Providers who want to be active, not passive, members of Eclipse but simply
- don't know how. Add-in Providers need to be better organized so that they can more
- easily see how to get involved. This may be done by simply adding an
- "Add-in Provider Help Wanted" page on the Eclipse web site.</p>
- <p>In addition, Add-in
- providers need to be recognized as a core pillar of Eclipse. This can be done
- through better recognition programs for active Add-in Providers and an increased
- focus on Add-in Providers through Public Relations contacts. Add-in Provider
- contribution is important. What we don't want is for the Eclipse organization
- to evolve to a place where Add-in Providers simply serve as an audience to the
- Strategic Members. We are the "members at large" and represent one of the core
- pillars of this organization.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Tracy has had extensive experience in the development and implementation
- of business applications. She began her consulting career in 1989 consulting to
- fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and
- build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Tracy recognized
- the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform that had
- long been considered standard on the mainframe. </p>
- <p>This lead her to co-found Catalyst
- Systems in 1995 and the creation of Openmake, one of the first commerical enterprise build
- management tools on the market and the only build management tool that offers developers
- a reusable solution for scripting builds. Tracy served as the CEO of Catalyst Systems
- for 12 years.She has a Bachelor of Science Degree from California Polytechnic
- University, Pomona, CA.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<p>Tracy has many interests outside of the Computer industry. She
- is involved in animal rescue, rides quarter horses, trains dogs and holds a first degree black
- belt in ISKF Shotokan Karate.</p>
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- <name>Darin Swanson</name>
- <title>Senior Software Engineer </title>
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- <email>Darin_Swanson@us.ibm.com</email>
- <phone>1.503.578.3252</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- 15400 SW Koll Parkway<br>
- Beaverton, OR<br>
- USA, 97006-6063
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Platform Ant Team Lead<br>
- Platform Debug and JDT Debug Committer<br>
- Platform UI Committer ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>One of the key strengths of Eclipse is its community. This community has been fostered and nourished with care by
-the Eclipse foundation and flourished with the input and work by the Eclipse committers.</p>
-<p>As we move forward, I see several key points related to our community that need attention.</p>
-
-<p><b>Strengthen the committers:</b> Over the past 5 years, I have had the privilege of working with many of the talented
-committers who are involved with Eclipse. I feel we need to make the committer's tasks easier in order for their
-continued success and enjoyment in developing Eclipse. I would work to:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Assign mentors for new Eclipse committers from the established, successful Eclipse committers.
-New projects in the Eclipse ecosystem work with mentors as outlined in the exiting development process so
-let us take this a step further and help new committers as well. Within the Eclipse Debug team this has
-been our established model for the past 5 years. We should extend beyond mentoring just within a team to
-enable more cross project interactions and always foster the "Culture of Quality".
-The EMO could create a database of existing committers who would be willing to work with committers from
-completely unrelated projects. The mentorship would involve guidance regarding Eclipse principals such as openness,
-quality and change.</li>
-<li>Help with the intellectual property challenges of dealing with Eclipse contributions through all possible
-streamlining and simplification of the process. We all need education in this continually evolving area.</li>
-<li>Enable ease of reuse of other open source software with a structured process and timeline for resolution.
-With each new version of Ant that I have integrated within Eclipse, the process has become more defined and
-reproducible but has greatly increased in the time it takes and has become difficult to determine when a
-decision will be reached on whether to move forward using the third party software.</li>
-<li>Have the EMO organize committer meetings and code camps throughout the year in many different locations.
-The meetings and code camps I have attended have been warmly received by the community but have required extensive
-overhead in the planning and preparation of the committers involved. We should look to promoting the talents of the
-EMO staff to ease the overhead for these gatherings.</li>
-<li>Help committers to have better awareness and to fully utilize the support from the Eclipse board and
-EMO and their committer representatives. Quarterly reports to committer mailing lists similar to the
-webmaster / infrastructure report would help the committers to know who and what is happening via the EMO,
-the board and the committer representatives.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<p><b>Promote committer diversity:</b> An Eclipse committer is made, not born. To become a committer, one must
-first be a contributor. There are numerous people who really do want to help but yet find it difficult to
-know where to begin. I would work to:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Offer and promote presentations for individuals interested in becoming contributors or committers.
-I attended just such a presentation at EclipseCon 2006 which detailed how to be an Eclipse contributor and start
-down the path to contributor. This talk was very well attended. To many people in the crowd most of the presentation was
-new information. As an original committer on the Eclipse project, I often need to be reminded that parts of our process
-are more implicit than explicit to our community and may appear that we have less than fully open elements within our process.
-A whole track at EclipseCon 2008 on the Eclipse way and development process is something I would work towards.</li>
-<li>Organize events strictly to promote Eclipse contributions coupled with directed follow-up from established committers.
-I spent a considerable amount of time fostering a relationship with an Eclipse contributor for the Eclipse Ant integration.
-It was worth the effort as many high quality contributions to Eclipse that provided new features that would have not otherwise
-been implemented due to time constraints of the main development team.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>Cross community engagements:</b> Eclipse Members and the ecosystem live in multiple open source communities either
-exclusively or mixed with commercial software products. As well, the Eclipse ecosystem is large enough to require
-and benefit from cross project interactions. I believe this will help to increase awareness of each projects challenges and
-successes. I would work to:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Ease any barriers through meetings and associated code camp so we can learn from each other, both internal and
-external to Eclipse. Encourage usage of each others offerings. My experience of watching how the Apache Ant project is
-organized has often allowed me to suggest possible improvements to my team's process. Their model of openness for
-planning and resolution of conflicts is something I believe Eclipse can learn from.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>Strengthen and grow the existing community:</b> We have a strong vibrant Eclipse community. We need to continue to empower and
-grow this community. I would
-work to:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Ensure that we continue to improve the Eclipse web presence and its ease of navigation.
-Within my posts on the Eclipse newsgroups I often find it difficult to quickly find the helper documentation
-I wish to point the user to, even when I was the creator of this documentation.</li>
-<li>Streamline the Eclipse contribution process to be easy to understand and execute.</li>
-<li>Foster the openness of all projects and make them more inviting. We have formal procedures in the development
-process but we always need to encourage an attitude of acceptance and openness within all the projects and committers.</li>
-<li>Address the "Resolved Later" Bugzilla issue. I do not currently have a solution but I do know that it is bothering
-many people in the community and I think it is time we tackled the problem head on.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>All of these items can be summarized with ensuring that we fully utilize the power of the Eclipse
-ecosystem to enable continued success. I would like to offer my experience and talents to help make this a reality.</p>
-]]>
-
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Darin Swanson is one of the original committers on the Eclipse project, working as the Ant Component
- lead for the Eclipse Platform Project and as a key committer for the Eclipse debug support.
- He was also involved in the development of Eclipse's precursors: VisualAge Micro Edition Java IDE and the
- Visual Age for Java product.</p>
- <p>Darin has presented numerous Eclipse tutorials and talks at several conferences and has helped organize
- and participated in numerous code camps. He actively fields questions in the Eclipse newsgroups and has been
- nominated as a top committer.</p>
- <p>He is also active in other open source arenas having participated in mailing list discussions, reported bugs and
- supplied patches to the CruiseControl and Apache Ant projects.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[IBM]]>
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-
-<name> Mike Taylor </name>
-
-<title> President/CEO Instantiations </title>
-
-<image> taylor.jpg </image>
-
-<email> mike_taylor@instantiations.com </email>
-
-<phone> 503 598-4911 </phone>
-
-<contact> <![CDATA[<a
-href="http://www.instantiations.com/moreaboutmike.htm">Click here to
-learn about Mike</a>.]]> </contact>
-
-<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<p>As one of your current Add-in Provider
-(AIP) Board members I strongly supported the interests of our
-community in 2006 and would be honored to represent you again in
-2007. Over the past year I've been actively involved in transitioning
-EPIC (Eclipse Plugin Central) from private ownership to the Eclipse
-Foundation, resulting in a significant increase in visibility for
-Eclipse-based commercial and open source plugins. </p>
-<p>I also chaired
-Eclipse's Market Research and Training Research Working Groups, and
-actively participated in a range of Eclipse Foundation and community
-activities. Since 1999 my professional priorities have been, and
-continue to be, building open source and commercial technologies,
-establishing a profitable Eclipse-based company, and growing the
-Eclipse community. <i>Instantiations is all Eclipse all the time.</i></p>
-]]></eclipse_affiliation>
-
-<vision> <![CDATA[<p>My vision for 2007 is to:</p><ul>
-<li>Show up, speak up, and stand up for the interests of AIP members
-at Eclipse Board meetings during 2007.</li>
-<li>Continue to increase ROI for Add-in Provider membership in the
-Eclipse Foundation.</li>
-<li>Continue the evolution of EPIC (Eclipse Plugin Central) as the
-key portal for Eclipse Plug-ins and Services.</li>
-<li>Make Eclipse a powerful "profitability platform" for Add-in providers.</li>
-<li>...and of course, to assure that Eclipse technology remains the
-best on the planet!</li>
-</ul>]]> </vision>
-
-<bio> <![CDATA[<ul>
-<li>Lead Instantiations, a company strategically committed to
-Eclipse. Instantiations is a founding member of the Eclipse
-Foundation, has led Eclipse open source projects, contributed code,
-and is involved in numerous Eclipse-focused committees and community
-activities.</li>
-<li>Chair of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2006).</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Training Working Group (2006).</li>
-<li>Member of EclipseCon 2006 Program Committee.</li>
-<li>Deeply involved in Eclipse technology and ecosystem since 1999.</li>
-<li>Former Member of Eclipse Consortium Board of Stewards.</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Marketing Committee from 2002 to 2005.</li>
-<li>Led project to establish Eclipse brand and logos.</li>
-<li>Member of Eclipse Governance Committee (that designed and formed
-the Eclipse Foundation).</li>
-<li>Founding member of <a
-href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">EPIC</a>, a leading
-Eclipse portal.</li>
-<li>Over 25 years of experience in the software industry.</li>
-</ul>]]> </bio>
-
-<affiliation> <![CDATA[<ul>
-<li>Instantiations, Inc, provider of WindowBuilder Pro, RCP
-Developer, CodePro AnalytiX and GWT Designer. Instantiations is a
-technology company totally focused on Eclipse. Instantiations has led
-and contributed to several Eclipse open source projects and is deeply
-involved in the Eclipse community.</li>
-<li>Founding member of the <a
-href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-2.html">Eclipse
-Plugin Central Alliance</a>.</li>
-</ul>]]> </affiliation>
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-<boardmember id="williams" type="addin">
-
- <name>Todd Williams</name>
-
- <title>Vice President - Technology</title>
-
- <image>williams.jpg</image>
-
- <email>todd.williams@genuitec.com </email>
-
- <phone>972.691.5717</phone>
-
- <contact>
- <![CDATA[
- Genuitec, LLC<br>
- 2221 Justin Road #119-340<br>
- Flower Mound, Texas 75028<br>
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>I've have been an active board member of the Eclipse Foundation since early
- 2003, initially as the representative for Genuitec LLC, (a founding member of
- the Eclipse Foundation) and more recently as an elected Add-in Provider representative.
- Additionally, I also serve the Foundation as the chairman of the Membership Committee,
- as a member of the Web Tools Project requirements group,
- and as a committer on the Phoenix project due to Genuitec's
- founding role in the EPIC Alliance, which recently
- donated Eclipse Plug-in Central to the Foundation.</p>
-
- <p>For the past five years I've been constantly evangelizing Eclipse
- technology and providing thought leadership through numerous consulting
- opportunities, speaking engagements, member recruitment and magazine
- articles.</p>
-
- <p>Much more detail on my Eclipse activities can be found by Googling: Todd Williams Eclipse</p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Executive Summary</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Emphasize the requirements of the add-in provider community over other ecosystem participants</li>
- <li>Advocate the commercial interests of add-in providers so Eclipse continues to be a sound investment</li>
- <li>Provide time to adjust to innovations by promoting managed, predictable development cycles</li>
- <li>Protect add-in provider value by emphasizing flexible, extensible frameworks over commercially competitive tools</li>
- <li>Promote the expansion of Eclipse into new and emerging market segments to engender new business opportunities</li>
-</ul>
-
- <p>The success of Eclipse stems from the unique, managed balance between the needs of its three diverse communities: the committers,
- the add-in providers, and the end users. To gain critical mass, Eclipse began by catering to the needs of the end users. But, now that there are
- hundreds of products in the add-in ecosystem and an explosion of interest in the rich client platform, the makeup of the Eclipse community is
- rapidly changing and its needs will continue to change.</p>
-
- <p>As Eclipse evolves, we must continue to delicately adjust our focus to maintain our community synergy.
- For example, if we were to cater to the desires of the end users too heavily,
- we could actually remove the incentive to becoming an add-in provider or adopting Eclipse as a platform entirely.
- Since the initial investment required to build and market a product is so large, commercial product investment would simply be seen as too
- risky given that our target markets would quickly be commoditized by our own platform.</p>
-
- <p>To prevent this self-commoditization, we must proactively manage the pace, transparency, and
- predictability of our innovations in order to give our members time to adjust their business models appropriately.
- However, to remain viable for any of us in the long-term, we must also continue to increase our efforts around creating
- commercial opportunity for our members while we foster innovation within the projects, both of which will ensure that
- the word "Eclipse" will always be perceived as a high-quality ingredient brand.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>As a co-founder of Genuitec, I run both the R&D Lab and Consulting Practice for Eclipse Technology. These dual roles provide me with a unique
- perspective on innovation and its commercial applications with Eclipse technology. Additionally, I have over twenty years of experience in
- the development of computing infrastructures, large scale distributed software architectures, and the optimization of
- development processes, techniques, and tools.</p>
-
- <p>If interested, a more detailed bio can be found on Genuitec's <a href="http://www.genuitec.com/about/leadership.html">website</a>. </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Genuitec L.L.C. is a leading provider of innovative Eclipse-based technology products, training, and consulting services.
- Genuitec's flagship product, MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, is a full-featured Web/J2EE/AJAX IDE that enhances Eclipse with hundreds
- of additional features that enable highly productive enterprise development.</p>
-
- <p>Genuitec also offers training and expert consulting and development services for the Eclipse SDK and Rich Client Platforms.
- Genuitec joined the Eclipse Foundation early in 2003 and currently has an employee serving as an elected member of the board
- of directors where he actively participates in the strategy development and direction of the organization.
- Genuitec L.L.C. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Flower Mound, Texas.</p>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="aniszczyk" type="committer">
-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Software Engineer</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
-
- <email> <![CDATA[
- caniszczyk@gmail.com ]]> </email>
-
- <phone>+1 860-839-2465</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- IBM Austin Labs<br>
- 11501 Burnet Road<br>
- Austin, TX 78758-3400<br>
- USA<br>
- BNT 901 / 3B-003<br>
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde">PDE</a>) Committer<br>
- Eclipse Communications Framework (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf">ECF</a>) Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007, 2008)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the community so the Eclipse ecosystem can prosper. In order to build a prosperous
- community of committers, developers and users, there needs to be effective communication across all parties. I will use communication
- channels like my <a href="http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com">blog</a>, <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">planet eclipse</a>, newsgroups,
- mailing lists and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC">IRC</a> to gather suggestions from committers, developers and users.</p>
-
-<p>I have many ideas on how to make Eclipse more successful, but my commitments will be to quality and growing the Eclipse ecosystem. The Eclipse ecosystem is expanding quickly and there needs to be an emphasis on ensuring the quality that made Eclipse successful in the first place will be represented across all projects.
-To ensure high <b>quality</b> and consistency across all eclipse.org projects I will:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Ensure that our standards of quality are upheld by committers, new and old alike</li>
-<li>Support higher criteria for joining Eclipse release trains</li>
-<li>Make Eclipse processes transparent as possible</li>
-</ul>
-<p>To ensure Eclipse continues <b>growing</b> I will:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Build bridges within the Eclipse ecosystem and with other open source or commercial projects</li>
-<li>Encourage Eclipse committers and projects to blog and idle on <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC">IRC</a> so they can experience the community</li>
-<li>Lower the barrier to entry for new Eclipse projects without sacrificing quality</li>
-<li>Ensure that Eclipse evolves to a 4.0 release without abandoning the Eclipse ecosystem and harming adoption</li>
-<li>Support the better presentation of job opportunities within the Eclipse ecosystem (see bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=217269">217269</a>)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>In the end, my goal is to make Eclipse thrive everywhere, be transparent about the board's activities and have the honor to represent
-you, the committers, to my fullest abilities.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Chris is an Eclipse committer at IBM Lotus who focuses on OSGi-related development. His primary focus these days is improving
-Eclipse's Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) and spreading the Eclipse love inside of IBM's Lotus organization. Chris lives and breathes
-Eclipse through evangelizing about Eclipse in his <a href="http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com">blog</a> (and various other publications).</p>
-<p>In the Eclipse community, Chris is responsible for maintaining the public forum known as <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse</a> and
-growing Eclipse's <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/IRC">IRC</a> presence. </p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="day" type="addin">
-
- <name>Robert Day</name>
-
- <title>VP Marketing</title>
-
- <image>day.jpg</image>
-
- <email>rday@lnxw.com</email>
-
- <phone>(+1) 408-979-3900</phone>
-
- <contact>
- <![CDATA[
- LynuxWorks<br>
- 855 Embedded Way<br>
- San Jose CA 95138<br>
- USA
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- LynuxWorks, Add-in Provider<br>
- Chairman, Eclipse embedded workgroup
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>I believe that a common technology can unite many different worlds, and that
- technology is driven and developed by a community rather than a single entity.
- It can bring partners and competitors closer together and it can span across many
- different markets and types of product development. I believe that Eclipse has
- many characteristics that will allow it to become that single common enabling
- platform. The huge and growing ecosystem of companies and technologies that
- surrounds Eclipse, coupled with a business model that allows companies to
- build and sell better products will continuously evolve and enhance the
- technology and its applicability to more and more developers.</p>
-
- <p>My world has been that of embedded device development, and I see many
- synergies between the software development tools from embedded and the
- enterprise/desktop worlds that could bridge the gap between these two areas.
- I also see that by using a higher level of abstraction when designing systems,
- then hardware development and software development could also be more closely
- united. Eclipse certainly has the flexibility to allow these typically disparate
- entities to unite making the developers more productive and allowing tool
- vendors to integrate more effectively. I would like to encourage more
- collaboration between companies and their technologies that have traditionally
- been focused in their own domains or markets and to explore new solutions
- (or Eclipse projects) that will ultimately increase the productivity of
- developers.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>I earned a Bachelors degree in Computer Science. My first role was programming
- SCADA systems (RTL/2 on a PDP-11), and then moved into programming the embedded
- parts of those systems in assembler and Pascal. I changed career path and worked
- for Microtec Research, where I developed some of the early versions of the
- famous XRAY debugger. I found that I enjoyed explaining the technology and
- products as much as developing them so I moved into a technical sales role,
- and spent my time explaining compiler optimizations, and demonstrating the
- first IDE for embedded development (MasterWorks). My career for the last
- 10 years has been marketing, where I help bring new software products to the
- embedded world. I have been very active in promoting both Eclipse and Eclipse
- based products with both Mentor Graphics and now LynuxWorks. I have chaired
- the Eclipse embedded workgroup for the last 4 years and have been focused on
- how to bring the embedded software world together under the common standard
- platform of Eclipse. I have written many Eclipse articles and papers for
- embedded publications, and have presented Eclipse papers and chaired Eclipse
- discussions at the last four Embedded Systems Conferences and EclipseCon 2007.
- </p>
- <p>Articles:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.embedded-control-europe.com/know-how?kid=79">Eclipse as a common IDE</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www2.theiet.org/oncomms/sector/electronics/magazine.cfm?issueID=171&articleID=EF43C365-C2FF-4798-336FE1199996A34B">Shared future</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://mae.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&C=Depar&ARTICLE_ID=294940&KEYWORDS=eclipse&p=32">Eclipse: software development environment in the firing line</a></li>
- </ul></p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- LynuxWorks
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="gaff" type="committer">
-
- <name>Doug Gaff</name>
-
- <title>Senior Manager and DSDP PMC Lead</title>
-
- <image>gaff.jpg</image>
-
- <email>doug.gaff@windriver.com</email>
-
- <phone>781-364-2295</phone>
-
- <contact>
- <![CDATA[
- Wind River Systems<br>
- 350 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 200<br>
- Kanata, ON K2K 2W5<br>
- Canada
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <ul>
- <li>DSDP PMC Lead</li>
- <li>EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee Chair</li>
- <li>Requirements and Architecture Council</li>
- <li>Project Mentor</li>
- <li>IP Process Working Group</li>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse is growing: projects, committers, code base, and ecosystem. Included in that growth is an ever-enlarging
- Board of Directors. The Board has become diverse enough that Eclipse must now have multiple distinct strategies for
- continued relevance in both the open source and commercial venues. The Board seems to be struggling to respond to this
- reality, and there's never been a better time to get involved!</p>
-
- <p>My vision for Eclipse and my role on the Board break down into two facets:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Responding to Growth</li>
- <ul>
- <li>Focus on Technical Verticals that move beyond the Enterprise.</li>
- <li>Recruiting companies to sponsor projects rather than\'a0 just use them.</li>
- <li>Focus on streamlining the Development IP Due Diligence processes.</li>
- </ul>
- <li>Defining the Role of the Board</li>
- <ul>
- <li>Ensure the committer and user community needs are represented and perceived as relevant.</li>
- <li>Facilitate discussions about the balance between doing good for the user community and doing good for commercial adopters.</li>
- <li>Increase the role of the Board and Foundation in describing and evangelizing Eclipse-based commercial business models.</li>
- </ul>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>In his open source life, Doug Gaff is the PMC Lead for the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) - an Eclipse project
- focused on building an extensible, standards-based platform to address a broad range of needs in the embedded and mobile
- software development space. Doug is also the Technical Program Chair for EclipseCon 08. In his commercial life, Doug is a
- Senior Engineering Manager on Wind River's commercial Eclipse-based product, Wind River Workbench. He is responsible for
- Eclipse open source contributions and adoption of Eclipse technology commercially. Doug has 13 years of embedded software
- development experience and holds a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- Wind River Systems
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="kersten" type="committer">
-
- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
-
- <title>President and CTO</title>
-
- <image>kersten.jpg</image>
-
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
-
- <phone>604-727-4004</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-Tasktop Technologies<br>
-700 - 510 West Hastings St.<br>
-Vancouver, BC V6B 1L8<br>
-Canada
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-Mylyn Project Lead<br>
-AspectJ Project Committer<br>
-AJDT Project Committer<br>
-Architecture Council Member
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>I have been an Eclipse committer since early 2002 when I co-created the AspectJ project. Like many others at the time, I was hedging my bets and developing extensions for multiple IDEs. But after a few weeks of experience building on it, it became clear to me that Eclipse was going to be the <a href="http://tasktop.com/blog/?p=5">platform for innovation</a> in the tools space. At that time I based this judgment almost entirely on the modularity and openness of the Platform. Since then, I have learned a lot about the critical part that collaboration tools and community involvement play in fostering a successful ecosystem. If elected, in addition to fulfilling the usual obligations of Committer Representative, my first priority will be evolving the tool support that facilitates collaboration in our community, and my second priority will be helping committers improve the cross-project usability of the tools that we produce.</p>
-
-<h4>Tools and Community</h4>
-
-<p>Being an Eclipse committer is a challenging task, due to the amount of input that comes in through project planning and community channels. In addition, the Eclipse frameworks that we work with daily add up to millions of lines of code. As an Eclipse committer, one of my motivations for creating and contributing Mylyn was to facilitate development and collaboration within the Eclipse ecosystem. To date Mylyn has been successful at enabling many committers to work more productively on their projects and to process much more community feedback than was previously possible. This has been a key factor in the success of the Mylyn project to date, since it has enabled a small number of committers to resolve thousands of bug reports.</p>
-
-<p>The Eclipse Foundation has been doing an amazing job in providing the infrastructure and web services that are the backbone of our community. As Committer Representative I plan on coordinating improvements to the tool support that we use to make us more productive when using these services. Key areas I see for improvement include:
-<ul>
-<li>Better integrating Eclipse.org facilities for committers, including bugs.eclipse.org and IPZilla integration with the IDE. We spend a large portion of our time using these repositories, and the easier it is for us to use them within Eclipse the more productive we become.
-</li>
-<li>Ensuring that there is an <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epp/">EPP</a> distribution that supports committers and contributors. This used to be the Eclipse Classic download, but thanks to innovation within Eclipse there is an increasing number of other projects and tools that are now relevant to committers.
-</li>
-<li>Coordinating additional tool support for facilitating Eclipse project development. This can include things such as include IRC integration from ECF, easier applying of patches and sharing of Mylyn contexts, as well as default configurations for <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE_UI_Incubator_ApiTools">PDE's API Tools</a>.
-</li>
-<li>Improving the user community feedback channels. This includes better integrated support for bug reporting (e.g. <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205196">EPP distribution specific reporting</a>) and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_FAQ#Which_usage_monitoring_framework_should_I_use.3F">usage monitoring</a>.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>While I have put some effort into each of these areas already, as Committer Representative I will drive additional progress via contributions, getting help from the Eclipse Foundation and coordination of community resources (e.g. a summer of code project on improving tool support for committers).</p>
-
-<h4>UI Quality and Usability</h4>
-
-<p>We have a culture of diversity and quality at Eclipse and I would follow the lead of the previous Committer Representatives before me in supporting that. But while we have become very good at ensuring the cross-project quality of frameworks and APIs, we are not yet as good at ensuring cross-project UI quality and usability. The Platform has set a high bar for us, but thanks to their efforts in making the workbench UI facilities reusable, the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/UI_Checklist">User Interface Guidelines</a> we have and the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Best_Practices_Working_Group">UI Best Practices Working Group efforts</a>, with additional visibility and some coordinated effort I believe that it is possible for all Eclipse projects with a UI component to attain similar levels of usability and for our very diverse ecosystem to work towards improved UI consistency.</p>
-
-I believe that for the coming year, the above priorities are key to helping Eclipse move along it's trajectory of being the leading platform and ecosystem of tools. In order to make these efforts transparent easy for committers to consume, I would blog periodically on progress towards these goals in addition to <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-planning-council/msg01049.html">driving discussion</a> within the existing community channels.
-</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Mik Kersten is the President and CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of the
-Eclipse Mylyn project, committer on the AspectJ project, and member of the
-Eclipse Architecture Council. While a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik
-implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tool support with AspectJ
-plug-ins for JBuilder, NetBeans, Visual Studio, and Emacs. He then created
-Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface technology while completing his PhD at
-the University of British Columbia. Mik's passion is building Eclipse-based
-tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<a href="http://tasktop.com/">Tasktop Technologies</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>
- Konstantin Komissarchik
- </name>
-
- <title>
- Staff Software Engineer
- </title>
-
- <image>komissarchik.jpg
- </image>
-
- <email>
- kosta@bea.com
- </email>
-
- <phone>
- 206.926.2962
- </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-BEA Systems, Inc.<br>
-999 North Northlake Way<br>
-Seattle, WA 98103<br>
-USA<br>
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Web Tools Platform committer<br>
- Web Tools Common Project lead<br>
- Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors Committer Representative (2007-2008)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>The last year has gone by very quickly. It has been an honor and privilege to
- represent the committers to Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. During the
- course of the year, I pushed on a variety of fronts to make sure that the
- foundation is effectively serving committers and protecting their investment. I
- am active in the ongoing discussions to improve the IP Process. I have also been
- involved in defining a way to bring tasteful advertisement to eclipse.org as a
- way to improve member value and make sure that Foundation continues to be fully
- funded and is able to serve committers effectively.</p>
-
- <p>When I ran for this position last year, I set some specific goals for myself.
- While some progress has been made, a lot of work still remains. I am passionate
- about bringing committers from different projects together and enabling them to
- collaborate in creating a cohesive user experience rather than the silo effect
- that is so evident in Eclipse today. There are many aspects or reasons for the
- situation that we find ourselves in today. Some of them are social. Some of them
- are infrastructural. It is the second one where I think the Eclipse Foundation
- can make the biggest difference. Imagine if there was a way to easily create
- micro-components for projects to collaborate on a feature or two. Imagine if
- build was a service provided by the foundation (just like CVS) and every project
- didn't have to struggle with this on their own. Some progress has been made, but
- there is a lot more work still left to do. You can visit
- <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nexus_Project">http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nexus_Project</a> to
- get more information about one aspect of my efforts in this area.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Konstantin is an engineering team lead at BEA Systems working on a product with
- close ties to Eclipse and has been a committer on the Web Tools Platform since
- before its first release. He has designed and implemented the Faceted Project
- Framework which made it possible for people to easily extend capabilities of WTP
- projects. In his prior life, he has worked on compilers, custom servers and network
- protocol design. He graduated from the University of Washington with BS in
- Computer Science.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- BEA Systems, Inc.
- </affiliation>
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-<boardmember id="mcaffer" type="committer">
-<type> committer </type>
-
- <name> Jeff McAffer </name>
-
- <title> Equinox, Orbit and RCP team lead </title>
-
- <image> mcaffer.jpg </image>
-
- <email> jeff@code9.com</email>
-
- <phone></phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/equinox">Equinox</a> lead<br>
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> lead<br>
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/rcp">RCP</a> lead<br>
- Eclipse project and Tools project PMC member<br>
- Architecture Council member<br>
- Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors Committer representative (2006-2007)<br>
- <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jeff/">Blog</a>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-Once again the last year saw Eclipse exceed all expectations in terms of adoption, penetration and community growth and there is no sign
-of slowing. The year was similarly expansive for the Eclipse Board. We tackled many complex issues from parallel IP to the use of third party
-tools and infrastructure in the community to member contributions and membership value. Together the committer representatives lobbied hard to
-raise and address the issues that affect the committer/contributor community and we've been very successful.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I have been a board member for two years now and have really hit my stride. The interactions and challenges are well worth the time committment
-and the results are thoroughly satisfying. The coming year looks particularly exciting. As you may know, I recently left IBM to start a company
-around Eclipse technology. This has deepened my committment to Eclipse and focused my attention on issues that impact Eclipse as a whole. I've
-highlighted a few below.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Review the Bylaws</b>: The Eclipse Foundation as a legal entity will turn 5 in the next year and its corporate bylaws have served
-it well. The community has evolved and it is time to review and renew the bylaws. For example, if you work for a member company, your
-vote in this election is aggregated with all others from your company yielding just one election vote. This was originally designed to
-level the voting playing field. The community is past that stage now and it is time for you to have your very own vote.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Intellectual Property management</b>: The Foundation IP team does a great job on a tough task. The Eclipse IP process is highly
-valued and people trust the code they get from Eclipse. This does not come for free however and committers are impacted by this daily it
-seems. Some time ago I helped design the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/parallel-ip-process.php">parallel IP process</a>
-for <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/incubation-phase.php">incubators</a>. It has been a partial success but more
-work is needed to extend the notion to all projects. Dual licensing, alternative licensing for example code and facilitating development split
-over multiple communities will be hot topics in 2008. IP is not particularly sexy but it is critical to the ecosystem and the health and
-well-being of the code base.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Makin' it real</b>: The committer reps have made good progress in being visible to the community. We started a
-<a href="http://eclipse-committer-reps.blogspot.com/">blog</a>, we show up at various member and committer events and are generally active
-across the broad community. Still, I can't help the feeling that people don't really know what we do for them or why they should care who we are. It
-turns out that the committer reps have considerable influence and get quite a bit done. Over 2008 I want to look for ways to make this more tangible
-and tighten the feedback loop for committers.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Incubation</b>: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/incubation-phase.php">Incubators</a> have come into style over the
-past year with many mature projects spawning incubators. This has been a real win. The process for <i>graduating</i> code is however rather clunky.
-Refining the development process and IP policy to support smaller, more incremental graduation of function will make the incubator mechanism even
-more useful to you and your projects.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Membership value</b>: Committers sometimes don't see the connection between membership value and their daily lives. It is actually
-pretty simple. More value for members = more members = more money = more facilities, services, support for the community (that's you). So
-ensuring that organizations see real value in membership is key to making your life better. Recognizing contributing companies on project pages
-and providing more (yet tasteful) ways of highlighting member offerings on eclipse.org properties are tangible benefits of membership. We need
-to look for additional opportunities in this space.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Member contributions and project support</b>: Today's membership structure is quite disjoint. Members pay relatively little or quite
-a lot. As the ecosystem around Eclipse evolves, we should evolve the membership structure to enable those willing to contribute more to
-do so. This ranges from new formal membership categories to more event sponsorship opportunities such as demo camps to encouraging and
-enabling members to meet their contribution goals. Again, more member contributions = more support for the projects.
-</p>
-
-<p><b>Expansion of mission</b>: Last but not least Eclipse is changing. The past few months have seen a whole new set of projects and participants
-from <a href="http://eclipse.org/eclipselink">EclipseLink</a> and Oracle to <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eilf">EILF</a> and Brox. The
-upcoming <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Runtime_Top-Level_Project_Draft_Charter">Eclipse Runtime project proposal</a> is a sign of things to
-come. These changes will challenge some of the notions we hold about Eclipse and force the community to reassess itself. The Eclipse Board needs
-to guide these changes to expand the community while protecting what we have built. We must also look for synergies between the ever more diverse
-set of projects that is Eclipse.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Over the past 9 years of Eclipse involvement I've had the pleasure of starting several projects and growing them into full-fledged communities. Over
-the past couple years I've learned a lot about what makes committer communities tick and being an effective member of a governing body. In the
-coming year I will learn a lot about the business community around Eclipse -- the other half (dark side?) of Eclipse if you will. My goal in running
-for re-election is to combine these characteristics in plotting the course for Eclipse.
-</p>
-
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse <a href="http://eclipse.org/equinox
-">Equinox OSGi</a>, <a href="http://eclipse.org/rcp">RCP</a> and <a
-href="http://eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> teams and is the founder of <a
-href="http://code9.com">Code 9</a>. He is one of the architects of the
-Eclipse Platform and a co-author of <a href="http://eclipsercp.org">The
-Eclipse Rich Client Platform</a> (Addison-Wesley). Jeff is also a member of the
-<a href="http://eclipse.org/eclipse/team-leaders.php">Eclipse Project
-PMC</a>, the <a href="http://eclipse.org/tools/team-leaders.php">Tools
-Project PMC</a>, the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Eclipse
-Foundation Board of Directors. Jeff is currently interested all aspects
-of Eclipse componentry from designing, developing and building bundles to deploying,
-installing and ultimately running them. Previous lives include being
-a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, work in
-distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel
-Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a
-PhD at the University of Tokyo.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://code9.com">Code 9</a><br>
- OSGi Core Platform Expert Group member
- ]]> </affiliation>
-
-
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-<boardmember id="mcgrattan" type="addin">
-
- <name>Emma McGrattan</name>
-
- <title>SVP Engineering</title>
-
- <image>mcgrattan.jpg</image>
-
- <email>emma.mcgrattan@ingres.com</email>
-
- <phone>(+1) 631-704-2932</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Ingres Corporation<br>
- 2950 Express Drive South, Suite 106<br>
- Islandia, NY 11749-1412<br>
- USA<br>
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> Member Company Representative for Ingres </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>My vision for Eclipse in 2008 is to raise the level of awareness senior IT managment. A recent study by Forrester and
- 1105 Media clearly indicates that Eclipse is enjoying much wider adoption in IT groups of all sizes than Senior IT management
- is aware of, and it's time to educate these folks on the benefits that the adoption of Eclipse brings to the table.
- In much the same way that Linux entered the enterprise through the mavericks in IT and was later embraced by management
- through the concerted efforts of companies like Red Hat, it's time for the Eclipse member companies to step up
- the evangelist role with the IT decision makers and educate them on the productivity and cost benefits that their companies
- are either already enjoying, or could enjoy.</p>
-
- <p>I would also like to see a broader adoption of Eclipse outside of North America. Ingres has traditionally enjoyed a significant
- presence in Europe, South America and the Pacific Rim, areas in which Eclipse adoption is low, and I would like to brainstorm
- with other member companies with a footprint in these geographies to firstly understand their thoughts as to why they haven't yet
- woken up to Eclipse, and secondly to find ways to raise awareness and adoption.</p>
-
- <p>Last year it was my pleasure to introduce the Eclipse community to the Sony Playstation 3 as a platform for Eclipse deployment,
- and while this was done as a promotional gimmick, I'm looking forward to getting Eclipse onto the Nintendo Wii in 2008 and
- finding innovative and fun ways to make use of the various Wii controllers with Eclipse.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Emma is the SVP of Engineering responsible for the Emerging Technologies Team at Ingres. Since its formation in 2006, the Ingres
- Emerging Technologies Team has been responible for a number of leading edge projects including the Icebreaker family of
- software appliances, the Ingres Eclipse DTP plug-in, improved usability, and most notoriously for using the Sony
- Playstation 3 as the demonstration platform of choice for Ingres and Eclipse at a number of trade-shows. A leading authority in
- DBMS technologies, Emma has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line, and is a popular speaker
- at industry events world-wide.</p>
-
- <p>Emma joined Ingres as senior vice president of Engineering from CA where she was responsible for the development,
- maintenance and QA of the Ingres family of products. Emma started her career with Ingres in 1992 as a desktop porting
- engineering, and since then has held a variety of senior development and management positions. Never happier than when
- she is up to her elbows in code, Emma is also responsible for Ingres community engagement.</p>
-
- <p>Born in Ireland, Emma earned a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Dublin City University.
- Never at a loss for words, please see Emma's blog, <a href="http://blogs.ingres.com/emmamcgrattan/">"The View from 25B</a>."</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- Ingres Corporation
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
- <title>Senior Technical Staff Member</title>
- <image> merks.jpg </image>
- <email>merks@ca.ibm.com</email>
- <phone> 905-413-3265 </phone>
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-IBM Toronto Software Lab<br>
-D3/0RB8/8200/MKM<br>
-8200 Warden Ave.<br>
-Markham, ON L6G 1C7<br>
-Canada
- ]]> </contact>
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-Eclipse Modeling Project Co-lead<br>
-Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-Eclipse's momentum continues to build
-and that momentum is driven primarily by the committer community,
-i.e., by people like you and me.
-Our growing influence as individuals presents new and exciting opportunities.
-As a committer representative on the board,
-I will continue to promote the rights and privileges of committers
-and to take forward the issues and concerns that are near and dear to the developer's hearts.
-I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative,
-not a politician.
-</p>
-<p>
-I believe that helping others is its own reward.
-With many thousands of answers to questions across a wide range of Eclipse's newsgroups last year,
-and with active blogging to promote a sense of community,
-my track record of helpfulness speaks for itself.
-</p>
-<p>
-I will continue to foster a diverse and growing community
-that encourages and strives for the type of excellence that has made
-Eclipse what it is today.
-The modeling project, something over which I have more direct control,
-is just one example of the exciting things
-that a <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/project-info/team.php">diverse group of individuals</a> can accomplish.
-Eclipse's release train process is yet another success story that demonstrates
-the kind of cooperation that can help our community strive for ever greater achievements.
-</p>
-<p>
-I will work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be
-and are ever improving.
-I believe in encouraging and rewarding positive behavior,
-and in defining minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable realistic results.
-I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules,
-i.e., rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups or to make first and second class citizens in our community.
-</p>
-<p>
-I like to lead by example, to have others do as I do,
-rather than set unrealistic benchmarks for others to follow
-and then sit back with the expectation that others should do my bidding.
-If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well and it's worth participating.
-As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only
-Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-Collectively, we are Eclipse and I would be honored to serve Eclipse for another term.
-</p>
- ]]> </vision>
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Ed Merks is the project lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and
-a co-lead of the top-level Modeling project. He has many years of in-depth
-experience in the design and implementation of languages, frameworks, and
-application development environments. He has been an active committer at
-Eclipse since 2002, with more than 1/2 million lines of committed code, and
-was the winner of last year's top committer award.
-This year he is one of four finalists for the top ambassador award.
-He holds a Ph.D. in computing science and is a co-author of the authoritative
-"Eclipse Modeling Framework, A Developer's Guide" (Addison-Wesley 2003). He
-works for IBM Rational Software at the Toronto Lab.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-IBM Rational Software, Toronto Lab
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="ragan" type="addin">
-
- <name>Tracy Ragan</name>
-
- <title>Chief Operating Officer</title>
-
- <image>ragan.jpg</image>
-
- <email>tracy.ragan@openmakesoftware.com</email>
-
- <phone>505-424-6440</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
-Openmake Software<br>
-213 W. Institute Place #404<br>
-Chicago, IL 60010<br>
-USA<br>
-www.openmakesoftware.com ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Involvement with Eclipse has become a substantial part of my background and experience. I have
- been involved with Eclipse in some capacity since 2002 when I started hearing about the "Eclipse Project". At
- that time, I took a closer look at Eclipse and was immediately surprised by what I found, an open source effort
- focused around a common IDE platform. By the end of 2002, I had become a "founding steward" of this new
- and exciting community. I've watched the Eclipse organization grow and change, always adding my "2 cents" along the way.<br>
-
- <p>During 2007 I have had the pleasure of serving on the Eclipse board representing the Eclipse Eco-system of
- Add-in Providers. It is my belief that the Add-in Provider community is and will continue to be the core of
- Eclipse. Even though our strategic members our important, it is the Add-in providers who bring a well rounded commercial
- market based on the Eclipse technology.</p> ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Involvement from Add-in Provider companies is a critical component of the overall success of
- Eclipse. Some Add-in Providers have learned how to stay involved even as Eclipse has grown. I
- believe there are many more Add-in Providers who want to be active, not passive, members of
- Eclipse but simply don't know how. Add-in Providers need to be better organized so that they can
- more easily see how to get involved. In addition, Add-in providers need to be recognized as a
- core pillar of Eclipse. This can be done through better recognition programs for active Add-in
- Providers and an increased focus on Add-in Providers through Public Relations contacts. Add-in
- Provider contribution is important. What we don't want is for the Eclipse organization to evolve
- to a place where Add-in Providers simply serve as an audience to the Strategic Members. We are
- the "members at large" and represent one of the core pillars of this organization.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>I have served as both CEO and COO for OpenMake Software since 1995. I started my IT career as a
- mainframe programmer in the mid 1980s and moved into C programming mainly in OS/2 PM by the late 1980s. I worked
- as an independent consultant for 8 years before forming OpenMake Software with my partner Steve Taylor. Since that
- time we have created the now emerging market of enterprise build management tools with Openmake Meister the leader and
- most complete solution available. We have done this without any level of VC funding by letting our superior
- software fund itself. The experience of growing OpenMake Software will be extremely valuable when is comes to
- serving as a member of the Eclipse Board. </p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>OpenMake Software is the leading vendor of Enterprise Build Management Solutions. OpenMake Meister, our
- flagship product, was launched in June of 1995. Since that time OpenMake Software has revolutionized
- the way developers manage their build process by mashing up the individual developer's IDE builds with
- the team build executed outside of the IDE. OpenMake Software enjoys close partnerships with other Eclipse
- Members such as Serena Software, Computer Associates, MKS Inc., and IBM.</p>
- ]]> </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Doug Schaefer</name>
-
- <title>Engineering Manager and Eclipse CDT Project Lead</title>
-
- <image>schaefer.jpg</image>
-
- <email>doug.schaefer@windriver.com</email>
-
- <phone>(+1) 613-270-2275</phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- Wind River Systems<br>
- 350 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 200<br>
- Kanata, ON K2K 2W5<br>
- Canada
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- CDT Project Lead and Committer<br>
- Tools PMC Member<br>
- Architecture Council Member<br>
- EclipseCon 2007, 2008 Program Committee Member<br>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I guess my blog, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com, has a good record of my vision for Eclipse.
- My main objective on the board is to work to ensure that Eclipse has the right tools and environment that enable committers to be successful.
- There are a lot of good committers with good ideas and needs specific to their market places and a lot of them are frustrated trying to get their voice heard.
- The board needs to have enforcable guidelines to ensure that projects are open and diverse and that Eclipse can continue to grow architecturally to be successful in new markets while ensuring stability and quality that users demand.<p>
-
- <p>I continue to be a proponent of third party organizations that provide development services to the Eclipse community.
- There are a number of vendors and users who have jobs large and small but who are struggling finding the right experts to satisfy those needs.
- The board has an opportunity to provide the right tools to help bring suppliers and consumers of Eclipse-based services together.</p>
-
- <p>I also continue with me my desire to host complete free solutions on the Eclipse servers.
- We have seen to date over 4000 downloads of the combined EPL/GPL/LGPL licensed Wascana Desktop developer aimed at grassroots C++ developers looking for alternative IDE and SDKs for Windows development.
- Meeting the needs of the grassroots helps ensure the future growth of Eclipse and the demand for Eclipse based products.
- I am very interested in finding a solution that enables projects like this to be hosted and branded as Eclipse projects despite non EPL compliant licensing of some of their components.</p>
-
- <p>
- Finally, working in the embedded software industry, we've seen the success of
- Eclipse happen there almost by accident. Yet we still face many questions over
- the value that Eclipse provides both users and vendors in this space. Some of
- the issues are architectural as we stretch the Eclipse Platform in new
- directions. However, I also see a strong need for an evangelist to provide a
- strong voice in this market to promote not only using Eclipse as a platform
- but also to have them contribute back to the community.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Doug is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan where his passion for software development tools began.
- He spend 6 years developing embedded software in the telecom industry before joining ObjecTime before ObjectTime joined Rational which later joined IBM.
- There he worked on code generation tools and software modeling tools for the embedded market.
- Doug's involvement in Eclipse began with the birth of the Eclipse CDT project in 2002.
- He led IBM Rational's team that contributed to the CDT in those early days and drove the technical vision that resulted in CDT's successful source indexing strategy.
- In 2005 he switched employers and became CDT's project lead, a position he still holds today now at Wind River.
- Doug is also now the engineering manager for Wind River's install and licensing technology team.
- ]]> </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.windriver.com">Wind River Systems</a>,
- <a href="http://wascana.sourceforge.net">Wascana Desktop Developer</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Darin Swanson</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Engineer</title>
-
- <image> swanson.jpg </image>
-
- <email>Darin_Swanson@us.ibm.com</email>
-
- <phone> 503-579-3252 </phone>
-
- <contact> <![CDATA[
- 15300 SW Koll Parkway<br>
- Beaverton, OR 97006-6063<br>
- USA<br>
- ]]> </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Platform Ant Team Lead<br>
- Platform Debug and JDT Debug Committer<br>
- Platform UI Committer<br>
- 2007 Eclipse Committer Representative<br>
- 2008 EclipseCon Program Committee<br>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-I had the honor representing the Eclipse committers on the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php">Eclipse board for 2007</a>. I would ask that you re-elect me to the board for 2008.
-<p>
-My election statement for 2008 is similar to what I detailed for 2007. Below includes a review
-of what I have achieved as a board representative and where I think I need to continue working
-to ensure healthy board discussion and action.
-<br>And I am always happy to run...even for re-election!
-
-<p>One of the key strengths of Eclipse is its community. This community has been established
-by the Eclipse foundation and has flourished with the input and work of the Eclipse committers.
-In 2007 as a committer representative, I played a key role in reporting to the board on issues
-that are important to the Eclipse committers.
-
-<p>We made significant progress in addressing many committer issues at the board level during 2007.
-In 2008 we need to build on these successes and continue to provide attention to key areas.
-
-<p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Strengthen the committers:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Over the past 6 years, I have had the privilege of working with many of the talented committers who are involved with Eclipse. I feel we need to make the committer's tasks easier in order for their continued success and enjoyment in developing Eclipse. I would continue to work to:</span>
-
-<li>Streamline and simplify the Eclipse intellectual property (IP) process. In 2007, I was a member of a board working group specifically tasked with evaluating the current implementation of the IP process. You can see some of the resulting work detailed <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Summer_Vacation_2007_IPzilla_Improvements">here</a>. I would continue to cover this area for 2008. </li>
-<li>Have the Eclipse Management Organization (EMO) organize committer meetings and code camps throughout the year in many different locations.
-The meetings and code camps I have attended have been warmly received by the community. In the past these required extensive overhead in the planning and preparation for the committers involved. The EMO staff has worked to greatly reduce the overhead for these gatherings. We had great success in 2007 with Eclipse demo camps and I was personally involved in a <a href="http://runnerwhocodes.blogspot.com/2007/12/eclipse-democamp-portland.html">Portland, Oregon democamp</a>.</li>
-<li>Help committers to have better awareness and to fully utilize the support from the Eclipse board and Eclipse foundation staff and their committer representatives. In the 2007 session, we created a <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.board.committer.reps">committer representative newsgroup</a> and <a href="http://eclipse-committer-reps.blogspot.com/">committer representative blog</a>. I was active on both in 2007 and would continue relaying board activities for 2008 and strive to achieve even more communication.</li>
-<p>
-<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Promote committer diversity:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> An Eclipse committer is made, not born. To become a committer, one must first be a contributor. There are numerous people who really do want to help but yet find it difficult to know where to begin. I would continue to work to:
-</span>
-<p>
-<li>Offer and promote presentations for individuals interested in becoming contributors or committers. This was one of the reasons I proposed a <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/index.php?page=sub/&category=Committer+and+Contributor">whole track at EclipseCon 2008</a> specifically for the Eclipse committers and contributors. Be sure to attend this <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/index.php?page=sub/&id=412">talk</a>.</li>
-<li>Organize events strictly to promote Eclipse contributions coupled with directed follow-up from established committers. We are going to have a <a href="http://runnerwhocodes.blogspot.com/2008/01/eclipsecon-committer-hackathon.html">Hackathon</a> at EclipseCon 2008 which will be a great start for this year's set of events.</li>
-<p>
-<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Cross community engagements:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Eclipse Members and the ecosystem live in multiple open source communities either exclusively or mixed with commercial software products. As well, the Eclipse ecosystem is large enough to require and benefit from cross project interactions. I believe this will help to increase awareness of each projects challenges and successes. I would continue to work on:</span>
-<p>
-<li>Ease any barriers through meetings and associated code camps so we can learn from each other, both internal and external to Eclipse. Encourage usage of each others offerings. My experience of watching how the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</a> project is organized has often allowed me to suggest possible improvements to my team's process. Their model of openness for planning and resolution of conflicts is something I believe Eclipse can continue to learn from. <a href="http://ossummit.com/2007/news">OS Summit Asia</a> is a potential example of how Eclipse and other open source communities have the potential to <span style="font-style: italic;">cross-pollinate</span>. I would continue to ensure that the board understands the value of committer opportunities such as these.</li>
-<p>
-<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Strengthen and grow the existing community:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> We have a strong vibrant Eclipse community. We need to continue to empower and grow this community. I would continue to work to:</span>
-<p>
-</li><li>Ensure that we continue to improve the Eclipse web presence and its ease of navigation.
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/staff.php">Bjorn and company</a> have made great strides here (see this <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215422">bug</a> and this <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215301">one</a> for examples) . I know we can keep making great progress here.
-</li>
-<li>Streamline the Eclipse contribution process to be easy to understand and execute. For example Bjorn has put up some <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/index-quick.php">great cartoons</a> that clarify the process for anyone. These are the type of activities I will encourage the board to continue to task the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/staff.php">Eclipse foundation staff</a> with. As well, we all need education in this continually evolving area. This is another reason I proposed and organized the <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/">EclipseCon 2008</a> <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/index.php?page=sub/&category=Committer+and+Contributor">Committers track</a> with many talks on IP process. I plan to ensure the continuation of this track in future EclipseCons.</li>
-<li>Foster the openness of all projects and make them more inviting. We have formal procedures in the development process but we need to continue to encourage an attitude of acceptance and openness within all the projects and committers. In 2007, I chose <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/index.php?page=sub/&category=Committer+and+Contributor"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">many talks from experts</span></a> for EclipseCon 2008 to help in this area. I would continue to look for opportunities such as these in my next term.</li>
-<p>
-In conclusion, we need to fully utilize the power of the Eclipse ecosystem to enable continued success. I would like to continue to offer my experience and talents to help make this a reality.
-<p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>I am one of the original committers on the Eclipse project, working as the Ant Component lead for the Eclipse Platform Project and as a key committer for the Eclipse debug support. I am also working on the <a href="https://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp">Jazz</a> project for IBM.</p>
- <p>I was also involved in the development of Eclipse's precursors: VisualAge Micro Edition Java IDE and the Visual Age for Java product. I have presented numerous Eclipse tutorials and talks at several conferences and have helped organize and participated in numerous code camps and a demo camp. I actively field questions in the Eclipse newsgroups and have been nominated as a top committer in previous years.</p>
-
- <p>I am also active in other open source arenas having participated in mailing list discussions, reported bugs and supplied patches to the <a href="http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/">CruiseControl</a> and <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</a> projects.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="taylor" type="addin">
-
-<name> Mike Taylor </name>
-
-<title> President/CEO Instantiations </title>
-
-<image>taylor.jpg</image>
-
-<email> mike_taylor@instantiations.com </email>
-
-<phone> 503-598-4911 </phone>
-
-<contact> <![CDATA[<p><a
-href="http://www.instantiations.com/show/taylor/mike.html">Click here to
-learn more about Mike</a>.</p>]]> </contact>
-
-<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[As one of your current Add-in Provider
-(AIP) Board members I've strongly supported the interests of our
-community for the past two years and would be honored to represent you again in
-2008. 2007 was a very active year in the Eclipse Community and on the board. I won't bore you with details (if you want to read the board meeting minutes check out http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/minutes.php) but will say that I was a strong advocate for our AIP community. During the year I lead Eclipse Market Research and the Advertising Working Groups, both important to the continued success of Eclipse. My team and I at Instantiations supported many Eclipse-related activities in 2007 including EclipseCon, open source projects, demo camps, webinars, committees and more. We're all very involved and committed to the success of the technology and the community. Instantiations has made the Eclipse platform the core of its strategy and is <i> all Eclipse all the time.</i>
-]]></eclipse_affiliation>
-
-<vision> <![CDATA[<p>My vision for 2008 is to:</p><ul>
-<li>Continue to show up, speak up, and stand up for the interests of AIP members
-at Eclipse Board meetings during 2008.</li>
-<li>Continue to increase ROI for Add-in Provider membership in the
-Eclipse Foundation.</li>
-<li>Make Eclipse a powerful "profitability platform" for Add-in providers.</li>
-<li>...and of course, to assure that Eclipse technology remains the
-best on the planet!</li>
-</ul>]]> </vision>
-
-<bio> <![CDATA[<ul>
-<li>I lead Instantiations, a company strategically committed to
-Eclipse. Instantiations is a founding member of the Eclipse
-Foundation, has led Eclipse open source projects, contributed code,
-and is involved in numerous Eclipse-focused committees and community
-activities.</li>
-
-<li>Since 1999 my professional priorities have been, and
-continue to be, building open source and commercial technologies,
-establishing a profitable Eclipse-based company, and growing the
-Eclipse community. </li>
-
-<li>Chair of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2006, 2007).</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Advertising Working Group (2007)
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Training Working Group (2006).</li>
-<li>Member of EclipseCon 2006 Program Committee.</li>
-<li>Deeply involved in Eclipse technology and ecosystem since 1999.</li>
-<li>Former Member of Eclipse Consortium Board of Stewards.</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Marketing Committee from 2002 to 2005.</li>
-<li>Led project to establish Eclipse brand and logos.</li>
-<li>Member of Eclipse Governance Committee (that designed and formed
-the Eclipse Foundation).</li>
-<li>Founding member of <a
-href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">EPIC</a>, a leading
-Eclipse portal.</li>
-<li>Over 25 years of experience in the software industry.</li>
-</ul>]]> </bio>
-
-<affiliation> <![CDATA[<ul>
-<li>Instantiations, Inc, provider of WindowBuilder, RCP
-Developer, CodePro AnalytiX, CodePro Profiler, WindowTester and GWT Designer. Instantiations is a
-technology company totally focused on Eclipse. Instantiations has led
-and contributed to several Eclipse open source projects and is deeply
-involved in the Eclipse community.</li>
-<li>Founding member of the <a
-href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">Eclipse
-Plugin Central Alliance</a>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.instantiations.com/show/taylor/mike.html">Click here to
-learn more about Mike</a>.</li>
-</ul>]]> </affiliation>
-
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-<boardmember id="williams" type="addin">
-
- <name>Todd Williams</name>
-
- <title>Vice President - Technology</title>
-
- <image>williams.jpg</image>
-
- <email>todd.williams@genuitec.com </email>
-
- <phone>972-691-5717</phone>
-
- <contact>
- <![CDATA[
- Genuitec, LLC<br>
- 2221 Justin Road #119-340<br>
- Flower Mound, TX 75028
- USA
- ]]>
- </contact>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>I've have been an active board member of the Eclipse Foundation since early
- 2003, initially as the representative for Genuitec LLC, (a founding member of
- the Eclipse Foundation) and more recently as an elected Add-in Provider representative.
-
- Additionally, I also serve on the Foundation's Membership Committee and as a
- member of the Web Tools Project requirements group. Genuitec also
- leads the Maynstall project and remains involved in the Phoenix project due to Genuitec's
- founding role in the EPIC Alliance, which built and then
- donated Eclipse Plug-in Central to the Foundation.</p>
-
- <p>For the past six years I've been constantly evangelizing Eclipse
- technology and providing thought leadership through numerous consulting
- opportunities, speaking engagements, member recruitment and magazine
- articles. My next talk will be at EclipseCon where I'll
- present "Making Money with Eclipse: A Survivor's Guide" as part of the business track.
-
- Much more detail on my Eclipse activities can be found by Googling: Todd Williams Eclipse
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Executive Summary</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Emphasize the requirements of the add-in provider community over other ecosystem participants</li>
- <li>Advocate the commercial interests of add-in providers so Eclipse continues to be a sound investment</li>
- <li>Provide time to adjust to innovations by promoting managed, predictable development cycles</li>
- <li>Protect add-in provider value by emphasizing flexible, extensible frameworks over commercially competitive tools</li>
- <li>Promote the expansion of Eclipse into new and emerging market segments to engender new business opportunities</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>The success of Eclipse stems from the unique, managed balance between the needs of its three diverse communities: the committers,
- the add-in providers, and the end users. To gain critical mass, Eclipse began by catering to the needs of the end users. But, now that there are
- hundreds of products in the add-in ecosystem and an explosion of interest in the rich client platform, the makeup of the Eclipse community is
- rapidly changing and its needs will continue to change.
-
- <p>As Eclipse evolves, we must continue to delicately adjust our focus to maintain our community synergy.
- For example, if we were to cater to the desires of the end users too heavily,
- we could actually remove the incentive to becoming an add-in provider or adopting Eclipse as a platform entirely.
- Since the initial investment required to build and market a product is so large, commercial product investment would simply be seen as too
- risky given that our target markets would quickly be commoditized by our own platform.
-
- <p>To prevent this self-commoditization, we must proactively manage the pace, transparency, and
- predictability of our innovations in order to give our members time to adjust their business models appropriately.
- However, to remain viable for any of us in the long-term, we must also continue to increase our efforts around creating
- commercial opportunity for our members while we foster innovation within the projects, both of which will ensure that
- the word "Eclipse" will always be perceived as a high-quality ingredient brand.
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- As a co-founder of Genuitec, I run both the R&D Lab and Consulting Practice for Eclipse Technology. These dual roles provide me with a unique
- perspective on innovation and its commercial applications with Eclipse technology. Additionally, I have over twenty years of experience in
- the development of computing infrastructures, large scale distributed software architectures, and the optimization of
- development processes, techniques, and tools.
-
- If interested, a more detailed bio can be found on Genuitec's website here: http://www.genuitec.com/about/leadership.html
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- Genuitec L.L.C. is a leading provider of innovative Eclipse-based technology products, training, and consulting services.
- Genuitec's flagship product, MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, is a full-featured Web/J2EE/AJAX IDE that is used in
- over 15,000 companies in 150 countries.
-
- Genuitec also offers training and expert consulting and development services for the Eclipse SDK and Rich Client Platforms.
- Genuitec joined the Eclipse Foundation early in 2003 and currently has an employee serving as an elected member of the board
- of directors where he actively participates in the strategy development and direction of the organization.
- Genuitec L.L.C. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Flower Mound, Texas.
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Engineer and Evangelist, EclipseSource</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
-
- <email> <![CDATA[
- zx@eclipsesource.com ]]> </email>
-
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde">PDE</a>) Co-Lead<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> PMC Member<br>
- Eclipse Communications Framework (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf">ECF</a>) Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2009)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2008)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the community so the Eclipse ecosystem can prosper. In order to build a prosperous
- community of committers, developers and users, there needs to be effective communication across all parties. I will use communication
- channels like my <a href="http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com">blog</a>, <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">planet eclipse</a>, newsgroups,
- mailing lists and <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC">IRC</a> to gather suggestions from committers, developers and users.</p>
-
-<p>I have many ideas on how to make Eclipse more successful, but my commitments will be to improving quality and growing the Eclipse ecosystem.
-
-To ensure high <b>quality</b> and consistency across all eclipse.org projects I will:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Ensure that our standards of quality are upheld by committers, new and old alike</li>
-<li>Support higher criteria for joining Eclipse release trains</li>
-<li>Make Eclipse processes transparent as possible</li>
-
-</ul>
-<p>To ensure Eclipse continues <b>growing</b> I will:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Build bridges within the Eclipse ecosystem and with other open source or commercial projects</li>
-<li>Encourage Eclipse committers and projects to blog and idle on <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC">IRC</a> so they can experience the community</li>
-<li>Lower the barrier to entry for new Eclipse projects without sacrificing quality</li>
-<li>Help modernize the Eclipse infrastructure to include a distributed version control system like GIT</li>
-<li>Ensure that Eclipse evolves to a 4.0 release without abandoning the Eclipse ecosystem and harming adoption</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>On the whole, my goal is to make Eclipse thrive everywhere and be transparent as possible about the board's activities. I love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. I will pay special attention to how we can make the Eclipse development process easier for smaller and lighter weight projects. In the end, I would be honored to represent you, the committers, for another term.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a member of the Technology PMC. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Chris's passions are blogging, software advocacy, tooling and anything Eclipse. He's always available to discuss open-source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- EclipseSource
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="bokowski" type="committer">
-
- <name>Boris Bokowski</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title>
-
- <image>bokowski.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Boris_Bokowski@ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Platform UI technical lead, member of the Eclipse Architecture Council,
- e4 committer.
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>If elected as a committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors, I would
-like to help <b>ensure the health and long-term success</b> of Eclipse.</p>
-
-<p>In particular, the following topics would be on my agenda:</p>
-
-<p><b>Make the life of committers easier.</b><br>
-We committers are doing much more than just writing code. Many of us enjoy the writing
-code part more than doing all the other necessary activities, for example, triaging b
-ugs, managing lists of tasks in Bugzilla, filing contribution questionnaires and
-working through the IP process, ensuring proper internationalization, maintaining
-the IP log. Some of these have become easier recently, thanks to the previous
-committer representatives, and the Eclipse Foundation staff.<br>
-I believe that there are many more opportunities for streamlining and
-simplification. At the board level, I would push for improvements, and
-for spending foundation money on this if necessary. Things that come to
-mind are usability improvements for Bugzilla, better performance for CVS/Subversion,
-Bugzilla and the wiki.<br>
-In addition to this, I would argue that money would be well spent on work that
-benefits all projects but never gets done because there is not enough benefit
-for each individual project on its own: Compiling and maintaining
-a "new project jumpstart documentation" package, for example. Or coming up
-with a set of exemplary project pages as something the projects could copy and adapt.</p>
-
-<p><b>Increase and improve communication within the community.</b><br>
-I believe we could do much more as a community by improving how we communicate. Those
-of us who hang out on IRC know how much they benefit from being able to ask a question
-and quickly get an answer, but also how useful it is to know people working on
-other projects. In addition to trying to get more people on IRC :-), I have other
-ideas how we could improve communication and cross-project interaction.<br>
-For example, I like the demo camps because you get to know others in the community.
-How about sponsoring committer and contributor camps once a year, focusing on
-how we get the work done, instead of on the products and projects that are the
-result of that work?<br>
-Another way to foster communication would be to make dependency relationships
-transparent. The Foundation already provides data on CVS commits. It should be
-relatively easy to extend this to show, at the granularity of individual plug-ins,
-a list of committers who are currently maintaining each plug-in, and the Eclipse-wide
-dependency relationships between those plug-ins. From a perspective of the Platform, we
-would know who to contact about planned changes to, say, the Common Navigator, and
-in the other direction, it would be easy to find out who maintains, say, the draw2d
-component.<br>
-I would also like to see more contacts between Eclipse and other open source
-communities such as Apache, Mozilla, Linux, and so on. A lot of the issues
-that we have around how to attract contributors, how to get companies to
-invest in open source, how to handle issues of APIs and deprecation, and
-so on, must be issues in these other communities as well, and we should be
-able to learn from each other.</p>
-
-<p><b>Prepare ourselves for change.</b><br>
-It is mind-boggling to see the rate of change in several areas that affect
-Eclipse directly. I don't know what the best answers are, but I know that we
-have a number of open questions and am interested in discussing them at the
-board level, for example:<br>
-<ul><li>The world-wide economic problems are affecting all Eclipse members,
-including the committer members through their employers and customers. This is both
-a threat, in that it is going to be harder for companies to fund
-development in the Eclipse context, and an opportunity, in that adoption of
-and collaboration through open source solutions could increase.</li>
-
-<li>The technology context is becoming more and more fragmented. For example,
-Java is no longer the "cool language" of choice for developers, and web UIs
-start to become more important than desktop UIs. At Eclipse, we mainly develop
-using Java, and provide mostly desktop UIs. All stakeholders will have to
-help change this (in the long term) to avoid ending up in a technological dead end.</li>
-
-<li>The number of Eclipse member companies, Eclipse projects, and Eclipse
-committers has increased dramatically. I suspect that our current structure
-(e.g. development process, PMCs, councils) will have to change to enable
-more scaling but I don't see this discussed.</li>
-</ul></p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Boris is the technical lead of the Eclipse Platform UI component and works
-for IBM in Ottawa, Canada. He is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council,
-and an active committer on the e4 project. He is proud to have helped increase
-diversity at the Eclipse Platform (a little) by attracting several non-IBM
-contributors and helping them become committers. Before joining IBM in 2005,
-he wrote a commercial RCP app using EMF and GEF, co-founded and co-managed
-a Web 2.0 company in Germany, worked on the original Eclipse 1.0 at OTI in
-Ottawa, and earned a PhD in computer science at Freie Universitat Berlin,
-Germany. He is married and a geek dad of three kids. You can find him on
-IRC as "borisb6i". </p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM Software, Ottawa, Canada
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Hans-Joachim Brede</name>
-
- <title>CEO, Bredex</title>
-
- <image>brede.jpg</image>
-
- <email>hans-joachim.brede@bredex.de</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Bredex GmbH joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member in 2007. As well as
-using Eclipse as an IDE, we also offer RCP training. Members of Bredex have
-worked as contributors and committers on Eclipse projects. </p>
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[ <p>
-My vision for Eclipse in 2009 is to encourage more contact between
-European and American members. The growth of the Eclipse community on
-both sides of the Atlantic is a great opportunity for member companies and
-individuals to network and share ideas. As a representative based in Europe
-I can collect and present ideas from a European perspective as well as
-communicating other ideas back to the members in Europe. The issues and
-questions of European members play an important role in moving Eclipse on
-as a platform and as a community. I would like to be the point-of-contact for
-both sides to bring us closer together. </p>
-
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Hans-Joachim (Achim) Brede is the founder of BREDEX GmbH and is one of its
-managing directors. He has implemented and managed multiple, highly complex
-customer projects and is responsible for the concepts in the development of
-the automated test tool GUIdancer. Achim holds a Master in Computer Science
-and has worked with the University of Braunschweig and Digital Equipment as
-a technical consultant. </p>
-
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[ <p>
-
-Since 1987, BREDEX GmbH has been providing high quality information technology
-services in the areas of consultancy, analysis and design, software development and
-training. Based in Braunschweig, the company has a history of long term customer
-satisfaction and a focus on forward thinking, developing individual solutions that bring
-future standards to current project needs. BREDEX sells GUIdancer, which is a powerful
-and cost effective automatic test tool for Java and HTML applications. </p>
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
-<boardmember id="gaff" type="committer">
-
- <name>Doug Gaff</name>
-
- <title>Senior Manager, Wind River and DSDP PMC Lead</title>
-
- <image>gaff.jpg</image>
-
- <email>doug.gaff@windriver.com</email>
-
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <ul>
- <li>Eclipse Board of Directors 2008-2009</li>
- <li>DSDP PMC Lead</li>
- <li>EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee Chair</li>
- <li>Planning and Architecture Councils</li>
- <li>Project Mentor</li>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <P>I've been serving on the Board as your elected Committer Representative for almost a year now. Here are some of
- my personal accomplishments in this role so far:</p>
- <ul>
- <li> I've been blogging the minutes of the face-to-face board meetings
- (<a href="http://eclipse-committer-reps.blogspot.com/2008/06/june-board-meeting.html">June</a>,
- <a href="http://eclipse-committer-reps.blogspot.com/2008/09/september-board-meeting.html">September</a>,
- <a href="http://eclipse-committer-reps.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-2008-board-meeting.html">December</a>)
- to enable more immediate transparency of Board activities.</li>
- <li> I proposed and received approval for dual licensing (EPL/EDL) for the embedded runtime components in the
- RTSC and TM projects. This kicked off a bigger discussion (led by Jeff McAffer) about dual licensing runtimes
- and the need to encourage runtime reference implementations in Eclipse. </li>
- <li> I proposed Japanese localization of the Bugzilla interface, which was approved and will be completed when
- Bugzilla 3.2 is deployed. </li>
- <li> In the interest of representing the user community, Mik and I facilitated a sometimes contentious discussion
- with the Board about the customer-facing messaging of the Eclipse train release. </li>
- <li> I presented several requests from the Architecture Council (see December minutes), with somewhat mixed results. </li>
- <li> I serve on the Compensation Committee. The Comp Committee works with the Executive Director to establish
- quarterly objectives for the Director and Foundation. The Comp Committee also conducts the annual performance
- review for the Director. </li>
- </ul>
- <p>So why do I want you to elect me for another term?</p>
- <ul>
- <li> I believe I'm doing a good job representing committer issues, even when those issues don't align with the
- Board's interests. Much of my individual accomplishments above are focused on this effort. </li>
- <li> I want to continue working with the rest of the Board on the strategy for the Foundation and ecosystem.
- I believe my execution skills and sense of vision will continue to be valuable as we guide the Foundation
- through these financially challenging times. </li>
- <li> I'd like to continue my work on the Compensation Committee, as it is directly tied to the execution of the
- Eclipse strategy. </li>
- <li> Working on the Board has been an excellent learning experience so far, and I'd like to continue learning. </li>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Doug Gaff serves on the Eclipse Board of Directors and is the PMC Lead for the Device Software Development Platform
- (DSDP) - an Eclipse project focused on building an extensible, standards-based platform to address a broad range of needs
- in the embedded and mobile software development space. In his commercial life, Doug is a
- Senior Engineering Manager on Wind River's commercial Eclipse-based product, Wind River Workbench. He is responsible for
- Eclipse open source contributions and adoption of Eclipse technology commercially. Doug has 14 years of software
- development and management experience and holds a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- Wind River Systems
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
-<boardmember id="graham" type="addin">
- <name>John Graham</name>
- <title>Senior Software Engineer, JBoss</title>
- <image>graham.jpg</image>
- <email>jgraham@redhat.com</email>
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) PMC member, Eclipse Architecture Council member, Eclipse Planning Council member ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[The Eclipse ecosystem has remarkable diversity, both in
- technologies provided and members involved. Crucial to the continuing
- success of Eclipse is a delicate balance where all interests are appropriately
- considered. As a Sustaining Member Board representative, I will help ensure
- that the issues important to the larger membership are considered in equal
- footing with the agenda of Strategic members. The Board needs to enable
- competition on a common platform for all members, and experienced Sustaining
- membership Board representation is a vital component for realizing this aim.]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[John is a software engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. An
- Eclipse plug-in since version 1 and active Eclipse community member,
- John originally served on the Eclipse Consortium Executive Committee.
- Later he was a founding member of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP)
- top-level project, where he served as PMC chair from 2005 through 2008. John
- has served on the Eclipse Board, the Eclipse Architecture and Planning
- Councils, and the EclipseCon Program Committee. John's
- blog (http://osmusings.blogspot.com/) offers popular
- commentary on the Eclipse community and open source in general.]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[JBoss, a division of Red Hat (http://www.jboss.com/)]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Hans Kamutzki</name>
- <title>Managing Director, MicroDoc</title>
-
- <image>kamutzki.jpg</image>
-
- <email>hka@microdoc.de</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse is an intrinsic element of MicroDoc's technology portfolio. The
- unique combination of technical flexibility and economical promises of
- a commercially usable open source platform made Hans Kamutzki decide to
- have his developers deep dive into Eclipse as early as 2002. Since then
- MicroDoc is closely following the path of Eclipse technology. As head of
- the embedded Java operations within MicroDoc, Hans is actively promoting
- the eRCP (embedded Rich Client Platform) in customer projects and internal
- product development. </p>]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>My vision as a candidate for the Eclipse Board is:
-- Support the growth of the Eclipse EcoSystem as a pervasive industrial strength
-software platform for servers, clients and mobile/embedded devices.
-- Help to establish Eclipse in research and education to make sure graduates
-can seamlessly be integrated into industrial SW production.
-- Strengthen the influence of European members in the community
-- Address legal issues in the framework of European legislation raised by the
-fact that EPL and other important provision are US law based.
-- Help to develop a clear understanding of the legal/commercial implications
-of the use of software under the EPL in Europe.</p>]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich. He
- studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and
- focussed on realtime image processing and process control in the early
- days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm for the automatic
- detection of objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After
- many years of development and project management practice in Smalltalk and
- Java, Hans now runs the Embedded Java operations in MicroDoc, working mainly in
- business development and legal/contractual matters.</p> ]]>
- </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<p>MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in
-1991 by Hendrik Hoefer and Hans Kamutzki. In the 90, MicroDoc's focus was on
-object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki was a main contributor
-to a MicroDoc product called "Object for Notes", a technical Smalltalk to Lotus
-Notes gateway, that was licensed to IBM in 1995. He worked as a technical and
-operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent several month with
-integration work in the RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements. Even
-before Java became a mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided
-a number of product components to the international market of reusable
-components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks,
-an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance
-tools as well as some contributions to IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's
-work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a large
-airline. Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is
-used as a development platform, but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP
-and eRCP clients and server applications. As MicroDoc is building end to end
-solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and
-embedded devices) the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are essential building
-blocks for harmonizing the architecture in many MicroDoc projects today. As a
-Managing Directory, Hans is in charge for the embedded Java business as well
-as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today.</p>]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
- <title>CEO, Tasktop Technologies</title>
- <image>kersten.jpg</image>
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-Mylyn Project Lead<br>
-AJDT Project Committer<br>
-Architecture Council Member
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>The role of the board is to both direct and to protect the Eclipse ecosystem that we know and love. Eclipse evolves based on input from a few large strategic member companies, numerous smaller members, and individual committers. To continue the success that is Eclipse, the board must balance these diverse interests.</p>
-
-<p>The key thing that makes me a good choice to re-elect as an Eclipse Board member is my track record of representing the needs of committers. Because Eclipse involves a diverse set of individuals acting independently, it is subject to the "Tragedy of the commons". This situation happens when the self-interest of individuals does more to extract value from a resource than to collectively contribute back, eventually leading to the demise of that resource, be it a patch of land or a software ecosystem. The Eclipse Foundation has done a great job of preventing this by providing committers with a thorough and reliable infrastructure for open source development. However, with limited resources, the Foundation cannot go it alone.</p>
-
-<p>With Foundation staffing alone, the coordinated release train could not run the way it does. The coordination itself is a common-good effort. Without the efforts and late nights of committers such as David Williams, Markus Knauer, Nick Boldt, Steffen Pingel and Martin Oberhuber, Ganymede would not have been the success that it was. These individuals went well beyond the scope of their project to help us all deliver a great Eclipse release. My main initiative on the Eclipse Board this past year was to push for additional resources and support of the release train. I'm happy to say that this effort is now underway. If I'm elected, I will continue pushing coordinated release integration and testing infrastructure so that we have an even better Galileo release, and in the process help projects meet the very high quality bar set by the Eclipse Platform.</p>
-
-<p>One of the most important attributes of a committer representative is to add balance to the discussion about how Eclipse should evolve. The board has good representation of the interests of large strategic members. Individual committers, who are a very significant portion of the commit horsepower behind Eclipse, are generally under-represented. A strong voice on the board is needed to represent this community.</p>
-
-<p>Three factors provide me the balance required to do a good job representing the needs of committers. First, I
-spent many years as an individual committer on Eclipse, have collaborated with hundreds of contributors, and have been responsible for helping numerous individual committers earning their commit rights. Being an active committer since the first days of Eclipse has given me a good perspective on the evolving needs of all committers. Second, my company and I are committed to the success of Eclipse. We want to see Eclipse flourish so that we can layer our focusing technology across all Eclipse-based tools. The main evidence of this is that Mylyn, which we continue to lead and put a very large portion of our development resources towards. Mylyn is likely the biggest common good effort in Eclipse that is not supported by the Foundation. Finally, my public role provides a good perspective on the direction of Eclipse. I have been working on open source technology innovation for over a decade, since the early AOP days at Xerox PARC. I now get to show off Eclipse-based technologies to very large audiences during prominent talks, learn from newcomers to the ecosystem, and share my deep belief that Eclipse will continue to be the platform of choice for software innovation.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Mik Kersten is the CEO of <a href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a>, lead of Mylyn and member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and Board of Directors. While on the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tool support. He then created Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface during his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Mik likes building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Read more about Mik on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Wikipedia</a> or check out his <a href="http://tasktop.com/blog/">blog</a>.
-</p> ]]> </bio>
-
-<affiliation> <![CDATA[
-Tasktop Technologies
-]]>
-</affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Markus Alexander Kuppe</name>
-
- <title> </title>
-
- <image> kuppe.jpg</image>
-
- <email>eclipse-nominee-2009@lemmster.de</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Eclipse Communications Framework <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf">(ECF)</a> Committer<br>
-Eclipse Summer of Code <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/soc">(SOC)</a> Mentor<br>
-Former Dali JPA tools <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/dali/main.php">Dali JPA Tools</a> Committer </p>
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-<vision> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Eclipse is doing well. We all see and feel our accomplishments every day.
-Therefore, one has to be careful when making any changes or adjustments to our
-development process and community. And it is important to that any changes meet with the general acceptance of our community.
-Still, I see a couple of places where adjustments are needed to
-ensure tomorrow's success.</p>
-<br>
-<h3>Technical aspects</h3>
-
-<ul>
-<li><p>
-CVS just works and the foundation staff, through their great work, make sure that the operations continue to work. However, modern
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control">distributed version control systems (DVCS)</a> offer features which simplify our development efforts especially in distributed teams like we
-have at Eclipse. Thus we need to pick up the deferred discussion about DVCS at Eclipse as an alternative to CVS and SVN. IP cleanliness is a concern that is as easily addressed in a DVCS as with a traditional VCS.
-</p></li><li><p>
-Work on a <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Build_Infrastructure">common build server</a> which was started in 2008. Now it's time to advertise adoption and encourage acceptance througout the project landscape. This isn't just important for Galileo + N, but also for smaller projects that feel the pain in this regard.
-</p></li><li><p>
-<a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgramming">eXtreme programming</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)">SCRUM</a> are well proven tools in modern day development, though we rarely see them used in our development process. Thus we need to find better ways of exploiting these tools in our distributed and inter-company development process.
-</p></li><li><p>
-Code patches are the fundamental contribution to Eclipse. The way we currently treat a patch is too often simply dumping it at Bugzilla. The <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Automatic_IP_Log#Contributors">"iplog+" flag</a> lowers the workload on the IP team and project leads, but contributors and committers still manually handle patches. Here we need a tool that automatically and continuously verifies patches against mainline, spins off builds and executes tests and sends feedback on the bug report.
-</p></li><li><p>
-Eclipse development takes place in all timezones. While the foundation usually immediately reacts to requests during their hours of operations, a 24/7 <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/IT_SLA">service level agreement</a> is desirable. Thus we need better distributed resources. Though they don't have to be paid for by the foundation. It's another chance for community contributions.
-</p></li><li><p>
-The combined outcome of implementing the above will enhance our development process. Quality will benefit and it will provide a greater agility allowing us to move from annual release trains (big bang releases) to more flexible release dates.
-</p></li></ul>
-<h3>Commercial aspects</h3>
-<ul>
-<li><p>
-Membership numbers are continuously climbing. Still, open-source development, in general, and Eclipse adoption fail for some companies. We
-need precise statistics, draw lessons learned to form and share counter measures to make Eclipse successful for everybody.
-</p></li><li><p>
-Make non-member committers eligible to vote on foundation elections or make each non-member committer a member automatically just by signing the committer agreement. We don't need an extra hurdle for membership.
-</p></li></ul>
-<h3>Community aspects</h3>
-<ul>
-<li><p>About Community contributions and diversity:
-Currently, our community mainly lives off its member companies and their paid committers. Some of our projects are even driven by single companies without external contributions. While we acknowledge the advantages commercial backing offers, we need to strive for community diversity. A key concept is rigorously lowering the entrance barriers to Eclipse participation. This starts with a proper "contributor landing page" [1] and ends with tool support mentioned previously (see technical aspects).
-</p>
-<p>
-However, calling for increased diversity doesn't buy us a thriving community and ecosystem. We have to continue and intensify our efforts to allow non-code contributions. Design contests and the Babel project are just the beginning. First class documentation, quality assurance (QA), user experience or IT maintenance projects have to be set up. Here we can only learn from other open-source communities that have been running such projects for a long time. One more reason why we need to open up to those projects and their communities.
-</p>
-<p>
-But diversity doesn't stop at the paid vs. unpaid committership. Data on the percentage of women in open-source are at a scary low of 2% [2]. We have to act on this disparity and increase female participation in Eclipse. Not just for our own good of increased team productivity, but for the software industry itself that suffers from it.
-</p></li>
-<li><p>The role of young academics:
-So far the only efforts in regards to advance young talent lies in the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/soc">SOC</a> project. The project receives its sole funding by participating in the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google Summer of Code</a>. This shouldn't be it. The foundation has to step up to its responsibility of ensuring the continuing liveliness of Eclipse by providing "fresh blood". It needs to help improve on how we bind students after Summer of Code. Having them attend EclipseCon creates a strong bond between students and Eclipse. But this is only possible with reasonable conference rates, affordable accommodation in close proximity to the conference and a traveling EclipseCon. Eventually member companies will benefit from this through better employment opportunities.
-</p></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-[1] e.g. similar to the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora">Fedora project landing page</a> </br>
-[2] http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/Final4.htm
-</p>
-]]> </vision>
-
-<bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Markus Alexander Kuppe used to get paid to work on Eclipse/OSGi based products as a Software Engineer for Versant GmbH. It was further his responsibility to develop an open-source strategy for Versant. Now he is back in university to focus on the academic aspects of component based software engineering.</p>
-
-<p>He is an open source enthusiast at heart and has worked on various open source projects already. He first came in contact with Eclipse in 2002 working on the G2Gui project. Ever since, he has been involved with Eclipse in one way or another. He usually can be reached on #eclipse <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a> (lemmy) or XMPP (markus <at>kuppe <dot> org).</p>
-]]> </bio>
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-
- <name>Dr. Mario Lenz</name>
- <title>Chief Technology Officer, empolis</title>
-
- <image>lenz.jpg</image>
-
- <email>mario.lenz@empolis.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- For empolis, Eclipse is firstly a mature and powerful tool provider in that a lot of components and tools
- of eclipse are in intensive use in product development at empolis, e.g. IDE as well as RCP. This is where
- empolis does not really contribute but rather *consume* only.
- Secondly, even more important, Eclipse is an intrinsic element of empolis' technology portfolio when
- it comes to developing a new platform and solutions based on and in cooperation with the open source
- community. empolis in particular appreciates the unique technological expertise provided by the members
- combined with the technical flexibility and economical promises of an open source platform
- that can open the space for commercial applications beyond what is possible in the traditional closed world
- in particular for a company the size of empolis.]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- My vision as a candidate for the Eclipse Board is:
-- Support the growth of the Eclipse Ecosystem as a pervasive industrial strength
- software platform for building runtime solutions with a specific focus on
- Semantic Web technology and unstructured data management. This is the main
- area of empolis and we feel this is generally still a white spot that should
- be occupied by open source even before commercial vendors could claim that space.
-- Help to establish Eclipse in research and education to make sure graduates can
- seamlessly be integrated into industrial SW production. This also includes
- provisioning of reday-to-use components and framworks to R&D such that research
- institutes can truly focus on their expertise rather than having to develop
- infrastructure technology.
-- Strengthen the influence of European Solution Members in the community
-- Help to drive more technology-focussed projects inside eclipse to delivering
- real value in the sense of customer-oriented solutions
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Dr. Mario Lenz completed his Doctorate in Computer Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin,
- majoring in Knowledge Management and minoring in Psychology. During his studies, numerous
- industrial cooperation projects took place. In 1999 Mario became Director of Development
- at tec:inno. After the integration of tec:inno into empolis and several management positions
- in product development, Dr. Lenz was appointed CTO and became a member of the
- empolis management board in 2006.
- ]]> </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation>
- empolis GmbH
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="lieber" type="addin">
-
- <name> Adam Lieber</name>
-
- <title>CEO, Webtide</title>
-
- <image>lieber.jpg</image>
-
- <email> adam@webtide.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> Webtide LLC is an Eclipse Solutions Member<![CDATA[
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>I am excited to get involved with Eclipse's growing roster of projects. Solutions
-members, such as Webtide, cover extremely diverse technologies, projects, markets, and
-business models. As a representative of the group, I will work to promote help at the
-board level for their needs in project, business, marketing, and technology development.</p>
-
-<p>The new inclusion of the runtime project is a great mechanism to provide
-more and better facilities for users and developers of Eclipse technologies.
-With Webtide's long experience in open source runtime technologies such as Jetty,
-we would also like to help along the integration of those technologies with
-development tools, and make sure that each group of users and developers
-from tooling and runtime understand how to make each other's lives easier and
-and their project integrations maintainable. I will also work to promote the
-recognition of Eclipse brand both for its IDE an runtime technologies.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Adam Lieber is the CEO of Webtide. Adam was a co-founder of Gluecode Software,
-one of the early open source software companies and delivered solutions to
-numerous industries and served as Gluecode's representative on the OASIS
-standards body. After Gluecode's acquisition by IBM, Adam ran worldwide
-sales for open source middleware for IBM. Prior to Gluecode, Adam was at
-the IT-focused venture capital fund Mission Ventures. Adam received his A.B.
-in Economics concentration, with Computer Science certificate from Princeton University.
- ]]> </bio>
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-Webtide LLC
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
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-
- <name> Emma McGrattan </name>
-
- <title> SVP, Engineering at Ingres </title>
-
- <image>mcgrattan.jpg</image>
-
- <email> emma.mcgrattan@ingres.com </email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> Solutions Member </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[ <p> In the current economic crisis it becomes more important than ever to ensure that Eclipse members, regardless of membership class, understand the value that their Eclipse membership provides to them.
-My vision for the next year is that we more effectively communicate the benefits to those we represent; identify the messages that resonate and assist the EMO in maintaining the current membership level.
-I will use communication channels like my blog, speaking engagements at conferences as
-well as emails as communication tools. </p> ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[ <p> Miss McGrattan has worked with Ingres since 1992 and is a pillar in
- the Ingres community, rising through the ranks to occupy a senior leadership
- position. She started as a porting engineer, working on UNIX code, and is
- now responsible for the Ingres Emerging Technologies Team which is
- responsible for such cutting edge technologies as the Ingres Icebreaker
- family of appliances. She has contributed to Ingres and the Free and
- Open Source Software (FOSS) community both in code and in promoting
- global open source development. Never at a loss for words, Emma also
- discusses open source in her blog, "The View from 25B" at
- http://blogs.ingres.com/emmamcgrattan. </p> ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> Ingres Corporation </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
-<name>Ed Merks</name>
-
-<title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
-<image>merks.jpg</image>
-
-<email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
-<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ <p>
-Eclipse Modeling Project Co-lead<br>
-Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead </p>
-]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-
-<vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>Eclipse's momentum continues to build and in tough economic times it's even more important that this momentum be sustained by a dedicated committer community, i.e., by people like you and me. Our influence as individuals continues to grow presenting new and exciting opportunities. As a committer representative on the board, I will continue to promote the rights and privileges of committers and to take forward the issues and concerns that are near and dear to the developer's hearts. I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, not a politician. I feel I've demonstrated this with my track record over the past two years.</p>
-<p>I believe that helping others is its own reward. With many thousands of answers to questions across a wide range of Eclipse's newsgroups last year, and with active blogging to promote a sense of community, my track record of helpfulness speaks for itself. Being chosen by the community as top ambassador last year was a great honor for me.</p>
-<p>I will continue to foster a diverse and growing communit that encourages and strives for the type of excellence that has made Eclipse what it is today. The modeling project, something over which I have more direct control, is just one example of the exciting things that a <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/project-info/team.php">diverse group of individuals</a> can accomplish. Eclipse's release train process is yet another success story that demonstrates the kind of cooperation that can help our community strive for ever greater achievements. Just look the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals">Eclipse project proposals page</a> which at this time fhas our new modeling projects in the works, also STEM, which is a project I mentor and makes heavy use of EMF. I'm very proud of helping more people to get involved and to be successful.</p>
-<p>I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving. I believe in encouraging and rewarding positive behavior, and in defining minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable realistic results. I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, i.e., rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups or to make first and second class citizens in our community. It's often a tough struggle because there is a great deal of complacency, but I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up even if there is personal risk involved.</p>
-<p>I like to lead by example, to have others do as I do, rather than set unrealistic benchmarks for others to follow and then sit back with the expectation that others should do my bidding. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well and it's worth participating. As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it. Collectively, we are Eclipse and I would be honored to serve Eclipse for yet another term.</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
-<bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-Ed Merks recently founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/">Macro Modeling</a>. He is a coauthor of the authoritative
-book <a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885">"EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework"</a> which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been an elected member of the
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php">Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors</a> for the past two years and has been recognized by the
-Eclipse Community Awards as Top Ambassador and Top Committer. Ed is well known for his
-dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup
-answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff
-Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a partner of
-<a href="http://www.itemis.com/">itemis AG</a> and serves on <a href="http://www.skywaysoftware.com/">Skyway Software's</a> Board of Advisors. His experience in
-modeling technology spans 25 years.</p>
-
-]]> </bio>
-
-<affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-<a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
-<a href="http://www.itemis.com/">itemis AG</a>, Partner<br>
-<a href="http://www.skywaysoftware.com/">Skyway Software</a>, Board of Advisors member </p>
-
-]]> </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="pearce" type="addin">
-
- <name> Shawn Pearce </name>
-
- <title> Software Engineer, Google </title>
-
- <image>pearce.jpg</image>
-
- <email> sop@google.com </email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Solutions Provider
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>The Eclipse Project is an important focal point in open source
-Java development communities due to the high quality of its many
-projects. My goals for the Eclipse Foundation are to expand upon
-this position and attract more contributors and collaborators.</p>
-
-<p>To do this I will:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Encourage more collaboration with the Apache Software Foundation</li>
-<li>Ensure a future for Java by improving collaboration with OpenJDK</li>
-<li>Recommend increased usage of modern infrastructure tools,
-reducing contributor pain points</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The ASF also produces high quality projects, many of which are
-consumed by Eclipse as part of the platform. Collaboration and
-code sharing needs to be simple for contributors, to prevent wide
-spread replication of effort. The Eclipse Foundation should work
-with ASF to reduce the IP review required prior to bringing in ASF
-managed works.</p>
-
-<p>Eclipse and its consumers rely upon J2SE runtimes. OpenJDK
-represents a major leap forward in ensuring the Java platform
-will always be available. The Eclipse Foundation has a vested
-interested in maintaining the viability of the Java platform, and
-should encourage contribution to and the widespread deployment of
-open J2SE systems.</p>
-
-<p>New contributors, like Google Summer of Code students, are
-often road-blocked on gaining commit access to repositories.
-Modern distributed systems often alleviate this by permitting change
-recording at outside locations until IP agreements can be finished
-and access granted. As the Eclipse Foundation and its members are
-very careful with their IP review processes, the foundation needs to
-encourage use of tools that make it easier for newcomers to enter
-the ecosystem and meet the requirements, without losing effort,
-history, or becoming frustrated and leaving.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>At Google, Shawn is committed to fostering the growth of the open
-source ecosystem by supporting existing programs such as Google
-Summer of Code, and the development of new communities, like the
-Android Open Source Project. Prior to joining Google, Shawn lead
-a development team at Bank of America building domain-specific
-plugins for the Eclipse platform.</p>
-
-<p>Outside of work, Shawn is an active contributor in the Git
-community, pushing the limits of distributed development tools.</p>
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- <vision>As a member of Eclipse for the last 7 years, I have watched the organization change and grow. We are entering another one of those times where difficult decisions need to be made with regards to the methods that will be used to keep the Eclipse platform and technology on the leading edge. My vision for the Eclipse Foundation is two fold. First, I see the technology it supports moving forward allowing it to remain a primary choice as a development framework. Secondly, the Eclipse Foundation should push forward with working groups from vertical industries sharing a common technology. Creating common ground in technology is what the Eclipse Foundation does well. We should continue down that road, but move up to a super highway where more collaboration within "like" industries is and shared and fostered. <![CDATA[
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-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio>Ms. Ragan has had extensive experience in the development and implementation of business applications. She began her consulting career in 1989 consulting to fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Ms. Ragan recognized the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform that had long been considered standard on the mainframe. In the four years leading to the creation of OpenMake Software she worked with development teams in implementing a team-centric standardized build management process. Ms. Ragan currently serves on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors as an Sustaining Member Representative. Ms. Ragan received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. <![CDATA[
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-
- <name> Mike Taylor </name>
-
- <title> President/CEO, Instantiations </title>
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- <email> mike_taylor@instantiations.com </email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ <p> As one of your current
-Add-in Provider (now Sustaining Member) Board members I've strongly supported the interests of our
-community for the past several years and would be honored to represent you again in
-2009. 2008 was a very active year in the Eclipse Community and on the
-board. I won't belabor the details (if you want to read the board
-meeting minutes check out http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/minutes.php)
-but will say that I was a strong advocate for our Sustaining Member community.
-During the year I lead Eclipse e4 Market Research Study (released in January 2009)
-and contributed to many important Board discussions and decisions. My team and I
-at Instantiations supported many Eclipse-related activities in 2008
-including EclipseCon, open source projects, demo camps, webinars,
-committees and more. We're excited that two of our co-founders, Eric Clayberg and
-Dan Rubel released the 3rd edition of their best selling book, "Eclipse Plug-ins." We
-will continue to do the same in 2009. We're all very involved and committed to
-the success of the technology and the community. Instantiations has made the
-Eclipse platform the core of its strategy and is <i> all Eclipse all the time.</i></p>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[<p>My vision for 2009 is to:
- <ul>
-<li>Continue to strongly represent the interests of Sustaining Members
-at Eclipse Board meetings and in the greater Eclipse Community.</li>
-<li>Continue to increase ROI for Sustaining Members in the
-Eclipse Foundation.</li>
-<li>Make Eclipse a powerful "profitability platform" both for Sustaining Members and
-all who use it.</li>
-<li>...and of course, to assure that Eclipse technology remains the
-best on the planet!</li></ul> </p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[ <p><ul>
- <li>I lead Instantiations, a company strategically committed to
-Eclipse. Instantiations is a founding member of the Eclipse
-Foundation, has led Eclipse open source projects, contributed code,
-and is involved in numerous Eclipse-focused committees and community
-activities.</li>
-
-<li>Since 1999 my professional priorities have been, and
-continue to be, building open source and commercial technologies,
-establishing a profitable Eclipse-based company, and growing the
-Eclipse community. </li>
-
-<li>Lead the Eclipse e4 Solution Provider Survey.</li>
-<li>Chair of Eclipse Market Research Working Group (2006, 2007).</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Advertising Working Group (2007)</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Training Working Group (2006).</li>
-<li>Member of EclipseCon 2006 Program Committee.</li>
-<li>Deeply involved in Eclipse technology and ecosystem since 1999.</li>
-<li>Former Member of Eclipse Consortium Board of Stewards.</li>
-<li>Chair of the Eclipse Marketing Committee from 2002 to 2005.</li>
-<li>Led project to establish Eclipse brand and logos.</li>
-<li>Member of Eclipse Governance Committee (that designed and formed
-the Eclipse Foundation).</li>
-<li>Founding member of <a
-href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">EPIC</a>, a leading
-Eclipse portal.</li>
-<li>Over 25 years of experience in the software industry.</li> </ul> </p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[ <p> <ul>
- <li>Instantiations, Inc, provider of WindowBuilder, RCP
-Developer, CodePro AnalytiX, CodePro Profiler, WindowTester and GWT Designer. Instantiations is a
-technology company totally focused on Eclipse. Instantiations has led
-and contributed to several Eclipse open source projects and is deeply
-involved in the Eclipse community.</li>
-<li>Founding member of the <a
-href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com">Eclipse
-Plugin Central Alliance</a>.</li></ul> </p>
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- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Engineer and Evangelist, EclipseSource</title>
-
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-
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- <email> <![CDATA[
- zx@eclipsesource.com ]]> </email>
-
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- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde">PDE</a>) Co-Lead<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2010)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2010)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the <b>community</b> so the Eclipse ecosystem can prosper. We have a unique open source community at Eclipse that is comprised of two main parties: individuals and companies. We need to keep both parties in mind and make it easier for both individuals and companies to be successful at Eclipse. As a committer representative, I will continue to support committers and bring forward any concerns. My passion lies with growing the Eclipse ecosystem and making sure its constituents are happy. I have demonstrated my passion over the last few years via action. I have introduced new contributors to the Eclipse ecosystem, mentored many committers and <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">attracted</a> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swtbot">new</a> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/gef3d">projects</a>.</p>
-
-<p>To ensure Eclipse continues to grow and thrive I will particularly focus on:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Continue modernizing the Eclipse infrastructure around GIT and project hosting</li>
-<li>Push the Eclipse Marketplace to become an appstore for the Eclipse ecosystem</li>
-<li>Push the idea of a global bundle repository for Eclipse, akin to Maven Central</li>
-<li>Make it easier for projects to crowdsource their documentation efforts</li>
-<li>Build bridges within the Eclipse ecosystem and with other open source or commercial projects</li>
-<li>Encourage Eclipse committers and projects to participate in the community via blogs, forums and other communication channels</li>
-<li>Lower the barrier to entry for new projects without sacrificing the quality Eclipse is known for</li>
-<li>Evangelize and grow the e4 and EclipseRT efforts</li>
-<li>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent as possible</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>On the whole, my goal is to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's activities. I love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. I will pay special attention to how we can make the Eclipse development process easier for smaller projects. In the end, I would be honored to represent you, the committers, for another term.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a Senior Software Engineer at EclipseSource.
-He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley) book and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community
-Awards as <b>Top Ambassador</b> and <b>Top Committer</b>. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse
-community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council
-and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. Chris's passions are
-modularity, <a href="http://aniszczyk.org">blogging</a>, tooling and anything Eclipse.</p>
-<p>He's always available to discuss opensource or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
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- EclipseSource
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- <name>Boris Bokowski</name>
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- <title> <![CDATA[
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-
- <email>Boris_Bokowski@ca.ibm.com</email>
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- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Platform UI technical lead, Member of the Eclipse Architecture Council,
- <a href="http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/summary.cgi?project=y&year=x&login=bbokowski">Committer</a> on the Platform, e4, and Orbit projects.
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>I care about Eclipse, the health of the Eclipse ecosystem, and the long-term success of Eclipse. Obviously, my day job is Eclipse-related, but there are deeper reasons for this as well:
-<ul><li>On a technical level, I value the core Eclipse principles of producing well-structured, componentized software, and to develop software to be open and extensible.</li>
-<li>On an economic level, it makes sense to me to be collaborating on "plumbing" or infrastructure, like a tide that raises all boats.</li>
-<li>And finally, on a personal level, I very much enjoy the openness, fairness, and overall friendliness of the Eclipse community.</li></ul></p>
-
-<p>After being elected as a committer representative almost a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see the cooperative nature of the Eclipse ecosystem mirrored at the board meetings. Looking back, I am particularly proud of the following accomplishments of the Board. Of course, these are not accomplishments for which I could take credit personally, but I played a part in all of them:
-<ul><li><b>New strategic goals</b><br>The Board of Directors sets strategic goals, and the executive director is measured by how well he steers Eclipse towards these goals. In 2009, two new strategic goals were added:
-<ol><li><i>Continue to grow a diversified revenue model</i>: The bulk of the revenue of the Eclipse Foundation comes from its strategic and enterprise members. This puts the Eclipse Foundation at risk when just one or two large strategic or enterprise members step down or don't renew. Unfortunately, not much can be done about this in the short term, but having it recognized as a strategic goal is a good thing. One immediate outcome was the addition of a new tier for small organizations and start-ups with limited revenue that would like to become Eclipse members.</li>
-<li><i>Ensure adequate resources are invested in the core technology platform</i>: For the first time in its history, it is now an official goal of the Eclipse Foundation to do something about the "tragedy of the commons" problem that has been discussed at length on Planet Eclipse. Like the revenue issue, it is just a start, but having this strategic goal ensures that the executive director and Foundation staff spend time and energy on this topic, and have the mandate to do something about it. Note that the definition of "core technology platform" is not very precise – we are not only talking about the Eclipse Platform project here, other "low on the stack" projects like Equinox, EMF, GEF, and so on, are meant as well.</li></ol></li>
-<li><b>App Store</b><br>After many unsuccessful attempts in the past, the committer representatives (led by Doug Gaff) successfully pushed for a board resolution to take the Eclipse Marketplace (formerly known as EPIC) to a new level, to enable an ecosystem of free and commercial offerings - plug-ins or Eclipse-based products - similar to other app stores. Due to budget constraints, and an unclear cost/benfit ratio, only a few first steps towards this goal have been undertaken so far. However, the board resolution still exists, and I expect more progress over the next year. </li>
-<li><b>Git</b><br>Git is very interesting on many levels – as an eventual replacement for the standard VCM client that ships with the Eclipse SDK, as a way to make it easier to contribute, or to maintain branches of Eclipse projects, and as a way to change the way in which Eclipse projects can work collaboratively. Thanks to consistent nagging by the committer representatives, and patient explanations as to why this would be a good thing, the board and even Mike Milinkovich ;-) could be convinced that it makes sense to move in this direction. As a result, most Eclipse projects are now available as mirrored Git repositories, Eclipse has two new projects, EGit and JGit (even though the latter was the first project to be purely licensed under EDL, not EPL) which are making good progress towards a first-class Git client, and interested Eclipse projects can now start to switch to Git in a pilot set up by our webmaster Denis Roy.</li>
-</ul><p>
-
-<p>If I am re-elected as a committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors, I would like to continue to work with the other board members, the executive director, and the Foundation staff towards:
-<ul><li><b>Making the life of committers easier.</b><br>
-We committers are doing much more than just writing code. Many of us enjoy the writing code part more than doing all the other necessary activities, for example, triaging bugs, managing lists of tasks in Bugzilla, filing contribution questionnaires and working through the IP process, ensuring proper internationalization, maintaining the IP log. Some of these have become easier, but there are many more opportunities for streamlining and simplification.<br>
-At the board level, I would push for improvements that increase the productivity of all committers. For example, I believe that resources would be well spent on work that benefits all projects but never gets done because there is not enough benefit for each individual project on its own: Compiling and maintaining a "new project jumpstart documentation" package, for example. Or coming up with a set of exemplary project pages as something the projects could copy and adapt.</li>
-<li><b>Increase and improve communication within the community.</b><br>
-Those of us who hang out on IRC know how much they benefit from being able to ask a question and quickly get an answer, but also how useful it is to know people working on other projects. The Eclipse community that has formed on Twitter is another example of how social connections between people are benefiting those who participate. I support all initiatives that bring members of the ecosystem together, from demo camps and Eclipse Days to our conferences EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe, because establishing personal relationships is the most effective way to improve communication and collaboration. I believe that the existing events could be improved by making them even more social.<br>
-Another way to foster communication would be to make dependency relationships transparent. The Foundation already provides data on CVS commits. It should be relatively easy to extend this to show, at the granularity of individual plug-ins, a list of committers who are currently maintaining each plug-in, and the Eclipse-wide dependency relationships between those plug-ins. From a perspective of the Platform, we would know who to contact about planned changes to, say, the Common Navigator, and in the other direction, it would be easy to find out who maintains, say, the draw2d component.<br>
-I would also like to see more contacts between Eclipse and other open source communities such as Apache, Mozilla, Linux, and so on. A lot of the issues that we have around how to attract contributors, how to get companies to invest in open source, how to handle issues of APIs and deprecation, and so on, must be issues in these other communities as well, and we should be able to learn from each other.</li>
-<li><b>Keep Eclipse on its toes.</b><br>
-It is mind-boggling to see the rate of change in several areas that affect Eclipse directly, for example economic challenges, and technology platform changes on the client and server side. I don't know what the best answers are, but I know that it is important to look ahead and make sure that Eclipse is in a position to respond, and in some cases, drive these changes. For this, we need people on the Eclipse Board of Directors with a good sense for how the technology landscape is changing. For example, I recently made a presentation about the e4 project to the Board, both about the technical side and about which committers and member companies are contributing to it. While the Board is not in a position to direct what projects are doing, it is important to the individual board members to know in which direction core projects at Eclipse are going – in many cases, the company representatives on the board are directly involved in decisions about how their company contributes to Eclipse.</li>
-</ul></p>
- ]]> </vision>
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-<p>Boris is the technical lead of the Eclipse Platform UI component and works for IBM in Ottawa, Canada. He is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council, and an active committer on the e4 project. He is proud to have helped increase diversity at the Eclipse Platform (a little) by attracting several non-IBM contributors and helping them become committers. Before joining IBM in 2005, he wrote a commercial RCP app using EMF and GEF, co-founded and co-managed a Web 2.0 company in Germany, worked on the original Eclipse 1.0 at OTI in Ottawa, and earned a PhD in computer science at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is married and a geek dad of three kids. You can find him on IRC as "borisb6i".</p>
- ]]> </bio>
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- IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada
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- <name>Hans-Joachim Brede</name>
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- <title>CEO, Bredex</title>
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-Bredex GmbH joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member in 2007. As well as
-using Eclipse as an IDE, we also offer RCP training. Members of Bredex have
-worked as contributors and committers on Eclipse projects. </p>
-
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-Having spent 2009 establishing a good level of contact and communication between European and American
-members, as well as learning about the structures and methods of the Eclipse Board and Foundation, I see
-2010 as the chance to expand and improve these contacts to pull the European and American communities
-even closer together.</p>
-<p>2009 has also seen Eclipse take steps in the direction of vertical industries. While fully supporting
-this move, I see myself as a representative of the Eclipse community using and committing to the core
-technology of the platform, to ensure that the further development of Eclipse profits from the views of
-both groups.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
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-Hans-Joachim (Achim) Brede is the founder of BREDEX GmbH and is one of its
-managing directors. He has implemented and managed multiple, highly complex
-customer projects and is responsible for the concepts in the development of
-the automated test tool GUIdancer. Achim holds a Master in Computer Science
-and has worked with the University of Braunschweig and Digital Equipment as
-a technical consultant. </p>
-
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-Since 1987, BREDEX GmbH has been providing high quality information technology
-services in the areas of consultancy, analysis and design, software development and
-training. Based in Braunschweig, the company has a history of long term customer
-satisfaction and a focus on forward thinking, developing individual solutions that bring
-future standards to current project needs. BREDEX sells GUIdancer, which is a powerful
-and cost effective automatic test tool for Java and HTML applications. </p>
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- <name>Bjorn Freeman-Benson</name>
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- <email>bjorn@bjornfreemanbenson.com</email>
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- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
-<ul>
-<li>EclipseCon 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Conference Chair</li>
-<li>Eclipse Summit Europe 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Conference Chair</li>
-<li>Eclipse Board of Directors 2004-2005</li>
-<li>Planning and Architecture Councils (Chair & Member) 2005-2009</li>
-<li>Technology PMC Lead 2006-2009</li>
-<li>WTP PMC Lead 2004</li>
-<li>Dash Project Lead 2005-2009</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=modeling.emft.b3">b3 Committer</a></li>
-</ul>
- ]]></eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-Like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox">Zaphod Beeblebrox</a>, I'm the candidate you want to vote for. You've read <a href="http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/">my blog</a> and you know that I believe the Foundation should be doing more for the committers. A lot more. And especially the independent and small company committers. I want the Foundation to be viable in the long-term, and I believe that to be viable it needs to be valuable to the committers, and to do that, the Foundation has to change. I want to be your voice in that change.
-<p>
-There are many solid candidates running for the three open committer rep positions, but here's why I think you vote for me:
-<ol><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">I've been on the Board before</span> and I know how it operates. Even Mike said that I was one of the most effective Board members during my previous term. I'm confident that I will be one of the most effective members again. You want an effective representative.
-</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">I've been on the inside of the Foundation</span> and I know how it operates. I know the right questions to ask to make sure that the committers are getting the straight dope and the appropriate resources. If you've seen any board at work, you'll know that management tailors its presentations <a href="http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2009/12/declining-resources-on-eclipse-core.html">to present the best picture</a> and thus without deep knowledge of the inner workings, <a href="http://www.footnoted.org/my-big-fat-deal/the-problem-with-boards-of-directors/">board members</a> are handicapped in their inquiry and oversight. My inside knowledge will eliminate that problem for, you, the committers.
-</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">I've proposed specific reforms</span> that will dramatically improve the situation for committers and contributors, e.g., moving the IP burden from the producers to the consumers (<a href="http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2009/04/ip-burden.html">April 2009</a>), and a less constrained "what it means to be an Eclipse project" (<a href="http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2010/01/foundation-as-service.html">January 2010</a>), and many others. I will push for significant reforms for the committers and contributors: especially you smaller, independent and non-corporate committers.
-</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">I will advocate for a larger percentage of the Foundation budget</span> providing direct value for the contributors. There are many ways that the Foundation could help the projects without directly hiring developers. For example, the Foundation should have someone actively helping each project enable and encourage community contributions (setting up processes, writing "quick start" guides, recruiting up bug triage volunteers, etc). And the Foundation should have a wiki-editor to curate the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Main_Page">Eclipsepedia</a> and make it into something we can be proud of (<a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WardCunningham">Ward himself</a> explains that wikis are best when curated) ... The ideas are endless, but they need someone forceful to advocate them at the Board.
-</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">I will communicate with you.</span> You deserve to know what's going on. Neither rain nor sleet nor verbal attacks will silence me. I will keep <a href="http://eclipse-committer-reps.blogspot.com/">the committer rep blog</a> up to date by posting after each monthly Board meeting (instead of e.g. just twice a year). <a href="http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-trade-association.html">I will not repeat just the party line</a>. I will hold weekly office hours on IRC with rotating times optimized for the Americas, Europe, India, and East Asia (noon EST one week, 3pm CET the next week, 9am IST, 9am JST, and then repeat).</li></ol>
-I'm a small-time committer, but I'm independent. The big company committers are represented by their Strategic board members, but the independent and non-corporate committers also need someone at the table. I will be your representative at that table.
- ]]></vision>
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-MicroDoc has been an Eclipse add-in member for many years and Eclipse is a core element of MicroDoc's company strategy. Hans
-currently serves as an Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation. He was also
-elected to be a member of the Eclipse Finance Commitee.
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-<p>Serving as an Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation for almost a year now, I
-see a number of significant challenges to the Eclipse Ecosystem.</p>
-
-<p>Membership: A limited number of large corporations pay most of the Eclipse budget for strategic reasons. The current
-membership model makes it hard for many (smaller) companies to justify payment of the membership fees to the Eclipse
-foundation ("why pay for something we can get for free anyway?"). In my vision for Eclipse, the membership model
-is updated to generate more immediate membership value for a large number of small and mid sized companies (committers and consumers).
-This would make the Eclispe foundation more robust against economical threats caused be large member strategy changes.
-The model for representation of members on the Board of Directors will have to be adapted in case of increased membership,
-to ensure that the board can still function well and effective.</p>
-
-<p>Visibility and representation: The Eclipse foundation is a well governed and efficient organization. Running the
-EMO is a full time job for the director, which leaves little time for public representation.
-Im my vision for Eclipse, the foundation will designate a dedicated evangelist whose sole responsibility is to
-publicly represent the Eclipse in the software community and beyond.</p>
-
-<p>JDT: In my vision for Eclipse, JDT still plays a fundamental role and will be maintained by a structured community effort.</p>
-
-<p>In my opinion, the board is not a place for personal image cultivation or self expression, but for steering the
-directions of community of developers who support a multi-million base of users.
-In this spirit, I'd like to represent the Sustaining Members for another term.</p>
-]]></vision>
-
-<bio><![CDATA[
-Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich.
-He studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and focused on realtime image processing and
-process control in the early days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm for the automatic detection of
-objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After many years of development and project management practice in
-Smalltalk and Java, Hans now runs the Embedded Java operations at MicroDoc.
-]]></bio>
-
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-MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in 1991 by Hendrik Hoefer and
-Hans Kamutzki. In the 90s, MicroDoc's focus was on object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki
-was a main contributor to a MicroDoc product called "Objects for Notes", a technical Smalltalk to Lotus Notes gateway
-that was licensed to IBM in 1995. He worked as a technical and operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent
-several months with integration work in the RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements. Even before
-Java became mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided a number of product components to
-the international market of reusable components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks,
-an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance tools as well as some contributions
-to IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a
-large airline. Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is used as a development platform,
-but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP and eRCP clients and server applications. As MicroDoc is building end to
-end solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and embedded devices), the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are
-essential building blocks for harmonizing the architecture in many MicroDoc projects today. As a Managing Directory, Hans is in
-charge for the embedded Java business as well as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today.
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- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
-
- <title>CEO, Tasktop</title>
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-
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
-
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-<p>Eclipse has reached a stage of maturity that enables Sustaining Members to play a primary role in driving the direction of Eclipse. As Sustaining Members, we represent the largest volume of the Eclipse membership. In 2010 our impact on Eclipse and the value we receive from participating are poised for substantial growth.</p>
-
-<p>I've been closely engaged with both the technology and the business aspects of the Eclipse ecosystem since the outset in 2001. I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting a successful company around Eclipse has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. As a Sustaining Member representative, my duty will be to apply that knowledge to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
-<p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 800 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- ]]></vision>
-
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- <bio><![CDATA[
-Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project. Mik is a popular speaker on Eclipse at conferences in the United States, Germany, and worldwide. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:
-<ul>
-<li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project (since 2005)</li>
-<li>Active member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (since 2007)</li>
-<li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
-<li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
-<li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
-<li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
-<li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Related publications:
-<ul>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a>
-<li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a>
-</ul>
-</p><p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
-
-]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation>
-
- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
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- <name>Adam Lieber </name>
-
- <title>General Manager, IntalioWorks </title>
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- <email>alieber@intalio.com </email>
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- Sustaining member
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- The Eclipse Foundation has had enormous success in spreading its tooling related projects to developers and products worldwide. On the Board, I would continue to sponsor that, as well as the spread of its runtime technologies, which is IntalioWorks strength. Taking Eclipse presence in tooling and runtime to the next level will take sponsorship of more member companies, more brand focused on the breadth of the Foundation's offerings that now go far beyond its origins, as well as technical sponsorship for Git/SVN/CVS and bug processes among others to help get technologies adopted more easily. Jetty has an extremely successful track record of attracting collaboration with other projects, communities, and products, and from my exposure to that, I hope to help continue and to help boost the Eclipse Foundations presence in the future, and value to its members. Further, my experience in adjusting Jetty's processes for entry into the foundation will help highlight ways Eclipse can possibly streamline in the future in growth. And, as part of Intalio's additional contributing presence in SOA, WTP, and MDT projects, as well as Architecture Council, we have a wide set of exposure to help gather helpful suggestions.
-
- ]]> </vision>
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- Adam is General Manager of IntalioWorks, which includes the BPMS, Jetty, and Cometd offerings from Intalio, and operates with a commercial open source model in 15 countries around the world. Previously, he was CEO of Webtide, which focused on services for Jetty and Cometd, where he helped bring the Jetty project to the Eclipse Foundation Runtime project. Previously, he was a co-founder of Gluecode Software, a pioneer in commercial open source offerings, which was acquired by IBM, where he lead worldwide sales for the group.
- ]]> </bio>
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- IntalioWorks
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- </affiliation>
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-
- <name>Ed Merks </name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
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-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
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-Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
-Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
-
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <p>Eclipse's momentum continues to build despite tough economic times. It's increasingly driven by smaller organizations and of course by a dedicated committer community, i.e., by people like you and me. With this increasing diversity, our influence as individuals continues to grow, presenting new and exciting opportunities. As a committer representative on the board, I will continue to promote the rights and privileges of committers and to take forward the issues and concerns that are near and dear to developer's hearts. I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, not a politician. I feel I've demonstrated this with my track record over the past three years.
-I believe that helping others is its own reward. With many thousands of answers to questions across a wide range of Eclipse's newsgroups last year, and with active blogging to promote a sense of community, my track record of helpfulness speaks for itself. I believe in being a positive influence, of balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements with a recognition of the fact that most problems are very hard to solve and that what constitutes an improvement is often highly subjective.</p?
-<p>
-I will continue to foster a diverse and growing community that encourages and strives for the type of excellence that has made Eclipse what it is today. The modeling project, something over which I have more direct control, is just one example of the exciting things that a diverse group of individuals can accomplish. Eclipse's release train process is yet another success story that demonstrates the kind of cooperation that can help our community strive for ever greater achievements. I'm very proud of helping more and more people get involved with modeling and with Eclipse.
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving. I believe in encouraging and rewarding positive behavior, and in defining minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable realistic results. I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, i.e., rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups or to make first and second class citizens in our community. It's often a tough struggle in the face of complacency, but I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even if there is personal risk involved.
-I like to lead by example, to have others do as I do, rather than set unrealistic benchmarks for others to follow and then sit back with the expectation that others should do my bidding. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well and it's worth participating. As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it. Collectively, we are Eclipse and I would be honored to serve Eclipse for yet another term.</p>
-
-
- ]]> </vision>
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-Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, Macro Modeling. He is a coauthor of the authoritative book “EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework†which is published as a second expanded edition.  He has been an elected member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors for the past three years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer. Ed is well known for his dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a partner of itemis AG and Cloudsmith. His experience in modeling technology spans 25 years.
-
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- ]]> </bio>
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-Macro Modeling, President<br>
-itemis AG , Partner<br>
-Cloudsmith, Partner
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- <name> Shawn Pearce </name>
-
- <title>Software Engineer, Google</title>
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-
- <email> sop@google.com </email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Solutions Provider
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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-
-<p>Entering 2010 the Eclipse Foundation is facing many challenges.
-</p>
-
-<p>The number of projects that desire to join a release train
-has been increasing every year, placing more work on the IP team
-during each release cycle. The development process needs to evolve
-and become more streamlined, so that more projects can join the
-foundation, follow its development model, and still release as
-part of the release train. Wayne Beaton has already proposed some
-changes, and as a board member I will support these efforts, and
-continue to encourage further process improvements.</p>
-
-<p>The foundation is dealing with increasingly difficult revenue
-issues. As a trade association dependent upon membership dues,
-the foundation relies upon its membership to pay all of its
-operating costs. But, as membership fluctuates due to external
-market conditions, the foundation finds itself struggling to
-meet member requests. Going forward the board needs to help the
-foundation identify ways to diversify revenue, and make membership
-a more valuable investment for all of the member companies.</p>
-
-<p>New contributors are the life-blood of any open source project,
-but are often road-blocked gaining commit access to repositories.
-Modern distributed systems often alleviate this by permitting change
-recording at outside locations until IP agreements can be finished
-and access granted. As the Eclipse Foundation and its members
-are very careful with their IP review processes, the foundation
-needs to encourage use of tools that make it easier for newcomers
-to enter the ecosystem and meet the requirements, without losing
-effort, history, or becoming frustrated and leaving. Moving the
-foundation's repositories from CVS/SVN to Git is a huge leap forward,
-and something I will continue to support while on the board.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>At Google, Shawn is committed to fostering the growth of the open
-source ecosystem by supporting existing programs such as Google
-Summer of Code, and the development of new communities, like the
-Android Open Source Project. Prior to joining Google, Shawn lead
-a development team at Bank of America building domain-specific
-plugins for the Eclipse platform.</p>
-
-<p>Outside of work, Shawn is an active contributor in the Git
-community, pushing the limits of distributed development tools.</p>
-
- ]]> </bio>
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- ]]>
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- <name>Doug Schaefer</name>
-
- <title>Engineering Manager, Eclipse Ecosystem Development, Wind River Systems</title>
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- <email>doug.schaefer@windriver.com</email>
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-CDT Project Lead, Tools PMC Member, Architecture Council Member, EclipseCon Program Committee
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-<p>Over the last 8 years the Eclipse community has managed to build up an incredible asset that is Eclipse in all it's forms from run-times to tools and beyond. We need to make sure we have the right processes, procedures and policies at Eclipse to ensure that the community remains strong and grows. We need to make sure that Eclipse is friendly to both business and individuals. It'll take both to continue with our success. For Eclipse to remain competitive we need to ensure that talent is allowed to flourish and that new ideas are encouraged and accepted. There is a bit of a culture change that needs to happen at Eclipse to enable that and as a member of the Eclipse Board, I can help drive that change.</p>
-
-<p>As a committer representative on the Eclipse Board, a big part of my job would be to make sure our committers have the tools they need to be successful. Distributed version control is a great example of a simple tooling change that makes it so much easier for committers to do work off-stream, to try out new ideas, to implement fixes quickly for their downstream customers, while making it easy push the contributions upstream to share with the community. We need to ensure that we continue this momentum and make sure we support the realities of daily life for the committers.</p>
-
-<p>When coming up with a Vision for Eclipse, I must think of all the Eclipse-related open source projects that exist in the greater community at SourceForge, Google Code, GitHub, and others. Eclipse is much bigger than what exists on the Foundation servers. We need to recognize them and open the door to bring those projects home. To continue to be successful, Eclipse needs to be all inclusive, to be the meeting ground for everyone working on Eclipse technologies. Yes, we still need to ensure the needs of our membership is met with the policies we have today, but our membership is diverse. We need to ensure that Eclipse meets the needs of all.</p>
-
-<p>I've documented much of my vision for Eclipse at my blog, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com. There is no discounting my passion for Eclipse, the CDT in particular, and the community that builds it and the community that it serves. The job isn't done yet and Eclipse will have to continuously reinvent itself. The policies set out by the Board have a huge influence on that and we need to make sure that the community continues to thrive, to ensure we individually thrive from our participation in that community.</p>
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-<p>Doug has 15 years experience building tools for software development. 7 of those years he has been an Eclipse committer with four years as project lead of the CDT project, one of the most diverse and widely adopted Eclipse projects outside of the Java space. It's been quite a ride on the CDT with many ups and downs, but today, Doug has helped grow the CDT now stronger than it has ever been with 20 committers and over 400,000 downloads and a steady patch arrival rate.</p>
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-<p>Doug is at Wind River Systems where he has recently taken on a new role of ecosystem manager with a technical focus on nurturing the Eclipse projects to which Wind River and many other companies and individuals contribute for all our benefit.</p>
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- <name>Yves Yang</name>
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- <title>CEO, Soyatec</title>
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- <email>yves.yang@soyatec.com</email>
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- Presentation Modeling Framework Lead<br>
- Eclipse for Siverlight Lead<br>
- Visual Editor Lead<br>
- e4 committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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-<p>Eclipse is the most vibrant and active open source community in the Java components
-and tooling arena. The Eclipse platform was first targeted at building an extensible IDE component
-framework. It has since evolved into a general-purpose platform for building extensible
-software applications of all kinds in desktop environment.
-
-<p>Now, Eclipse IDE is widely adopted by most of the software providers and industries.
-However, the adoption of Eclipse's runtime platform in domain application is limited
-due to the complexity of UI development and the lack of Web support application
-environments. Eclipse's main obstacle is to be used widely in ERP and BPMS in Manufacturing,
-Supply Chain, Finances, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources,
-Warehouse Management and Decision Support System. The traditional UI development in
-programming language in Eclipse presents the following drawbacks:
-<ul>
-
- <li>High technology pre-requisite as UI developer</li>
- <li>Difficult to separate UI appearance and business logic</li>
- <li>Poor reusability and low extensibility</li>
- <li>Very hard to build powerful development tools</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>In the meantime, the software market has changed dramatically. More and more
-applications are now deployed in diverse environments such as web servers,
-web browsers and embedded clients applications. Some new technologies emerge and
-become mature like Animation, Data Binding, Declarative UI, Visual Design tools and
-MDE engineering system. Some integrated UI solutions are available in other development languages and
-environments to develop fashion application. </p>
-
-<p>A new flexible and high extensible solution is absolutely necessary to simplify
-development of software components and component-based applications to meet the
-demands of the ever changing computing landscape.
-
-Soyatec has worked on this area since early 2006. And all of our research and
-development have contributed to Eclipse e4 for XWT and two visual designers, and in
-modeling PMF for UI generation.</p>
-
-<p>All these actions show that Yves Yang, CEO of Soyatec, quickly understood 1) the
-purpose, impacts and interests of Eclipse for the software community; 2) the role of being
-an active and contributive Eclipse member; and 3) the connections that can be established either
-between Eclipse members or between the Eclipse community and external software
-actors, such as Microsoft.</p>
-
-<p>Moreover, all these contributions reflect the values of Soyatec: being innovative
-and offering high-level technical and industry reliable solutions,
-which are profitable to the whole Eclipse community and software industry.</p>
-
-<p>The will of Yves Yang is to continue to share these
-values at the level of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors.</p>
-
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-Yves Yang has more than 20 years of experience in OO software development and deep
-knowledge mainly on ODBMS first, and then Eclipse since 2002.
-
-As an architect, he has worked in several important applications in Telecom, Defense
-and Finance. He has a rich experience in industry software development and has a
-good understanding of market needs.
-
-In Eclipse, he was the chief architect of the first Eclipse UML plugin from 2002 to
-early 2006. Today, he is the project leader of ESL, VE and PMF Eclipse projects,
-and he is one of the main contributors of the e4 project. He leads and develops a
-declarative UI (XWT) and two Visual tools: XWT Designer and e4 Workbench Designer.
-
-His activities focus mainly on the Modeling UI, Declarative UI, Visual UI Tools, and
-the adoption of Eclipse solutions by the software industry.
-
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- AFDEL (French Association of Software Provider)<br>
- SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION / A World Class ICT Cluster dedicated to complex systems
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- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
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- <title>Principal Software Engineer and Evangelist, Red Hat</title>
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- <email>zx@redhat.com</email>
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- Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde">PDE</a>) Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2011)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2011)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <p>My overall vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the <b>community</b> so the Eclipse ecosystem can prosper. We have a unique open source community at Eclipse that is comprised of a variety of parties, from individuals to academics to businesses. We need to keep all parties in mind and make it easier for everyone to be successful at Eclipse without alienating anyone.</p>
-
- <p>While writing this, it's amazing to reflect that Eclipse has been around for a decade. The amount of technological progress and change has been staggering.. In order to remain vibrant and relevant, Eclipse will have to deal with legacy but also look towards the future. With the e4 project, we are making progress to modernize the existing code base and rich client platform that is important to the majority of our current users. However, in early 2011, Eclipse announced the Orion project which looks towards a future where browser-based tool integration platforms are going to be important. The web space is new for eclipse.org and the Orion project will attract new types of developers to eclipse.org and we'll have to make sure they're accomodated for. Furthermore, we'll have to continue to modernize our eclipse.org infrastructure with Git as the backbone for version control to alleviate some resources from maintaining the current three version control systems.</p>
-
- <p>In the end, as a committer representative, I will continue to support committers and bring forward any concerns. My passion lays with growing the Eclipse ecosystem and making sure its constituents are happy. I have demonstrated my passion over the last few years via action. I have introduced new contributors to the Eclipse ecosystem, mentored many committers and <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">attracted</a> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/libra">new</a> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/gef3d">projects</a>. I have also been one of the major proponents in bringing Git to eclipse.org, from bringing the proposal to the board to actually committing and pushing on the respective EGit and JGit projects.</p>
-
- <p>To ensure Eclipse continues to grow and thrive I will particularly focus on:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Continue modernizing the Eclipse infrastructure around Git and make sure the move is done by end of 2011</li>
- <li>Simplify the IP logging process by taking advantage of git-notes</li>
- <li>Push the Foundation to consider hosting a eclipse.org wide Gerrit instance for code review</li>
- <li>Make way for Eclipse's entry into the web development community with Orion</li>
- <li>Push the Eclipse Marketplace to become an appstore for the Eclipse ecosystem</li>
- <li>Build bridges within the Eclipse ecosystem and with other open source and commercial projects</li>
- <li>Encourage Eclipse committers and projects to participate in the community via blogs, forums and other communication channels</li>
- <li>Lower the barrier to entry for new projects without sacrificing the quality Eclipse is known for</li>
- <li>Evangelize and grow the e4, Orion and EclipseRT efforts</li>
- <li>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal is to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's activities. I love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. I will pay special attention to how we can make the Eclipse development process easier for smaller projects. In the end, I would be honored to represent you, the committers, for another term.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
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- <p>Chris Aniszczyk tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various projects and helping new eclipse.org projects off the ground. He's a Principal Software Engineer and Evangelist at Red Hat. He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley) book and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as <b>Top Ambassador</b> and <b>Top Committer</b>. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. Chris's passions are modularity, <a href="http://aniszczyk.org">evangelism</a>, open source and anything Eclipse.</p>
- <p>He's always available to discuss opensource or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
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- Red Hat
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- <name>Tim Barnes</name>
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- Tim Barnes, the Managing Partner for OpenMethods, formerly worked for Genesys Telecommunication Labs. Tim initially worked in professional services specializing in IVR and CRM integration. He then moved to Expert Services, supporting large scale beta-product implementations as well as, performing research and field trials for proposed products and services. From Expert Services, Tim moved to Product Management to lead the development and launch of the Genesys G+ Adapter Program. Specifically, Tim designed and managed the development of the G+ Adapter for Siebel 2000, Siebel 7, Siebel 7.5, Peoplesoft CRM (Vantive), and the Genesys Integration Server (GIS). Prior to working at Genesys, Tim worked for Sprint Local Telephone Division designing, implementing and maintaining a variety of IVR platforms including Nortel Open, Periphonics, and InterVoice.
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- <name>Boris Bokowski</name>
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- <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title>
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- <email>Boris_Bokowski@ca.ibm.com</email>
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- Platform UI technical lead, Member of the Eclipse Architecture Council,
- <a href="http://dash.eclipse.org/dash/commits/web-app/summary.cgi?project=y&year=x&login=bbokowski">Committer</a> on the Platform, e4, and Orbit projects.
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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- <p>I care about Eclipse, the health of the Eclipse ecosystem, and the long-term success of Eclipse. Obviously, my day job is Eclipse-related, but there are deeper reasons for this as well:
- <ul>
- <li>On a technical level, I value the core Eclipse principles of producing well-structured, componentized software, and to develop software to be open and extensible.</li>
- <li>On an economic level, it makes sense to me to be collaborating on "plumbing" or infrastructure, like a tide that raises all boats.</li>
- <li>And finally, on a personal level, I very much enjoy the openness, fairness, and overall friendliness of the Eclipse community.</li>
- </ul>
- </p>
-
- <p>My main focus during the past year was on helping to get Orion off the ground, the new endeavour to create a web-based tooling platform at Eclipse. This aligns with one of the seven strategic goals that the Board (with my involvement) has set for the Eclipse Foundation: <i>Establish Eclipse web technology as a leading open source web application platform.</i></p>
-
- <p>While the existing Eclipse platform will remain the open source IDE and RCP platform of choice for many years to come, I believe that it is important for the health of the Eclipse ecosystem to have a story that is compatible with the emerging standard software delivery platform, the Internet. Orion has had a good start so far, and I am optimistic that it will become a project with involvement from several companies as well as individual committers. My position on the Board of Directors provided me with easy access to many of the decision makers who fund large parts of the development at Eclipse. If re-elected for the Board of Directors, I would continue to be a voice for making sure enough resources are invested in the commons at Eclipse.</p>
-
- <p>Looking back over both years of being on the Board, I am proud of the following accomplishments. Of course, these are not accomplishments for which I could take credit personally, but I played a part in them.
- <ul>
- <li><b>New strategic goals</b><br>The Board of Directors sets strategic goals, and the executive director is measured by how well he steers Eclipse towards these goals. In 2009, two new strategic goals were added, <i>Continue to grow a diversified revenue model</i>, and <i>Ensure adequate resources are invested in the core technology platform.</i></li>
- <li><b>App Store</b><br>After many unsuccessful attempts in the past, the committer representatives successfully pushed for a board resolution to take the Eclipse Marketplace (formerly known as EPIC) to a new level, to enable an ecosystem of free and commercial offerings - plug-ins or Eclipse-based products - similar to other app stores. Due to budget constraints, and an unclear cost/benfit ratio, we only got so far as the Eclipse Marketplace, but that was an important step in the right direction.</li>
- <li><b>Git</b><br>Thanks to consistent nagging by the committer representatives, and patient explanations as to why this would be a good thing, the board and the Eclipse Foundation are now on board, and Eclipse is moving in this direction.</li>
- <li><b>Friends of Eclipse</b><br>The Friends of Eclipse program existed for quite a while now - it is a way for individual users of Eclipse to donate. In 2010, the committer representatives were able to change the Friends of Eclipse program to make it more directly benefit Eclipse users, projects, and committers. Proposals for how to use the funds can be submitted (in Bugzilla), and the elected committer representatives have a say in which proposals get funded.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
-
- <p>If I am re-elected as a committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors, I would like to continue to work towards:
- <ul>
- <li><b>Making the life of committers easier.</b><br>
- We committers are doing much more than just writing code. Many of us enjoy the writing code part more than doing all the other necessary activities, for example, triaging bugs, managing lists of tasks in Bugzilla, filing contribution questionnaires and working through the IP process, ensuring proper internationalization, maintaining the IP log. Some of these have become easier, but there are many more opportunities for streamlining and simplification.<br>
- At the board level, I would push for improvements that increase the productivity of all committers. For example, I believe that resources would be well spent on work that benefits all projects but never gets done because there is not enough benefit for each individual project on its own.</li>
- <li><b>Increase and improve communication within the community.</b><br>
- Those of us who hang out on IRC know how much they benefit from being able to ask a question and quickly get an answer, but also how useful it is to know people working on other projects. The Eclipse community that has formed on Twitter is another example of how social connections between people are benefiting those who participate. I support all initiatives that bring members of the ecosystem together, from demo camps and Eclipse Days to our conferences EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe, because establishing personal relationships is the most effective way to improve communication and collaboration.<br>
- I am also trying to be very open towards other open source communities such as Apache, Mozilla, Linux, and so on. A lot of the issues that we have around how to attract contributors, how to get companies to invest in open source, how to handle issues of APIs and deprecation, and so on, are issues in these other communities as well, and we need to learn from each other.</li>
- <li><b>Keep Eclipse on its toes.</b><br>
- It is mind-boggling to see the rate of change in several areas that affect Eclipse directly, for example economic challenges, and technology platform changes on the client and server side. I don't know what the best answers are, but I know that it is important to look ahead and make sure that Eclipse is in a position to respond, and in some cases, drive these changes. For this, we need people on the Eclipse Board of Directors with a good sense for how the technology landscape is changing. While the Board is not in a position to direct what projects are doing, it is important for the individual board members to know in which direction core projects at Eclipse are going – in many cases, the company representatives on the board are directly involved in decisions about how their company contributes to Eclipse.</li>
- </ul>
- </p>
- ]]> </vision>
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- <p>Boris leads the Eclipse Platform UI project and co-leads the new Orion effort at Eclipse. He works for IBM in Ottawa, Canada. He is proud to have helped increase diversity at the Eclipse Platform by attracting several non-IBM contributors and committers, and by lowering the barrier of entry through the e4 incubator project. Before joining IBM in 2005, he wrote a commercial RCP app using EMF and GEF, co-founded and co-managed a Web 2.0 company in Germany, worked on the original Eclipse 1.0 at OTI in Ottawa, and earned a PhD in computer science at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is married and a geek dad of three kids. You can find him on IRC as "borisb6i".</p>
- ]]> </bio>
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- IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada
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- <name>Weber Canova</name>
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- <p>As the first Director Member of Latin America in the Eclipse Foundation my main objective is to create and improve the Eclipse Foundation in new markets and countries, like Brazil, Argentina, Chile and others.</p>
-
- <p>I am the CTO of the largest software company in Latin America, with an ecosystem with more than 55.000 developers (including employees, customers, consultants, etc.). I’ll use this great ecosystem to spread the Eclipse Foundation, its projects and products, but also gather all the particular needs from our developers and companies and share those with the Eclipse Community to make it even stronger. This great ecosystem represents also a unique opportunity for new projects and products.</p>
-
- <p>By being a Director at the Eclipse Foundation, I’ll act as an evangelist, spreading all the Eclipse products and projects to enhance its quality. I’ll sponsor community projects and gather and implement ideas to keep the balance between performance, innovation and quality.</p>
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- Mr. Canova, 48, is TOTVS’ Chief Innovation and Technology Officer. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the Escola de Engenharia Mauá in 1982. Mr. Canova began his career as a programming team coordinator in 1984. He participated in the development and implementation of the internal applications and systems of AGF Companhia de Seguros Gerais from 1986 to 1988 and was responsible for the implementation of systems, installation and management for medium and large corporations from 1988 to 1990. Mr. Canova joined the Company in 1995 acting as the IT coordinator and, as the group´s current Executive Technology Director. Mr. Canova is responsible for TOTVS development platform. The platform has a virtual machine, a smart client user interface, a RDBMS connector and a developer environment ( now based on Eclipse ).
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- TOTVS
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- <name>Eric Clayberg</name>
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- I have been involved with Eclipse since 1999 when Instantiations was first briefed on it by IBM and have been a strong supporter of Eclipse community interests ever since. I co-authored Eclipse: Commercial Quality Plug-ins and Eclipse Plug-ins and have presented at every EclipseCon since the very first. At Instantiations, we were heavily committed to Eclipse since its inception, and my team was responsible for creating the very first commercial Eclipse add-on, CodePro, and the award-winning WindowBuilder product for SWT, Swing and GWT development. We participated in several different Eclipse projects and were a founding member of the Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance. After Google's acquisition of Instantiations in 2010, I spearheaded the effort to re-release all of Instantiations' popular commercial tools (WindowBuilder, CodePro AnalytiX and WindowTester) as free Google offerings and also drove the effort to contribute the WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler IP to Eclipse as two new open source projects. I am now managing the Google Plugin for Eclipse project and am Project Lead for the new WindowBuilder project at Eclipse.org.
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- My vision for 2011 is to:
- <ul>
- <li>Show up, speak up, and stand up for the interests of AIP members at Eclipse Board meetings during 2011.</li>
- <li>Continue to increase ROI for Add-in Provider membership in the Eclipse Foundation</li>
- <li>Bring Google-scale thinking, inventiveness and clout to Eclipse</li>
- <li>Assure that Eclipse technology remains the best on the planet!</li>
- </ul>
- ]]> </vision>
-
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- I am now a Software Engineering Manager on the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team at Google and a former co-founder of Instantiations (acquired by Google in 2010). I am a seasoned software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur, and manager with more than 20 years of commercial software development experience, including 14 years of experience with Java and 11 years with Eclipse. I was responsible for creating more than a dozen commercial Java, Eclipse and Smalltalk products including the award winning WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro, and VA Assist product lines. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and am co-author of Eclipse Plug-ins (3rd Edition, Dec 2008), Addison Wesley, 2008. ISBN: 0-321-55346-2 (http://www.qualityeclipse.com).
- <br><br>
- On a personal note, I am married with two kids and a dog, and live outside of Boston, Massachusetts. I am involved in various community activities and am Cub Master for my son's Cub Scout Pack. I have a passion for classic coin-op video games and have one of the largest collections in the country (featured on HGTV's "Incredible Basements" in 2003).
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- <name>John Cunningham</name>
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- <title>Managing Partner & Founder, Band XI International</title>
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- <email>jc@bandxi.com</email>
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- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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- My focus over the past ten years has been applying Eclipse to solve problems in various domains, participating in <i>EclipseCon</i> and <i>Eclipse Summit Europe</i>, but otherwise maintaining a low profile. So, I won’t be at all offended if you’re asking yourself, <i>"Who is this guy? He doesn’t commit, he isn’t on the forums, etc."</i>. Within the Eclipse Community, the glory rightly goes to the <i>committers</i>, because they make all of our work possible. Nevertheless, there is also a place for the Solutions Members to have a voice and I’ve been asked to contribute mine to the discussion.
- <br><br>
- I’ve watched Eclipse grow and adapt from the internal corporate skunkworks project <i>LeapFrog</i>, that we adopted early for embedded Java development, into the world’s gold standard for open source, community based development. Eclipse provides so much more than just a tooling platform. For example our firm, Band XI, used Eclipse as the runtime platform for implementing <i>Cyrano</i>, our award winning <i>2008 Best Equinox Application</i> which enabled first responders to connect hazardous materials sensors together for distributed situational awareness. We’ve since done much more with Eclipse as a runtime platform, including using Eclipse to monitor and control heavy mining and construction equipment. As a small company that engineers demanding embedded applications, we have learned many lessons that drive how we use and view Eclipse. We have shared many of our best practices by delivering OSGi workshops at EclipseCon, demonstrating applications at BoF’s and DemoCamps, speaking about some of the lessons learned, and contributing back to the community with code fixes, patches, and samples.
- <br><br>
- Going forward, I see the vitality and relevance of the Eclipse community growing richer by leading the establishment of new best practices and offering model reference implementations by emphasizing the following:
- <ul>
- <li><b>Deliver Vertical Reach:</b> Continue extending Eclipse into vertical domains that offer reference implementations that showcase Eclipse experts’ best practices for runtime and component architectures so that domain experts can focus on their hard domain problems.</li>
- <li><b>Entrench Runtime Platforms:</b> Establish Eclipse as the <i>de facto</i> robust, scalable, runtime infrastructure on mainstream platforms, from embedded to enterprise systems, to ensure Eclipse’s vitality as more than just a tooling platform for developers.</li>
- <li><b>Reward Innovation:</b> Develop new business models through which innovators, whether individuals or firms, are duly incentivized to share their creations with the Eclipse community. Markets are tough - and the balance of community participation seems to be shifting from larger players to smaller players, so we need to ensure that the rewards of innovation and leadership help the smaller players grow to be larger, so they can in turn bootstrap future innovators.</li>
- <li><b>Look Beyond Java:</b> Although much of what we have done to date relies on Java/OSGi, we’ve begun to look beyond single programming language solutions and see offerings like DLTK and e4 as strategically important elements of future architectures. The community needs these platforms to become first class offerings that are as mature, robust, rich, and capable as the Java tools and runtimes that we use as a reference point.</li>
- </ul>
- Eclipse continues to adapt and grow in response to the demands of the markets and the community. This evolution stems from the quality of the people who comprise the Eclipse community, combining a passion for achievement and a respect for process. Balancing results and process demands a special commitment that seems increasingly rare. Taking an <i>ends justifies the means</i> approach at one extreme destroys community. A navel gazing overemphasis on process results in sclerotic bureaucracy. Both extremes stifle innovation, collaboration, learning, and the overall positive environment that attracts the best and the brightest to join a community. Striking a balance demands good citizenship – respect for the processes, respect for people and their property, readiness to contribute to the community, and a willingness to communicate candidly and politely. The Eclipse Foundation accomplishes this goal remarkably well and I would be honored to serve as a representative to the community with these values and the abovementioned goals in mind.
- ]]> </vision>
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- John Cunningham brings a results-oriented, ship-it-on-time pragmatism developed over a quarter century of experience engineering software solutions on platforms ranging from mainframes to embedded controllers. His formal training in mechanical engineering and finance inform his approach to problem solving, where he strives to find repeatable, reliable, cost effective solutions to complex problems.
- <br><br>
- John began his career in New York City as a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) spearheading the adoption of object-oriented technologies, particularly Smalltalk, within the financial services and utilities industries, before moving on to a line management position at Travelers Insurance to do the same with accountability and a sense of ownership over the outcomes. In the mid 1990’s, he joined Object Technology International (OTI) and was eventually adopted by IBM. It was at OTI that John began to absorb the lessons in software engineering best practices from many of the industry's leading lights and best-kept secrets. For over a decade, Mr. Cunningham served in project leadership roles within IBM, working on financial services, automotive, and embedded Java projects in North America, Europe, and Asia.
- <br><br>
- In 2005, his desire to construct a dynamic, agile environment for bright, passionate problem solvers led him to start Band XI International together with Brett Hackleman. The firm immediately joined the Eclipse Foundation, believing that participating in the community was essential to their strategic vision. Band XI has been developing embedded systems for defense, mining, construction, asset tracking, health care, and content management domains during its short existence. Most recently, the company spun off Bad Elf, LLC, a purveyor of niche hardware accessories for the iOS platform (iPad/iPod/iPhone).
- <br><br>
- As a small company, Band XI has limited resources that have been largely focused on serving customers. However, they have always understood that satisfying and retaining customers has rested on the leverage afforded by an affiliation with the Eclipse Foundation. The Eclipse Runtime platform critically enabled commercialization of early R&D efforts to applications in the defense, mining, construction, and telematics domains. Band XI contributed back requirements, usage scenarios, patches, fixes, and example code for the Plugin Development Environment and Equinox. From the beginning, modular software and component design has been their focus, enabling them to do more with less, whether in Smalltalk, Java, or any of the dynamic languages that are gaining currency. Band XI is proud of Paul VanderLei’s contributions, in collaboration with Jeff McAffer and Simon Archer, to showcase these best practices in their OSGI & Equinox book, and the associated code base that is available through Eclipse.
- <br><br>
- Mr. Cunningham earned his BS from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), MSME from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Connecticut School of Business. He continues an active role in Columbia’s engineering school community, interviewing applicants for admissions and serving as co-President of the Parents’ Council while monitoring the activities of his two daughters (SEAS ‘12, ‘14).
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- <name>Hans Kamutzki</name>
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- <email>hka@microdoc.com</email>
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- MicroDoc has been an Eclipse add-in member for many years and Eclipse is a core element of MicroDoc's company strategy.
- MicroDoc has donated "Java Bindings for OpenVG", a vector grafics library for mobile devices, to the eRCP project.
- Hans currently serves his second term as a Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse
- Foundation and is a member of the Eclipse Finance Commitee.
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- <p>Serving as an Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation in my second term, I
- clearly see a number of significant challenges and opportunities for the Eclipse Ecosystem, which I want continue to work on in the Eclipse Board:</p>
-
- <p>Membership: Even though the Board has introduced a number of improvements to the membership model, there's still work to do.
- The current membership model still makes it hard for many companies to justify payment of the membership fees to the Eclipse foundation ("why pay for something we can get for free anyway?").
- My vision for the Eclipse membership model is to generate more immediate membership value for a large number of small and mid sized companies
- (committers and consumers), while keeping the large companies interested in staying in the foundation.
- In my opinon, some of the foundation's offerings (like the option to get long term support for outdated releases) should become "members only" benefits, while others (like joining a project) should remain open for anybody
- who complies with the rules of the foundation. This will make the Eclipse Foundation more robust against economic threats caused by member fluctuation.
- I also want to work on a program that motivates the community members to more actively participate in the development of the eco-system and the foundation.</p>
-
- <p>Visibility and representation: Im my vision for Eclipse, the foundation will designate a dedicated evangelist whose sole responsibility is to publicly represent the Eclipse in the software community and beyond.
- Even if budgetary constraints don't allow to hire someone now, this is still a goal which should be pursued for the near future. </p>
-
- <p>Technology: It is essential to maintain, and possibliy expand the momentum that Eclipse has in the Java world. At the same time, Eclipse has to open up for new technologies to stay on top of the
- commercial open source movement. The core strength of Eclipse (managed IP progress, well governed open source projects) can be propagated to virtually any significant up to date IT technology. So my vision is
- to see the Eclipse project moving into new technology domains like JavaScript etc.</p>
- ]]></vision>
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- Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc.
- He studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and focused on realtime image processing and
- process control in the early days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm for the automatic detection of
- objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After many years of development and project management practice in
- Smalltalk and Java, Hans now runs the Embedded Java operations at MicroDoc.
- ]]></bio>
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- MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in 1991 by Hendrik Hoefer and
- Hans Kamutzki. In the 90s, MicroDoc's focus was on object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki
- was a main contributor to a MicroDoc product called "Objects for Notes", a technical Smalltalk to Lotus Notes gateway
- that was licensed to IBM in 1995. He worked as a technical and operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent
- several months with integration work in the RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements. Even before
- Java became mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided a number of product components to
- the international market of reusable components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks,
- an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance tools as well as some contributions
- to IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a
- large airline. Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is used as a development platform,
- but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP and eRCP clients and server applications. As MicroDoc is building end to
- end solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and embedded devices), the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are
- essential building blocks for harmonizing the architecture in many MicroDoc projects today. As a Managing Directory, Hans is in
- charge for the embedded Java business as well as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today.
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- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
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- <title> <![CDATA[CEO, Tasktop]]> </title>
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- <p>Eclipse has matured and cemented its role as a platform for innovation. As its Sustaining Members, we play a key role in driving the direction of Eclipse. Our contributions in the form of code, evangelism, as well as Eclipse-based products and services have made Eclipse the vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem that it is today.</p>
-
- <p>In joining Eclipse as one of the first non-IBM committers, I've been engaged with both the technology community and commercialization aspects of Eclipse since the outset in 2001. For the past year I have been your representative on the Eclipse Board of directors, previously served as committer representative, lead the now top-level Mylyn project, and am currently serving on the Architecture and Planning Councils.</p>
-
- <p>I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting a profitable company around Eclipse has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. For the past year I served as your representative on the Eclipse board, and for this next year I plan on continuing to apply my experience and ongoing dialog with members in order to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
- <p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As your board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.</li>
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 900 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>We made good progress on these priorities in the past year, and I hope to continue representing you and helping you make the most out of your investment and engagement in Eclipse in 2011.</p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project. Mik is a popular speaker on Eclipse at conferences in the United States, Germany, and worldwide. As a long-time Eclipse evangelist, Mik is a frequent source for media and analysts on matters related to Eclipse and developer tools. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn top-level project (since 2005)</li>
- <li>Active member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (since 2007)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Planning Council (since 2010)</li>
- <li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
- <li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
- <li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Related publications:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a></li>
- <li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
- ]]></bio>
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- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
- ]]></affiliation>
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- <name>Adam Lieber</name>
-
- <title>General Manager, Intalio</title>
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- The Eclipse Foundation has had enormous success in spreading its tooling and now runtime related projects and I seek to continue to help that progress in a second year on the Board. In the next year, I hope also to propose and sponsor additional Foundation initiatives to extend the value of membership for companies and individuals. Membership vitality is critical to the Foundation’s future.
- <br><br>
- Additionally, I hope to further technical sponsorship for Git/SVN/CVS and bug processes among others to help get technologies adopted more easily. Jetty has an extremely successful track record of attracting collaboration with other projects, communities, and products, and from my exposure to that, I hope to help continue and to help boost the Eclipse Foundations presence in the future, such as with projects like Orion.
- <br><br>
- Further, my experience in adjusting Jetty's processes for entry into the foundation will help highlight ways Eclipse can possibly streamline in the future in growth. And, as part of Intalio's additional contributing presence in SOA, WTP, and MDT projects, as well as Architecture Council, we have a wide set of exposure to help gather helpful suggestions.
- ]]> </vision>
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- Adam is General Manager of Intalio, the private Cloud company, with responsibilities for its BPMS, Jetty, and Cometd offerings. The company operates with a commercial open source model in 15 countries. Previously, he was CEO of Webtide, which focused on services for Jetty and Cometd, where he helped bring the Jetty project to the Eclipse Foundation Runtime project. Previously, he was a co-founder of Gluecode Software, a pioneer in commercial open source offerings, which was acquired by IBM, where he lead worldwide sales for the group.
- ]]> </bio>
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- Intalio
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
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- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
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- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
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- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
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- Managing the Eclipse foundation in tough economic times is becoming increasingly more difficult. Money spent on membership dues comes under greater scrutiny in a financially constrained climate. This translates into a downward pressure on membership, which translates directly into downward pressure on the foundation's budget. Innovative ideas need to be explored for diversifying the revenue base and though decisions need to be made for effectively investing the foundation's limited funds. As a committer representative, I will continue to ensure that the developer's perspective is taken into consideration in all deliberations at the board.
- <br><br>
- One of the great things about Eclipse is its diversity and its openness. Compound that with a wealth of freely-available, commerical-quality software and you have the winning combination that is Eclipse. Unfortunately, though, life is a trade-off. Diversity and openness are difficult to manage: its challenging for a sizable group to share a unified vision and it's far easier to critique a proposed solution than it is to synthesize a new one. In the end, it's all too easy for good intentions to accomplish nothing. Worst of all, freely-available software doesn't drive a single penny of revenue, regardless of quality and quantity. As a result, the "tragedy of the commons" continues to plague us. Ask yourself, why are builds the bane of the developers existence? Aren't we all needing to solve this same problem again and again? So let's do it really well just once. Of course the solution is obvious, but who should foot the bill to solve it well? What would they gain by doing so?
- <br><br>
- Freetardation is another insidious problem. Everyone expects more and more for less and less. Large organizations with deep pockets derive huge value from Eclipse while contributing essentially nothing. The same can be said for the hungry hoards of individual consumers, quick to complain when instant gratification falls short. Also of concern are the <a href="http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/04/teflon-programming.html" target="blank">Teflon programmers</a>. As developers, we all love to create cool exciting new software, but stable, robust, well-tested, carefully-documented solutions with reliable long-term support are the lifeblood that sustains the ecosystem. These too are all very tough problems with no obvious solutions.
- <br><br>
- As a committer representative with years of experience, I believe I have valuable insights to bring to the board. I am realistic about what's possible and what isn't. I am helpful, constructive, and creative, I listen well, and I can be counted upon to act in the best interests of Eclipse as a whole. I would be honored to serve Eclipse as your representative for yet another term.
- ]]> </vision>
-
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- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885" target="blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="blank">Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors</a> for the past four years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer. Ed is well known for his dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a> and <a href="http://www.cloudsmith.com/" target="blank">Cloudsmith</a>. His experience in modeling technology spans 25 years.
- ]]> </bio>
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- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner<br>
- <a href="http://www.cloudsmith.com/" target="blank">Cloudsmith</a>, Partner
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
-
- <title>Chief Architect, AGETO</title>
-
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
-
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.planeteclipse.org" target="blank">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php" target="blank">Technology PMC Member</a><br>
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/gyrex/" target="blank">Gyrex</a> Lead<br>
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/orbit" target="blank">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://eclipse.org/rap" target="blank">RAP</a> Incubator Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/council.php" target="blank">Architecture Council</a> member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org" target="blank">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2006)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse is an exceptional community. In my opinion the most important
- piece of this community is a vivid and steady flow of manifold
- contributions coming from member companies, committers, adopters and
- users. I'm a strong supporter of the Eclipse community, it's openness
- and diversity across the board. When initiating Planet Eclipse back in
- 2005 it wasn't just to raise the voice of the Eclipse community on the
- web but also to give community members a chance to raise their voice to
- be heard within the community.
- <br><br>
- My vision for 2011 is to ensure that the committer interests are
- properly represented at the Eclipse Board meetings. I intend to actively
- participate in ongoing as well as to initiate new discussions on topics
- which aid improving the life and work of committers at Eclipse projects.
- <br><br>
- Another important part of my work will be to ensure that enough funding
- is available to provide first-class infrastructure services to
- committers. With Git coming to Eclipse projects there is a new door open
- for contributions. The current processes involving Bugzilla, IPZilla and
- patches need to be reviewed. New tools like Gerrit will come into the
- game and need to be looked at. There is not only the question of
- adopting those tools into the Eclipse Development and IP Process. There
- is also the question of evolving the processes to (better) support new
- workflows offered by these tools.
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Gunnar is a software engineer who loves server and application
- architectures especially those involving Equinox/OSGi. In his primary
- role at AGETO he is thrilled to work on open source software, emerging
- platforms and technologies, and to help companies understand Eclipse and
- OSGi and execute on their business objectives in an open source context.
- He has been a member of the Eclipse Community since its beginning and he
- is a prolific contributor with many years of experience on numerous
- Eclipse projects; Gunnar is also a member of the Technology PMC which he
- represents on the Eclipse Architecture Council. Apart from Eclipse he
- loves chatting about fishing, diving and his family and other things
- that matters over a good beer or a glass of dry, barrel aged red wine.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- AGETO
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Manager, Open Source, Twitter</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>zx@twitter.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Plug-in Development Environment (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/pde">PDE</a>) Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2012)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My overall vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the <b>community</b> so the Eclipse ecosystem can prosper.
- We have a unique open source community at Eclipse that is comprised of a variety of parties, from individuals to
- academics to companies. We need to keep all parties in mind, whether an individual or corporation, and make it
- easier for everyone to be successful at Eclipse.</p>
-
- <p>Eclipse has been around for over a decade and in that decade, the amount of technological progress and
- change has been staggering. In order to remain vibrant and relevant, Eclipse will have to manage its
- legacy and existing adopters but also look towards the future. In terms of supporting our traditional
- and existing community, Eclipse 4.2 be the featured release during Juno to help us evolve away from the
- Eclipse 3.X codebase. Furthermore, an <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/LTS/Charter">industry working group</a> was
- established recently to focus on long-term support which is important to many adopters within the ecosystem.</p>
-
- <p>
- In terms of the future, the Eclipse <a href="http://eclipse.org/orion">Orion</a> project is
- starting to gain traction by having its components be embedded within the Firefox 10 release.
- The Eclipse Foundation should continue to foster the development of web technology at eclipse.org and
- push the boundaries of what is possible with tooling on the web.</p>
-
- <p>To ensure Eclipse continues to grow and thrive I will particularly focus on:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Continue modernizing the Eclipse infrastructure around Git and Gerrit; complete it by end of 2012</li>
- <li>Push the Foundation to consider make it easier to accept contributions from GitHub and Bitbucket</li>
- <li>Foster interactions with the web development community and Orion</li>
- <li>Build bridges within the Eclipse ecosystem and with other open source and commercial projects</li>
- <li>Encourage Eclipse committers and projects to participate in the community via blogs, forums and other communication channels</li>
- <li>Lower the barrier to entry for new projects without sacrificing the quality Eclipse is known for</li>
- <li>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal is to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. I will pay
- special attention to how we can make the Eclipse development process easier for smaller projects. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent you, the committers, for another term.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for software evangelism, open source and building communities. At Twitter, he's responsible for
- creating their open source program office and managing their open source strategy. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Twitter
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>John Arthorne</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title>
-
- <image>arthorne.jpg</image>
-
- <email>john_arthorne at ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Project PMC and Platform Core Lead, Eclipse Architecture Council,
- Eclipse Planning Council, Committer on Platform, Equinox, e4, and Orion
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-There has never been a more exciting time to be working in software
-development. The desktop computing model we have been working with for 25
-years is steadily being replaced with different form factor devices such as phones,
-televisions, and tablets. Traditional mouse and keyboard inputs are being replaced
-with touch screens and voice controls. Java, whose visionary designers built the
-JVM for precisely this world of heterogeneous networked devices, has become
-too big and slow to keep up. HTML5 and JavaScript are replacing Java on the client
-side, and an assortment of dynamic languages are making inroads on the server. The
-browser and the web behind it are now the only ubiquitous platform that is available on
-every device and form factor.
-</p>
-<p>
-Open source software is now bigger than ever, but an adhoc collection of small scale
-projects on community forges is starting to replace large scale foundations as the place
-where open development happens. Mirroring the shift from the JVM to the browser,
-this is happening in part because these community forges are small, agile, and can adapt
-more quickly to the rapidly changing computing landscape.
-</p>
-<p>
-On the surface, none of this sounds good for Eclipse. Eclipse is a large foundation
-based on Java-based tools and runtimes. However, these underlying changes in
-the industry are a huge opportunity for Eclipse. The tools and runtime frameworks for
-the web are shockingly immature compared to Java. Above the browser there is a
-jumbled assortment of frameworks and implementations with no cohesion or stability.
-Everyone has written or cobbled together their own JavaScript application framework
-on the client, and many server side languages have pieced together frameworks of
-varying quality and scale. We application developers have to pick through this
-landscape to pull together the pieces (and versions) that work together well. Very
-often the pieces don't fit together well, or have uncertain legal provenance. New versions
-of libraries come available at random intervals, or worse they never actually produce versions
-and developers just pull from the "master" branch and hope it is stable enough to use. Eclipse
-has the infrastructure and track record to do what nobody else is accomplishing in this
-space: building integrated, well tested components, delivered on a regular schedule,
-and maintaining clear and consistent license and legal checks on all code.
-</p>
-<p>
-If elected as your committer representative, I will work to make Eclipse relevant
-in this changing software landscape. In particular I will work to make our
-processes and infrastructure more agile. Projects need to be able to ship every month,
-or even every day if needed. They need fast and reliable build infrastructure, and
-test infrastructure for a variety of different kinds of applications. We need to grapple with
-the impact on our license and other legal documents of a world where software is
-now installed via proprietary app stores, or implicitly by visiting a web site.
-We need to be able to consume and work with crowd-sourced software and documentation
-where contributions are made via very lightweight processes. As a foundation we need
-to encourage and welcome more non-Java projects, particularly in the areas of
-web, mobile, and embedded development. We need to find and remove the barriers
-to these projects being able to work at Eclipse, so they can become the kind of
-predictable, interoperable, and commercial friendly software components that Eclipse is
-so well known for.
-</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-John has worked on the Eclipse and Equinox projects for the past decade in many different areas. He was the main developer on the resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure. In recent years he has focused on the Orion project, provisioning (p2), e4, and overall platform API quality. John is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council, Planning Council and Eclipse Project PMC, and is a Senior Software Developer at IBM Canada.
-
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Eric Clayberg</name>
-
- <title>Software Engineering Manager, Google</title>
-
- <image>clayberg.jpg</image>
-
- <email>clayberg@google.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- I have been involved with Eclipse since 1999 when Instantiations was first briefed on it by IBM and have been a
- strong supporter of Eclipse community interests ever since. I co-authored Eclipse: Commercial Quality Plug-ins,
- Eclipse Plug-ins, and Eclipse GEF and have presented at every EclipseCon since the very first. At Instantiations,
- we were heavily committed to Eclipse since its inception, and my team was responsible for creating the very first
- commercial Eclipse add-on, CodePro, and the award-winning WindowBuilder product for SWT, Swing and GWT development.
- We participated in several different Eclipse projects and were a founding member of the Eclipse Plugin Central
- Alliance. After Google's acquisition of Instantiations in 2010, I spearheaded the effort to re-release all of
- Instantiations' popular commercial tools (WindowBuilder, CodePro AnalytiX and WindowTester) as free Google
- offerings and also drove the effort to contribute WindowBuilder to Eclipse. WindowBuilder was successfully
- delivered as part of the Eclipse Indigo release train in 2011 and will also be part of the Eclipse Juno release in 2012.
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- My vision for 2011 is to:
- <ul>
- <li>Show up, speak up, and stand up for the interests of AIP members at Eclipse Board meetings during 2012.</li>
- <li>Continue to increase ROI for Add-in Provider membership in the Eclipse Foundation</li>
- <li>Make Eclipse a powerful "profitability platform" for Add-in providers</li>
- <li>Assure that Eclipse technology remains the best on the planet!</li>
- </ul>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- I am currently the Software Engineering Manager for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Dart Editor teams at
- Google and a former co-founder of Instantiations (acquired by Google in 2010). I am a seasoned software
- technologist, product developer, entrepreneur, and manager with more than 20 years of commercial software
- development experience, including 15 years of experience with Java and 12 years with Eclipse.
- I was responsible for creating more than a dozen commercial Java, Eclipse and Smalltalk products
- including the award winning WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro, and VA Assist product lines. I hold a Bachelor of
- Science degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and am co-author of Eclipse Plug-ins (3rd Edition, Dec 2008)
- and Eclipse GEF (1st Edition, Aug 2011) from Addison-Wesley. See <a href="http://www.qualityeclipse.com">http://www.qualityeclipse.com</a>.
- <br><br>
- On a personal note, I am married with two kids and a dog. I am involved in various community activities and
- an adult leader for my son's Boy Scout Troop. I have a passion for classic coin-op video games and have
- one of the largest collections in the country (featured on HGTV's "Incredible Basements" in 2003).
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Google, Inc. is the provider of a number of well known Eclipse add-ons including the Google Plug-in for
- Eclipse (GPE), Android Development Tools (ADT), WindowBuilder (SWT, Swing and GWT Designer), CodePro
- AnalytiX and WindowTester and the contributor and sponsor of the WindowBuilder open source project at
- Eclipse. Google is a multinational public cloud computing and Internet search technologies corporation.
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Christian Dupuis</name>
-
- <title>Director, R&D, VMware</title>
-
- <image>dupuis.jpg</image>
-
- <email>cdupuis@vmware.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Over the past several years I've been an active user of Eclipse technologies and
- used the Eclipse platform to build open source and commercial solutions like Spring IDE or the SpringSource
- Tool Suite. During my extensive experience in open source development, I have come to recognize the unique
- value that the Eclipse Foundation brings to the intersection of open source and corporate software development.
- In conjunction with a large, active and vocal community, the Eclipse Foundation had helped to define the primacy
- of the developer as an agent of change in the world of enterprise software.
- </p>
- <p>Within recent times we've seen the rise of the Cloud, an ever increasing number of mobile devices accessing
- the internet and an insane amount of data being captured each day. Without question these developments affect
- the ways developers are building the next generation of applications; a completely new set of application
- styles, frameworks and tools is emerging to support these new demands.
- </p>
- <p>This poses a challenge for Eclipse and its ecosystem; there are certain areas in which the Eclipse
- ecosystem could put additional focus to maintain its momentum and market leading position. In case
- the Eclipse community elects me to the Board of Directors, I would like to help making this a reality.
- </p>
- <p>My vision for Eclipse in 2012:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Web + Mobile: we are seeing the growing importance of HTML5 and JavaScript
- in modern web and mobile application development. There is a tremendous opportunity
- in this space with a wide and growing addressable market, both in terms of developers
- and commercial vendors that will potentially build on top of Eclipse technologies. As
- a board member, I will help ensure that Eclipse gets the necessary resources to extend
- the Eclipse stack and become a viable option for web and mobile application development.
- </li>
- <li>Cloud: many people may see Cloud as a buzzword. But while working at VMware I have
- come to see that the Cloud is a reality through the community interest in the open source
- Cloud Foundry platform. While I was working on the Eclipse integration for Cloud Foundry it
- became clear that there is a lot that Eclipse could offer as part of the platform to support
- Cloud platforms and vendors.
- <ul>
- <li>Eclipse, through the WTP project, managed to build a platform for traditional
- application server vendors to extend for their server runtimes. This has led to a
- flourishing ecosystem of providers for nearly every application server in the market.
- I think a similar effort is required to provide extension mechanisms for cloud providers
- to plug in their PaaS and IaaS offerings. This goes beyond simple deploy-start-stop scenarios
- and will include, for example, provisioning and configuring platform services in a Cloud environment.
- </li>
- <li>More and more components of the development lifecycle are moving into the Cloud. I think
- it is only natural for cloud providers to host editing or IDE solutions in close proximity
- to the application code. There is a unique opportunity to work with the various cloud providers to
- position Orion as the editing solution of choice in those environments.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Christian Dupuis is Director, R&D for the SpringSource division of VMware with
- responsibilities for the complete Spring project offerings, including the Spring Framework.
- From the very early days of Spring, Christian worked with the Spring team around Rod Johnson
- and others in the open source space. In 2004 Christian co-founded the well known Spring IDE
- open source project that brings development tools for the Spring projects to the Eclipse platform.
- </p>
- <p>More recently Christian was responsible for the implementation of the Cloud Foundry Integration for
- Eclipse which gives developers easy access to VMware's multi-language, multi-framework PaaS. He is
- also actively involved in moving the SpringSource dm Server Tools into Eclipse Virgo project.
- </p>
- <p>Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian
- designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server
- applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource,
- Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting
- firms in the financial sector in central Europe.
- </p>]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc.
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
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-
- <name>Hans Kamutzki</name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[Managing Director, MicroDoc]]> </title>
-
- <image>kamutzki.jpg</image>
-
- <email>hka@microdoc.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- MicroDoc has been an Eclipse add-in member for many years and Eclipse is a core element of MicroDoc's
- company strategy. MicroDoc has donated "Java Bindings for OpenVG", a vector graphics library
- for mobile devices, to the eRCP project. Hans is currently serving his third term as a Sustaining
- Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation, is a member of the
- Eclipse Finance Committee, and has recently been elected to be a member of the IP Advisory
- Board.]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Serving as an Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the
- Eclipse Foundation in my third term, I see ongoing challenges and opportunities
- for the Eclipse Ecosystem:
- </p>
- <p>
- While Eclipse needs to maintain its leading position in the Java IDE and runtime world, it is necessary
- to open up the Eclipse ecosystem for new technologies. During my term as a Board member, I supported
- every proposal and resolution that opens up Eclipse to non-Java projects and I plan to
- continue to do so in the future. The core strength of the Eclipse Foundation (managed IP progress,
- well governed open source projects) should be applicable to any serious open source project with
- commercial attitude. I also support the idea of cooperating with other open source communities to
- help users to easily integrate the "best of all worlds" software components.
- </p>
- <p>
- My vision for the Eclipse membership model is to generate more tangible membership value for
- small and mid-sized companies (committers and consumers), while keeping the large companies
- interested in staying in the Foundation. The "long term support" initiative and the industry
- working groups are good examples for increased member value. I will support future
- initiatives for industry working groups and hope that these groups help to grow the community
- and make the Eclipse Foundation financially robust - so we all can benefit from using Eclipse
- software in the future. I also want to work on a program that activates the quiet community members to
- more actively participate in the development of the ecosystem and the Foundation.
- </p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich.
- He studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and focused on realtime image
- processing and process control in the early days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm
- for the automatic detection of objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After many
- years of development and project management practice in Smalltalk and Java, Hans now runs the
- Embedded Java operations at MicroDoc.
- ]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in 1991 by Hendrik Hoefer and
- Hans Kamutzki. In the 90s, MicroDoc's focus was on object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki
- was a main contributor to a MicroDoc product called "Objects for Notes," a technical Smalltalk to Lotus Notes gateway
- that was licensed to IBM in 1995. He worked as a technical and operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent
- several months with integration work in the RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements. Even before
- Java became mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided a number of product components to
- the international market of reusable components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks,
- an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance tools as well as some contributions
- to IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a
- large airline. Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is used as a development platform,
- but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP and eRCP clients and server applications. As MicroDoc is building
- end-to-end solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and embedded devices), the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are
- essential building blocks for harmonizing the architecture in many MicroDoc projects today. As a Managing Director, Hans is in
- charge of the embedded Java business as well as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today.
- ]]></affiliation>
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-
- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[CEO, Tasktop]]> </title>
-
- <image>kersten.jpg</image>
-
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Tasktop
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse has matured and cemented its role as a platform for innovation. As its Sustaining Members, we play a key role in driving the direction of Eclipse. Our contributions in the form of code, evangelism, as well as Eclipse-based products and services have made Eclipse the vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem that it is today.</p>
-
- <p>In joining Eclipse as one of the first non-IBM committers, I've been engaged with both the technology community and commercialization aspects of Eclipse since the outset in 2001. For the past year I have been your representative on the Eclipse Board of directors, previously served as committer representative, lead the now top-level Mylyn project, and am currently serving on the Architecture and Planning Councils.</p>
-
- <p>I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting a profitable company around Eclipse has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. For the past year I served as your representative on the Eclipse board, and for this next year I plan on continuing to apply my experience and ongoing dialog with members in order to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
- <p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As your board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.</li>
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 900 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>We made good progress on these priorities in the past year, and I hope to continue representing you and helping you make the most out of your investment and engagement in Eclipse in 2011.</p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture Council. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik has also been recognized as one of the top ten IBM developerWorks Java technology writers of the decade. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.</p>
-<p>As a long-time Eclipse evangelist, Mik is a frequent source for media and analysts on matters related to Eclipse and developer tools. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn top-level project (since 2005)</li>
- <li>Active member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (since 2007)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Planning Council (since 2010)</li>
- <li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
- <li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
- <li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Related publications:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a></li>
- <li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
- ]]></affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse has evolved over the years to become something quite different from its inception. Today
- it's driven by a vastly more diverse constellation of contributors: large and small commercial
- interests, educational institutions, and of course an ever growing dedicated committer community,
- i.e., people like you and me. With this increasing diversity, our influence as individuals grows
- unabated, presenting new challenges and exciting opportunities. As your committer representative
- on the board, I will employ my five years of experience to continue promoting the rights and
- privileges of committers and to fight for the issues and concerns near and dear to developers'
- hearts. As always, I intend to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who
- navigates the political landscape on your behalf. I feel I've demonstrated this with my track
- record over the years.</p>
-<p>No doubt it sounds cliche, but I believe strongly that helping is its own reward. With many thousands
-of answers to questions across a wide range of Eclipse's newsgroups last year, and with active blogging
-to promote a sense of community, my track record is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words. I
-believe in being a positive influence, of balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes
-improvement is often highly subjective. A case in point is the issue of
-<a href="http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-committer-one-vote.html">one committer one vote</a> which
-required a change to the by-laws that was <a href="http://eclipse.org/membership/vote2011/">approved
-by the membership</a> last year. Not everyone agrees
-this is an improvement, but I'm quite sure the vast majority of the committers will feel their vote
-this year is more influential than ever.</p>
-<p>I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are
-ever improving. I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable
-realistic results. I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable
-rules, particularly rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups or to make first
-and second class citizens in our community. I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up
-diplomatically even when personal risk is involved. As your representative I commit to working
-tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it. It has been an
-honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years. If reelected, you can count on
-the fact that Merks works for you.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He
- is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past five years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin. His
- experience in modeling technology spans twenty-seven years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
-
- <title>CTO, AGETO</title>
-
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
-
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/gyrex/">Gyrex</a> Lead<br/>
-Committer on Gyrex, Orbit, RAP Incubator<br/>
-Contributor to Equinox, EclipseLink, Gemini and PDE<br/>
-Architecture Council member<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2006, 2012)
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-Eclipse is an exceptional community. In my opinion the most important
-piece of this community is a vivid and steady flow of manifold
-contributions coming from committers, member companies, adopters and
-users. I'm a strong supporter of the Eclipse community, it's openness
-and diversity across the board. When initiating Planet Eclipse back in
-2005 it wasn't just to raise the voice of the Eclipse community on the
-web but also to give community members a chance to raise their voice to
-be heard within the community.
-</p><p>
-My vision for 2012 is to ensure that the committer interests are
-properly represented at the Eclipse Board meetings. I intend to actively
-participate in ongoing as well as to initiate new discussions on topics
-which aid improving the life and work of committers and contributors at
-Eclipse projects.
-</p><p>
-Another important part of my work will be to ensure that enough funding
-is available to provide first-class infrastructure services to
-committers around the globe. With Git and Gerrit coming to Eclipse projects
-there is a new door open for contributions. I'll strive for simplifying the
-processes to lower the barrier for new contributors further. I also like to
-initiate discussions about interesting tools that might help Eclipse projects
-running more smoothly.
-</p>
-
-
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Gunnar is a software engineer who loves server and application
-architectures especially those involving Equinox/OSGi. In his primary
-role at AGETO he is thrilled to work on open source software, emerging
-platforms and technologies, and to help companies understand Eclipse and
-OSGi and execute on their business objectives in an open source context.
-He has been a member of the Eclipse Community since its beginning and
-he is a prolific contributor with many years of experience on numerous
-Eclipse projects; Gunnar leads the Technology PMC and is a member of the
-Eclipse Architecture Council. Apart from Eclipse he loves chatting about
-fishing, diving and his family and other things that matters over a good
-beer or a glass of dry, barrel aged red wine.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- AGETO, Jena, Germany
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="aniszczyk" type="committer">
-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Engineering Manager, Open Source (Twitter)</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>zx@twitter.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2012)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>My overall vision for Eclipse is simple, keep building the <b>community</b> so the Eclipse ecosystem can prosper.
- We have a unique open source community at Eclipse that is comprised of a variety of parties, from individuals to
- academics to companies. We need to keep all parties in mind, whether an individual or corporation, and make it
- easier for everyone to be successful at Eclipse. I think this is especially important given that the Eclipse Foundation
- is expanding with efforts such as <a href="http://locationtech.org/">LocationTech</a> and <a href="http://polarsys.org">Polarsys</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>Eclipse has been around for just over a decade. We have to keep moving forward to stay relevant in a sea of
- technological change. In the last year, we have done great things like
- move to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a> (which I'm proud to have
- helped initiate a couple years ago) and started pushing the boundaries of web tooling with
- the <a href="http://planetorion.org/news/2012/10/orion-1-0-release/">Orion 1.0 release</a>. However, there are
- many more things we can do to move things forward. <b>My main focus will be to push for a system where we can
- leverage social coding sites (such as GitHub or Google Code) while maintaining our reputation for a quality development
- process and rigorous IP management.</b> This would allow us to grow as a community while taking advantage of all the
- innovation that has happened in the social coding and infrastructure space recently. It would also make the the Eclipse Foundation
- more adaptable to infrastructure changes in the future, further hone our development process and ensure that we're ready for
- another successful decade of changing the industry.</p>
-
- <p>To ensure Eclipse continues to grow and thrive I will particularly focus on:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Push the Foundation to allow hosting projects on GitHub and other social coding sites</li>
- <li>Make it easier to accept contributions from GitHub and Bitbucket</li>
- <li>Foster interactions with the web development community and Orion</li>
- <li>Build bridges within the Eclipse ecosystem and with other open source and commercial projects</li>
- <li>Encourage Eclipse committers and projects to participate in the community via blogs, forums and other communication channels</li>
- <li>Lower the barrier to entry for new projects without sacrificing the quality Eclipse is known for</li>
- <li>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal is to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. I will pay
- special attention to how we can make the Eclipse development process easier for smaller projects. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent you, the committers, for another term.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for open source and building communities. At Twitter, he's responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Twitter
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>John Arthorne</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title>
-
- <image>arthorne.jpg</image>
-
- <email>john_arthorne at ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Project PMC and Platform Core Lead, Eclipse Architecture Council,
- Eclipse Planning Council, Committer on Platform, Equinox, e4, and Orion
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-It was an honour to represent fellow committers on the Eclipse Board of Directors last year,
-and to be nominated for re-election this year. The board often operates beneath
-the radar, but the decisions made by the board have far-reaching impact on the
-direction of the foundation and the focus areas of its staff. The committer representatives
-on the board have an important role to play in balancing the needs of individual committers
-with the needs of the corporate members represented by the rest of the board. Together
-with fellow committer reps Ed Merks and Chris Aniszczyk, I worked hard over the
-past year to represent your needs, and will continue to do so if re-elected.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I believe the Eclipse Foundation is the best venue for building commercial
-friendly open source software available today. The combination of balanced governance,
-strong focus on clean IP and licenses, transparent processes and predictable schedules,
-is unmatched in the software industry today. However there are two important areas
-that I will focus on improving at the board level if elected.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-First, we need to welcome smaller and more agile open source projects to Eclipse. Most
- new open source projects today are small scale, and are opting to forgoe a formal
-open source foundation in favour of free commercial forges with little or no process
-or governance. Some of these projects are starting to realize the limitations of this
-approach, and are waking up to the crucial importance of intellectual property management
-and vendor-neutral governance in the long term success of open source projects.
-The Eclipse Foundation is well positioned to help these projects, but it has a tradition
- and reputation for running large scale projects with major commercial backers. As a
-community we need to adapt to allow some projects to scale down process overhead
-that isn't adding value to their particular project. We need to be more welcoming
-of different OSI-approved licences to suit the needs of different adopter communities. We also
-need to welcome non-Java projects, especially in high growth areas such as mobile and
-web development.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The second key focus area is the new Eclipse industry working groups. Very large industry
-groups such as aerospace, automotive, and mapping, have realized the value of Eclipse
-as a forum for collaborating on their development tool needs. While they compete
-with each other in their specific industries, they have no need to compete with each other
- on their development software, and can gain significant value from interoperability and
- shared maintenance costs. These industries have some very unique needs, such as
-very long term support timeframes, different licenses, different development practices,
-and hosting of different kinds of software artifacts. The Eclipse Foundation needs to
- cater to these special requirements, but without negative impact on the processes and
-infrastructure of other Eclipse projects. An aerospace requirements project has very different
-needs from a small scale web project, so we need to have scalable infrastructure, processes
-and practices to suit the needs of very different projects under the Eclipse umbrella.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-John has worked on the Eclipse and Equinox projects for the past decade in many different areas. He was the main developer on the resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure. In recent years he has focused on the Orion project, provisioning (p2), e4, and overall platform API quality. John is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council, Planning Council and Eclipse Project PMC, and is a Senior Software Developer at IBM Canada.
-
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
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-
- <name>Christian Dupuis</name>
-
- <title>Director, R&D, VMware</title>
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-
- <email>cdupuis@vmware.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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- <p>Over the past several years I've been an active user of Eclipse technologies and
- used the Eclipse platform to build open source and commercial solutions like Spring IDE or the Spring
- Tool Suite. During my work on open source technologies, I have come to recognize the unique
- value that the Eclipse Foundation brings to the intersection of open source and corporate software development.
- In conjunction with a large, active and vocal community, the Eclipse Foundation had helped to define the primacy
- of the developer as an agent of change in the world of enterprise software.
- </p>
- <p>Within recent times we've seen the rise of the Cloud, an ever increasing number of mobile devices accessing
- the internet and an insane amount of data being captured each day. Without question these developments affect
- the ways developers are building the next generation of applications; a completely new set of application
- styles, frameworks and tools is emerging to support these new demands.
- </p>
- <p>This poses a challenge for Eclipse and its ecosystem; there are certain areas in which the Eclipse
- ecosystem could put additional focus to maintain its momentum and market leading position. In case
- the Eclipse community elects me to the Board of Directors, I would like to help making this a reality.
- </p>
- <p>My vision for Eclipse in 2013:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Web + Mobile: we are seeing the growing importance of HTML5 and JavaScript
- in modern web and mobile application development. There is a tremendous opportunity
- in this space with a wide and growing addressable market, both in terms of developers
- and commercial vendors that will potentially build on top of Eclipse technologies. Vert.x
- and its potential move to the Eclipse Foundation is a good example of what role the Eclipse
- Foundation could play in this space; even beyond the traditional tooling. As a board member,
- I will help ensure that Eclipse gets the necessary resources to extend the Eclipse stack
- and become a viable option for web and mobile application development.
- </li>
- <li>Cloud: many people may see Cloud as a buzzword. But while working at VMware I have
- come to see that the Cloud is a reality through the community interest in the open source
- Cloud Foundry platform. While I was working on the Eclipse integration for Cloud Foundry it
- became clear that there is a lot that Eclipse could offer as part of the platform to support
- Cloud platforms and vendors.
- <ul>
- <li>Eclipse, through the WTP project, managed to build a platform for traditional
- application server vendors to extend for their server runtimes. This has led to a
- flourishing ecosystem of providers for nearly every application server in the market.
- I think a similar effort is required to provide extension mechanisms for cloud providers
- to plug in their PaaS and IaaS offerings. This goes beyond simple deploy-start-stop scenarios
- and will include, for example, provisioning and configuring platform services in a Cloud environment.
- </li>
- <li>More and more components of the development lifecycle are moving into the Cloud. I think
- it is only natural for cloud providers to host editing or IDE solutions in close proximity
- to the application code. There is a unique opportunity to work with the various cloud providers to
- position Orion as the editing solution of choice in those environments.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Christian Dupuis is Director, R&D for the SpringSource division of VMware with
- responsibilities for the Spring project offerings, including the Spring Framework.
- From the very early days of Spring, Christian worked with the Spring team around Rod Johnson
- and others in the open source space. In 2004 Christian co-founded the well known Spring IDE
- open source project that brings development tools for the Spring projects to the Eclipse platform.
- </p>
- <p>More recently Christian was responsible for the implementation of the Cloud Foundry Integration for
- Eclipse which gives developers easy access to VMware's multi-language, multi-framework PaaS. He is
- also actively involved in moving the SpringSource dm Server Tools into Eclipse Virgo project.
- </p>
- <p>Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian
- designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server
- applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource,
- Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting
- firms in the financial sector in central Europe.
- </p>
- <p>Christian served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors starting February 2013.
- </p>]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc.
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
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-
-<name>Hans Kamutzki</name>
-<title> <![CDATA[
-Managing Director,<br>
-MicroDoc
- ]]> </title>
-<image>kamutzki.jpg</image>
-<email>hka@microdoc.com</email>
-
-<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-MicroDoc has been an Eclipse add-in member for many years and Eclipse is a core element of MicroDoc's company strategy.
-MicroDoc has donated "Java Bindings for OpenVG", a vector grafics library for mobile devices, to the eRCP project.
-Hans currently serves his third term as a Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation, is a member of the Eclipse Finance Commitee and has recently been elected to be a member of the IP Advisory Board.
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
-<vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-Eclipse is evolving as an eco system since its very beginning. Soon after we started using Eclipse as an IDE, runtime
-components were introduced. Now Eclipse opens up to non-Java technologies and Industry Working Groups focusing on
-vertical developments. I see Eclipse developing into kind of a "meta-foundation" - a sound and proven organisational structure and
-legal framework to host open source initiatives of all kinds. And as a main differentiator from other forges and foundations, Eclipse
-needs to maintain its valuable IP-process and that will ensure that commercial use of Eclipse open source components is widely accepted in
-the industry – even in mission critical runtime scenarios. </p>
-<p>
-I want to see a member driven initiative to make sure the traditional core technology of the Eclipse IDE is kept alive and is reasonably modernized and I will support any and all reasonable approaches to make this happen. I'm also in favor of reviewing the Eclipse infrastructure and move it into the cloud where ever that is cost effective and improves the service level for Eclipse users.
-</p>
-<p>
-I want to continue to work on my fifth term on the Board with all members to maintain Eclipse as a safe source for commercial OSS offerings and build up a center of gravity for open source innovation
-</p>
-
-
-]]></vision>
-
-<bio><![CDATA[
-Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich.
-He studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and focused on realtime image processing and
-process control in the early days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm for the automatic detection of
-objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After many years of development and project management practice in
-Smalltalk and Java, Hans now runs the Embedded Java operations at MicroDoc.
-]]></bio>
-
-<affiliation><![CDATA[
-MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in 1991 by Hendrik Hoefer and
-Hans Kamutzki. In the 90s, MicroDoc's focus was on object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki
-was a main contributor to a MicroDoc product called "Objects for Notes", a technical Smalltalk to Lotus Notes gateway
-that was licensed to IBM in 1995. He worked as a technical and operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent
-several months with integration work in the RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements. Even before
-Java became mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided a number of product components to
-the international market of reusable components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks,
-an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance tools as well as some contributions
-to IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a
-large airline. Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is used as a development platform,
-but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP and eRCP clients and server applications. As MicroDoc is building end to
-end solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and embedded devices), the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are
-essential building blocks for harmonizing the architecture in many MicroDoc projects today. As a Managing Directory, Hans is in
-charge for the embedded Java business as well as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today.
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-
- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[CEO, Tasktop]]> </title>
-
- <image>kersten.jpg</image>
-
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Tasktop
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse has matured and cemented its role as a platform for innovation. As its Sustaining Members, we play a key role in driving the direction of Eclipse. Our
- contributions in the form of code, evangelism, as well as Eclipse-based products and services have made Eclipse the vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem that it is today.</p>
-
- <p>In joining Eclipse as one of the first non-IBM committers, I've been engaged with both the technology community and commercialization aspects of Eclipse since the
- outset in 2001. For the past two years I have been your representative on the Eclipse Board of directors, previously served as committer representative, lead the now top-level Mylyn project, and am currently serving on the Architecture and Planning Councils.</p>
-
- <p>I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting a profitable company around Eclipse has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. For the past two years I served as your representative on the Eclipse board, and for this next year I plan on continuing to apply my experience and ongoing dialog with members in order to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
- <p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As your board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.</li>
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 900 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>We made good progress on these priorities in the past two years, and I hope to continue representing you and helping you make the most out of your investment and engagement in Eclipse in 2013.</p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture Council. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik has also been recognized as one of the top ten IBM developerWorks Java technology writers of the decade. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.</p>
-<p>As a long-time Eclipse evangelist, Mik is a frequent source for media and analysts on matters related to Eclipse and developer tools. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn top-level project (since 2005)</li>
- <li>Active member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (since 2007)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Planning Council (since 2010)</li>
- <li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
- <li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
- <li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Related publications:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a></li>
- <li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
- ]]></affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-Eclipse is an evolving diverse community driven by a broadening constellation of contributors:
-large and small commercial interests, educational institutions, and our dedicated committer community, i.e., people who do day-to-day development at Eclipse like you and me.
-With increasing diversity, particularly the shift from a small number of large commercial interests to a broad spectrum of organization types and sizes,
-our influence as individuals grows, presenting interesting challenges and exciting opportunities.
-Even the types of the projects hosted at Eclipse is diversifying to include things like Orion, i.e., projects that aren't written in Java and don't use OSGi.
-To facilitate healthy, long-term growth, we need more flexible licensing and infrastructure to ensure that Eclipse is an attractive place to host a broadening range of open-source projects.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my six years of experience to promote the rights and privileges of committers and to focus on such issues.
-I will continue to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, currently living in Berlin and learning German, sensitizes to me the fact that great communities span cultural and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of newsgroups, not just those for my own projects,
-I blog to promote a sense of community,
-I fix bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features whenever possible.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-A case in point is the issue of
-<a href="http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-committer-one-vote.html">one committer one vote</a>
-which required a change to the by-laws and was <a href="http://eclipse.org/membership/vote2011/">approved
-by the membership</a> in 2011.
-Not everyone agreed this was an improvement, independent committers like me lost a degree of influence for their vote,
-but I'm quite sure the vast majority of the committers feel everyone's vote is now more fairly reflected in the elections.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving, e.g., streamlining the external contribution process via git.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, particularly rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups
-or to make first and second class citizens in our community. e.g., non-proportional committer voting.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He
- is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past six years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and learning German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans twenty-eight years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
-
- <title>CTO, AGETO</title>
-
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-
- <email>gunnar@ageto.net</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-<a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/gyrex/">Gyrex</a> Lead<br/>
-Committer on Gyrex, Orbit, RAP Incubator<br/>
-Contributor to Equinox, EclipseLink, Gemini and PDE<br/>
-Architecture Council member<br/>
-<a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2006, 2012, 2013)
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-I just love the Eclipse community!
-</p><p>
-Being part of this family for more than ten years now, I met a lot
-committers, users, contributors and adopters in person over the years.
-Serving on the board in order to help ensuring that the interests of
-committers are properly represented will be a great honor for me.
-</p><p>
-I'm a strong supporter of Eclipse's openness and diversity across the
-board. I’m pragmatic and I like it when processes are implemented as
-lean as possible. Needless to say, processes are important. The Eclipse
-Development Process is one of the many great values of Eclipse. My
-vision for serving at the Eclipse Board will follow these principles.
-I’ll actively participate in ongoing as well as initiate new
-discussions on topics which aid improving the life and work of
-committers and contributors at Eclipse.
-</p><p>
-For 2013 I’d like to focus on the following topics in particular:
-<ul>
-<li>
-Improve handling of third-party libraries at Eclipse; ensure easy
-contribution and consumption for all projects (p2 and Maven).
-</li><li>
-Begin modernizing the Eclipse infrastructure around communication.
-Today there is NNTP and forums, Stack Overflow and GitHub;
-it’s time-consuming for committers to check every possible
-channel separately.
-</li><li>
-Make it easier to consume contributions from GitHub; it must be
-possible to go from a pull-request via CQ into a repo without
-creating an extra Bugzilla.
-</li><li>
-Be attractive to new projects which may not use OSGi, maybe
-written in a language other than Java and may require additional
-licensing options too.
-</li></ul>
-</p><p>
-It will be my pleasure to represent <strong>you</strong> - the
-committers! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate
-to get in touch with me.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Gunnar has been a member of the Eclipse Community since its beginning and
-he is a prolific contributor with many years of experience on numerous
-Eclipse projects; Gunnar leads the Technology PMC and is a member of the
-Eclipse Architecture Council and the RT PMC. He is the Eclipse.org
-webmaster's best friend and worst nightmare. Apart from Eclipse he loves
-chatting about fishing, diving and his family and other things that matters
-over a good beer or a glass of dry, barrel aged red wine.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- AGETO
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
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-<boardmember id="andersen" type=" addin">
-
- <name>Max Rydahl Andersen</name>
-
- <title>Consulting Engineer at Red Hat</title>
-
- <image>andersen.jpg</image>
-
- <email>manderse@redhat.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- M2E-WTP committer, retired Dali committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse has been around for 10+ years. It gained its fame by
- providing an IDE that was not only just open source but heaps
- and bounds better than at the time competition.</p>
-
- <p>Over the years the Eclipse IDE gained massive momentum and
- from that the Eclipse Community has grown stronger and larger and
- into other areas than just the IDE.</p>
-
- <p>This Eclipse Community which goes beyond the IDE is doing very
- well and I think Eclipse is gaining a very strong presence
- and has a bright future to be a home for building open source
- ecosystems.</p>
-
- <p>But the Eclipse IDE work is stagnating.</p>
-
- <p>Today, many commercial and open source vendors base their own IDE
- on the tooling ecosystem provided by the efforts done at
- Eclipse - but they tend to more and more build on top of
- the IDE; they do not contribute directly to maintain and
- keep the Eclipse IDE competitive or even simply just
- alive. Some are not aware that they can or should contribute,
- some try but get met with a deafening silence or overwhelming
- amout of work to make their contribution happen.</p>
-
- <p>If this trend continues the Eclipse IDE will not survive.</p>
-
- <p>There are ongoing work at Eclipse to make a new IDE -
- an IDE that is built on webbased technology (the Orion
- project), but it will take years with the current speed
- before it will reach the level of maturity Eclipse had 10
- years ago.</p>
-
- <p>That said the IT industry is moving towards
- heterogeneous development environments. My belief is that both the traditional desktop based IDE and
- the upcoming web/html5/cloud based IDE's will play a part for
- many years going forward. Hopefully in a way that makes these
- play well together.</p>
-
- <p>Unfortunately getting contributions and work on these IDE's
- are a challenge.</p>
-
- <p>I believe there are many past and future contributions that
- are being held back because resources have moved away from
- Eclipse IDE projects to other projects.</p>
-
- <p>We need to bridge these gaps of resources.</p>
-
- <p>Based on those observations, my focus on the board will be
- on:</p>
-
- <p> a) working on finding a way to get the companies and individuals that
- already have invested in Eclipse IDE to understand the importance of contributing to the Eclipse
- IDE platform.</p>
- <p>b) Remove the technical and organizational barriers in
- projects that prevent contributions from making it into Eclipse.</p>
- <p>c) encourage and support projects that help build bridges between the
- Eclipse IDE, Orion and other IDE's </p>
- <p>d) work on identifying projects or pieces of projects that
- could be dropped or changed to reduce complexity and make other
- contributions possible.</p>
-
- <p>In short - keep the tooling platforms that have been built
- and will be built at Eclipse.org alive and viable for years to come.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[Max Rydahl Andersen is leading the development
- of JBoss Tools and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and have
- several years working with Eclipse from both outside and
- inside of eclipse.org. His main interests for Eclipse.org is
- to keep the Eclipse IDE a viable platform for building desktop
- based tooling while also getting involved in offering a
- complementary cloud
- and web-based tooling offering.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Red Hat
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="aniszczyk" type="committer">
-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Engineering Manager, Open Source (Twitter)</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>zx@twitter.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2013)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>The 10th year anniversary of the Eclipse Foundation has filled me with joy and reflection. I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for a good portion of that time and honored to serve the committers on the Board for many years. We truly have a unique open source community at Eclipse that is comprised of a variety of parties, from individuals to academics to companies (spanning many industries if you take a look at the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/">Eclipse Working Groups</a>). We need to keep all parties in mind, whether an individual or corporation, and make it easier for everyone to be successful at Eclipse.
- </p>
-
- <p>Since Eclipse has been around for over a decade, we have to keep moving forward to stay relevant. In the last couple years I've helped initiate our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
-
- However, there are more things we can do to move things forward. <b>My main focus will be to continue to push the social coding initiative while maintaining our reputation for a quality development process.</b> It would also make the the Eclipse Foundation
- more adaptable to infrastructure changes in the future, further hone our development process and ensure that we're ready for
- another successful decade of changing the industry. I would also like for us to <b>step back and evaluate our development process to see how we can improve it</b>, by either removing parts of the process or through automation (e.g., could a special type of git-tag initiate a release review).</p>
-
- <p>To ensure Eclipse continues to grow and thrive I will particularly focus on:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Continue to mentor and seek new projects at the Eclipse Foundation</li>
- <li>Push the foundation to invest more in <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/">Working Groups</a></li>
- <li>Encourage more projects to adopt the social coding initiative</li>
- <li>Push the Eclipse Foundation update and modernize the website</li>
- <li>Push the Eclipse Foundation to hire at least one full-time technical evangelist</li>
- <li>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. I will pay
- special attention to how we can make the Eclipse development process easier for smaller projects. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent you, the committers, for another term.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for open source and building communities. At Twitter, he's responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Twitter
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>John Arthorne</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title>
-
- <image>arthorne.jpg</image>
-
- <email>john_arthorne at ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Project PMC and Platform Core Lead; Eclipse Architecture Council;
- Committer on Platform, Equinox, e4, and Orion; EclipseCon Program Committee, 2012-2014
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-I have had the privilege of representing my fellow committers on the Eclipse Board of Directors
-for the past two years. It has been an interesting year for the board, with several intense discussions
-about the future of the Eclipse Foundation and its technologies. The original Eclipse platform continues
-to be the basis for many other projects and commercial products, but lacks sufficient levels of contribution
-to maintain its dominant position in the software tools ecosystem. The board has examined this problem
-closely and continues to work with Eclipse Foundation staff to address it. I have been an active participation
-in these discussions both in public and within the board, and I continue to work to encourage
-contribution to the Eclipse platform and to reduce real or perceived barriers to contribution in any way I can.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Meanwhile, the Eclipse Foundation continues to grow and diversify. It is clear that the Eclipse
-Foundation has moved beyond its IDE roots to become a home for a wide array of technologies across
-many domains. I am especially excited to see Eclipse growing into technologies beyond Java, and
-to move into growing domains such as Internet of Things and browser-based tools. If re-elected
-I will continue to encourage the foundation to diversify into these new domains. The core strength
-of the Eclipse Foundation is not in any single specific technology, but in its neutral governance model,
-and in its strong focus on clean intellectual property. Today most open source projects are born
-on forge sites where there is no clear governance and little or no support for IP management. Many of
-these projects will eventually mature and realize they need the services of foundations such as
-Eclipse, and we need to ensure the Eclipse Foundation is ready to take them in.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Many of the processes and services provided by the Eclipse Foundation continue to focus on
-annual releases of a Java-based IDE and related tools. While this remains an important segment
-of Eclipse projects, we need to ensure the Eclipse Foundation can provide value to projects
-written in other languages, and that have much more frequent release schedules. We need a more
-adaptable development process that can be changed to meet the needs of new projects. We need to
-provide build, test, and download infrastructure for software other than OSGi bundles. The Eclipse
-Foundation serves its existing projects very well, but needs to adapt to provide useful services
-and infrastructure for the next big technology as well. These are goals I will work towards in
-the coming year if re-elected to the Board for another term.
-</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-John has worked on the Eclipse and Equinox projects for the past decade in many different areas. He was
-the main developer on the resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure.
-In recent years he has focused on the Orion project, provisioning (p2), e4, and overall platform API quality.
-John is a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Project PMC, and is a Senior Software Developer at IBM Canada.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Christian Dupuis</name>
-
- <title>Director, R&D, Pivotal</title>
-
- <image>dupuis.jpg</image>
-
- <email>cdupuis@gopivotal.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Over the past several years I've been an active user of Eclipse technologies and
- used the Eclipse platform to build open source and commercial solutions like Spring IDE or the Spring
- Tool Suite. During my work on open source technologies, I have come to recognize the unique
- value that the Eclipse Foundation brings to the intersection of open source and corporate software development.
- In conjunction with a large, active and vocal community, the Eclipse Foundation had helped to define the primacy
- of the developer as an agent of change in the world of enterprise software.
- </p>
- <p>As a developer I've grown to enjoy the benefits of social coding and the interaction with the ever growing
- community on my work on Spring projects. Social coding is huge for today's developer community. We see it every day.
- </p>
- <p>Within recent times we've seen the rise of the Cloud, an ever increasing number of mobile devices accessing
- the internet and an insane amount of data being captured each day. Without question these developments affect
- the ways developers are building the next generation of applications; a completely new set of application
- styles, frameworks and tools is emerging to support these new demands.
- </p>
- <p>All of the above poses a challenge for Eclipse and its ecosystem; there are certain areas in which the Eclipse
- ecosystem could put additional focus to maintain its momentum and market leading position. In case
- the Eclipse community elects me to the Board of Directors, I would like to help making this a reality.
- </p>
- <p>My vision for Eclipse in 2014:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Social Coding: I strongly believe it is important for the Eclipse Foundation to move forward with adopting social
- coding standards and open itself up for tighter integration with sites like GitHub etc. This move is essential to ensure
- that the Eclipse Foundation stays in sight of developers. Especially if the Foundation wants to attract more projects outside
- of the traditional IDE space.
- </li>
- <li>Web + Mobile: we are seeing the growing importance of HTML5 and JavaScript
- in modern web and mobile application development. There is a tremendous opportunity
- in this space with a wide and growing addressable market, both in terms of developers
- and commercial vendors that will potentially build on top of Eclipse technologies. Vert.x
- and its potential move to the Eclipse Foundation is a good example of what role the Eclipse
- Foundation could play in this space; even beyond the traditional tooling. As a board member,
- I will help ensure that Eclipse gets the necessary resources to extend the Eclipse stack
- and become a viable option for web and mobile application development.
- </li>
- <li>Cloud: many people may see Cloud as a buzzword. But while working at Pivotal I have
- come to see that the Cloud is a reality through the community interest in the open source
- Cloud Foundry platform. While I was working on the Eclipse integration for Cloud Foundry it
- became clear that there is a lot that Eclipse could offer as part of the platform to support
- Cloud platforms and vendors.
- <ul>
- <li>Eclipse, through the WTP project, managed to build a platform for traditional
- application server vendors to extend for their server runtimes. This has led to a
- flourishing ecosystem of providers for nearly every application server in the market.
- I think a similar effort is required to provide extension mechanisms for cloud providers
- to plug in their PaaS and IaaS offerings. This goes beyond simple deploy-start-stop scenarios
- and will include, for example, provisioning and configuring platform services in a Cloud environment.
- </li>
- <li>More and more components of the development lifecycle are moving into the Cloud. I think
- it is only natural for cloud providers to host editing or IDE solutions in close proximity
- to the application code. There is a unique opportunity to work with the various cloud providers to
- position Orion as the editing solution of choice in those environments. Also there are various portions of the
- Eclipse platform that could be broken out into cloud services and therefore being used in new and exciting ways.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Christian Dupuis is Director, R&D at Pivotal with responsibilities for the Spring project offerings,
- including the Spring Framework. From the very early days of Spring, Christian worked with the Spring team
- around Rod Johnson and others in the open source space. In 2004 Christian co-founded the well known Spring IDE
- open source project that brings development tools for the Spring projects to the Eclipse platform. Christian
- joined Interface21 in late 2007 and stayed through the journey from Interface21 to SpringSource, to VMware and
- finally to Pivotal.
- </p>
- <p>More recently Christian was responsible for the implementation of the Cloud Foundry Integration for
- Eclipse which gives developers easy access to VMware's multi-language, multi-framework PaaS. He is
- also actively involved in moving the SpringSource dm Server Tools into Eclipse Virgo project.
- </p>
- <p>Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian
- designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server
- applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource,
- Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting
- firms in the financial sector in central Europe.
- </p>
- <p>Christian served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors starting February 2013.
- </p>]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- GoPivotal, Inc.
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Werner Keil</name>
-
- <title> </title>
-
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-
- <email>werner@catmedia.us</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Individual Committer, UOMo Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- I use Java ever since Version 1 for over 17 years, out of my 25 years total in IT and the Software industry. I am proud of having provided input to earlier versions of Java, e.g. i18n of Swing. An approach I promoted on NetObjecDays 2000 in Erfurt, Germany where Erich Gamma did the same with SWT. Providing a first hand experience of what would soon after become a key part of Eclipse. I was an early adopter of Eclipse and even helped more conservative businesses like Banking and Finance use it in a project where the most common commercial alternative at the time had failed to meet their goal. I provided input from project work to improve WTP on its way to graduate from Incubation.
- Based on i18n experience with the Java Platform I became one of the founding members of the Eclipse Babel Project. And German Language Champion.
-
- Via Co Spec Lead role of JSR-275, Units specification for Java which despite stopped by the JCP at the time became foundation of GeoAPI, used e.g. by LocationTech projects, I co-created the Units of Measurement API and lead Eclipse UOMo, the prime Open Source implementation of Unit-API.
- I am all but new to the Internet of Things, M2M, Sensors and Devices, as the first SmartHome and Greenhouse Automation project I did in a Distributed Sensor Web backed by JavaEE for multiple mobile devices and smartphones of their time (Nokia/Symbian, PalmOS and Windows CE all supported) went into production 12 years ago.
-
- Aside from Eclipse I am Committer at Apache Foundation and the only Individual Member of the JCP Executive Committee.
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Werner Keil is Agile Coach, Eclipse Consultant and Distinct Architect for Thales, a founding PolarSys member, after working as Build Manager at Maersk and as Agile Coach, Principal Consultant and Distinct Architect for a Financial Services company. Helping Global 500 Enterprises across industries like Mobile/Telco, Web 2.0, Finance, Travel/Logistics, Automotive, Healthcare, Environment & Public Services, as well as IT vendors like Oracle or IBM. Among earlier clients was Sony where he designed and implemented micro-format based tags its online music portals.
-
-He has worked for more than 25 years as a project manager, software architect, analyst and consultant on leading-edge technologies for Banking, Insurance, Telco/Mobile, Media and Public sector. Werner develops enterprise systems using Java, JEE, Oracle, IBM or Microsoft, does Web design and development using Adobe, Ajax/JavaScript, dynamic or functional languages.
-
-Besides working for major companies, he runs his own creative and talent agency Creative Arts & Technologies and in his spare time, runs and supports open-source projects, writes song lyrics, novels, screenplays, technical books and articles.
-
-Werner is Committer at Eclipse Foundation, Babel Language Champion, UOMo Project Lead and active member of the Java Community Process, in JSRs like 321 (Trusted Java), 331 (CP), 333 (JCR), 342 (Java EE 7), 344 (JSF 2.2), 346 (CDI 1.1), 348/355/358 (JCP.next), 350 (Java State), 351 (Java Identity) or 354 (Money), 360/361 (ME Embedded), 362 (Portlet 3.0) and the Executive Committee.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
-
- Creative Arts & Technologies (Owner/Founder)
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[CEO, Tasktop]]> </title>
-
- <image>kersten.jpg</image>
-
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Tasktop
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse has matured and cemented its role as a robust and stable platform for innovation. As its Sustaining Members, we play a key role in driving the direction of Eclipse. Our
- contributions in the form of code, evangelism, as well as Eclipse-based products and services have made Eclipse the vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem that it is today.</p>
-
- <p>In joining Eclipse as one of the first non-IBM committers, I've been engaged with both the technology community and the commercialization aspects of Eclipse since the
- outset in 2001. For the past three years I have been your representative on the Eclipse Board of directors, previously served as committer representative, lead the top-level Mylyn project, and servie on the and Planning Councils.</p>
-
- <p>I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting a profitable company around Eclipse has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. For the past two years I served as your representative on the Eclipse board, and for this next year I plan on continuing to apply my experience and ongoing dialog with members in order to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful. Should I be elected, please do not hesitate to reach out to me as many others have done over the years, as it is my goal to assist you in making your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
- <p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As your board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.</li>
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 900 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>We made good progress on these priorities in the past thre years, and I hope to continue representing you and helping you make the most out of your investment and engagement in Eclipse in 2013.</p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>Dr. Mik Kersten is the Co-founder and CEO of Tasktop , creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Planning Council. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.</p>
-<p>As a long-time Eclipse evangelist, Mik is a frequent source for media and analysts on matters related to Eclipse and developer tools. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn top-level project (since 2005)</li>
- <li>Active member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (since 2007)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Planning Council (since 2010)</li>
- <li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
- <li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
- <li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Related publications:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a></li>
- <li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
- ]]></affiliation>
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-
- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-Eclipse is an evolving diverse community driven by a broadening constellation of contributors:
-large and small commercial interests, educational institutions, and our dedicated committer community, i.e., people who do day-to-day development at Eclipse like you and me.
-With increasing diversity, particularly the shift from a small number of large commercial interests to a broad spectrum of organization types and sizes,
-our influence as individuals grows, presenting interesting challenges and exciting opportunities.
-Even the types of the projects hosted at Eclipse is diversifying to include things like Orion, i.e., projects that aren't written in Java and don't use OSGi.
-To facilitate healthy, long-term growth, we need more flexible licensing and infrastructure to ensure that Eclipse is an attractive place to host a broadening range of open-source projects.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my seven years of experience to promote the rights and privileges of committers and to focus on such issues.
-I will continue to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, currently living in Berlin and learning Deutsch, sensitizes to me the fact that great communities span cultural and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of newsgroups, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features whenever possible, even outside of my own projects.
-A recent example is the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Setup-Eclipse" target="blank">tool</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the installation and configuration of development IDEs,
-as well as support for rule-driven <a href="http://www.bsiag.com/scout/dynamic-working-sets/" target="blank">dynamic working sets</a>.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php" target="blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving, e.g., streamlining the external contribution process via git.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, particularly rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups
-or to make first and second class citizens in our community, e.g., non-proportional committer voting.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He
- is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past six years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and learning German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans twenty-eight years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Max Rydahl Andersen</name>
-
- <title>Consulting Engineer at Red Hat</title>
-
- <image>andersen.jpg</image>
-
- <email>manderse@redhat.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- M2E-WTP committer, retired Dali committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
- <p>Eclipse has been around for 10+ years. It gained its fame by
- providing an IDE that was not only just open source but heaps
- and bounds better than at the time competition.</p>
-
- <p>Over the years the Eclipse IDE gained massive momentum and
- from that the Eclipse Community has grown stronger and larger and
- into other areas than just the IDE.</p>
-
- <p>This Eclipse Community which goes beyond the IDE is doing very
- well and I think Eclipse is gaining a very strong presence
- and has a bright future to be a home for building open source
- ecosystems.</p>
-
- <p>But the Eclipse IDE work is stagnating.</p>
-
- <p>Today, many commercial and open source vendors base their own IDE
- on the tooling ecosystem provided by the efforts done at
- Eclipse - but they tend to more and more build on top of
- the IDE; they do not contribute directly to maintain and
- keep the Eclipse IDE competitive or even simply just
- alive. Some are not aware that they can or should contribute,
- some try but get met with a deafening silence or overwhelming
- amout of work to make their contribution happen.</p>
-
- <p>If this trend continues the Eclipse IDE will not survive.</p>
-
- <p>There are new and ongoing work at Eclipse to make a new IDE -
- an IDE that is built on webbased technology (Eclipse Cloud
- Development project), but it will take years with the current speed
- before it will reach the level of maturity Eclipse had 10
- years ago.</p>
-
- <p>That said the IT industry is moving towards heterogeneous
- development environments. My belief is that both the
- traditional desktop based IDE and the upcoming
- web/html5/cloud based IDE's will play a part for many years
- going forward. Hopefully in a way that makes these play well
- together.</p>
-
- <p>Unfortunately getting contributions and work on these IDE's
- are a challenge.</p>
-
- <p>I believe there are many past and future contributions that
- are being held back because resources have moved away from
- Eclipse IDE projects to other projects.</p>
-
- <p>We need to bridge these gaps of resources.</p>
-
- <p>Based on those observations, my focus on the board will
- continue to be:</p>
-
- <p> a) working on finding a way to get the companies and individuals that
- already have invested in Eclipse IDE to understand the importance of contributing to the Eclipse
- IDE platform.</p>
- <p>b) Remove the technical and organizational barriers in
- projects that prevent contributions from making it into Eclipse.</p>
- <p>c) encourage and support projects that help build bridges between the
- Eclipse IDE, Orion, Che and other IDE's </p>
- <p>d) work on identifying projects or pieces of projects that
- could be dropped or changed to reduce complexity and make other
- contributions possible.</p>
-
- <p>In short - continue to keep the tooling platforms that have been built
- and will be built at Eclipse.org alive and viable for years
- to come.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[Max Rydahl Andersen is leading the development
- of JBoss Tools and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and have
- several years working with Eclipse from both outside and
- inside of eclipse.org. His main interests for Eclipse.org is
- to keep the Eclipse IDE a viable platform for building desktop
- based tooling while also getting involved in offering a
- complementary cloud
- and web-based tooling offering.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Red Hat
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Head of Open Source (Twitter)</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>zx@twitter.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2013)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for about a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for several years in the past. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiate our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>If I'm elected, I want to focus on five concrete tasks to make the lives of committers easier:</p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to create a new individual membership class</b></p>
-
- <p>To help further raise money for the Foundation, I will push to create a new individual membership class.
- I was involved in creating the "Friends of Eclipse" program many year ago and we have seen success in people
- wanting to help through donations. I think we can do better than this and give individuals who donate a certain amount
- a level of membership that will have board representation so they can support more and influence the direction of the foundation. </p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to hire developers on staff</b></p>
-
- <p>Traditionally, the Eclipse Foundation has shied away from hiring developers on staff. I think we're at a point where
- we need to address tragedy of the commons issues and also open up ourselves to allow companies to fund committers on staff.
- If we do this, Eclipse will be able to fix some of our broken windows and move faster.</p>
-
- <p><b>Create a code of conduct for the Eclipse community</b></p>
-
- <p>We are a large open source community and it's time we create a code of conduct to embodies our values and is welcoming to new contributors and committers.</p>
-
- <p><b>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</b></p>
-
- <p>We have done a lot of work to make Eclipse processes lighter than they have been before, but I believe we can do better. There
- are opportunities for more automation and making it easier to do release reviews. We need to keep the quality bar high (including IP cleanliness),
- but we need to do our best to not get in the way of projects shipping.</p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for open source and building communities. At Twitter, he's responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Twitter
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>John Arthorne</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title>
-
- <image>arthorne.jpg</image>
-
- <email>john_arthorne at ca.ibm.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Project and Cloud Development Project PMC; Orion Project co-lead;
- Eclipse Architecture Council; Committer on Platform, Equinox, e4, Orion, and Flux;
- EclipseCon Program Committee, 2012-2014
-
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>
-It is a time of exciting changes for the Eclipse Foundation. The foundation started out over ten years ago
-as a venue for software tool vendors to collaborate. It turns out this "place" that was created for a very specific
-collaboration - its policies, governance, development practices, staff and community - translates very well to many
-different domains. Today there are whole industry sectors, from automotive, to geomatics, aerospace, and large scale
-science labs, that have discovered the value of the Eclipse community as the ideal place to collaborate on software projects.
-Thanks to this new breadth, the foundation is at an all-time high in both membership and active projects. If I am
-re-elected to represent committers on the board, I will work on reducing barriers for these new projects and contributors
-coming on board. I will push on further simplifying and automating development processes to allow committers to focus
-more of their time on coding.
-</p>
-<p>
-At the same time, the wider software development community continues to equate the Eclipse Foundation with the
-original development tool platform and its widely known IDEs for Java, C, and other languages. The platform has
-suffered from dwindling investment and support over the years, and has suffered in quality, performance, and
-ease of use. The success and reputation of the Eclipse Foundation remains linked to the success of the Eclipse
-Platform, and I believe the Foundation needs to renew its focus on helping the Eclipse Platform improve. If re-elected,
-I will work on the board to help make this happen. This will include continuing to encourage more companies to actively
-contribute to the Platform, and for the Foundation staff to take a more active role in its development.
-</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-John has worked on <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse" target="_blank">Eclipse</a> open source projects for the past 14 years in many different areas. He was the main developer
-on the Eclipse Platform resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure. In past years
-he has also worked on on provisioning <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/P2" target="_blank">(p2)</a>, <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/E4" target="_blank">e4</a>, and overall platform <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/API_Central" target="_blank">API quality</a>. His current focus is on building cloud-based
-development tools, as co-lead on both the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion" target="_blank">Orion</a> and <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Flux" target="_blank">Flux</a> projects, as well as co-lead of the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECD" target="_blank">Eclipse Cloud Development</a> PMC. John is a
-member of the Eclipse <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council" target="_blank">Architecture Council</a>, <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC" target="_blank">Eclipse Project PMC</a>, and the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors</a>. He has also
-served past terms on the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Planning_Council" target="_blank">Planning Council</a>, and as Chair and member of the EclipseCon Program Committee. John is a Senior Development
-Manager at IBM, based in Ottawa, Canada.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada
-
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
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-
-
- <name> Jay Jay Billings </name>
-
- <title> Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory </title>
-
- <image>billings.jpg</image>
-
- <email>jayjaybillings@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Science Working Group Steering Committee Member
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>I think that the most amazing thing about Eclipse is the way that it has grown beyond an IDE and now even beyond the RCP.
-While the establishment of the Working Groups has broadened Eclipse’s reach into new areas such as automotives, science and
-location technologies to name a few, new projects that make the developer experience even better continue to expand the platform
-as a whole at an amazing rate. The way I see it, this growth is being driven by one thing: Eclipse’s amazing community.</p>
-
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will strive to serve and help this great community by improving the experience and
-meeting the needs of all committers, whether they be committers from large projects with big backers or individual committers
-who are just starting out. For established projects, I will identify the areas where your committers are having the most trouble
-and help to fix or improve their experience. For committers in new projects, I will help you navigate the sea of processes
-surrounding contributions, releases, third party content and, perhaps most importantly, get you the help you need as fast
-as possible when I can not provide it. I will also work with the rest of the board to reach out to the community and clarify
-many rules and policies that I, as a new committer, and others find to be confusing or limiting. Finally, for everyone, I will
-tackle the issue of using LGPL licensed software in Eclipse projects, which is the single greatest complaint that I hear
-from old and new committers, since the restriction of such software slows down progress in established projects and severely
-dampens growth in the working groups.</p>
-
-
-<p>I believe that community service is important and that it is the only thing that leads to healthy communities. It is
-clearly the reason why Eclipse has thrived. So, while I am a relatively new committer and project lead - arguably still
-having a lot to learn about the community myself - I am ready to serve you and I believe that I can help make Eclipse even
-better as your committer representative.</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>I am a member of the research staff in the Computer Science Research Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
-Oak Ridge, TN. I have the privilege of leading the ten person Integrated Computational Environments Team, which
-focuses on the development of large-scale, next-generation modeling and simulation technologies for the U.S. Department of Energy and
-other sponsors. I am a founding member of the Eclipse Science Working group as well as Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
-representative on its steering committee. I hold the M.S. in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Tennessee and
-I am currently an Energy Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the University’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary
-Research and Graduate Education. I stopped counting the number of scientific publications I have a few years ago when I
-realized that I was writing way more code than papers!</p>
-<p>In my few hours of spare time each week, I enjoy spending time with my wife, family and friends.</p>
-
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-
- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[CEO, Tasktop]]> </title>
-
- <image>kersten.jpg</image>
-
- <email>mik.kersten@tasktop.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Tasktop
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse has matured and cemented its role as a robust and stable platform for innovation. As its Sustaining Members, we play a key role in driving the direction of Eclipse. Our
- contributions in the form of code, evangelism, as well as Eclipse-based products and services have made Eclipse the vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem that it is today.</p>
-
- <p>In joining Eclipse as one of the first non-IBM committers, I've been engaged with both the technology community and the commercialization aspects of Eclipse since the
- outset in 2001. For the past four years I have been your representative on the Eclipse Board of directors, previously served as committer representative, lead the top-level Mylyn project, and servie on the and Planning Councils.</p>
-
- <p>I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting Tasktop within the Eclipse ecosystem has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. For the past three years I served as your representative on the Eclipse board, and for this next year I plan on continuing to apply my experience and ongoing dialog with members in order to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful. Should I be elected, please do not hesitate to reach out to me as many others have done over the years, as it is my goal to assist you in making your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
- <p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As your board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.</li>
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 900 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>We made good progress on these priorities in the past thre years, and I hope to continue representing you and helping you make the most out of your investment and engagement in Eclipse in 2015.</p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>Dr. Mik Kersten is the Co-founder and CEO of Tasktop , creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Planning Council. Mik's thought leadership on Software Lifecycle Integration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.</p>
-<p>As a long-time Eclipse evangelist, Mik is a frequent source for media and analysts on matters related to Eclipse and developer tools. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn top-level project (since 2005)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Planning Council (since 2010)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (2007-2014)</li>
- <li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
- <li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
- <li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Related publications:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a></li>
- <li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
- ]]></affiliation>
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-
- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
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- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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-
-<p>
-Eclipse is an evolving diverse community driven by a broadening constellation of contributors:
-large and small commercial interests, educational institutions, and our dedicated committer community, i.e., people who do day-to-day development at Eclipse like you and me.
-With increasing diversity, particularly the shift from a small number of large commercial interests to a broad spectrum of organization types and sizes,
-our influence as individuals grows, presenting interesting challenges and exciting opportunities.
-Even the types of the projects hosted at Eclipse are diversifying to include things like Orion, i.e., projects that aren't written in Java and don't use OSGi.
-To facilitate healthy, long-term growth, we need more flexible licensing and infrastructure to ensure that Eclipse is an attractive place to host a broadening range of open-source projects.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my eight years of experience to promote the rights and privileges of committers and to focus on such issues.
-I will continue to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, currently living in Berlin and learning Deutsch, sensitizes to me the fact that great communities span cultural and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of newsgroups, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features whenever possible.
-A recent example is the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the installation and configuration of development IDEs.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php" target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving,
-e.g., streamlining the IP process with improvements such as <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-committers/msg00973.html" target="_blank">raising the contribution limit</a>.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-I oppose restrictions that seek to coerce compliance to arbitrary questionable rules, particularly rules that are primarily designed to exclude certain groups
-or to make first and second class citizens in our community, e.g., non-proportional committer voting.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He
- is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past eight years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and learning German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans twenty-nine years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
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- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
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- <name>Kyle Roche</name>
- <title>Founder and CEO, 2lemetry</title>
- <image>roche.jpg</image>
-
- <email>kyle@2lemetry.com</email>
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
2lemetry, Inc.
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
- <vision> <![CDATA[
<p>As a member these past few years, we've experienced some of the challenges ahead first hand.
As a board representative, I would focus on improving the community experience and ease of participation.
Project discovery via the Eclipse website <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/" target="_blank">(https://projects.eclipse.org/)</a>
could expose information to users
in a much more accessible fashion. We still use forums and mailing lists for discussing topics. There are
newer mediums of community collaboration that could be leveraged to accelerate participation.</p>
<p>Code submission seems overwhelmingly difficult. It seems a more social and widely used source code repository (like Github)
could facilitate more common updates and interaction from the community.
</p>
<p>One of the main improvements I'd like to see is an easier way to review and collaborate on drafts. If you even have access to drafts,
they are often distributed as Word documents. Adding social components or web based discussions at an early stage will facilitate more
collaboration and feedback when it's most important. A lot of our process is still hidden behind emails. Referencing some of the more
heated <a href="http://vasters.com/clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+Perspective.aspx" target="_blank">discussions</a> last year it's clear
that we could improve upon communication and solicit feedback, even constructive criticism, more easily.
</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Kyle is the co-founder and CEO of 2lemetry, Inc., an Internet of Things platform and technology company based in Denver, CO. 2lemetry’s main focus is bridging legacy machine protocols to MQTT. 2lemetry, a Salesforce Ventures portfolio company, has raised over $10M in investments over the past three years.</p>
-
-<p>Kyle was the co-founder of Isidorey prior to 2lemetry along with Arlen Nipper, one of the original authors of the MQTT specification. Prior to that he led R&D and Sales Engineering at Appirio where he led cloud application migrations for many Fortune 100 companies.</p>
-
-<p>2lemetry maintains the Objective-C and Swift SDKs for MQTT. 2lemetry is also contributing implementations in Rust and working on an Akka Streams implementation for MQTT. They run ThingFabric and MQTT.io.</p>
-
-<p>Kyle is currently writing <i>Mastering the Internet of Things</i>, to be published by Apress.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Publications:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430239123/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1430239123&linkCode=as2&tag=2lemetry-20&linkId=TBBDVOS6OFKC3RH5">Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=2lemetry-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1430239123" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
-</li>
- <li>Java for Google App Engine</li>
-<li>Pro Android Augmented Reality</li>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="aniszczyk" type="committer">
-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Indepedent</title>
-
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-
- <email>caniszczyk@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2016)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for several years in the past. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiative a <a href=“http://aniszczyk.org/2015/06/26/eclipse-code-of-conduct/â€>code of conduct</a>, update our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>If I'm elected, I want to focus on few concrete tasks to make the lives of committers easier:</p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to create a new individual membership class</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to hire more developers on staff (they recently started to do this)</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</b></p>
-
- <p>We have done a lot of work to make Eclipse processes lighter than they have been before, but I believe we can do better. There
- are opportunities for more automation and making it easier to do release reviews. We need to keep the quality bar high (including IP cleanliness),
- but we need to do our best to not get in the way of projects shipping.</p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for open source and building communities. At Twitter, he was responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
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- Independent
- ]]>
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-
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-
-
- <name> Jay Jay Billings </name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory]]> </title>
-
- <image>billings.jpg</image>
-
- <email>jayjaybillings at gmail.com</email>
-
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- Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Science Working Group Steering Committee Chair
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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-
-<p>I think that the most amazing thing about Eclipse is the way that it has grown beyond an IDE and now even beyond the RCP.
-While the establishment of the Working Groups has broadened Eclipse’s reach into new areas such as automotives, science and
-location technologies to name a few, new projects that make the developer experience even better continue to expand the platform
-as a whole at an amazing rate. The way I see it, this growth is being driven by one thing: Eclipse’s amazing community.</p>
-
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will strive to serve and help this great community by improving the experience and
-meeting the needs of all committers, whether they be committers from large projects with big backers or individual committers
-who are just starting out. I will...
-
-<ul>
-<li><b>For established projects</b>, identify the areas where your committers are having the most trouble
-and help to fix or improve their experience.</li>
-<li><b>For committers in new projects</b>, I will help you navigate the sea of processes
-surrounding contributions, releases, third party content and, perhaps most importantly, get you the help you need as fast
-as possible when I can not provide it.</li>
-<li><b>Work with the rest of the board</b> to reach out to the community and clarify
-many rules and policies that are commonly found to be confusing or limiting.</li>
-<li><b>Work with the rest of the board and the community</b> to continue to identify ways that streamline the development
-on Eclipse projects. Recent examples include allowing GitHub issues for projects and not requiring CQs from committers on
-other projects, which are two great examples of what I believe to be a much larger set of ways we can help <b>YOU</b> work on Eclipse!</li>
-<li><b>For everyone</b>, I will
-tackle the issue of using LGPL licensed software in Eclipse projects, which is the single greatest complaint that I hear
-from old and new committers, since the restriction of such software slows down progress in established projects and severely
-dampens growth in the working groups. I will work with the Foundation to find a way to discuss this openly at an upcoming EclipseCon.</li>
-</ul>
-
-</p>
-
-
-<p>I believe that community service is important and that it is the only thing that leads to healthy communities. It is
-clearly the reason why Eclipse has thrived. So, while I am a relatively new committer and project lead - arguably still
-having a lot to learn about the community myself - I am ready to serve you and I believe that I can help make Eclipse even
-better as your committer representative.</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>I am a member of the research staff in the Computer Science Research Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
-Oak Ridge, TN. I have the privilege of leading the ten person Integrated Computational Environments Team, which
-focuses on the development of large-scale, next-generation modeling and simulation technologies for the U.S. Department of Energy and
-other sponsors. I am a founding member of the Eclipse Science Working group as well as Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
-representative on its steering committee. I hold the M.S. in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Tennessee and
-I am currently an Energy Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the University’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary
-Research and Graduate Education. I stopped counting the number of scientific publications I have a few years ago when I
-realized that I was writing way more code than papers!</p>
-<p>In my few hours of spare time each week, I enjoy spending time with my wife, family and friends; singing and hacking just about anything I can find..</p>
-
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-
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- <name> Marco Carrer </name>
-
- <title> CTO, Eurotech </title>
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-
- <email> marco.carrer at eurotech.com </email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Kura, Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Paho, Contributor<br>
- EclipseCon 2014 Program Committee
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>The Eclipse Foundation is way beyond the Eclipse IDE. It is a vibrant community of small and large software vendors, who understand the pivotal importance of open source in modern software projects. Over the course the years, the Eclipse Foundation has become the precious guardian for high quality and IP-clean open source software, which provides a decisive acceleration factor for companies going to market with new products or solutions.</p>
-
-<p>The Eclipse Solutions Member membership has been essential to the Eclipse’s success so far as it is the first type of membership that organizations will normally subscribe with Eclipse. Solutions Member organizations are interested in starting new projects in Eclipse and/or leveraging existing Eclipse projects to develop new commercial products or services.</p>
-
-<p>If elected, I will focus on fostering the adoption of Eclipse projects by existing and prospective Solutions Members through the following activities.</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li>
-<b>Advocate more Challenges around Eclipse Projects</b> <br>
-Promote the organization of community Challenges aimed at highlighting applications and solutions based on one or more Eclipse projects.
-<br>
-Eclipse’s role in the Challenge is to recruit sponsors for the final prizes, give visibility to the challenge in the social media channels, and select the winners. As subject matter experts, Eclipse’s project leaders will be highly involved in the definition of the Challenge and the selection of the winners.
-<br>
-The requirements for the community to participate include: use of one or more Eclipse projects; make the resulting code available under EPL; detail documentation of the solution; feedback on the project(s) used – e.g. what worked, what can be improved.
-<br>
-Recently, Eclipse organized a Challenge around the IoT theme and it was a huge success. There were more than 50 submissions and 10 exciting finalists. As project leader for Eclipse Kura, I was impressed by the creativity of the solutions proposed, and the quality of the documentation of some submissions. What I found particularly interesting were the comments on the technology; they provided precious feedback on how to improve our project going forward.
-<br>
-I believe this is the kind of activity and material that can instill confidence in other organizations to adopt Eclipse’s code in their projects.
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<b>Further promote existing Eclipse Projects</b><br>
-Eclipse is now the repository of a very large number of projects. At first glance, the Eclipse project list can be overwhelming and wrongly perceived as a fragmented collection of independent projects. Such perception may be detrimental to the adoption of Eclipse technologies by prospective Solutions Members.
-<br>
-Similarly to the Apple App Store, it would be helpful for Eclipse to provide “curatorial†comments and further categorization of its projects to facilitate prospective organizations in finding the right match for their needs. For example, the Modeling category, one of the richest groups, has more than 60 projects spanning from low-level modeling frameworks to high-level visualization tools. It is hard for prospective users to identify where to start from.
-<br>
-The Eclipse IoT Working Group has tried to address this issue by creating a landing page for all Eclipse projects related to IoT. The page is useful to get the big picture and it guides the visitor in the exploration of each project.
-<br>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<b>Foster more project collaboration among Eclipse Projects</b><br>
-Finally, I believe it is extremely valuable to foster and encourage the integration of multiple Eclipse projects into added value solutions. Integrated solutions remove the burden of assembling “certified†software stacks from the prospective adopter, which is often one of the biggest barriers.
-<br>
-Fostering a successful collaboration among the projects can be achieved though
-<ul>
-<li>Clear documentation and visibility of the API docs</li>
-<li>Release alignments</li>
-<li>Documentation of dependencies and software stack requirements</li>
-<li>Actively seek collaboration across different Eclipse projects</li>
-<li>Loosely coupled software engineering principle</li>
-</ul>
-<br>
-Working on finding a way to foster these principles across the Eclipse projects and their leaders would greatly benefit the existing Eclipse community and prospective Solutions Members.
- ]]> </vision>
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-<p>Marco Carrer is CTO of EUROTECH where he is leading the company towards the enablement of Internet of Things solutions and applications. Before, Marco had a successful 15-year career in the software industry. He started as an engineer at Sony where he contributed to a pioneering video streaming solution. Later, he joined Oracle in the Server Technologies group where, over the span of 13-year career, he became Senior Director and was directly responsible for the design and development of several innovative Oracle products in the areas of Web Services, Enterprise Collaboration, and CRM Service. Throughout his career, Marco loved collaborating on open source projects and he is currently project lead for  Eclipse Kura, a Java framework for IoT gateways. Marco Carrer holds a Laurea in Electronic Engineering from University of Padova and a Master in Computer Science from Cornell University, New York. He is also a certified SCRUM Master and has been awarded ten US patents.</p>
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- <name> Chris Holmes </name>
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-
- <email> cholmes at planet.com </email>
-
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- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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-<p>More than any other open source foundation, Eclipse has secured its reputation as the best place for companies to collaborate. This started with the IDE, and has flourished with the rich ecosystem of tools built upon the Eclipse Platform. As a former Java developer I was excited to come back into the Eclipse universe through my involvement in LocationTech. And I have been inspired by seeing that core company collaboration model expand out even more, to location, science, Internet of Things, embedded systems and automotive domains.
-</p>
-
-<p>When I was elected to the board last year my first priority was to represent LocationTech, but I’ve been excited by how much potential there is in the broader Eclipse world. My vision for Eclipse is to be the preeminent foundation for companies to collaborate together on software. In the short term this means strengthening the existing Eclipse Working Groups, and making clear to the world that Eclipse is more than a Java IDE. This does not mean we should decrease investment in the core Eclipse Platform, as it is critical that it remains our foremost example of successful collaboration. But it does mean making our messaging clearer about what Eclipse is and promoting all our projects.</p>
-
-<p>My background is all open source software - first coding and building a community around an Java-based online mapping server, then figuring out a consultancy business model to sustain core developers. We then successfully transitioned it to a product company, selling enterprise packages of our fully open source stack. Having seen so many different phases of the company lifecycle I believe I can represent the sustaining members well, and I’ve served in similar board roles in geospatial foundations, including the Open Geospatial Consortium and Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. But I believe the background that can best serve Eclipse is my background in product management, strategy and open source business.
-</p>
-
-<p>If re-elected as a sustaining member representative my priorities will be:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Understand and represent the needs of Sustaining Member companies at the board level. Though the companies with the largest budgets can easily
-contribute monetarily, I believe the intangible contributions of time, ideas and code are even more vital to the continued success of the community.
-Sustaining member companies are the lifeblood of Eclipse, and I hope to represent any concerns of the group as my own and represent at the board level. Of
-particular interest to me is the Working Groups, as I believe they have great potential.
-</li>
-<li>Help the Eclipse Management Organization explore alternate business models that can fund core improvements that are desired by
-users but less well addressed by the community. The Friends of Eclipse has been a great start in that direction, but I believe we can go much
-further. A key is making it so it’s easier for a traditional procurement process to ‘buy’ the improvements desired by large companies.
-I believe my experiences can be helpful in the Eclipse ecosystem.
-</li>
-<li>Focus on core improvements to the Java IDE - further improving usability, integrations (like improving the Git experience), performance,
-and general utility to a mainstream user. The thing everyone still thinks of as ‘Eclipse’ needs to be strong, and work well for the mainstream user.
-</li>
-<li>Support LocationTech to become the premier collaboration place for geospatial software. I will do this by helping push and celebrate
-graduation from incubation for projects and leveraging contacts to contribute their best projects and become members. My priorities for LocationTech
-are to bring in an evangelist, grow the tour and conferences, and help cross fertilization of ideas and technologies between LocationTech, other
-Eclipse Foundation working groups, and the broader community.
-</li>
-<li>Work to make the Eclipse Foundation more welcoming to new projects. There are two main parts to this. First is clarity of branding and
-messaging for the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse Java IDE and Working Group projects in a way that promotes all. The second is improving the onboarding
-process for projects not built on the Eclipse Platform. The incubation and IP review process can be onerous, and the time commitment for project
-developers is unclear. Higher level projects built on the vast array of great open source code created outside the foundation can be
-hindered by months of delay. We need to balance the huge value of IP review with the reality of how modern companies use and adopt
-open source, so the benefits to developers of their great project joining Eclipse outweigh the burdens.</li>
-</ul>
-
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-<p>Chris Holmes started his career as lead developer of <a target="_blank" href="http://geoserver.org/">GeoServer</a> and then founded OpenGeo (operating now as <a target="_blank" href="http://boundlessgeo.com/">Boundless</a>), providing commercial support for a suite of open source geospatial software projects. He currently works at <a target="_blank" href="http://planet.com/">Planet Labs</a>, a startup that builds and operates the largest constellation of earth imaging satellites, with over 100 successfully launched to date. At Planet Labs Chris serves as the Product Architect, where he sits at the nexus of technology and business, leading product management and strategy. He also sits on the boards of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/">Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/">Brave New Software</a>, and serves as an advisor to <a target="_blank" href="https://cartodb.com/">CartoDB</a>. Chris previously was a Fulbright Scholar in Zambia, served on the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association and was a founding board member of the Open Source Geospatial Consortium
-</p>
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- <name>Kai Hudalla</name>
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- <email>kai.hudalla@bosch-si.com</email>
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- leshan committer
- Hono project lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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- My personal involvement in open source software development has really lifted off
- just one and a half years ago when I was part of a small team of people at
- Bosch Software Innovations who realized that the Internet of Things we are interested
- in is not one that is controlled by a few large players in the IT market.
- In the past I had perceived the Eclipse community as being centered mainly around
- the IDE and other development tools & technologies. Many of the foundation's processes
- and policies still reflect the necessities and assumptions for making the development
- of this technology as easy as possible (which is a great achievement), e.g. the wording
- used in guidelines and policies often refers to the "Product" (meaning the IDE) and
- "Plug-ins" to be the artifacts being released.
- What I would like to do is represent the perspective of projects, like
- those under the iot top level project, that do not necessarily deliver their software
- by means of standard Eclipse P2 repos distributing plug-ins for the IDE but instead use e.g. Maven
- Central as their main distribution channel to deliver their artifacts in the form of libraries
- that are used to build other systems. We also see more and more projects finding a home
- in the Eclipse community that do not even use Java as the programming language of choice.
- I would also like to help finding the best way the Eclipse Foundation can attract such projects and
- support them in efficiently delivering their software within the safe legal framework the
- foundation provides.
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Kai has been working at Bosch on solutions for the Internet of Things in application domains
- like smart home, energy management, e-mobility and automotive long before the term
- has reached its recent popularity and ubiquity. He is an active committer on several Eclipse IoT projects
- and has just recently started the Hono project together with other members from the community,
- aiming at providing an integration platform for connecting millions of devices to the cloud.
- Kai holds a degree in Mathematics from University of Hannover in Germany and enjoys playing a
- round of Golf whenever wheather conditions permit.
- ]]> </bio>
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- Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
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- <name>Mik Kersten</name>
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- <p>Eclipse has matured and cemented its role as a robust and stable platform for innovation. As its Sustaining Members, we play a key role in driving the direction of Eclipse. Our
- contributions in the form of code, evangelism, as well as Eclipse-based products and services have made Eclipse the vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem that it is today.</p>
-
- <p>In joining Eclipse as one of the first non-IBM committers, I've been engaged with both the technology community and the commercialization aspects of Eclipse since the
- outset in 2001. For the past four years I have been your representative on the Eclipse Board of directors, previously served as committer representative, lead the top-level Mylyn project, and servie on the and Planning Councils.</p>
-
- <p>I've worked directly with many Solution Member companies and watched some Eclipse business models flourish while others have failed. Starting Tasktop within the Eclipse ecosystem has given me a pragmatic perspective on how to participate in the platform while growing both product and service revenues on Eclipse-based offerings. For the past three years I served as your representative on the Eclipse board, and for this next year I plan on continuing to apply my experience and ongoing dialog with members in order to help make your Eclipse-based efforts successful. Should I be elected, please do not hesitate to reach out to me as many others have done over the years, as it is my goal to assist you in making your Eclipse-based efforts successful.</p>
-
- <p>Succeeding in Eclipse means striking a balance between the member, committer and user communities. As your board representative, my priorities will be to:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><b>Facilitate reaching users:</b> Marketing in a vendor-neutral open source ecosystem can be far from obvious, and reaching the very broad Eclipse user base is needed for both the commercial success of members and of Eclipse as a whole. I have been closely involved in <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">improving the install story</a> for Eclipse solutions and the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296131">Eclipse Marketplace</a> client. These efforts will provide the next generation of opportunities to get your solution into Eclipse users' hands.</li>
- <li><b>Lower the barrier to engaging with projects:</b> With product releases and other pressures, too often the step of getting directly involved with an Eclipse project that you build on does not make the cost/benefit cut. But not getting involved has the longer-term cost of incompatibilities and overhead. Lowering the bar for direct participation will provide members with better access to the collaboration and contributor community that make Eclipse a great open source ecosystem. On the Mylyn project we have had over 900 bugs and feature requests resolved by community contributions. I will use my experience of making this work for Mylyn to help lower the overhead of participation with existing projects so that similar benefits are accessible to more members.</li>
- <li><b>Listen to members:</b> My job will be to represent your needs on the board, and I will work with the other representatives to actively seek out feedback from all Solution Members. I helped make the needs of individual committers heard as a committer representative on the Eclipse board, and will ensure that your needs are represented in discussions and decisions made at the board level.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>We made good progress on these priorities in the past thre years, and I hope to continue representing you and helping you make the most out of your investment and engagement in Eclipse in 2015.</p>
- ]]></vision>
-
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>Dr. Mik Kersten is the Co-founder and CEO of Tasktop , creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Planning Council. Mik's thought leadership on Software Lifecycle Integration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.</p>
-<p>As a long-time Eclipse evangelist, Mik is a frequent source for media and analysts on matters related to Eclipse and developer tools. Highlights of Mik's contributions to Eclipse include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Creator and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn top-level project (since 2005)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Planning Council (since 2010)</li>
- <li>Member of the Eclipse Architecture Council (2007-2014)</li>
- <li>Elected committer representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors in (2008/2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse evangelist to be voted a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/rockstar_kersten.jsp">JavaOne Rock Star</a> (2008 and 2009)</li>
- <li>Only Eclipse content author on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-topjava.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C1001&ca=dnw-1037&ca=dth-j&open&cm_mmc=6046-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_132372&cmibm_em=dm:0:13623213">top authors of the decade</a> list of IBM developerWorks Java</li>
- <li>PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia that lead to the invention of Mylyn's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-focused_interface">task-focused interface</a> (2006)</li>
- <li>Co-creator of the Eclipse AspectJ and AJDT projects (2002) based on his work creating of the first Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools, Xerox PARC (2000)</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Related publications:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/14/mik-kersten-on-transparency/">Symbian Blog: Mik Kersten on Transparency</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/growing-open-source-ecosystems-install">Tasktop Blog: Growing open source ecosystems: the install story</a></li>
- <li><a target=_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tasktop-working-with-microsoft-to-improve-eclipse-on-windows-7">Tasktop Blog: Tasktop working with Microsoft to improve Eclipse on Windows 7</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/09/26/interview-with-mik-kersten-president-cto-tasktop-technologies-member-eclipse-board-of-directors/">How Software is Built: Interview with Mik Kersten</a> (highest ranked in series)</li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/tips-on-paying-for-free-software">Tasktop Blog: Tips on paying for free software</a></li>
- <li><a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com/blog/uncategorized/platform-for-innovation-part-1-openness-modularity">Tasktop Blog: Platform for Innovation, Part 1: Openness & Modularity</a></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Read more about <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mik_Kersten">Mik Kersten on Wikipedia</a>.</p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="http://tasktop.com">Tasktop Technologies</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/mylyn">Eclipse Mylyn</a>
- ]]></affiliation>
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-<p>I am involved in several councils, lead projects, and am an active committer in many projects.
-See details <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/user/481" target="_blank">here</a>.
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- <p>Being part of the Eclipse ecosystem since day one and being an active committer in various projects until today, my main goal as
- committer representative will be to further disburden the live of fellow committers. Among those things are improved tool support and
- fighting for less legal overhead, like updating copyright notices on each commit and simplifying the CLA signing process.</p>
-
-<p>It is crucial to find good contributors that at some point become valuable committers. From my personal experience gaining commit rights in
-other projects, every project has subtle differences which can shy away contributors. For example there are many How To Contribute wiki pages
-which slightly differ. I'd like to see a common template that can be extended by individual projects.</p>
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will have an open door for everyone and help to resolve any barrier that is blocking your work,
-either personally, or by taking it to the board.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
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-<p>Dani started his work on Eclipse even before it was open sourced in 2001 and hence is one of the initial Eclipse Project committers.
-He leads the Platform and the JDT subprojects, represents the project in the Eclipse Planning Council, and is also a a member of the Eclipse
-Architecture Council. Dani worked at OTI and now works at IBM Research GmbH. His interests include user interface and API design, editors, software quality and performance.</p>
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
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- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
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- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
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-<p>
-Eclipse is an evolving diverse community driven by a growing constellation of contributors:
-large and small commercial interests, educational institutions, and our dedicated committer community, i.e., people who do day-to-day development at Eclipse like you and me.
-With increasing diversity, particularly the shift from a small number of large commercial interests to a broad spectrum of organization types and sizes,
-our influence as individuals grows, presenting interesting challenges and exciting opportunities.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my nine years of experience to promote the rights and privileges of committers.
-I will continue to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, currently living in Berlin and learning Deutsch, sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of newsgroups, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features whenever possible.
-A relatively recent example is the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the installation and configuration of development IDEs.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php" target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He
- is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past nine years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans thirty years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
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-
- <name>Matthias Zimmermann</name>
- <title>Head Open Source, BSI Business Systems Integration AG</title>
- <image>zimmermann.jpg</image>
- <email>matthias.zimmermann at bsi-software.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Scout Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse is a great community for a wide variety of reasons.
- What is fundamentally driving the success of the Eclipse ecosystem are the contributors and committers of the individual
- Eclipse projects and their corresponding Eclipse members.
- To continue the success story of Eclipse it is not enough to keep the existing community happy.
- The future of the whole Eclipse community is linked to its ability to convince other open source projects that it is the best possible home for them too.
- In 2010 our company decided to host the Scout framework at the Eclipse foundation.
- For us this has been an excellent choice and I strongly believe that our experienced benefits can add substantial value to many other companies as well.
-
- As a sustaining member representative I will have the following main items on my agenda.
- First, I would like to contribute time and energy to help spread the word that Eclipse is a first class home for open source projects beyond RCP or even Java.
- In discussions with customers and prospects I frequently face the strong belief that Eclipse is an IDE and maybe general purpose RCP platform.
- This misconception of the goal and purpose of the Eclipse foundation is harmful for the future of Eclipse and needs to be corrected.
-
- Second, I would like to push for an improved user experience regarding the communication channels of the Eclipse foundation.
- The tools currently available to the communities and projects do not seem to match well with today's state of the art.
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Matthias has joined BSI in 2006 and was mostly working in the role of a project manager.
- He has played an important role in convincing BSI to open source its <a href="" target="_blank">Scout</a> framework at Eclipse and
- has been co-lead of the Scout project since 2010.
- Over the last years he has focused on growing the open source community and increasing the commercial adoption of the Scout framework.
- In addition, he is a founding member of the <a href="http://www.jug.ch/sigs.php?sig=1" target="_blank">Swiss Eclipse User Group</a>
- and is involved in organizing Eclipse events in Zurich and Munich.
- Matthias holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Bern in Switzerland and enjoys having time with his family, tinkering
- with IoT and giving flying lessons.
- You find him via <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ZimMatthias">@ZimMatthias</a>.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bsi-software.com">BSI Business Systems Integration</a> and
- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eclipse.org/scout">Eclipse Scout</a>/
- <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/EclipseScout">@EclipseScout</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Executive Director, Open Container Initiative (OCI)</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>caniszczyk at gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2016)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for nearly a decade. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiative a <a href=“http://aniszczyk.org/2015/06/26/eclipse-code-of-conduct/â€>code of conduct</a>, update our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>If I'm elected, I want to focus on few concrete tasks to make the lives of committers easier:</p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to modify the principle of vendor neutrality in relation to tooling available for committers. In the past, it has always prevented us from using non-OSS components in our infrastructure and I think it's important we have a discussion on whether it's worth having this restriction in place in todays world.</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to hire more developers on staff (they recently started to do this)</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</b></p>
-
- <p>We have done a lot of work to make Eclipse processes lighter than they have been before, but I believe we can do better. There
- are opportunities for more automation and making it easier to do release reviews. We need to keep the quality bar high (including IP cleanliness),
- but we need to do our best to not get in the way of projects shipping.</p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for open source and building communities. At Twitter, he was responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Independent
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
-
- <name>Jay Jay Billings</name>
-
- <title> <![CDATA[Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory]]> </title>
-
- <image>billings.jpg</image>
-
- <email>jayjaybillings at gmail.com</email>
-
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- Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Science Working Group Steering Committee Chair<br>
- Eclipse Advanced Visualisation Project Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>I think that the most amazing thing about Eclipse is the way that it has grown beyond an IDE and now even beyond the RCP.
-While the establishment of the Working Groups has broadened Eclipse’s reach into new areas such as automotives, science and
-location technologies to name a few, new projects that make the developer experience even better continue to expand the platform
-as a whole at an amazing rate. The way I see it, this growth is being driven by one thing: Eclipse’s amazing community.</p>
-
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will strive to serve and help this great community by improving the experience and
-meeting the needs of all committers, whether they be committers from large projects with big backers or individual committers
-who are just starting out. I will...
-
-<ul>
-<li><b>For established projects</b>, identify the areas where your committers are having the most trouble
-and help to fix or improve their experience.</li>
-<li><b>For committers in new projects</b>, I will help you navigate the sea of processes
-surrounding contributions, releases, third party content and, perhaps most importantly, get you the help you need as fast
-as possible when I can not provide it.</li>
-<li><b>Work with the rest of the board</b> to reach out to the community and clarify
-many rules and policies that are commonly found to be confusing or limiting.</li>
-<li><b>Work with the rest of the board and the community</b> to continue to identify ways that streamline the development
-on Eclipse projects.
-</ul>
-
-</p>
-
-
-<p>I believe that community service is important and that it is the only thing that leads to healthy communities. It is
-clearly the reason why Eclipse has thrived. I am ready to serve you and I believe that I can help make Eclipse even
-better as your committer representative.</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-I am a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where I lead the Scientific Software Development Team in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. I have a B.S. in Physics from Virginia Tech, class of 2005, and the M.S. in Theoretical Astrophysics from the University of Tennessee, class of 2008. My research focuses on the design and implementation of modeling and simulation tools for energy science, large parts of which have been related to the study of scientific workflows in an HPC context and computational physics.
-<p>In my few hours of spare time each week, I enjoy spending time with my wife, family and friends; singing and hacking just about anything I can find...</p>
-
- ]]> </bio>
-
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory<br>
- Ph.D. Candidate, the University of Tennessee
- ]]>
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-</boardmember>
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-
- <name> Chris Holmes </name>
-
- <title>SVP Product Architecture, Planet Labs </title>
-
- <image>holmes.jpg</image>
-
- <email> cholmes at planet.com </email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- LocationTech
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-<p>In 2016 Eclipse took a major step forward with its revised IP policy, making it substantially easier to bring new projects into the fold. For Eclipse to continue its role as the best place for companies to collaborate we must follow that path further, updating our culture, processes, branding and infrastructure to be welcoming to the software projects that make us great. I've been inspired to see the model pioneered by the Eclipse IDE expand out even more, to location, science, internet of things, embedded systems and automotive domains. I believe we must continue to be a more welcoming tent to expand further and to continue to play the leading role in the commercially-oriented open source world.
-</p>
-
-<p>When I was originally elected to the board my first priority was to represent LocationTech, but this last year I've learned even more about the broader Eclipse world, and my aim is to help represent all the different parts. My vision for Eclipse has remained the same: to be the preeminent foundation for companies to collaborate together on software. In the short term this means strengthening the existing Eclipse Working Groups, and making clear to the world that Eclipse is more than a Java IDE. This does not mean we should decrease investment in the core Eclipse Platform, as it is critical that it remains our foremost example of successful collaboration. But it does mean making our messaging even more clear about what Eclipse is and promoting all our projects.</p>
-
-<p>My background is all open source software - first coding and building a community around an Java-based online mapping server, then figuring out a consultancy business model to sustain core developers. We then successfully transitioned it to a product company, selling enterprise packages of our fully open source stack. Having seen so many different phases of the company lifecycle I believe I can represent the sustaining members well, and I’ve served in similar board roles in geospatial foundations, including the Open Geospatial Consortium and Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. But I believe the background that can best serve Eclipse is my background in product management, strategy and open source business.
-</p>
-
-<p>If re-elected as a sustaining member representative my priorities will be:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Continue to work to make the Eclipse Foundation more welcoming to new projects. The updated IP policy was a major step forward, but I believe the core policy is just the first step. We must continue to educate the open source world that things are changing, and that Eclipse actively wants to bring in more projects. Past a branding and positioning effort, we must continue to iterate on the process and cultural improvements to truly be more welcoming. We may even need to update the business model in certain areas. In particular we must give the Working Groups freedom to innovate on the model, as the motivations for contribution and participation is different between Science, Location, Internet of Things and other new groups.</li>
-<li>Push for more coherent architectures in the Working Groups. This draws on my product background, and I believe that Eclipse should not just present a grab bag of projects, but a vision of how the pieces work together. The core IDE and Platform have always had a coherent ecosystem, and I believe we must push LocationTech, IoT and others towards an architecture that makes sense as more than a number of projects lumped together in one domain.
-</li>
-<li>Understand and represent the needs of Sustaining Member companies at the board level. Though the companies with the largest budgets can easily
-contribute monetarily, I believe the intangible contributions of time, ideas and code are even more vital to the continued success of the community.
-Sustaining member companies are the lifeblood of Eclipse, and I hope to represent any concerns of the group as my own and represent at the board level.
-</li>
-<li>Support LocationTech to become the premier collaboration place for geospatial software. I will do this by helping push and celebrate
-graduation from incubation for projects and leveraging contacts to contribute their best projects and become members. This year I will also aim to help the other working groups more, and to help collaborations across different working groups.
-</li>
-<li>Focus on core improvements to the Java IDE - further improving usability, integrations, performance, and general utility to a mainstream user. The thing everyone still thinks of as ‘Eclipse’ needs to be strong, and work well for the mainstream user.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Chris Holmes started his career as lead developer of <a target="_blank" href="http://geoserver.org/">GeoServer</a> and then founded OpenGeo (operating now as <a target="_blank" href="http://boundlessgeo.com/">Boundless</a>), providing commercial support for a suite of open source geospatial software projects. He currently works at <a target="_blank" href="http://planet.com/">Planet</a>, a startup that builds and operates the largest constellation of earth imaging satellites, with over 130 successfully launched to date. At Planet Chris serves as Senior Vice President of Product Architecture, where he sits at the nexus of technology and business, articulating the core product strategy. He also sits on the boards of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/">Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/">Brave New Software</a>, and serves as an advisor to <a target="_blank" href="https://carto.com/">Carto</a>. Chris previously was a Fulbright Scholar in Zambia, served on the board of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association and was a founding board member of the Open Source Geospatial Consortium
-</p>
-
-
- ]]> </bio>
-
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- <name>Mickael Istria</name>
- <title>Eclipse developer</title>
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-
- <email>mistria at redhat.com</email>
-
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>Our community performs very well. I do not think it requires any kind of revolution to keep getting better and better. However, a key factor of success is that it has been able to evolve with time - introducing working groups, relaxing IP and infrastructure constraints, FEEP… -, and I would like the Community to keep on progressing as it is used to.</p>
-<p>
-Here are the topics I’d like to bring forward as goals and top-priority work items to our Community to be even more productive, effective, and welcoming:
-<ul>
-<li><strong>Infrastructure</strong>: The Eclipse.org infrastructure is increasingly stressed by the needs of projects and processes. We're often seeing some services fail and become blockers for many projects and contributors. Our current workflows require a more stable infrastructure. I’ll keep urging that a reliable infrastructure is one of the most important expectations for our Community. I want to make sure that all solutions are evaluated, and would like to encourage the Foundation to reuse external hosting or SaaS in its infrastructure if it happens to be more reliable, sustainable or performant than the traditional “host our own services†approach.</li>
-<li><strong>More Community consultancy</strong>: Some decisions in our Community are taken by councils of nominated people. Despite all the effort, those councils cannot be considered as representing the whole Community. Some of these decisions should use votes and other open metrics -gathered from Bugzilla or any existing data source- treating all contributors as equal. This would help some of them to feel more involved and attached to the Community, and more likely to give back. At the moment, it could be simply by making such polls happen more and more easily and frequently on project initiative to give data facts to projects as soon as they are needed. The poll results wouldn't enforce a decision but at least, they would allow diverging opinions to be easily heard. This is the approach we introduced to select proposals at EclipseCon France 2016, without any difficulty and that I perceived as a success.</li>
-<li><strong>User oriented</strong>: I’d like our Community’s first target to be the users of Eclipse projects. The number of users is the main indicator of the success of a project, so helping projects to be successful means helping them get more users. First, projects should be automatically provided with public metrics of usage/downloads in order to help them set up some “user recruitment†campaigns and easily see the effects of their efforts. Then, I would like the Foundation to help project marketing by driving contributors to create more marketing resources to publish, by producing marketing content and by assisting projects in setting up a marketing plan. I’d also like to see people representing Eclipse projects more present in main conferences; this could mean having the Foundation send staff or sponsor individuals to conferences to present Eclipse projects.</li>
-<li><strong>Regular community performance reports</strong>: I’d like to encourage the Foundation to publish monthly community performance metrics, including interesting numbers and trends such as newly registered members, new bugs reported/closed, first-time participants to discussions, etc., and whatever can help us as a Community to plainly realize when things are great, to find out as soon as possible when we need to react to some bad trends, and evaluate the impact of some changes we’ve made.</li>
-<li><strong>Making it easier to contribute for everyone</strong>: keeping placing bridges and lowering barriers to turn users into bug reporters, bug reporters into code contributors, code contributors into committer… This can start with links from bugtracker to project’s contribution guides and mailing-lists, or with setting up an open opt-out “eclipse-all†mailing-list for all community members where anyone can ask anything and be driven to a more specific media (mailing-list, forum, bugzilla…).</li>
-<li><strong>Motivating contributors</strong>: Some people are not expected to work on OSS in their job description, some are not part of a team/company with OSS culture, some are not mentored to properly interact with OSS communities, others don’t earn anything substantial from contributing… but they would be pretty happy to try. Our community needs to be welcoming for these people as well. They need to be motivated and guided in order to become efficient OSS contributors, and rewarded for their efforts. Introducing automated rewards (even a thank you!) or gamification (via points and badges) are ways to provide motivation and guidelines.</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
- ]]>
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-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
-I’ve been developing Eclipse plugins from the first, and have continued to do so. I’m currently highly focused on the development of the Eclipse IDE and on increasing the value it delivers to its users. My previous positions were more about Eclipse modeling technologies applied to SOA and BPM, which I used in the context of research projects and of software edition.
-I first try to care about users, technologies are here to serve humans and must help without interfering and with minimal effort from us. So I'm very enthousiastic about User eXperience as I work on Eclipse IDE. I’m also interested in everything that is related to the techniques of productive software development: release engineering, code quality practices, teamwork… I also have a big crush on augmented reality.
-</bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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-<name>Dani Megert</name>
-<title>Senior Software Architect </title>
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-<email>daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com </email>
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
-<p>I am currently one of your committer reps on the Eclipse Board of Directors (thank you!). I am involved in several councils, lead projects, and am
-an active committer in many projects.
-See details <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/user/481" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <p>Being part of the Eclipse ecosystem since day one and being an active committer in various projects until today, my main goal as
- committer representative is to further disburden the live of fellow committers.
- Among those things are improved tool support and
- fighting for less legal overhead, like updating copyright notices on each commit (<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=485257#c17" target="_blank">which happened during my current service)</a> and simplifying the CLA signing process.
- But I think these days the most important task for me is to make sure that the infrastructure gets better again. Currently we committers
- suffer from many outages, e.g. repo.eclipse.org being down which blocks Gerrit and a lot of other things, like the Eclipse SDK builds. During my current service I was already pushing hard on
- this and this would remain one of my main priorities to fight for.</p>
-
-<p>It is crucial to find good contributors that at some point become valuable committers. From my personal experience gaining commit rights in
-other projects, every project has subtle differences which can shy away contributors. For example there are many How To Contribute wiki pages
-which slightly differ. I'd like to see a common template that can be extended by individual projects.</p>
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will have an open door for everyone and help to resolve any barrier that is blocking your work,
-either personally, or by taking it to the board.</p>
-
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-<p>Dani started his work on Eclipse even before it was open sourced in 2001 and hence is one of the initial Eclipse Project committers.
-He leads the Platform and the JDT subprojects, represents the project in the Eclipse Planning Council, and is also a a member of the Eclipse
-Architecture Council. Dani worked at OTI and now works at IBM Research GmbH. His interests include user interface and API
-design, editors, software quality and performance.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
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- ]]>
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
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-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-Eclipse is a diverse community driven by a huge constellation of contributors:
-large and small commercial interests, educational institutions, and our dedicated committer community, i.e., people who do day-to-day development at Eclipse like you and me.
-With the shift from a small number of large commercial interests to a broader spectrum of smaller organizations,
-our influence as individuals grows.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my ten years of experience to promote the rights and privileges of committers.
-I will continue to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and having learned Deutsch, sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features whenever possible.
-I am particularly proud of the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the installation and configuration of development IDEs.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php" target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>. He
- is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past ten years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 28,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans thirty years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
- ]]>
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-<boardmember id="miranda" type="add-in-provider">
-
- <name>Tracy Miranda</name>
-
- <title>Founder, Kichwa Coders</title>
-
- <image>miranda.jpg</image>
-
- <email>tracy at kichwacoders.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <a href="https://science.eclipse.org/steeringcommittee">Science Working Group</a> Steering Committee<br>
- <a href="https://www.eclipsecon.org/france2017/about-pc">EclipseCon</a> Program Chair 2017<br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.january">January</a> Committer<br>
- Eclipse <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/">CDT</a> Specialist<br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://kichwacoders.com/2016/05/12/whose-job-is-it-promote-diversity-in-the-eclipse-community/">Diversity Advocate</a><br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://opensource.com/users/tracymiranda">Open Source Evangelist</a><br>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-
- <p>I have been working with Eclipse technologies for over 15 years and for 10 years I've made Eclipse open source my business.
- Today I am a vocal community member and evangelist for open source. Now I am running for a board position because
- I want to, at the highest level,
- foster the right environment for open, sustainable innovation in the current fast paced tech climate.
- Or to put it another way: Let's work together and get paid to build open source products that are so utterly
- amazing that others want to join in and get paid to build open source products that are so utterly amazing that others
- want to join in. Does that count as a vision? I really hope so because I would like to have a vision that is recursive.</p>
-
- <p> If elected, I would focus on <b>growth</b> of the Eclipse ecosystem, particularly in these 3 areas:</p>
-
- <p><b>Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises</b></p>
- <p><i>I was meaning to ask you: does Kichwa Coders experiences any benefits from being an
- Eclipse Solutions Member other than the purely intangible benefits of association with the
- Eclipse Foundation?</i> I answer questions like this all the time from my clients and partner
- companies. I want to propose initiatives to strengthen the position of existing SME members and make
- membership more attractive for those considering it.</p>
-
-
- <p><b>Science Working Group</b></p>
- <p>Being a founding member of the Science Working Group and being heavily involved in one of its
- flagship projects, I am keen to keep the momentum going. I want to raise awareness at board level of the
- huge benefits of the group to the ecosystem, advocate for changes that facilitate growth and promote
- collaboration with other working groups. Optimizations for one working group often end up being beneficial for other working groups as well.</p>
-
-
- <p><b>Diversity</b></p>
- <p>I would like to lead the board in supporting the diversity initiatives of the Eclipse Foundation and
- the community at large so we can grow in new ways, include more contributors and committers from
- underrepresented groups, and benefit from the innovation that comes with more diverse thoughts around the table.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- Tracy Miranda (@tracymiranda) is a developer, open source evangelist and veteran of the Eclipse community. She is
- founder of Kichwa Coders, a consultancy specialising in Eclipse tools for embedded and scientific software.
- Tracy has a background in electronics system design. She writes for opensouce.com and jaxenter.com on tech, open source & diversity.
-]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>Kichwa Coders</affiliation>
-
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-
- <name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer</title>
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-
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- <email>tur at itema.no</email>
-
-
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- <![CDATA[
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-<li>Eclipse Science Working Group Steering Committee Secretary since 2015</li>
-<li>Eclipse Science PMC Member since 2016</li>
-<li>Eclipse TeXlipse Project Lead since 2016</li>
-<li>Mylyn Docs Committer since 2012</li>
-<li>Mylyn Builds Committer since 2010</li>
-<li>EclipseCon Europe Program Committee Member in 2015 and 2016</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Details can be found at the <a target="_blank" href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/tresheim#tab-projects">new profile page</a>.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>Starting with the Java IDE, Eclipse has become one of the best places for cooperating on developing open source software. A rich ecosystem has evolved, including everything from advanced tools to basic libraries. When I first started out building on the Eclipse Platform twelve years ago, I was awed by the excellent quality of code, the welcoming community and how well organised everything was. I would like many others to share that experience.</p>
-
<p>If elected as a sustaining member representative I would like to:</p>
<p><strong>Advance the use of Eclipse technologies</strong>, particularly in scientific and industrial applications, where a diverse collection of our APIs is already suitably used.</p>
<p><strong>Support the Science Working Group</strong> to become a leading place for developing scientific software libraries by welcoming new projects and facilitate cooperation with the rest of the Eclipse community.</p>
<p><strong>Make Eclipse binaries consumable for the world.</strong> There is an increasing number of projects not related to the Platform or derived solutions. These should be easily available to those without the Eclipse know-how. Examples are <a target="_blank" href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/mylyn.docs">Mylyn Docs</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.january">January</a>.</p>
-<p><strong>Improve on infrastructure.</strong> While there is work in progress to upgrade Eclipse Foundation infrastructure, I believe more can be done. We need a good quality service for all our users.</p>
-
<p><strong>Improve the Eclipse Platform</strong> – which is such an important part of all the various IDEs built on top. Not forgetting about RCP, which many companies are basing their products on. That alone should be a good reason for sponsoring development.</p>
-
<p><strong>Encourage and support new projects.</strong> Eclipse Che has created quite stir in the IDE marketplace, the ever-increasing number of Eclipse IoT projects is helping form a connected devices world, and the Eclipse C/C++ IDE for Arduino has bridged the gap between the very basic Arduino IDE and a professional tool. Just to mention a few examples. The Eclipse Foundation must continue to encourage and support such efforts.</p>
-
<p><strong>Take care of committers and community.</strong> It should be easy and fun to work with Foundation tools and use infrastructure such as Git, HIPP and Bugzilla. Providing excellent service and lowering the bar will also encourage outside contributions. Developing the community also means being open and inclusive towards all; regardless of religion, colour, culture or gender. This is something I would like the Eclipse Community to become famously known for.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>I have a background from electronics, but started on the path to become a software engineer at the Trondheim College of Engineering (now NTNU) in 1994. I have built on the Eclipse Platform since 2004, and have as a contractor and consultant, helped companies use various Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time I have spent developing industrial solutions for the semiconductor and marine/offshore sectors.</p>
-
<p>I work for and is a part owner of Itema, a small software consultancy with 21 dedicated engineers and three equally dedicated managers. We do everything from prize winning web sites to marine operations simulation tools and handheld games.
-Since we’re based in Trondheim, Norway, a university city with around 33,500 students, half of those with a STEM curriculum, it is only natural that we do most of our work with technology companies. Many of which are spin-offs from the university, and SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia.</p>
-
<p>I founded the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.meetup.com/Trondheim-Eclipse-User-Group/">Trondheim Eclipse User Group</a> in 2013 and have with Itema hosted an Eclipse
DemoCamp for the past six years. Somehow it has turned into a science software demo-camp, with a few presentations unrelated to Eclipse each time. As a result we have also been attracting developers and scientists not normally using Eclipse – we plan to continue spreading the word.</p>
<p>I can be reached on Twitter using the <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/torkildr">@torkildr</a> handle.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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- <![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="http://itema.no/">Itema AS</a>
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-<boardmember id="wagenknecht" type="add-in-provider">
-
- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
- <title>PMTS, Salesforce</title>
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
- <email>gunnar at wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- Member of the Architecture Council<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
- Program Committee of numerous Eclipse conferences
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
-<p>
-What is Eclipse? While the Eclipse brand is still very attached to the well known and very successful Eclipse IDE, Eclipse is also a community of many, many individual open source projects. What does it take to bring such a tremendous amount of diverse projects together being part of a fantastic open source community? The Eclipse Foundation!
-</p><p>
-As a sustaining member representative, I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
-</p><p>
-One possible improvement that I'd like to push for is improving the flexibility of project infrastructure options. Today there is GitHub (code and issues) and Git and Bugzilla (both hosted at eclipse.org). Ideally, projects should be able to use any available service that makes them feel comfortable. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity should continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular platforms.
-</p><p>
-I had the pleasure of attending previous board meetings on occasion and engage with board members in discussions and work on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me doing that!
-</p><p>
-Thank you!
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Technology enthusiast, world traveler, open source believer and dad. Addicted 2 DIY. More at <a href="http://guw.io/">guw.io</a>.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Salesforce
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="zimmermann" type="add-in">
-
- <name>Matthias Zimmermann</name>
- <title>Head Open Source, BSI Business Systems Integration AG</title>
- <image>zimmermann.jpg</image>
- <email>matthias.zimmermann at bsi-software.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Scout Project Lead
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse is a great community for a wide variety of reasons.
- What is fundamentally driving the success of the Eclipse ecosystem are the communities around individual
- Eclipse projects and Eclipse working groups with its corresponding Eclipse members.
- To continue the success story of Eclipse it is not enough to keep the existing community happy.
- The future of the whole Eclipse ecosystem is linked to its ability to convince new open source projects and its communities that it is the best possible home for them too.
- It is therefore great news that projects such as Eclipse MicroProfile are starting to choose Eclipse as their future home.</p>
-
- <p>However, in discussions with people not familiar with the Eclipse ecosystem we often face the strong belief that Eclipse is "only" about the IDE, tooling and the RCP desktop platform.
- Many of these people are then positively surprised when we then talk about industry collaboration in Eclipse working groups or mention the recent collaboration of Eclipse and European research projects.
- This misconception about the current state of the Eclipse ecosystem is harmful for its future and needs to be corrected.</p>
-
- <p>As a sustaining member representative for 2017/18 I would like to continue my efforts to support the Eclipse foundation in its transition to a first class citizen among the general open source organization.
- In my point of view getting out the word about this tranistion of the Eclipse foundtation is vital for its success in the future.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Matthias has joined BSI in 2006 starting in the role of a project manager.
- He has played an important role in convincing BSI to open source its <a href="" target="_blank">Scout framework</a> at Eclipse.
- Since 2010 Matthias is co-lead of the Scout project and has focused on growing the open source community and increasing the commercial adoption of the Scout framework.
- In addition, he is a founding member of the <a href="http://www.jug.ch/sigs.php?sig=1" target="_blank">Swiss Eclipse User Group</a>
- and is involved in organizing Eclipse events in Zurich and Munich.
- In 2015 and 2016 Matthias has been a member of the program committee for Eclipsecon Europe and has been member of the board for the 2016/2017 term.</p>
-
- <p>Matthias holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Bern in Switzerland and loves exploring new open source technologis in the domains of IoT, machine learning and blockchain.
- In his free time he enjoys having time with his family, tinkering with IoT and giving flying lessons.
- You find him via <a href="https://twitter.com/ZimMatthias">@ZimMatthias</a>.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bsi-software.com">BSI Business Systems Integration</a> and
- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eclipse.org/scout">Eclipse Scout</a>/
- <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/EclipseScout">@EclipseScout</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Executive Director, Open Container Initiative (OCI)</title>
- <title>CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>caniszczyk at gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2017)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for nearly a decade. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiative a <a href=“http://aniszczyk.org/2015/06/26/eclipse-code-of-conduct/â€>code of conduct</a>, update our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p>
-
- <p>If I'm elected, I want to focus on few concrete tasks to make the lives of committers easier:</p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to modify the principle of vendor neutrality in relation to tooling available for committers. In the past, it has always prevented us from using non-OSS components in our infrastructure and I think it's important we have a discussion on whether it's worth having this restriction in place in todays world.</b> For example, there are third party tools such as Travis CI, CircleCI, FOSSA and so on that can make the lives of committers easier.</p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to hire more developers on staff (they recently started to do this)</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent and lightweight as possible</b></p>
-
- <p>We have done a lot of work to make Eclipse processes lighter than they have been before, but I believe we can do better. There
- are opportunities for more automation and making it easier to do release reviews. We need to keep the quality bar high (including IP cleanliness),
- but we need to do our best to not get in the way of projects shipping.</p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is a software architect by trade with a
- passion for open source and building communities. At Twitter, he was responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Independent
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Ivar Grimstad</name>
-
- <title>Principal Consultant</title>
-
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-
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- <email>ivar.grimstad at gmail.com</email>
-
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j">Eclipse Enterprise for Java</a> PMC Lead and Committer<br>
- <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.jms">Eclipse Project for JMS</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ozark">Eclipse Ozark</a> Project Lead and Committer
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>While I may be new to the Eclipse Foundation, I am no newbie to open source organisations and development. I
- have been a member of the <a href="https://jcp.org">Java Community Process (JCP)</a> since 2007 and participated
- in several expert groups during the years. Currently I am the specification lead of JSR 371 - MVC 1.0 and have a
- seat in the Executive Committe.</p>
-
- <p>At Eclipse Foundation, I am currently the PMC Lead of EE4J and expect to be more and more involved as these
- projects are being set up. I think it is important to have someone with background from the JCP and the JCP
- Executive Committee to represent all the new committers being introduced to Eclipse Foundation as a result
- of EE4J.</p>
-
- <p>We are all massive consumers of open source technologies in the software industry today, but not necessarily
- contributing back as much as we should. I believe that open source foundations such as the Eclipse Foundation are
- essential to get open source contribution on the agenda. I see it as my mission to influence developers on all
- levels to see that contributing to open source is as natural as consuming it. After all, that is what it means to
- be a good cicitien in the software industry.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Ivar Grimstad is a Java Champion and JUG Leader and software architect working as Principal Consultant for Cybercom Group in Sweden.</p>
- <p>He is involved in the <a href="https://jcp.org">Java Community Process</a> as a member of the Executive Committee, Spec Lead for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0)
- and has served as Expert Group Member for a number of JSRs, such as JSR 375 (Java EE Security API).</p>
- <p>Ivar is in the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) PMC and involved in Eclipse MicroProfile as well as being an Apache NetBeans Committer.</p>
- <p>Ivar is always focusing on quality and on using the right tools and technologies for the right task to optimize the software development process.</p>
- <p>Ivar is a frequent speaker at international developer conferences.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Principal Consultant, Cybercom Sweden</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Dani Megert</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Architect</title>
-
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-
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- <email>daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com</email>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>
-<![CDATA[I am involved in several councils, lead projects, and am an active committer in many projects. See details <a target="_blank" href="https://projects.eclipse.org/user/481">here</a>.]]>
-</eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>My main goal as committer representative is to address the issues that adversely impact the productivity of fellow committers. Among those things are improved tool support and fighting for less overhead. I am also passionate about maintaining the high quality that people expect from Eclipse projects.</p>
-
-<p>For any Eclipse project it is crucial to find good contributors that at some point become valuable committers. From my personal experience gaining commit rights in different projects can shy away contributors because every project has subtle differences. For example there are many How To Contribute wiki pages which slightly differ. I'd like to see a common template that can be extended by individual projects.</p>
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will always have an open door for you, and I will help to resolve any barrier that is blocking your work, either personally or by taking it to the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
-<p>I am part of the Eclipse ecosystem since day one, even before it was open sourced in 2001 and hence am one of the
-initial Eclipse Project committers. I am still an active committer in various projects until today. For that,
-the Eclipse Foundation recognized my contributions to Eclipse with the Eclipse Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. I'm
-mostly involved in the Eclipse top-level project (Equinox, Platform, JDT and PDE) where I am part of the PMC. I am a
-member of the Planning Council and the Architecture Council, and therefore not only have a view on the Eclipse top-level
-project but also on all other projects at the Eclipse Foundation. I already served as committer representative in 2016. During
-that term we simplified how copyright headers are handled.</p>
-
-<p>I worked at OTI and now work at IBM Research GmbH. My interests include user interface and API design, editors,
-software quality and performance.</p>
-
- ]]></bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>IBM Research GmbH</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-What is Eclipse?
-That was an easy question to answer back in the early days: Eclipse is a highly-extensible, desktop IDE framework implemented in Java using native widgets.
-Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified.
-Now the answer to this simple question is no longer clear.
-Is Eclipse a floor wax or a dessert topping?
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, or a Java IDE?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things; these days it's oh so much more!
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
-But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something different, and we each personally help to make Eclipse what we want it to be and to become.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
-The board is relatively small today, so each and every representative has significant influence.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my eleven years of experience to promote the interests of committers,
-and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater.
-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project.
-It is already so much more than that, and today we struggle together to redefine what it means to be Eclipse.
-My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability.
-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and having learned Deutsch, leading Eclipse's Modeling Project,
-sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible.
-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing list.
-I am particularly proud of the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the installation and configuration of development IDEs.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php" target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed? No, this is tracked by Git commits.
-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>.
- He is a coauthor of the authoritative book "<a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a>" which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past eleven years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted close to 30,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently living in Berlin and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
- ]]> </bio>
-
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- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
- ]]>
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-<boardmember id="miranda" type="add-in-provider">
-
- <name>Tracy Miranda</name>
-
- <title>Founder, Kichwa Coders</title>
-
- <image>miranda.jpg</image>
-
- <email>tracy at kichwacoders.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Board Sustaining Member Representative (2017/18)<br>
- <a href="https://science.eclipse.org/steeringcommittee">Science Working Group</a> Steering Committee<br>
- <a href="https://www.eclipsecon.org/france2017/about-pc">EclipseCon</a> Program Chair 2017 & 2018<br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.january">January</a> Committer<br>
- Eclipse <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/">CDT</a> Specialist<br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://kichwacoders.com/2017/02/09/diversity-means-open-source-for-a-new-generation/">Diversity Advocate</a><br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://opensource.com/users/tracymiranda">Open Source Evangelist</a><br>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-
- <p>After over a decade being part of the Eclipse community it has been an honour over the last year to serve at the
- highest level, the Board of Directors. In the past year on the board of directors I have learnt a
- tremendous amount in a great environment. I am also pleased to have made an impact and achieved the following:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Succeeded in getting Diversity & Inclusion to be a regular agenda item discussed at board level, including at the main
- face-to-face meeting in June. </li>
- <li>Secured dedicated funding for a Diversity & Inclusion initiative that will act as a catalyst
- for pushing forward diversity initiatives within the community in a sustainable manner.</li>
- <li>Pushed for better focus on Eclipse branding and obtained a resolution for a set of common
- branding materials to empower each member of the community to spread the word. </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p> If re-elected, I would like to keep focussing on <b>growth</b> and build on this success in the following ways:</p>
-
- <p><b>Diversity</b></p>
- <p>Continue to lead the board in supporting the new diversity & inclusion initiative at the Eclipse Foundation and
- the community at large so we can grow in new ways, include more contributors and committers from
- underrepresented groups, and benefit from the innovation that comes with more diverse thoughts around the table.</p>
-
- <p><b>Brand Messaging </b></p>
- <p>Champion the Eclipse Foundation to provide a common set of brand materials to empower each and every Eclipse member
- company, committer or contributor to be a brand ambassador for the community, their project or working group. A strong
- brand communicates a consistent message, increases global awareness, motivates prospective members to join,
- makes our objectives easier to achieve and increases pride in being a member of this community.</p>
-
-
- <p><b>Working Groups</b></p>
- <p>Continue to represent the sustaining members as we navigate the fast moving changes in open source
- software and the wider technology industry. Continue to promote initiatives that build on the successful
- working group model and foster collaboration to leverage this unique strength of the Eclipse community.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Tracy Miranda (@tracymiranda) is founder & CEO of Kichwa Coders, a consultancy specialising in embedded tools & IDEs.
- She is a developer, open source evangelist and veteran of the Eclipse community as well as Chair of the Science Working Group
- Tracy has a background in electronics system design. She writes for opensouce.com and jaxenter.com on tech, open source & diversity.</p>
-]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>Kichwa Coders</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<boardmember id="resheim" type="add-in-provider">
-
- <name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer</title>
-
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-
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- <email>torkildr@gmail.com</email>
-
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Since I got involved in the Eclipse Community I've had several roles, most of the time as a committer, but lately also as a member of the Eclipse Science Working Group and the EclipseCon Europe Program Committee. I'm the EclipseCon Europe Program Committee Chair for 2018 and 2019 conferences.
-</p>
-<p>
- More details can be found at the <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/tresheim">profile page</a>
-</p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Starting with the Java IDE, Eclipse has become one of the best places for cooperating on developing open source software. A rich ecosystem has evolved, including everything from basic libraries to advanced tools. When I first started out building on the Eclipse Platform in 2004, I was awed by the excellent quality of code, the welcoming community and how well organised everything was. I would like many others to share that experience.
-</p>
-<p>
- If elected as a sustaining member representative I would like to:
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Advance the use of Eclipse technologies</b>, particularly in scientific and industrial applications, where a diverse collection of our APIs is already suitably used.
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Support the Science Working Group</b> to become a leading place for developing scientific software libraries by welcoming new projects and facilitate cooperation with the rest of the Eclipse community.
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Make Eclipse binaries consumable for the world.</b> There is an increasing number of projects not related to the Platform or derived solutions. These should be easily available to those without the Eclipse know-how.
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Improve on infrastructure</b>. While there is work in progress to upgrade Eclipse Foundation infrastructure, I believe more can be done. We need a good quality service for all our users.
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Improve the Eclipse Platform</b> — which is such an important part of all the various IDEs built on top. Not forgetting about RCP, which many companies are basing their products on.
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Encourage and support new projects.</b> Eclipse Che has created quite stir in the IDE marketplace, the ever-increasing number of Eclipse IoT projects is helping form a connected devices world, and the Eclipse C/C++ IDE for Arduino has bridged the gap between the very basic Arduino IDE and a professional tool. Just to mention a few examples. The Eclipse Foundation must continue to encourage and support such efforts.
-</p>
-<p>
- <b>Take care of committers and community.</b> It should be easy and fun to work with Foundation tools and use infrastructure such as Git, JIPP and Bugzilla. Providing excellent service and lowering the bar will also encourage outside contributions. Developing the community also means being open and inclusive towards all; regardless of religion, colour, culture or gender. This is something I would like the Eclipse Community to become famously known for.
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- I have a background from electronics, but started at the Trondheim College of Engineering (now NTNU) in 1994 to study software engineering. I have built on the Eclipse Platform since 2004, and have as a contractor and consultant helped companies use various Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time I have spent developing industrial solutions for the semiconductor and marine/offshore sectors.
-</p>
-<p>
- I work for, and is a part owner of Itema, a small software consultancy with 24 dedicated engineers and three equally dedicated managers. We do everything from prize winning web sites to marine operations simulation tools and games for iOS and Android. We are based in Trondheim, Norway — a university city with around 39,000 students, about half of those with a STEM curriculum. Most of the work we do is with technology companies that are spin-offs from the university and SINTEF, the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia.
-</p>
-<p>
- I founded the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Trondheim-Eclipse-User-Group/">Trondheim Eclipse User Group</a> in 2013 and have with Itema hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp for a few years before that. Somehow it has also turned into a science software demo-camp, with a few presentations unrelated to Eclipse each time. As a result we have also been attracting developers and scientists not normally using Eclipse — we plan to continue spreading the word.
-</p>
-<p>
- I can be reached on Twitter using the <a href="https://twitter.com/torkildr">@torkildr</a> handle.
-</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
-<a href="https://www.itema.no/?lang=en">Itema AS</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
- <title>PMTS, Salesforce</title>
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- Chair of the Architecture Council<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
- Program Committee of numerous Eclipse conferences
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
-<p>
-What is Eclipse? While the Eclipse brand is still very attached to the well known and very successful Eclipse IDE, Eclipse is also a community of many, many individual open source projects. What does it take to bring such a tremendous amount of diverse projects together being part of a fantastic open source community? The Eclipse Foundation!
-</p><p>
-As a sustaining member representative, I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
-</p><p>
-One possible improvement that I'd like to push for is improving the flexibility of project infrastructure options. Today there is GitHub (code and issues) and Git and Bugzilla (both hosted at eclipse.org). Ideally, projects should be able to use any available service that makes them feel comfortable. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity should continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular platforms.
-</p><p>
-I had the pleasure of serving on the board before, engage with board members in discussions and work on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me doing that!
-</p><p>
-Thank you!
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Technology enthusiast, traveler, open source believer and dad. Addicted 2 DIY. More at <a href="http://guw.io/">guw.io</a>.
- ]]> </bio>
-
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- Salesforce
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- </affiliation>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>Executive Director, Open Container Initiative (OCI)</title>
- <title>CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>caniszczyk at gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> and Mylyn PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2017)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for over a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for nearly a decade. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiative a <a href=“http://aniszczyk.org/2015/06/26/eclipse-code-of-conduct/â€>code of conduct</a>, update our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p><p>While my current job is helping run an open source foundation dedicated to cloud native computing, I have a lot of ideas I can share from that experience on how to improve the lives of committers concretely:</p>
-
-
- <p><b>Expand the usage of modern tooling within the Eclipse infrastructure and don't shy away from cloud offerings. There are amazing tools out there such as FOSSA, Snyk, Circle CI etc that the committers should be able to take advantage of.</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to diversify/grow revenue to hire more developers/advocated on staff</b></p>
-
-<p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to collaborate more with other foundations, from cross project collaboration to colocating events. </b></p>
-
- <p><b>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent, lightweight and AUTOMATED as much as possible</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is an open source executive and software engineer by trade with a
- passion for building ecosystem. At Twitter, he was responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Independent
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- c/o Lightbend, 625 Market Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
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-
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>The Eclipse Foundation, and its growing base of technologies that companies depend on, has been at the forefront of
- driving innovation and community engagement. With the addition of MicroProfile and more recently Jakarta EE projects
- under Eclipse’s domain, I am more optimistic than ever that there is a future for Java in the Cloud Native world. I
- am excited to see and be a part of the future of Java as it
- embraces <a href="https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/" target="_blank">Reactive</a> principles
- while enabling developers to leverage the benefits cloud nativity.</p>
- <p>It will take passionate individuals, an inclusive community and committed
- companies to ensure that Java does move forward along these lines, but I could not
- think of a better community and foundation to lead that effort.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
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- Reactive and streaming Fast Data applications. We are a passionate crew of
- technology pioneers committed to building amazing software for developers on the
- JVM. He has been in the open source world of software for 19 years, starting with
- Covalent Technologies where we provided a distribution, support and services for the
- Apache HTTP web server and Tomcat. Mark worked with the Apache Software Foundation on their
- marketing programs - including running ApacheCon between 2001 and 2008.
- Following the sale of Covalent to SpringSource in 2008, he managed the business operations for the
- company through it’s sale to VMware. At VMware Mark was responsible for the middleware business unit and
- led the acquisitions of a number of open source technology companies for the 3 years I was there. Mark
- has also participated as a Board Member for several open source technology companies, including Stormpath,
- LucidWorks and ActiveState. Mark has a Bachelors of Science degree from Western Washington University.
- ]]></bio>
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- Lagom Microservices framework, and Scala programming language, and we contribute to Apache Spark. Our
- mission is to help developers build high-performance applications that are message-driven, elastic,
- resilient and responsive. We have been involved in the Eclipse community for many years - initially around
- an Eclipse plugin for Scala and more recently in the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile projects.
- ]]></affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-<![CDATA[I am involved in several councils, lead projects, and am an active committer in many projects. See details <a target="_blank" href="https://projects.eclipse.org/user/481">here</a>. I'm currently representing our committers on the board together with Ed Merks.]]>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>My main goal as committer representative is to address the issues that adversely impact the productivity of fellow committers. Among those things are improved tool support and fighting for less overhead. I am also passionate about maintaining the high quality that people expect from Eclipse projects.</p>
-
-<p>For any Eclipse project it is crucial to find good contributors that at some point become valuable committers. From my personal experience gaining commit rights in different projects can shy away contributors because every project has subtle differences. For example there are many How To Contribute wiki pages which slightly differ. I'd like to see a common template that can be extended by individual projects.</p>
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will always have an open door for you, and I will help to resolve any barrier that is blocking your work, either personally or by taking it to the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
-<p>I am part of the Eclipse ecosystem since day one, even before it was open sourced in 2001 and hence am one of the
-initial Eclipse Project committers. I am still an active committer in various projects until today. For that,
-the Eclipse Foundation recognized my contributions to Eclipse with the Eclipse Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. I'm
-mostly involved in the Eclipse top-level project (Equinox, Platform, JDT and PDE) where I am part of the PMC. I am a
-member of the Planning Council and the Architecture Council, and therefore not only have a view on the Eclipse top-level
-project but also on all other projects at the Eclipse Foundation. I already served as committer representative in 2016 and currently. During
-the 2016 term we simplified how copyright headers are handled. Last year, Ed and I, together with the Eclipse Foundation staff, achieved to agree on a good name for the quarterly releases (Eclipse IDE).</p>
-
-<p>I worked at OTI and now work at IBM Research GmbH. My interests include user interface and API design, editors,
-software quality and performance.</p>
-
- ]]></bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <phone>+49 160 1291063</phone>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer<br>
- Platform Project Committer
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-What is Eclipse?
-That was an easy question to answer back in the early days: Eclipse is a highly-extensible, desktop
-IDE framework implemented in Java using native widgets.
-Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation has in fact been transformed and is reborn to be so much more than it was in the past.
-The arrival of Jakarta has been like a revival.
-Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear.
-Is Eclipse a floor wax or a dessert topping?
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, or a Java IDE?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things.
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
-But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something quite different, and we each
-personally help to make Eclipse what we collectively want it to be and to become.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
-The board is relatively small today, so each and every representative has significant influence.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my twelve years of experience to promote the interests of committers,
-and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater.
-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project.
-The inclusion of Jakarta has brought many new challenges and has changed the face of the board.
-My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability.
-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and having learned Deutsch,
-leading Eclipse's Modeling Project,
-sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible.
-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing list.
-I am particularly proud of the
- <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph
- technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the
- installation and configuration of development IDEs.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php"
-target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed? No,
-this is tracked by Git commits.
-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company,
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>.
- He is a coauthor of the authoritative book <a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a> which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past twelve years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed
- is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted close to 30,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at
- Simon Fraser University. He is a
- partner of <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a> and is currently
- living in Berlin and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
- ]]> </bio>
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- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>, President<br>
- <a href="http://www.itemis.com/" target="_blank">itemis AG</a>, Partner
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-<boardmember id="miranda" type="add-in-provider">
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- <name>Tracy Miranda</name>
-
- <title>Director of Open Source Community, CloudBees</title>
-
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-
- <email>tmiranda at cloudbees.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Board Sustaining Member Representative (2017/18 & 2018/19)<br>
- <a href="https://www.eclipsecon.org/france2017/about-pc">EclipseCon</a> Program Chair 2017 & 2018<br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.january">January</a> Committer<br>
- Eclipse <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/">CDT</a> Specialist<br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://kichwacoders.com/2017/02/09/diversity-means-open-source-for-a-new-generation/">Diversity Advocate</a><br>
- Eclipse <a href="https://opensource.com/users/tracymiranda">Open Source Evangelist</a><br>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-
- <p>After over a decade being part of the Eclipse community it has been an honour over the last 2 years
- to serve at the highest level, the Board of Directors. In the past year on the board of directors I
- have learnt a tremendous amount in a great environment. I am also pleased to have made an impact and achieved the following:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Continuing to push for a focus on Diversity & Inclusion as a priority in the community. </li>
- <li>Pushed for better focus on Eclipse branding which resulted in the excellent set of common branding materials to empower each member of the community to spread the word and for us all to be proud of our community. </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p> If re-elected, I would like to keep focussing on <b>growth</b> and build on this success in the following ways:</p>
-
- <p><b>Diversity</b></p>
- <p>Continue to advocate for focus on diversity & inclusion the Eclipse Foundation and
- the community at large so we can grow in new ways, include more contributors and committers from
- underrepresented groups, and benefit from the innovation that comes with more diverse thoughts around the table.</p>
-
- <p><b>CI/CD </b></p>
- <p>In my new role at CloudBees I aim to leverage that experience and position to help ensure Eclipse projects can benefit going forward. </p>
-
-
- <p><b>Collaboration with other Open Source Communities</b></p>
- <p>Be a bridge between Eclipse and other open source communities I am involved with so we can collaborate on common goals and learn from each other.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- Tracy Miranda (@tracymiranda) director of open source community at CloudBees, where she works closely with the Jenkins & Jenkins X communities.
- She is a developer, open source evangelist and veteran of the Eclipse community.
- Tracy has a background in electronics system design. She writes for opensouce.com and jaxenter.com on tech, open source & diversity.
-
-]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>CloudBees</affiliation>
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-</boardmember>
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- 1745 Hicks Ave
- San Jose, CA 95125
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>As an advocate of open-source technology in the Edge computing and IoT industries, I have been working to elevate the stature and expand the reach of the Eclipse Foundation and will continue to do so if elected. While there is already widespread respect and appreciation for the Eclipse Foundation in industry, my job will not be done until every relevant company is a member and Eclipse is the primary source of open-source projects in the minds of developers. If elected to the Board of Directors, I believe I will be able to make a greater impact and will focus on advancement through the following efforts:</p>
- </p>
- <p><strong>Industry Leadership</strong><br>
- Edge Computing is rapidly becoming one of the key mega trends in technology. There is a great opportunity for the Eclipse Foundation to establish its position as a leader in cutting-edge software by owning this forward-facing and growing technology space. We can drive thought leadership and projects in Edge (like the CNCF has for Cloud Native, Apache for Big Data and Linux for infrastructure). We have already taken a huge step forward in holding the most exciting projects in Edge/IOT. As a part of this initiative, I have been organizing the new Eclipse Edge Working Group and recruited a large number of new marquee companies to Eclipse. As a member of the Board of Directors, I will be able to help guide the Foundation to optimize its expansion into Edge computing and IoT. Using the creation and organization of the new Eclipse Edge Working Group as a model, I hope to identify a pattern for expansion that can be used to successfully address other emerging technologies in the future.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Developers</strong><br>
- Developers are the life blood of all organizations today because companies now succeed or fail based on the quality of their technology. Developers have a unique and growing voice in companies and are increasingly turning to the Open Source to solve problems, understanding vendor lock-in is not the way of the future. The Eclipse Foundation has pioneered a path forwad by focusing on developers and the developer expreience. It is why Edgeworx chose to bring our project ioFog to Eclipse over anyhwere else. The developer centric message is resonating in recruiting other techonologies to Eclipse and we should proudly own that mantle - Eclipse knows developers, developers turn to Eclipse.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Awareness & Adoption</strong><br>
- I have talked to numerous companies about their use of open-source software and have noted how frequently their understanding of the Eclipse Foundation was either non-existent or grossly inaccurate. Many of these companies were only aware of the Eclipse IDE, even though they had immediate needs for other Eclipse projects or were already using Eclipse projects (e.g MQTT) without even knowing it was from Eclipse. As a recovering VC turned entrepreneur, I spent my past life focused on finding early stage technologies, investing and growing their markets. I plan to bring this stragic focus to Eclipse, and have already begun recruiting new projects to expand on the existing great foundation of technologies already at Eclipse. I believe increasing awareness of our industry leadership and focuse on developers will lead to more projects choosing Eclipse as a home. I believe that increased awareness of the Eclipse Foundation in industry will help fulfill many of the Foundation's goals. If elected, I will be able to serve as a direct channel between the organization and the companies to help grow awareness and adoption.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Membership</strong><br>
- Many companies that I work with as partners, vendors, and customers are good candidates for first-time Eclipse Foundation membership but are not aware of the benefits of membership and the importance of supporting the organization. I see opportunities to expand membership in 2019 and will work to find the most effective methods for achieving significant growth.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- Farah Papaioannou is the President and Co-Founder of Edgeworx, an Edge computing company pionnering open-source
- universal edge compute platform with Eclipse ioFog. She has over 15 years of experience in the Enterprise
- software market, both as an Investor and an Operator. Her career has spanned both strategic operational
- roles in G100 businesses and early stage investing in Silicon Valley and DC venture capital firms. Farah
- holds three degrees from Stanford University. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science with Honors in
- Computer Science, a Masters in Communications and Masters in Management Science and Engineering. Farah and her
- husband, Todd, have 3 kids including a newborn. She loves skiing, traveling, and getting a (rare) full night of sleep!
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Edgeworx</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name>
-
- <title>Senior Software Developer, Itema AS</title>
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- <email>torkildr@gmail.com</email>
-
-
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Since I got involved in the Eclipse Community I've had several roles; most of the time as a committer, but also as a member of the Eclipse Science Working Group; member of the Board of the Directors for the past two years; and the EclipseCon Europe Program Committee. I'm the EclipseCon Europe Program Committee Chair for the 2018 and 2019 conferences.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- More details can be found at the <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/tresheim">profile page</a>
-</p>
- ]]>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Starting with the Java IDE, Eclipse has become one of the best places for cooperating on developing open source software. A rich ecosystem has evolved, including everything from basic libraries to advanced tools. When I first started out building on the Eclipse Platform in 2004, I was awed by the excellent quality of code, the welcoming community and how well organised everything was. I would like many others to share that experience.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- If elected as a sustaining member representative I would like to:
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Advance the use of Eclipse technologies</b>, particularly in scientific and industrial applications, where a diverse collection of our APIs is already suitably used.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Make Eclipse binaries consumable for the world.</b> There is an increasing number of projects not related to the Platform or derived solutions. These should be easily available to those without the Eclipse know-how.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Improve on infrastructure</b>. While a lot have been done in the past few years, we still need to ensure that the infrastructure continues to deliver a good quality service.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Improve the Eclipse Platform</b> — which is such an important part of all the various IDEs built on top. Not forgetting about RCP, which many companies are basing their products on. </p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Encourage and support new projects.</b> The move of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, forming Jakarta EE, has been and continues to be a large effort by the Foundation. Because of it, the Foundation has adapted and is now for example in a position where we can do specifications, and thanks to the Architecture Council, more agile releases. I believe this is just the start and that such efforts will benefit all projects, old and new.</p>
-<p>
- <b>Take care of committers and community.</b> It should be easy and fun to work with Foundation tools and use infrastructure such as Git, JIPP and Bugzilla. Providing excellent service and lowering the bar will also encourage outside contributions. Developing the community also means being open and inclusive towards all; regardless of religion, colour, culture or gender. This is something I would like the Eclipse Community to become famously known for.
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- I have a background from electronics, but started at the Trondheim College of Engineering (now NTNU) in 1994 to study software engineering. I have built on the Eclipse Platform since 2004, and have as a contractor and consultant helped companies use various Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time I have spent developing industrial solutions for the semiconductor, maritime and offshore energy sectors.
-</p>
-<p>
- I work for and am a part owner of Itema, a small software consultancy with 25 dedicated engineers and three equally dedicated managers. We do everything from prize winning web sites to marine operations simulation tools and games for iOS and Android. We are based in Trondheim, Norway — a university city with around 39,000 students, about half of those with a STEM curriculum. Much of the work we do is for technology companies that are spin-offs from the university and SINTEF, the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia.
-</p>
-<p>
- I founded the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Trondheim-Eclipse-User-Group/">Trondheim Eclipse User Group</a> in 2013 and have with Itema hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp for a few years before that.
-</p>
-<p>
- I can be reached on Twitter using the <a href="https://twitter.com/torkildr">@torkildr</a> handle.
-</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
-<a href="https://www.itema.no/?lang=en">Itema AS</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Martijn Verburg</name>
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- <title>CEO, jClarity Limited</title>
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- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact>24 Ronaldshay, Florence Road, London, N4 3AW, United Kingdom</contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- Eclipse RT / Eclipse Vert.x Committer
- Eclipse Technology / Eclipse MicroProfile Committer
- Jakarta EE Steering Committee
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- <vision>
- I firmly believe that Java / OpenJDK and its associated core technology platforms (Eclipse Enterprise For Java / Jakarta EE,
- Eclipse Microprofile and other Eclipse projects) server the public interest. My goal is to ensure that those communities
- Remain diverse and vibrant and that the underlying technology is fit for purpose in a rapidly changing ecosystem.
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- Martijn Verburg is the CEO and co-founder of jClarity, a Machine Learning based Java/JVM performance analysis company. He is the co-leader of the London Java User Group (LJC), and leads the global Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK efforts to enable the community to contribute to Java standards and OpenJDK. Martijn holds a seat on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC), the
-Jakarta EE Steering Committee, is a member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and can be found championing developers and end user rights in Java and Open Source related communities. He was recently made a Java Champion in recognition for his contribution to the Java ecosystem and is a regular speaker at major conferences (JavaOne, JFokus, OSCON, Devoxx etc) where he is known for challenging the industry status quo as "the Diabolical Developer".
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>jClarity Limited</affiliation>
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-</boardmember>
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- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
- <title>PMTS, Salesforce</title>
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- Chair of the Architecture Council<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
- Program Committee of numerous Eclipse conferences
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
-<p>
-With the successful diversification of the Eclipse brand from the very well known and very successful Eclipse IDE, Eclipse became a community of many, many individual open source projects. What does it take to bring such a tremendous amount of diverse projects together being part of a fantastic open source community? The Eclipse Foundation!
-</p><p>
-As a sustaining member representative, I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around commercial-friendly open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
-</p><p>
-One improvement that I'd like to push for is increasing the flexibility of project infrastructure options. Today there is GitHub for code and issues as well as Git, Gerrit, Jenkins and Bugzilla hosted at eclipse.org. Ideally, projects should be able to use any available service that makes them feel comfortable. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity must continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular platforms as well as improving the user experience for member companies as well as projects.
-</p><p>
-I had the pleasure of serving on the board before, engage with board members in discussions and work on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me doing that!
-</p><p>
-Thank you!
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Technology enthusiast, traveler, open source believer and dad. Addicted 2 DIY. More at <a href="http://guw.io/">guw.io</a>.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Salesforce
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
-
- <title>CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)</title>
- <title>VP, Developer Relations, Linux Foundation</title>
-
- <image>aniszczyk.jpg</image>
-
- <email>caniszczyk at gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2019)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for over a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for nearly a decade. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiative a <a href=“http://aniszczyk.org/2015/06/26/eclipse-code-of-conduct/â€>code of conduct</a>, update our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p><p>While my current job is helping run an open source foundation dedicated to cloud native computing, which has led to us collaborating on a new event <a href="https://eclipse-5413615.hs-sites.com/cn4j-day">Cloud Native For Java Day</a> (CN4J). I have a lot of ideas I can share from that experience on how to improve the lives of committers concretely:</p>
-
- <p><b>Expand the usage of modern tooling within the Eclipse infrastructure and don't shy away from cloud offerings. There are amazing tools out there such as GitLab, FOSSA, Snyk, Circle CI etc that the committers should be able to take advantage of.</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to diversify/grow revenue to hire more staff</b></p>
-
-<p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to collaborate more with other foundations, from cross project collaboration to colocating events like Cloud Native for Java Day.</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Ensure Eclipse processes are transparent, lightweight and AUTOMATED as much as possible</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is an open source executive and software engineer by trade with a
- passion for building ecosystem. At Twitter, he was responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Independent
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Angelo Corsaro</name>
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- <title>Chief Technology Officer, ADLINK</title>
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- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
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-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- At Eclipse, beside being a steering member of the Edge Native WG, I am leading the fog05 and zenoh projects and I
- am a committer on Cyclone DDS. Overall, my mission in the past few years has been that of helping create an
- Eclipse technology stack for the Edge.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-
- <p>Distributed systems, programming languages and real-time systems have been my passion
- since I was a young engineering student. I've always been driven by the quest for finding
- (1) the right abstractions to provide to end-users with ergonomic, safe and as much as possible
- composable primitives, (2) the right architectures and algorithms that would allow for efficiency,
- scalability determinism and in general dependability. These interests have inevitably lead me to
- be involved deeply in the development of technologies for Edge and Fog computing, in which there is
- the inevitable convergence of distributed, embedded and to a certain extent real-time computing.</p>
-
- <p>As IoT and Edge Native represents a swiftly growing domain for Eclipse, my focus will be on driving
- the current Eclipse infrastructure toward better supporting this new class of projects. Specifically,
- my main areas of focus will be related to static code analysis, test coverage, performance and
- scalability testing.</p>
-
- <p>Why so? Because if we want to make the difference in the world of open source
- and more importantly accelerate industrial adoption of Eclipse technologies,
- we need to provide evidences of intrinsic quality as well as measures of performances. Many of us know
- how hard it is to make tests at scale, thus one of the goals I'd like to reach is to use some of the
- Eclipse technologies already available for provisioning, to help establish a common distributed
- benchmarking framework. I'll also try to work with the rest of Eclipse to see if we can
- have agreements with infrastruture providers to grant some resource for free -- as some of them
- currently do for builds.</p>
-
- <p>In conclusion, my focus will be continuing to help create momentum around the IoT and Edge Native
- ecosystem and provide an infrastructure that will allow these projects to make the difference.</p> ]]>
-
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ADLINK Technology Inc. where he looks
- after corporate technology strategy and innovation, leads the Advanced Technology Office and the
- Software and Technology Business Unit.</p>
-
- <p>Angelo is a world top expert in edge/fog computing and a well know researcher in the area of high
- performance and large scale distributed systems. Angelo has over 100 publications on referred journals,
- conferences, workshops, and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards.</p>
-
- <p><b>Specialties</b>: Fog/Edge Computing, Industrial and Consumer Internet of Things, Innovation and Innovation
- Management, Product Strategy, Open Source, High Performance Computing, Large Scale Mission/Business Critical
- Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems, Software Patterns, Functional Programming Languages</p> ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>ADLINK</affiliation>
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-</boardmember>
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- <name>Dani Megert</name>
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- <title>Senior Software Architect, IBM Research GmbH</title>
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-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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-<![CDATA[I am involved in several councils, lead projects, and am an active committer in many projects. See details <a target="_blank" href="https://projects.eclipse.org/user/481">here</a>. I'm currently representing our committers on the Eclipse Board of Directors together with Ed Merks and Chris Aniszczyk.]]>
-</eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-<p>My main goal as committer representative is to address the issues that adversely impact the productivity of fellow committers. Among those things are improved tool support and fighting for less overhead. I am also passionate about maintaining the high quality that people expect from Eclipse projects.</p>
-
-<p>For any Eclipse project it is crucial to find good contributors that at some point become valuable committers. From my personal experience gaining commit rights in different projects can shy away contributors because every project has subtle differences. For example there are many How To Contribute wiki pages which slightly differ. I'd like to see a common template that can be extended by individual projects.</p>
-
-<p>As your committer representative I will always have an open door for you, and I will help to resolve any barrier that is blocking your work, either personally or by taking it to the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
-<p>As a big achievement of my current term on the Board I'd like to mention that the Board passed a resolution which allows Eclipse projects to distribute OpenJDK 11.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
-<p>I am part of the Eclipse ecosystem since day one, even before it was open sourced in 2001 and hence am one of the
-initial Eclipse Project committers. I am still an active committer in various projects until today. For that,
-the Eclipse Foundation recognized my contributions to Eclipse with the Eclipse Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. I'm
-mostly involved in the Eclipse top-level project (Equinox, Platform, JDT and PDE) where I am part of the PMC. I am a
-member of the Planning Council and the Architecture Council, and therefore not only have a view on the Eclipse top-level
-project but also on all other projects at the Eclipse Foundation. I already served as committer representative on the Board in 2016, 2018 and currently.</p>
-
-<p>I worked at OTI and now work at IBM Research GmbH. My interests include user interface and API design, editors,
-software quality and performance.</p>
-
- ]]></bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>IBM Research GmbH</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>President, Macro Modeling</title>
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-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <phone>+49 160 1291063</phone>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer<br>
- Platform Project Committer
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-
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-
-<p>
-What is Eclipse?
-That was an easy question to answer back in the early days:
-Eclipse is a highly-extensible, desktop IDE framework implemented in Java using native widgets.
-Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified dramatically and continues to do so.
-Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear.
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, a Community, or a Java IDE?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things.
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
-But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something quite different,
-and we each personally help to make Eclipse what we collectively want it to be and to become.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
-The board is relatively small today, so each and every representative has significant influence.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my thirteen years of experience to promote the interests of committers,
-and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater.
-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project,
-while not losing sight of this core technology.
-The inclusion of Jakarta has brought many new challenges and has changed the face and focus of the board.
-My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability.
-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and having learned Deutsch,
-leading Eclipse's Modeling Project,
-sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, and linguistic boundaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible.
-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing lists.
-I am particularly proud of the
- <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph
- technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have been working on to help ease the
- installation and configuration of development IDEs.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php"
-target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I contribute actively to the platform, and have been a driving force in helping to improve the consistency and quality to the simultaneous release.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed? No,
-this is tracked by Git commits.
-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
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- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company,
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">Macro Modeling</a>.
- He is a coauthor of the authoritative book <a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a> which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past thirteen years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed
- is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 30,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at
- Simon Fraser University. He is currently
- living in Berlin and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
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- 1745 Hicks Ave
- San Jose, CA 95125
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>It was an honor to serve my first year on the Board of the Eclipse Foundation, especially as the only female representative. While the Eclipse IDE is a major project of the Eclipse foundation, I spent my first year working to broaden the reputation and brand of the Eclipse Foundation into other technology areas such as Edge Computing. Through the year, I drove an initiative to successfully form, recruit and launch the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group. With a founding group of Intel, Siemens, Bosch, Ad-Link, Huawei, Edgeworx, Eurotech, and Kynetics (and a rapidly expanding list of notable companies wishing to join) the charter of the WG is to be a global leader (by shipping code, not specs!) in the emerging Edge Native landscape. The culmination of the effort was a widely and well received PR launch and website (http://edgenative.eclipse.org) that drove to the heart of my goals to build a wider brand for Eclipse. In addition, I was also fortunate enough to be named as Edge Woman of the Year (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/state-of-the-edge-and-edge-computing-world-announce-farah-papaioannou-as-winner-of-the-edge-woman-of-the-year-award-2019-300974151.html) an honor I am not only humbled to have, but could not have done without the Eclipse Foundation's support of women in tech. I would like to strive to build on this vision by serving another year as a Sustaining Member representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors. I will continue to focus on advancement through the following efforts:</p>
-
- <p><strong>Industry Leadership</strong><br>
- Edge Computing is one of the key mega trends in technology. The Eclipse Foundation has already started establishing its position as a leader with the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group. We not only have marquee companies standing alongside the Eclipse Foundation in the Edge Computing space, but they are now starting to commit developers and resources. As a member of the Board of Directors, I will be able to help continue this effort and expand to the next level. We have established oursevles as place for a open source technology that provides real-world solutions. I would like to expand this effort to grow the membership of the companies as well as increase the level of involvement and code contributions from these organizations.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Developers</strong><br>
- Developers are the life blood of all organizations today because companies now succeed or fail based on the quality of their technology. Developers have a unique and growing voice in companies and are increasingly turning to the Open Source to solve problems, understanding vendor lock-in is not the way of the future. The Eclipse Foundation has pioneered a path forwad by focusing on developers and the developer expreience. It is why Edgeworx chose to bring our project ioFog to Eclipse over anyhwere else. The developer centric message is resonating in recruiting other techonologies to Eclipse and we should proudly own that mantle - Eclipse knows developers, developers turn to Eclipse.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Awareness & Adoption</strong><br>
- I have talked to numerous companies about their use of open-source software and have noted how frequently their understanding of the Eclipse Foundation was either non-existent or grossly inaccurate. Many of these companies were only aware of the Eclipse IDE, even though they had immediate needs for other Eclipse projects or were already using Eclipse projects (e.g Hono) without even knowing it was from Eclipse. As a recovering VC turned entrepreneur, I spent my past life focused on finding early stage technologies, investing and growing their markets. I plan to bring this strategic focus to Eclipse, and have already begun recruiting new projects to expand on the existing great foundation of technologies already at Eclipse. I believe increasing awareness of our industry leadership and focus on developers will lead to more projects choosing Eclipse as a home. I believe that increased awareness of the Eclipse Foundation in industry will help fulfill many of the Foundation's goals. If elected, I will be able to serve as a direct channel between the organization and the companies to help grow awareness and adoption.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Membership</strong><br>
- Many companies that I work with as partners, vendors, and customers are good candidates for first-time Eclipse Foundation membership but are not aware of the benefits of membership and the importance of supporting the organization. I see opportunities to expand membership in 2020 and will work to find the most effective methods for achieving significant growth.
- </p>
- ]]>
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-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
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- Farah Papaioannou is the President and Co-Founder of Edgeworx, an Edge Cloud platform company, pionnering
- Edge Native open-source with Eclipse ioFog. She has over 15 years of experience in the Enterprise
- software market, both as an Investor and an Operator. Her career has spanned both strategic operational
- roles in G100 businesses and early stage investing in Silicon Valley and DC venture capital firms. Farah
- holds three degrees from Stanford University. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science with Honors in
- Computer Science, a Masters in Communications and Masters in Management Science and Engineering. Farah and her
- husband, Todd, have 2 kids including a two-week-old. She loves skiing, traveling, and getting a (rare) full night of sleep!
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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- <name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name>
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-</p>
-
-<p>
- Details can be found at the Eclipse <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/tresheim">profile page</a>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Starting with the Java IDE, Eclipse has become one of the best places for cooperating on developing open source software. A rich ecosystem has evolved, including everything from basic libraries to advanced tools. When I first started out building on the Eclipse Platform in 2004, I was awed by the excellent quality of code, the welcoming community and how well organised everything was. I would like many others to share that experience.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- If elected as a sustaining member representative I would like to:
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Advance the use of Eclipse technologies</b>, particularly in scientific and industrial applications, where a diverse collection of our APIs is already suitably used.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Make Eclipse binaries consumable for the world.</b> There is an increasing number of projects not related to the Platform or derived solutions. These should be easily available to those without the Eclipse know-how.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Improve on infrastructure</b>. While a lot have been done in the past few years, we still need to ensure that the infrastructure continues to deliver a good quality service.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Improve the Eclipse Platform</b> — which is such an important part of all the various IDEs built on top. Not forgetting about RCP, which many companies are basing their products on. </p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Encourage and support new projects.</b> The move of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, forming Jakarta EE, has been and continues to be a large effort by the Foundation. Because of it, the Foundation has adapted and is now for example in a position where we can do specifications, and thanks to the Architecture Council, more agile releases. I believe this is just the start and that such efforts will benefit all projects, old and new.</p>
-<p>
- <b>Take care of committers and community.</b> It should be easy and fun to work with Foundation tools and use infrastructure such as Git, JIPP and Bugzilla. Providing excellent service and lowering the bar will also encourage outside contributions. Developing the community also means being open and inclusive towards all; regardless of religion, colour, culture or gender. This is something I would like the Eclipse Community to become famously known for.
-</p>
- ]]>
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- <![CDATA[
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- I have a background from electronics, but started at the Trondheim College of Engineering (now NTNU) in 1994 to study software engineering. I have built on the Eclipse Platform since 2004, and have as a contractor and consultant helped companies use various Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time I have spent developing industrial solutions for the semiconductor, maritime and offshore energy sectors.
-</p>
-<p>
- I work for and are a co-owner of Itema, a small software consultancy with 27 dedicated engineers and three equally dedicated managers. We do everything from prize winning web sites to marine operations simulation tools and games for iOS and Android. We are based in Trondheim, Norway — a university city with around 39,000 students, about half of those with a STEM curriculum. Much of the work we do is for technology companies that are spin-offs from the university and SINTEF, the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia.
-
-</p>
-<p>
- I founded the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Trondheim-Eclipse-User-Group/">Trondheim Eclipse User Group</a> in 2013 and have with Itema hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp for a few years before that.
-</p>
-<p>
- I can be reached on Twitter using the <a href="https://twitter.com/torkildr">@torkildr</a> handle.
-</p>
- ]]>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>I am in tech, but not of tech. I don’t check the standard boxes for this board. But I’ve done business development in many different areas for many different people and organizations. That broad, business-focused perspective is the value I would bring to this group.</p>
-
-<p>My first objective for Eclipse Foundation is Expansion: to survive, to thrive, we need to draw people to the Foundation. What will bring more people to us? How do we grow? How do we connect? I can assist with out-reach and increasing visibility. I know how to tap markets. I’m an excellent communicator: written, verbal and emoji.</p>
-
-<p>Finances is #2: paying the bills isn’t sexy or exciting, but it is deeply important. How do we pay for what we do? How do we fund more? How do we make more so that we can give more? More support, more opportunities, more collaboration. I am skilled at preparing and analyzing budgets, cash flow, pro formas, and my checkbook is balanced.</p>
-
-<p>Diversity, my third aim: this board ought to reflect the current world and draw diversity to the Foundation. This is open source. Eclipse should be at the forefront of gathering all people together and building a stronger ecosystem. I represent a piece of that diversity, at the least because I’m not an engineer ;).</p>
-
-<p>What draws me to run for this seat is opportunity: to support, to grow, to diversify. This is an amazing organization and I’d like to be a part of building it.</p>
-
-
- ]]>
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-I’ve taken an eclectic entrepreneurial path in life. I’ve started a commercial interior design business, built a restaurant from scratch, owned a custom boat canvas business, and published four romance novels. I currently juggle operations and project management for OpenDevise in Denver. I also spent eight years cruising on a sailboat with my husband from Seattle to Maine and twice around the Caribbean. Navigating organizations through storms and chaos into smooth sailing is right in my wheelhouse.
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- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
- Program Committee of numerous Eclipse conferences<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Lifetime Award</a> Winner 2015
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-With the successful diversification of the Eclipse brand from the very well known and
-very successful Eclipse IDE, Eclipse became a community of many, many individual open source projects. What does it take to bring such a tremendous amount of diverse projects together being part of a fantastic open source community? The Eclipse Foundation!
-</p><p>
-As a sustaining member representative, I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around commercial-friendly open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
-</p><p>
-I am proud of what we have achieved in the last year. The revised Intellectual Property Policy dramatically lifts a ton of unnecessary process weight from projects as well as Eclipse Foundation staff. I'd like to continue with those improvements and push for reducing complexity where possible. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity must continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular stacks as well as improving the user experience for member companies as well as projects.
-</p><p>
-It was my pleasure serving on the board in 2019 on your behalf, engaging with board members in discussions and working on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me to continue doing that!
-</p><p>
-Thank you!
-</p>
- ]]>
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-Technology enthusiast, traveler, open source believer and dad. Addicted 2 DIY. More at <a href="http://guw.io/">guw.io</a>.
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- <p><b>Java (OpenJDK)</b><br>
- For years there has been confusion in the Java ecosystem. Which vendor should I use? Which version should I use? Where should
- I download my binaries from? This is a challenge that I’ve been determined to resolve. Companies wanted to avoid vendor lock-in
- and so AdoptOpenJDK was born. The project grew from strength to strength and quickly became the successful OpenJDK distribution
- that we know today. But… we needed more resources, more marketing expertise and more legal support, and that’s why we recently
- announced our intention to move AdoptOpenJDK to the Eclipse Foundation. My first and main goal for the Eclipse Foundation is
- to make it <b>the place to get Java (OpenJDK) from</b>. I hope to <b>bring vendors together</b> in one centralised place and collaborate
- in the open for the benefit of the community.</p>
-
- <p><b>Outreach</b><br>
- While physical conferences have been put on the back-burner due to Covid-19, a new opportunity has arisen. With virtual
- conferences, you can present at several conferences around the world in the same week (and all without leaving your home). This
- gives us a great opportunity to reach more developers than ever before and I want to build on this to increase developer
- awareness of the foundation.</p>
-
- <p><b>Membership</b><br>
- Over the years I have collaborated with many companies that are large contributors/users of Java. Many of these are
- great candidates for Eclipse Foundation membership but are unaware of its benefits and the importance of supporting the
- organisation. I hope to increase their awareness of the fantastic work that the Eclipse Foundation does to support the
- open-source ecosystem and bring them onboard.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>I am the Java Program Manager at Microsoft and the recently appointed PMC member of Eclipse Adoptium. Since co-founding AdoptOpenJDK in 2016 I have been leading the
- community outreach efforts both at AdoptOpenJDK as well as the broader Java ecosystem. I played a key role in moving the AdoptOpenJDK project into the Eclipse Foundation and look
- forward to the coming year as the project continues to grow far beyond its current 200 million user-base. I strongly believe in open-source language ecosystems and thrive on the challenge of
- leading the foundations behind them. I would cherish the opportunity to represent the Adoptium working group (as well as others) on the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
-
- <p>I also contribute to both the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation where I am a core collaborator and play an active role in several of the workgroups.</p>
-]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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- <name>Chris Aniszczyk</name>
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- <title> <![CDATA[
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- VP, Developer Relations, Linux Foundation
- ]]> </title>
-
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-
- <email>caniszczyk at gmail.com</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/team-leaders.php">Technology</a> PMC Member<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/orbit">Orbit</a> Committer<br>
- <a href="http://planet.eclipse.org">PlanetEclipse.org</a> Maintainer<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/egit">EGit</a> / JGit Committer (formerly)<br>
- <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org">EclipseCon</a> Program Committee (2007-2012)<br>
- Eclipse Board Committer Representative (2007-2020)
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
- <p>I've been grateful to be a part of the Eclipse community for over a decade and honored to have served the committers on the Board for about a decade. My previous activities on the board I've helped initiative a <a href=“http://aniszczyk.org/2015/06/26/eclipse-code-of-conduct/â€>code of conduct</a>, update our infrastructure by moving to
- <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/eclipse-says-goodbye-to-cvs/">Git/Gerrit</a>, push the Board to <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/embracing-social-coding-at-eclipse/">embrace social coding at the Foundation</a> as an option for development (see <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/vertx-eclipse">Vertx as a case study</a>) and helped push for a simplified the IP process with <a href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/eclipse-clas-are-live/">CLAs</a>.
- </p><p>While my current job is helping run an open source foundation dedicated to cloud native computing, which has led to us collaborating on a new event <a href="https://eclipse-5413615.hs-sites.com/cn4j-day">Cloud Native For Java Day</a> (CN4J). I have a lot of ideas I can share from that experience on how to improve the lives of committers concretely:</p>
-
- <p><b>Expand the usage of modern tooling within the Eclipse infrastructure and don't shy away from cloud offerings. There are amazing tools out there such as GitLab, FOSSA, Snyk, Orbit, etc that the committers should be able to take advantage of.</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to diversify/grow revenue to hire more staff</b></p>
-
-<p><b>Push the Eclipse Foundation to collaborate more with other foundations, from cross project collaboration to colocating events like Cloud Native for Java Day or having Eclipse participate in events like <a href ="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubernetes-on-edge-day/">Kubernetes Edge Day</a>.</b></p>
-
- <p><b>Attract new projects and continue to mentor projects at the Eclipse Foundation</b></p>
-
- <p>While I'm not as active on the Eclipse coding front as I've been in the past, I'm almost always one of the first people to volunteer to mentor a new project. I will continue to do my best to grow the Eclipse committer community by attracting and mentoring new projects.</p>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On the whole, my goal has always been to make Eclipse thrive and be transparent as possible about the board's
- activities. I really love bringing new projects to the Eclipse ecosystem and mentoring new committers. In the end,
- I would be honored to represent committers on the board.</p>
- ]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Chris Aniszczyk (<a href="http://twitter.com/cra">@cra</a>) is an open source executive and software engineer by trade with a
- passion for building ecosystem. At Twitter, he was responsible for
- creating their open source program and managing their open source efforts. He also has the honor
- to sit on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. In a previous life, he traveled the world and
- consulted companies on Eclipse technology. He also lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and linux related
- projects. In his spare time, you'll find him running, cycling or doing yoga.</p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Independent
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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-
- <name>Aleksandar Kurtakov</name>
-
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-
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-
- <phone>+359898452961</phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact>Country: Bulgaria, City: Pazardzhik, Address: 4400, 11 Sveti Arahangel Str.</contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Eclipse Tools PMC lead<br>
- Eclipse PMC member<br>
- Eclipse Architecture and Planning Councils member<br>
- Project Lead of Eclipse Platform, Linux Tools and Tycho projects<br>
- Committer on CDT, CBI, DLTK, aCute, Corrosion, EPP, ShellWax, WildWebDeveloper, Equinox, m2e, PDE<br>
- Full details at <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/akurtakov#tab-projects" target="_blank">akurtakov-projects</a></p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Committer representatives should be well aware of all the daily issues committer face first hand - infrastructure, processes, tools and technologies. I have a passion about improving the priority given to these things as a project exists thanks to its contributors and their needs should have highest priority in order for a project to stay successful.
-<br>
-The best way to measure community growth is via contributor growth as more contributors ensures the longevity of the project. Gaining more contributors is a time-consuming task which should be taken seriously by every project. It's our duty to share best practices and success stories in this area more widely, and encourage projects struggling in the area to adapt new tactics.
-<br>
-As a committer representative my goal is to be the voice of everyone who has ideas about how to make our day-to-day routines simpler and less daunting. Even if you consider an idea that came to you as too wild to be considered seriously, it's worth sharing as it has the potential to save hours and days when scaled it to the number of projects and committers. I will always be available for such discussions.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>Aleksandar got involved in the Eclipse ecosystem as a downstream integrator in Linux distributions. This naturally grown into contributing to and maintaining Linux specific tools with special interest on release engineering and ease of building. At some point he authored an alternative build system for Eclipse Platform which was used by majority of Linux distributions shipping packages for Eclipse IDE until the needed changes managed to be properly put in the regular build system. System integration focus grown even further into becoming one of the main SWT developers and contributions to a good number of different projects to streghten their integration and with underlying operating system and release engineering procedures. Exposure to such a diversive group of issues and development areas was key in becoming part of Eclipse Planning and Architecture Councils, become part of PMC and lead various projects.</p>
- <p>He works for Red Hat with special interest in system integration, maintenance improvements and overall community welcoming and growing.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Red Hat Inc.</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Andrey Loskutov</name>
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-
- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact>Steile Gasse 3, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany</contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Eclipse Platform committer<br>
- Eclipse JDT committer<br>
- Eclipse PDE committer<br>
- Eclipse Equinox committer<br>
- Eclipse EGit committer<br>
- Eclipse JGit committer<br>
- Eclipse platform owner at Advantest Europe GmbH
- </p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>I have been a passionate Eclipse developer for nearly twenty years, and the Eclipse platform owner at
- Advantest Europe GmbH for ten years. From that background it is obvious that my main interest is Eclipse IDE and the ecosystem around it.</p>
-
- <p>I'm not a man of many words, and prefer not to promise anything I can't deliver. My main goal is to <b>keep the Eclipse IDE on the desktop going</b>, despite all the Web/Cloud/IoT/BlockChain etc. hypes that come and go.</p>
-
- <p>My focus is especially on Eclipse IDE quality and stability, reliable tests and solid infrastructure.</p>
- <p>My motto could be better expressed in Russian:
- <i>"Спасение утопающих
- - дело рук
- самих утопающих,"</i> which means basically "if you don't want to go under, learn how to swim."</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>I have worked since 2006 as software engineer/Eclipse platform owner at Advantest Europe GmbH in Germany. Because of my job and for my
- own pleasure, I do lots of open source development. I'm the author of a few Eclipse plugins and a committer on
- Eclipse Platform / JDT / EGit / JGit / SpotBugs projects.</p>
- <p>In my former life before Advantest, I grew up in Moscow, Russia, studied Geology at Moscow State University, moved to Germany,
- built a few roads, cut many trees and received my diploma in Mathematics and CS at the University of Hannover while working
-full time as a software engineer for
-TUI Infotec.</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Advantest Europe GmbH</affiliation>
-
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- <name>Thomas Mäder</name>
-
- <title>Dipl. Informatik Ing. ETH</title>
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- <email>thomas@devotek-it.ch</email>
-
- <phone>+41 78 888 30 29</phone>
-
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- <contact>
- Grundgasse 2
- 9500 Wil
- Switzerland
- </contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>I'm a committer emeritus of Eclipse IDE and an active committer on the Eclipse Theia and Che projects</eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>Dani Megert, who passed away recently, had been my colleague at Object Technology Intl. 20 years ago when we set out to revolutionize the IDE market.
- The election to replace him as a committer representative on the board of the Eclipse foundation got me thinking that I might well have what it takes
- to serve in that function.</p>
-
- <p>Having been around since the beginning, I understand the ins and outs of Open Source licensing and governance. I know many of the people
- involved with the foundation, including former board members who I'm sure would be willing to help me navigate the politics of the
- Eclipse board. But I haven't been involved in Eclipse Foundation administration directly. This means I owe no-one any favours and I have no axes to grind.
- I work for Red Hat/IBM and I would probably best represent the committers that work for a large corporation, but as they like to say in Twitter bios:
- "My opinions are my own, not my employers". Ask anyone who knows me. (follow me on twitter, b.t.w.: @tsmaeder)</p>
-
- <p>And finally, I am an actual committer on active Eclipse projects, not a "head of" or some manager. I write code and open PR's every day, just like you.</p>
-
- <p>The Eclipse Foundation has traditionally been a place for businesses to cooperate more than individual contributors. That is OK. But there are areas
- where the priorities of the individual contributors are not necessarily the same as those of organisations.</p>
-
- <p>We want our individual contributions to be recognized. When I'm in a job interview I want to be able to point to my contributions to an Eclipse project and say:
- "Look! I did that". When I contribute great value to a project, I expect my role and influence in that project to grow accordingly.
-
- <p>We want to write software, not CQs. As a contributor I would want the Eclipse Foundation to make it as simple as possible to run a project, while maintaining
- the secret "business-friendly" sauce. Recent improvements in tooling allowing projects to self-certify their license compliance are a good step in the direction
- I mean.</p>
-
- <p>As software is eating the world, we are the snout of that particular crocodile. Our work might end up in a pacemaker, it might guide a missile into its target,
- or it might determine the outcome of an election. Corporations cannot be morally responsible. We as individuals shoulder the moral credit and the blame.
- Because the structures and rules we give our software development organisation will shape what they will create, we as the creators or that software
- are entitled to having a voice in making those rules and structures. I am aware this is a difficult topic and don't expect any ready-made recipes
- from me, but I believe it's something we as an industry need to address.</p>
-
- <p>But as a committer representative, my main job would be to listen to you and bring your issues to the board table. Starting now, I would be delighted for any suggestions,
- complaints or words of encouragement on the above email or @ me on Twitter.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>I am one of the IBM engineers that created the Eclipse IDE before the Eclipse foundation even existed. At IBM's Object Technology Intl.
- subsidiary, I also contributed to what is the Eclipse Open J9 Java VM today. After having spent some years working in more business-oriented settings
- and an ill-fated online file storage startup, I am now a principal software engineer at Red Hat and an active committer to the Eclipse Theia
- and Eclipse Che online IDE projects.</p>
- <p>Away from work, I enjoy playing golf, ice hockey and tennis. In summer, you'll find me hiking in the mountains. I tinker with software synthesizers
- in my home studio and I cook a pretty good aloo gobi. I live in Switzerland.
- </p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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-
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- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>Director, macromodeling GmbH</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <phone>+41 78 400 26 49</phone>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- JustJ Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer<br>
- Platform Project Committer
- </p>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-What is Eclipse?
-That was an easy question to answer back in the early days:
-Eclipse is a highly-extensible, desktop IDE framework implemented in Java using native widgets.
-Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified dramatically and continues to do so.
-Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear.
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, a Community, or a Java IDE, Europe's largest open source organization?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things.
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
-But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something quite different,
-and we each personally help to make Eclipse what we collectively want it to be and to become.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
-The board is relatively small, so each and every representative has significant influence.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my fourteen years of experience to promote the interests of committers,
-and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater.
-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project,
-while not losing sight of this core technology.
-The inclusion of Jakarta has brought many new challenges and has changed the face and focus of the board.
-My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability.
-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and now in Zurich and having learned Deutsch,
-leading Eclipse's Modeling Project,
-sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, national, and linguistic boundaries.
-I am particularly proud to have worked with the board on the formation of an Eclipse IDE Working Group last year to help ensure the
-long term viability of Eclipse's flagship technology stack.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible.
-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing lists.
-I am particularly proud of the
- <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph
- technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have developed to help ease the
- installation and configuration of development IDEs,
- making Eclipse projects more welcoming for contributors.
- I am also proud of having worked with the board to enable the redistribution of Java Runtime Environments last year
- as well of the creation of
- <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/justj/" target="_blank">JustJ</a> to make JREs available as p2 installable units.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php"
-target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I contribute actively to the platform, and have been a driving force in helping to improve the consistency and quality to the simultaneous release.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed? No,
-this is tracked by Git commits.
-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company,
- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">macromodeling</a>.
- He is a coauthor of the authoritative book <a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a> which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past thirteen years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top New Comer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed
- is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 31,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at
- Simon Fraser University. He is currently
- living in Switzerland and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
- </p>
- ]]> </bio>
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- <a href="http://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">macromodeling</a>, Director
- </p>
- ]]>
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- <name>Farah Papaioannou</name>
-
- <title>President and Co-founder, Edgeworx</title>
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- <email>farah@edgeworx.io</email>
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- <phone>1-909-971-7150</phone>
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- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact>
- 1745 Hicks Ave
- San Jose, CA 95125
- </contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- Eclipse Edge Native Working Group Organizer<br>
- Eclipse ioFog Committer<br>
- Eclipse IoT Working Group Member
- ]]></eclipse_affiliation>
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>It has been an honor to serve on the Board of the Eclipse Foundation, especially as the only female representative and I hope to continue to do so. While the Eclipse IDE is a major project of the Eclipse foundation, I've been focusing on broadening the reputation and brand of the Eclipse Foundation into other technology areas such as Edge Computing. Through the year, I drove an initiative to successfully form, recruit and launch the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group. With a founding group of Intel, Siemens, Bosch, Ad-Link, Huawei, Edgeworx, Eurotech, and Kynetics (and a rapidly expanding list of notable companies wishing to join) the charter of the WG is to be a global leader (by shipping code, not specs!) in the emerging Edge Native landscape. The culmination of the effort was a widely and well received PR launch and website (http://edgenative.eclipse.org) that drove to the heart of my goals to build a wider brand for Eclipse. In addition, I was also fortunate enough to be named as Edge Woman of the Year (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/state-of-the-edge-and-edge-computing-world-announce-farah-papaioannou-as-winner-of-the-edge-woman-of-the-year-award-2019-300974151.html) an honor I am not only humbled to have, but could not have done without the Eclipse Foundation's support of women in tech. I would like to strive to build on this vision by serving another year as a Sustaining Member representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors. I will continue to focus on advancement through the following efforts:</p>
-
- <p><strong>Industry Leadership</strong><br>
- Edge Computing is one of the key mega trends in technology. The Eclipse Foundation has already started establishing its position as a leader with the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group. We not only have marquee companies standing alongside the Eclipse Foundation in the Edge Computing space, but they are now starting to commit developers and resources. As a member of the Board of Directors, I will be able to help continue this effort and expand to the next level. We have established oursevles as place for a open source technology that provides real-world solutions. I would like to expand this effort to grow the membership of the companies as well as increase the level of involvement and code contributions from these organizations.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Open Source Collaboration</strong><br>
- In some disciplines, Open Source projects and organizations have had limited collaboration. Bringing projects together could benefit all by not only bringing together different technologies to enable people to solve hard problems as well as expanding the user base for all. Eclipse has been instrumental in spearheading collaborative efforts. I look forward continuing that effort and leveraging it to grow the foundation and visibility of our amazing projects.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Developers</strong><br>
- Developers are the life blood of all organizations today because companies now succeed or fail based on the quality of their technology. Developers have a unique and growing voice in companies and are increasingly turning to the Open Source to solve problems, understanding vendor lock-in is not the way of the future. The Eclipse Foundation has pioneered a path forwad by focusing on developers and the developer expreience. It is why Edgeworx chose to bring our project ioFog to Eclipse over anyhwere else. The developer centric message is resonating in recruiting other techonologies to Eclipse and we should proudly own that mantle - Eclipse knows developers, developers turn to Eclipse.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Awareness & Adoption</strong><br>
- I have talked to numerous companies about their use of open-source software and have noted how frequently their understanding of the Eclipse Foundation was either non-existent or grossly inaccurate. Many of these companies were only aware of the Eclipse IDE, even though they had immediate needs for other Eclipse projects or were already using Eclipse projects (e.g Hono) without even knowing it was from Eclipse. As a recovering VC turned entrepreneur, I spent my past life focused on finding early stage technologies, investing and growing their markets. I plan to bring this strategic focus to Eclipse, and have already begun recruiting new projects to expand on the existing great foundation of technologies already at Eclipse. I believe increasing awareness of our industry leadership and focus on developers will lead to more projects choosing Eclipse as a home. I believe that increased awareness of the Eclipse Foundation in industry will help fulfill many of the Foundation's goals. If elected, I will be able to serve as a direct channel between the organization and the companies to help grow awareness and adoption.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Membership</strong><br>
- Many companies that I work with as partners, vendors, and customers are good candidates for first-time Eclipse Foundation membership but are not aware of the benefits of membership and the importance of supporting the organization. I see opportunities to expand membership in 2021 and will work to find the most effective methods for achieving significant growth.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- Farah Papaioannou is the President and Co-Founder of Edgeworx, an Edge Cloud platform company, pionnering
- Edge Native open-source with Eclipse ioFog. She has over 15 years of experience in the Enterprise
- software market, both as an Investor and an Operator. Her career has spanned both strategic operational
- roles in G100 businesses and early stage investing in Silicon Valley and DC venture capital firms. Farah
- holds three degrees from Stanford University. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science with Honors in
- Computer Science, a Masters in Communications and Masters in Management Science and Engineering. Farah and her
- husband, Todd, have 2 toddlers. She loves spending time with family and getting a (rare) full night of sleep!
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Edgeworx</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name>
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- <title>Senior Software Engineer and Co-owner, Itema AS</title>
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- <email>torkildr@gmail.com</email>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Since I got involved in the Eclipse Community I've had several roles. Most of the time as a committer, but also as a member of the Eclipse S
- cience Working Group; member of the Board of the Directors for the past four years; and the EclipseCon Europe Program Committee. I was the EclipseCon
- Europe Program Committee Chair for the 2018 and 2019 conferences.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- Details can be found at the Eclipse <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/tresheim">profile page</a>
-</p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- Since I first joined the board four years ago, the foundation has undergone many important changes. Among
- them being able to handle specification projects such as those from Jakarta EE and AsciiDoc, establishing a new
- GitLab based software forge in Switzerland, to moving the organisation to Europe and Brussels. It has been an exiting period.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- If reelected as a contributing member representative I would like to:
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<p>
-<b>Continue to support efforts to establish the Eclipse Foundation as the premier open source foundation</b> – based in Europe, and with a global reach.
-</p>
-
- <b>Advance the use of Eclipse technologies</b>, particularly in scientific and industrial applications, where a diverse
- collection of our APIs is already suitably used.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Improve the Eclipse Platform</b> — which is such an important part of all the various IDEs built on top. Not forgetting about
- RCP, which many companies are basing their products on.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Encourage and support new projects</b>. Moving to Europe and changing the bylaws in favor of a neutral legislation enables new opportunities.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- <b>Take care of committers and community.</b> It should be easy and fun to work with Foundation tools and
- infrastructure. Providing excellent service and lowering the bar will also encourage outside contributions.
- Developing the community also means being open and inclusive towards all; regardless of religion, colour, culture or
- gender. This is something I would like the Eclipse Community to become famously known for.
-
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
- I have a background from electronics, but started at the Trondheim College of Engineering (now NTNU) in 1994 to study
- software engineering. I have built on the Eclipse Platform since 2004, and have as a contractor and consultant helped
- companies use various Eclipse technologies for more than a decade. Most of this time I have spent developing industrial
- solutions for the semiconductor, maritime and offshore energy sectors.
-</p>
-<p>
- I work for and are a co-owner of Itema, a small software consultancy with 32 highly skilled and dedicated people, all
- also co-owners. We do everything from prize winning web sites to marine operations simulation tools and games for iOS and
- Android. We are based in Trondheim, Norway — a university city with around 33,000 students, about half of those with a STEM
- curriculum. Much of the work we do is for technology companies that are spin-offs from the university and SINTEF, the largest
- independent research organisation in Scandinavia.
-
-</p>
-<p>
- I founded the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Trondheim-Eclipse-User-Group/">Trondheim Eclipse User Group</a> in 2013 and
- have with Itema hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp for a few years before that.
-</p>
-<p>
- I can be reached on Twitter using the <a href="https://twitter.com/torkildr">@torkildr</a> handle.
-</p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
-<a href="https://www.itema.no/?lang=en">Itema AS</a>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Kevin Sutter</name>
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-
- <phone>507-253-3620 (work)</phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
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- <contact> <![CDATA[
- IBM Rochester
- Hwy 52 North and 37th Street
- Rochester, MN 55901
-]]>
- </contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- <p>
- Release Lead for <a href="https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/jakartaee-platform/jakartaee9/JakartaEE9ReleasePlan" target="_blank">Jakarta EE 9</a>
-and <a href="https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/jakartaee-platform/jakartaee9/JakartaEE9.1ReleasePlan" target="_blank">9.1</a><br>
- Co-lead of <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.jakartaee-platform/who" target="_blank">Jakarta EE Platform project</a><br>
- Member of <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j/pmc" target="_blank">EE4J (Jakarta EE) PMC</a><br>
- Member of <a href="https://jakarta.ee/committees/specification/" target="_blank">Jakarta EE Specification Committee</a><br>
- Participant of <a href="https://jakarta.ee/committees/steering" target="_blank">Jakarta EE Steering Committee</a><br>
- Eclipse EE4J Committer and Project Lead on <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/ksutter#tab-projects" target="_blank">several projects</a><br>
- Member of <a href="https://microprofile.io/workinggroup/" target="_blank">MicroProfile Working Group</a><br>
- Co-lead of <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.microprofile/who" target="_blank">MicroProfile project</a><br>
- </p>
-]]>
-
- </eclipse_affiliation>
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- I have been the IBM alternate for the Eclipse Board of Directors for the past several months.
- While participating in these meetings, I have noticed a lack of technical diversity on the Board.
- Although the Board is very well represented by several areas across the Eclipse Foundation, the Enterprise Java space is lacking sufficient representation --
- especially with Enterprise Java now having the largest set of committers.
- With my broad background and experience on the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Working Groups and various Code and Specification Projects at Eclipse, I believe that I can fill that void and well represent Enterprise Java on the Board.
- </p>
-]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
-
- <bio>
-<![CDATA[
- <p>
- Participating on the JCA (J2EE Connector Architecture) expert group back in 2001 timeframe was my first experience with Enterprise Java.
- My first experience with open-source code development was with OpenJPA at the Apache Foundation in 2006.
- From these early experiences grew my association and appreciation of true open-source development.
-</p>
- <p>
- Over the years, I continued to explore new areas of Enterprise Java, eventually becoming IBM's representative on the Java EE Platform specification.
- As Java EE started to quiet down, the need for continued innovation in the Enterprise Java space was very evident.
- And, from that void grew MicroProfile.
- After much investigation and consideration, the Eclipse Foundation was chosen as the landing spot for this new MicroProfile project.
- And, as Oracle was looking to contribute Java EE to an open-source foundation, the Eclipse Foundation became a logical choice.
- I was involved with the initial creation of both of these efforts at Eclipse.
-</p>
- <p>
- As the Eclipse affiliation section outlines, I am still very involved with both of the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Working Groups and I look forward to helping them both succeed.
-</p>
-]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>IBM</affiliation>
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- <name>Gunnar Wagenknecht</name>
- <title>PMTS, Salesforce</title>
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- Chair of the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/council.php#architecture">Architecture Council</a><br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
- Program Committee of numerous Eclipse conferences<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Lifetime Award</a> Winner 2015
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision><![CDATA[
-<p>
-The Eclipse Foundation is on a mission to become the number one leading open source software foundation in Europe! Establishing the new base in Europe is a huge milestone. Let's continue and build on this, starting a new area of growth with many, many new fantastic projects and working groups starting at the Eclipse Foundation!
-</p><p>
-As a sustaining member representative, I will work to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around commercial-friendly open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
-</p><p>
-I am very proud of what we have achieved in the last year. The new base in Europe is a huge step towards growth and opens the door to many new opportunities. We also enabled more flexibility in the IP policy and I'd like to continue with those improvements and push for reducing complexity where possible. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity must continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular stacks as well as improving the user experience for member companies as well as projects.
-</p><p>
-It was my pleasure serving on the board in 2020 on your behalf, engaging with board members in discussions and working on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me to continue doing that!
-</p><p>
-Thank you!
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
-Technology enthusiast, traveler, open source believer and dad. Addicted 2 DIY. More at <a href="http://guw.io/">guw.io</a>.
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- Salesforce
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>George Adams</name>
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- <phone></phone>
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- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
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-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>Eclipse Adoptium</eclipse_affiliation>
-
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- <![CDATA[
- <p><b>Java (OpenJDK)</b><br>
- For years there has been confusion in the Java ecosystem. Which vendor should I use? Which version should I use? Where should
- I download my binaries from? This is a challenge that I’ve been determined to resolve. Companies wanted to avoid vendor lock-in
- and so AdoptOpenJDK was born. The project grew from strength to strength and quickly became the successful OpenJDK distribution
- that we know today. But… we needed more resources, more marketing expertise and more legal support, and that’s why we recently
- announced our intention to move AdoptOpenJDK to the Eclipse Foundation. My first and main goal for the Eclipse Foundation is
- to make it <b>the place to get Java (OpenJDK) from</b>. I hope to <b>bring vendors together</b> in one centralised place and collaborate
- in the open for the benefit of the community.</p>
-
- <p><b>Outreach</b><br>
- With physical conferences starting to slowly become the normal again, I want to ensure that the Eclipse Foundation and all of its projects
- are well represented around the world. Combining an in-person strategy with virtual conferences is a great opportunity to reach more developers
- than ever before and I want to build on this to increase developer awareness of the Foundation.</p>
-
- <p><b>Membership</b><br>
- Over the years I have collaborated with many companies that are large contributors/users of Java. Many of these are
- great candidates for Eclipse Foundation membership but are unaware of its benefits and the importance of supporting the
- organisation. I hope to increase their awareness of the fantastic work that the Eclipse Foundation does to support the
- open-source ecosystem and bring them onboard.</p>
-
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>I am a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and the PMC chairperson of Eclipse Adoptium. I also represent Microsoft on the working group steering committee.
- Since co-founding AdoptOpenJDK in 2016 I have been leading the community outreach efforts both at AdoptOpenJDK as well as the broader Java ecosystem.
- I played a key role in moving the AdoptOpenJDK project into the Eclipse Foundation and look forward to the coming year as the project continues to grow far beyond its current 350+ million user-base.
- I strongly believe in open-source language ecosystems and thrive on the challenge of leading the foundations behind them.
- I would cherish the opportunity to represent the Adoptium working group (as well as others) on the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
-
- <p>I also contribute to both the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation where I am a core collaborator and play an active role in several of the workgroups.</p>
-]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Microsoft</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <name>Manuel Bork</name>
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- <title>COO & co-founder, Yatta</title>
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- <phone>+49 561 5743277-21</phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact>Yatta Solutions GmbH, Universitätsplatz 12, 34127 Kassel (Germany)</contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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-<![CDATA[
-<p>My relationship with Eclipse began during my computer science studies. I learned coding with the Eclipse IDE and I participated in the Fujaba open-source research project - which was based on Eclipse. After co-founding Yatta, we joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Contributing Member and are still very committed to the community. We contribute to various Eclipse open-source projects, including:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.packaging.mpc/who">Eclipse Marketplace Client</a></li>
-<li><a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.oomph/who">Eclipse Oomph</a></li>
-<li><a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.packaging/who">Eclipse Packaging Project</a></li>
-</ul>
-<p>My colleague & fellow co-founder <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/user/12943">Leif Geiger</a> is project lead of the Eclipse Marketplace Client and Package Maintainer of the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/2021-12/r/eclipse-ide-java-developers">Eclipse IDE for Java developers</a>, while I am a member of the <a href="https://ide-wg.eclipse.org/">Eclipse IDE Working Group</a>’s Steering Committee.</p>
-]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
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- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
-<p>My vision is for Eclipse to become the most thriving collaboration platform for developers. This includes corporate and non-profit businesses, vendors and users, organizations and individuals alike. By leveraging shared resources, encouraging community commitment and enabling mutually beneficial collaboration, Eclipse will continue to help us develop.</p>
-<p>As a contributing member representative on the Board of Directors, I will work hard to:</p>
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-<p><b>Improve the Eclipse Platform.</b>
-For two decades Eclipse has supported its members and users in building more and better software. Open-source tools and technologies are at the very core of Eclipse. The future still needs a truly vendor-neutral open-source platform for developers. And this requires awareness, funding and contributions.</p>
-<p><b>Promote projects.</b> Nothing contributes more to the Eclipse Platform and the community than successful projects. Enabling existing projects and exploring new possibilities will bring new individuals, ideas and innovations into the Eclipse ecosystem.</p>
-<p><b>Strengthen our open-source ecosystem.</b> Now more than ever, Eclipse has become an ecosystem for collaboration among developers based on open source. To sustain and evolve Eclipse, I want to help members and users alike to connect with each other and create value.</p>
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-<p>Having studied computer science at the University of Kassel, Manuel graduated with honors. At Yatta, Manuel started out as a software engineer and tool developer. He soon transitioned into the roles of project lead and product manager. With experience gained from overseeing several software projects for medium-sized to large-scale enterprises, Manuel continued his development and became CTO - and now COO - of Yatta.</p>
-<p>Over the years, Manuel has visited dozens of Eclipse DemoCamps and EclipseCons, speaking with many members of the community. Today, Manuel coordinates Yatta’s contributions to the Eclipse IDE in the Steering Committee of the Eclipse IDE Working Group.</p>
-<p>Away from all the tech, Manuel is a road cyclist and sports enthusiast. He loves cycling for hours with his crew in his North Hessian home region, across the Alps or on the endless streets of Mallorca.</p>
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-<p>Choudhury was a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data. He was a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information and the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology.</p>
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- <p>At Renesas we use the Eclipse platform and the C/C++ Development Toolkit for our embedded software IDE named <a href="https://www.renesas.com/us/en/software-tool/e-studio" target="_blank">e2 studio</a>. As a company we are very much reliant on the projects and technology that are being developed within the Eclipse projects.</p>
- <p>The Eclipse platform provides us with a superb starting point for our product and looking forward, we want to contribute to the community to maintain and improve this into the future. Joining the Eclipse board would allow me to contribute from a commercial product perspective and ensure I can represent the many companies using Eclipse and the C/C++ Development Toolkit in this way.</p>
-
- <p>I am also a current strategic member representative on the Eclipse IDE Working Group. Participating in this working group has shown me that there is a willing desire to improve the platform now and in the future. Personally, I find this initiative exciting and rewarding and I hope we can see the results of this within the platform and other associated projects. With this in mind I hope joining the Eclipse board would enable me to push forwards the great work of the Eclipse IDE Working group and improve visibility of our efforts in this area.</p>
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- <p>As a consumer of the platform building a commercial product, I would like to focus on these goals:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Ensure the future of the Eclipse IDE is solid and viable - both from a platform and infrastructure viewpoint</li>
-<li>Focus on Eclipse user experience - improve the UI and performance of the platform. Enable the Eclipse IDE to compete with other platforms in this space</li>
-<li>Help expand the contributing user base to ensure long term success (stimulate the community to create new members and investments)</li>
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- <p>In addition, Renesas also have a long term interest in the Cloud Tools area. We already have requirements in this area and we will look to be a long term partner to these projects. The Eclipse projects are fundamental to our current and future Renesas engineering projects and joining the Eclipse Board is a natural next step to help us achieve our goals.</p>
-
- <p>Finally, Renesas as a company have many different projects focusing on a wide spectrum of domains and technologies, such as IOT, Automotive Computer Vision, A.I, RTOS, etc. I hope the experience, knowledge and expertise we can bring from Renesas can be utilized in many Eclipse projects.</p>
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- <p>Who are <a href="https://www.renesas.com/us/en" target="_blank">Renesas Electronics</a>? Renesas Electronics Corporation are a global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products. Renesas provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive, industrial, home electronics, office automation, and information communication technology applications.</p>
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- <p>I am a Senior Manager within the Software Development Division - Tools Development team. This is located within the IOT and Infrastucture Business Unit. I have over 25 years experience in Embedded Software Tools development specialising in build, code configuration and generation and debugging solutions. Of particular achievement in that time was the migration from the proprietary Renesas IDE development to our current e2 studio product built on the Eclipse platform. :-) I am also proud to be a leader of change within the company and successfully adopted agile software methodologies and improved software development tooling for our developers globally.</p>
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- <p>Other Contributions</p>
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-<li>Brought Renesas as a sponsor to EclipseCon Europe in 2017 and 2018. We hope to be back soon!</li>
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-<li>Particpated in the CDT Embedded Tools Summits and Eclipse IDE Working Group presentations</li>
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- <![CDATA[ If elected as a Committer Representative to the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors, Emily can represent the committers of Eclipse projects to work with the Eclipse Foundation closely in order to improve the policies and culture so that the Eclipse Foundation can better understand the committers and address committers' concerns. Emily is keen to work with committers to provide feedback to the policy makers for further policy adjustments in order to build a healthy and open culture.
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-<p>Emily is a Java Champion and has been an active committer for the Eclipse Foundation since 2017. As one of the top committers in <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/content/emily-jiang-committer-eclipse-microprofile" target="_blank">MicroProfile</a>, Emily contributed significantly towards MicroProfile releases and success. Emily is also a committer for Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection and Interceptors and contributed in the future features, and she is now helping out the Jakarta EE 10 release. Emily is a co-lead for Jakarta Config, which is to move MicroProfile Config to Jakarta so that other Jakarta specifications can benefit from the configuration feature.</p>
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-<p>Emily was appointed to the Architecture Council in 2018. She has been actively involved in the policy update and provided bi-directional feedback between the Eclipse Foundation and Communities. One of her contributions was to work with the Eclipse Foundation to remove the heavy review process for service releases and get the Specification Process updated, which was greatly appreciated by the projects. She is also a mentor for the project Eclipse Temurin and LSP4MP to help explain policies and releases etc. Emily's profile can be accessed <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/ejiang" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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-<p>I would focus on security, integrity, clarity, performance and community aspects. On the community side, I would push for efforts to make Eclipse more interesting for academia and smaller businesses, in an effort to diversify the ecosystem. With performance, despite being a "manager," in my heart I am a performance engineer. Trace Compass and MicroProfile have done great work making instrumentation easier in Eclipse. I would foster more collaborations on their side as well.</p>
-<p>On the clarity side, the Eclipse Foundation is a role model of openness, and I would continue to defend their efforts. On the integrity side, projects such as dash-licenses show that the project is open in a responsible way and encourages strong IP due diligence, and I would continue to support such initiatives as well as the open chain initiative.</p>
-<p>For security, Eclipse is world class, in my opinion. Their response time to CVEs such as Log4j and XercesJ was exemplary. I would continue encouraging such behaviour in any way possible.</p>
-<p>We are a large and diverse community. This is great - let's share our ideas more, and have fun in the process.</p>
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-<p>I have been using Eclipse tools since the Callisto release and have been a committer on Eclipse projects for 10 years, with almost 5,000 reviews to my name. I am the product manager for Eclipse Theia, OpenVSX, Eclipse Trace Compass within Ericsson and co-lead for the Eclipse Trace Compass Incubator. I am also co-lead of the CDT.cloud project. I am a technology enthusiast, especially in the field of performance engineering. In the copious amounts of free time I have left, I am a husband, a father, and I enjoy cooking, biking and woodworking. I am also a budding doodler and has been co-developing a game in my remaining spare time.</p>
-<p>I have worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and small companies as well as university research labs.</p>
-<p>Finally, I am a great big nerd. I will gladly broach any subject if the other side brings enthusiasm.</p>
-<p>I am not related to Marc, though he is wonderful!</p>
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- Project Lead at Eclipse AQAvit<br>
- Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin<br>
- Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin-compliance<br>
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-Committers and projects succeed by identifying and removing friction. We create easier paths to deliver content, to collaborate with others, to bring new contributors to our projects and to build community. As a committer representative, it would be my responsibility and honour to provide a concise and candid voice that communicates the needs of committers and create frictionless routes to success. I have been involved in Eclipse projects over the last 5 years, bringing fresh eyes and perspective to see areas that can be improved upon together. My vision is to engage, motivate, support and empower others to accomplish great things by removing barriers and communicating the very real needs of committers and their projects.
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- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>Shelley is a software engineer at Red Hat. She is deeply committed to create environments where everyone has opportunities to learn and grow. A great deal of her time is spent ensuring that the projects she is responsible for are flourishing, which includes actively engaging new and first-time open source contributors.
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- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- XML Schema Definition Project Lead<br>
- JustJ Project Lead<br>
- Oomph Project Committer<br>
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-What is Eclipse?
-That was an easy question to answer back in the early days:
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-Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified dramatically and continues to do so.
-Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear.
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, a Community, or a Java IDE, Europe's largest open source organization?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things.
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
-But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something quite different,
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-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
-The board is relatively small, so each and every representative has significant influence.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my fifteen years of experience to promote the interests of committers,
-and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater.
-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project,
-while not losing sight of this core technology.
-My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability.
-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and now in Switzerland and having learned Deutsch,
-leading Eclipse's Modeling Project,
-sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, national, and linguistic boundaries.
-I am particularly proud to have worked with the board on the formation of an Eclipse IDE Working Group to help ensure the
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-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible.
-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing lists.
-I am particularly proud of the
- <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph
- technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have developed to help ease the
- installation and configuration of development IDEs,
- making Eclipse projects more welcoming for contributors.
-I am also proud of having worked with the board to enable the redistribution of Java Runtime Environments
- as well of the creation of
- <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/justj/" target="_blank">JustJ</a> to make JREs available as p2 installable units.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's
-<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php"
-target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I contribute actively to the platform, and have been a driving force in helping to improve the consistency and quality to the simultaneous release.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
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-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed?
-No, this is tracked by Git commits.
-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
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- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a> which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
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- Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed
- is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 32,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
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- <p>It has been an honor to serve on the Board of the Eclipse Foundation for the past 3 years, especially as the only female representative and I hope to continue to do so. While the Eclipse IDE is a major project of the Eclipse foundation, I've been focusing on broadening the reputation and brand of the Eclipse Foundation into other technology areas such as AI and Edge Computing. Last year, I drove an initiative to successfully form, recruit and launch the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group. With a founding group of Intel, Siemens, Bosch, Ad-Link, Huawei, Edgeworx, Eurotech, Kynetics and more, I'm happy to say that it's made a mark with other open-source ecosystems and given the Eclipse Foundation greater credibility in the edge and IOT space.</p>
-
- <p>With this mission, Eclipse and the Edge Native Working Group has been establishing thought-leadership by publishing well-read and received papers as well as being invited to partcipate and collaborate with the CNCF's Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group. I would like to continute to build on this great momentum by serving another year as a Sustaining Member representative on the Eclipse Board of Directors. I will continue to focus on advancement through the following efforts:</p>
-
- <p><strong>Industry Leadership</strong><br>
- Edge Computing is one of the fastest growing technology disciplines. Having started largely with IoT there is major room for expansion with AI and Computer vision at the edge. The Eclipse Foundation has already started establishing its position as a leader with the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group. We not only have marquee companies standing alongside Eclipse in the Edge Computing space, but they are committing developers and resources to expand our projects.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Open Source Collaboration</strong><br>
- In some disciplines, Open Source projects and organizations have had limited collaboration. Bringing projects together could benefit all by not only bringing together different technologies to enable people to solve hard problems as well as expanding the user base for all. Eclipse has been instrumental in spearheading collaborative efforts. I look forward continuing that effort and leveraging it to grow the foundation and visibility of our amazing projects. We have already made major strides by contributing with the CNCF and see more opportunities to work together with the Linux Foundation's LF Edge, no one project is going to solve the entire discipline, collaboration benefits us all.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Developers</strong><br>
- Developers are the life blood of all organizations today because companies now succeed or fail based on the quality of their technology. Developers have a unique and growing voice in companies and are increasingly turning to the Open Source to solve problems, understanding vendor lock-in is not the way of the future. The Eclipse Foundation has pioneered a path forwad by focusing on developers and the developer expreience. It is why Edgeworx chose to bring our project ioFog to Eclipse over anyhwere else and we are seeing more and more developers coming to the Eclipse Foundation because of their strength and leadership in the Edge. This in turn brings in more projects and companies who want to play a bigger role. Because of this, Edgeworx is looking to contribute a new project to the Eclipse Foundation this year that comes with a large, existing developer community.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Awareness & Adoption</strong><br>
- In the past I have talked about how the Eclipse Foundation has primarily been known for the Java/Eclipse IDE. While we want to focus on our leadership there, over the past few years I have seen a shift in the way Eclipse is seen by the broader tech community. There is still much more work to be done to build on those successes. A lot of this has been driven by the working groups and the value these focused groups bring. I believe increasing awareness of our industry leadership and focus on developers will lead to more projects choosing Eclipse as a home. If elected, I will continue to serve as a direct channel between the organization and the companies to help grow awareness and adoption.
- </p>
- <p><strong>Membership</strong><br>
- Many companies that I work with as partners, vendors, and customers are good candidates for first-time Eclipse Foundation membership but are not aware of the benefits of membership and the importance of supporting the organization. I see opportunities to expand membership, particularly through the working groups, and our move to Europe. There is a massive opportunity for the Eclipse Foundation to fill a vacuum there and I hope to part of the effort to continued growth.
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- holds three degrees from Stanford University. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science with Honors in
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-Since I first joined the board five years ago, the Foundation has gone through many important changes. The organisation can now handle specification projects such as Jakarta EE and AsciiDoc. The Eclipse IDE Working Group has been established, forming an organization around the development and improvement of the Eclipse IDE and in extension the RCP Platform. We have established a new GitLab based software forge on neutral ground in Switzerland. We have moved the organization to Brussels and Europe. The Eclipse Foundation is now Europe's largest and most important open source foundation, allowing a new category of members such as the European Space Agency to join.
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-If reelected as a contributing member representative I would like to:
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-<b>Advance the use of Eclipse technologies</b>, particularly in scientific and industrial applications, where a diverse collection of our APIs is already suitably used.
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- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
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-The Eclipse Foundation is on a mission to become the number one leading open source software foundation in Europe! Establishing the base in Europe was a fantastic achievement and we can already see the benefits. Let's continue and build on this, starting a new area of growth with many, many new fantastic members, projects and working groups starting at the Eclipse Foundation!
-</p><p>
-As a contributing member representative, I will work to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around commercial-friendly open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
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-I am very proud of what we have achieved over the years. Moving the base to Europe was a huge step towards growth and opened the door to many, many new opportunities. We also enabled more flexibility in the IP policy and I'd like to continue with those improvements and push for reducing complexity where possible. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity must continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular stacks as well as improving the user experience for member companies as well as projects. More automation and post analysis will help reduce the work for members and committers.
-</p><p>
-It was my pleasure serving on the board in the last year on your behalf, engaging with board members in discussions and working on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me to continue doing that!
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-Thank you!
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- <p><b>Java (OpenJDK)</b><br>
- For years there has been confusion in the Java ecosystem. Which vendor should I use? Which version should I use? Where should
- I download my binaries from? This is a challenge that I’ve been determined to resolve. Companies wanted to avoid vendor lock-in
- and so AdoptOpenJDK was born. The project grew from strength to strength and quickly became the successful OpenJDK distribution
- that we know today. But… we needed more resources, more marketing expertise and more legal support, and that’s why we recently
- announced our intention to move AdoptOpenJDK to the Eclipse Foundation. My first and main goal for the Eclipse Foundation is
- to make it <b>the place to get Java (OpenJDK) from</b>. I hope to <b>bring vendors together</b> in one centralised place and collaborate
- in the open for the benefit of the community.</p>
-
- <p><b>Outreach</b><br>
- With physical conferences starting to slowly become the normal again, I want to ensure that the Eclipse Foundation and all of its projects
- are well represented around the world. Combining an in-person strategy with virtual conferences is a great opportunity to reach more developers
- than ever before and I want to build on this to increase developer awareness of the Foundation.</p>
-
- <p><b>Membership</b><br>
- Over the years I have collaborated with many companies that are large contributors/users of Java. Many of these are
- great candidates for Eclipse Foundation membership but are unaware of its benefits and the importance of supporting the
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- Since co-founding AdoptOpenJDK in 2016 I have been leading the community outreach efforts both at AdoptOpenJDK as well as the broader Java ecosystem.
- I played a key role in moving the AdoptOpenJDK project into the Eclipse Foundation and look forward to the coming year as the project continues to grow far beyond its current 350+ million user-base.
- I strongly believe in open-source language ecosystems and thrive on the challenge of leading the foundations behind them.
- I would cherish the opportunity to represent the Adoptium working group (as well as others) on the Eclipse Board of Directors.</p>
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- <p>I firmly believe that Eclipse is a truly unique and special organization, which has become the gold standard for open source collaboration and innovation.</p>
- <p>With its level playing field, Eclipse provides a platform for all members of the open source community - be it industry giants, startups, small companies, academia or individuals - to come together and share ideas, contribute their expertise, and drive innovation forward. My own enterprise, eteration, has been a prime beneficiary of this dynamic ecosystem, and I am eager to repay the favor.</p>
- <p>If elected, I pledge to do my utmost to continue to nurture and grow the Eclipse Foundation. I will bring to the table a diversity of opinions and a willingness to challenge ideas, in order to ensure that this ecosystem remains healthy and continues to flourish.</p>
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- <p>Naci is a tech-savvy entrepreneur, mentor, and educator who never fails to bring a dose of nerdy excitement to any project. With a Bachelor of Engineering from Bogazici University, a Master of Applied Science from Dalhousie University/TUNS, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Carleton University, Naci has the credentials to tackle even the most complex technical challenges.</p>
- <p>As the founder and partner of multiple ventures including reportback.ca, composiv.ai, and eteration.com, Naci has been at the forefront of innovation in areas like business analytics, cloud-native enterprise frameworks, graph-based deep learning applications, and autonomous vehicles. He even consults for Fortune 500 companies who want to get in on the cutting-edge action!</p>
- <p>When Naci isn't busy revolutionizing the tech world, he can be found spreading his nerdy knowledge as a network faculty member at Sabancı University. He's also the proud author of several scientific articles and books, but don't let that intimidate you - Naci has a light-hearted approach to even the nerdiest of topics.</p>
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- <p>In addition, several big and prominent players want to add their opinion and view to the OSS projects of the foundation. So the Eclipse Foundation creates workflows and rules that allow me, as a minor member, to be on the same level as the big players and discuss our thoughts in a remarkable community by creating a big picture together that is just a benefit for all of us.</p>
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- <p>Last year Hendrik founded OpenElements to positively impact open source software and the open source community. The main goal of OpenElements is to strengthen open collaboration. For Hendrik, this includes helping companies to use and introduce more OSS by supporting them to set up an open source programming office (OSPO) or providing custom consulting for open source projects like Eclipse Adoptium.</p>
- <p>Next to Eclipse-related projects, Hendrik contributes to other OSS. For example, Hendrik is a core committer of the Hedera Hashgraph, the only open source public ledger written in Java. Here, Hendrik helps Hedera and SwirldsLabs create secure, fast, and reliable components using open source standards, components, and well-known workflows.</p>
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-<p>On the clarity side, the Eclipse Foundation is a role model of openness, and I would continue to defend their efforts. On the integrity side, projects such as dash-licenses show that the project is open in a responsible way and encourages strong IP due diligence, and I would continue to support such initiatives as well as the open chain initiative.</p>
-<p>For security, Eclipse is world class, in my opinion. Their response time to CVEs such as Log4j and XercesJ was exemplary. I would continue encouraging such behaviour in any way possible.</p>
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- Thank you!
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-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified dramatically and continues to do so.
-Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear.
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, a Community, or a Java IDE, Europe's largest open source organization?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things.
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
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-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
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-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project,
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-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
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-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and now in Switzerland and having learned Deutsch,
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-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
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-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing lists.
-I am particularly proud of the
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-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's
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-I contribute actively to the platform, and have been a driving force in helping to improve the consistency and quality to the simultaneous release.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
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-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
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-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
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- <li>Jakarta Interceptors - Committer</li>
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- <li>Jakarta Mail - Committer</li>
- <li>Jakarta NoSQL- Committer, Project Lead</li>
- <li>MicroProfile - Committer</li>
- <li>UOMo - Committer</li>
- </ul>
- <a href="https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/osantanatrg">https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/osantanatrg</a>
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- The software development increased the number of integrations, and components and, at the same time, requires speed and continuous integration. It is a hard challenge, but we can still do it softly. Mainly because we can, as Newton said, be on the shoulders of giants with Open Source and Eclipse Foundation. We can improve the software engineer's life by exploring simplicity through sharing knowledge and creating products that move humankind to the next level of digital transformation.
- </p>
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- Empowering software engineers to deliver highly scalable software on the cloud with simplicity lets them become influential in their companies and the market and move their technical careers to the next level.
- </p>
- <p>
- Otavio is a passionate architect and software engineer focused on cloud and Java technologies. He has deep expertise in polyglot persistence and high-performance applications in finance, social media, and e-commerce.
- </p>
- <p>
- Otavio has contributed to the Java and the Open source ecosystem in several ways, such helped the direction and objectives of the Java platform since Java 8 as a JCP executive member, besides being a committer and leader in several open-source products and specifications.
- </p>
- <p>
- Otavio is recognized for his Open Source contributions and has received many awards, including all JCP Awards categories and the Duke’s Choice Award, to name a few. Otávio is also a distinguished member of the Java Champions and Oracle ACE programs.
- </p>
- <p>
- Otavio loves history, economy, traveling, programming, and real-world languages. He speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, and French and is fluent in dad jokes.
- </p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>N/A</affiliation>
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-
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- <title></title>
- <image>wagenknecht.jpg</image>
- <email>gunnar@wagenknecht.org</email>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- Chair of the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/council.php#architecture">Architecture Council</a><br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/">Technology</a> PMC Lead<br/>
- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rt/">RT</a> PMC member<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Planet Eclipse</a> Creator<br/>
- Committer, contributor and mentor to many projects<br/>
- Program Committee of numerous Eclipse conferences<br/>
- <a href="http://planeteclipse.org/planet/">Lifetime Award</a> Winner 2015
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
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- <![CDATA[
-<p>
-The Eclipse Foundation's vision is to be the leading community for individuals and organizations to collaborate on open technologies. As a contributing member representative, I will work to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing on its success story, building communities around open source projects, helping companies understand and execute in an open source context, providing solutions to any concern around commercial-friendly open source software development. One critical building block for these activities is solid funding. Therefore I'd like to see the Eclipse Foundation continuing its effort of exploring new topic areas, attracting projects and growing the list of sustaining members.
-</p><p>
-Originally founded 2004 with developer tools, the Eclipse Foundation has since then become a home for many diverse projects, members and topics. I am very proud of what we have achieved over the years. Moving the base to Europe was a huge step towards growth and opened the door to many, many new opportunities. We also enabled more flexibility in the IP policy and I'd like to continue with those improvements and push for reducing complexity where possible. The Eclipse Foundation tools around IP compliance, project management and business continuity must continue to evolve and enhance providing integration options for the top popular stacks as well as improving the user experience for member companies as well as projects. More automation and post analalysis will help reducing the work for members and committers.
-</p><p>
-It was my pleasure serving on the board in the last year on your behalf, engaging with board members in discussions and working on priorities. As your representative, I will listen and represent your needs on the board. Please allow me to continue doing that!
-</p><p>
-Thank you!
-</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
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-Technology enthusiast, likes travel and conferences, open source believer and dad. Addicted 2 DIY. More at <a href="http://guw.io/">guw.io</a>.
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-
- <name>Jan Westerkamp</name>
- <title></title>
- <image>westerkamp.jpg</image>
- <email>jan.westerkamp@sensor-aktor.de</email>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- <p>My first contact with the Eclipse Foundation was through the Eclipse IDE, which still is my preferred IDE.</p>
- <p>Years later, I started collaborating with the EF on behalf of the Java User Group Darmstadt (Germany) to organize local events. As iJUG, an association of German speaking JUGs, became an EF Member, that got extended to events like the EclipseCon (Europe), JavaLand and a local edition of JakartaOne (German) live from the CloudLand last year. Besides, I am representing iJUG within the EF as delegate in the Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, Adoptium Working Groups and as part of the MP Telemetry spec team.</p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>With my experience representing user organizations in EF Working Groups, I would like to give Committers a voice in the EF Board to further develop EF on behalf of her values with improving processes and operation tools, i.e. optimizing the specification process with Continuous Integration and automated compliance testing or communication tooling. Therefore, the Committers can concentrate on what they like to do, such as improving Open Source Software and Specifications!</p>
- <p>Another aspect would be to remove barriers for Contributors, the potential next generation Committers, in EF Projects as possible.</p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- With a focus on Systems Engineering, Software Engineering and Project Management, Jan likes mastering the challenges given in complex systems and DevOps environments - currently in the Remote Sensing field.
- Additionally, he co-organizes the JUG Darmstadt and is the delegate of iJUG Interessenverbund der Java User Groups e.V. for the relations to Eclipse Foundation, especially within the Jakarta EE, MicroProfile and Adoptium Working Groups.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <affiliation>Sensor Aktor GmbH, Founder</affiliation>
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-
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- <phone></phone>
-
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- <contact></contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- <![CDATA[
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- <li>ZettaScale</li>
- <li>Eclipse Zenoh Project Lead</li>
- <li>Eclipse Cyclone Committer</li>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Eclipse has gone a long way since its IDE days and it has managed to
- create one of the biggest hub around IoT technologies. I think the next
- great opportunity for eclipse is a the convergence between Robotics and
- Automotive. I firmly believe that based on the traction on some of
- existing Eclipse projects and the SDV working group Eclipse could have a
- pivotal role into driving the adoption of Open Source in Automotive as
- well as helping the convergence between robotics and automotive. After
- all, isn’t an autonomous car a big robot?
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief
- Technology Officer (CTO) at ZettaScale Technology.
- </p>
- <p>
- At ZettaScale he is working with a world class team to change the
- landscape of distributed computing. Angelo and the ZettaScale team are
- working hard to bring to every connected human and machine the
- unconstrained freedom to communicate, compute and store — anywhere,
- at any scale, efficiently and securely
- </p>
- <p>
- Angelo has been an active member and contributor in the Open Source
- community for three decades! He was the single handed author for the
- first open source real-time java compiler jRate. He has contributed the
- monad/functors Apero library to OCaml and implemented the real-time
- extensions to the TAO ORB in early 2000. Angelo single handedly wrote
- SimD, an innovative OMG DDS C++ API that eventually was adopted as the
- new standard DDS mapping for C++. He has contributed a Scala API for DDS
- and a Scala library of distributed algorithms called Dada. In recent
- years, Angelo started, and still leads, the Eclipse Zenoh project. He
- co-wrote the first implementation in OCaml and heavily contributed to
- the early days of the Rust rewrite.
- </p>
- <p>
- In addition, to the Open Source contributions, Angelo is recognised as a
- world top expert in edge/fog computing and a well known researcher in
- the area of high performance and large scale distributed systems. Angelo
- has over 100 publications in referred journals, conferences, workshops,
- and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
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- <affiliation>ZettaScale Technology</affiliation>
-
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-
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- <contact></contact>
-
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Like many people, the first time I heard about Eclipse was when I used
- the Eclipse IDE at the beginning of my career as a Java developer. After
- using the IDE for several years and even doing some SWT projects, I
- realized that "Eclipse" is much more than just an IDE. As I became more
- familiar with open source development, I realized how positive and even
- necessary centralized and independent management of open source software
- is.
- </p>
- <p>
- With my work in the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors, Jakarta EE,
- and the Adoptium working group, I can see the organization's benefits
- daily. The foundation helps the working groups in areas like marketing,
- community management, and infrastructure.
- </p>
- <p>
- In addition, several big and prominent players want to add their
- opinion and view to the OSS projects of the foundation. The Eclipse
- Foundation creates workflows and rules that allow me, as a minor member,
- to be on the same level as the big players and discuss our thoughts in a
- remarkable community by creating a big picture together that is just a
- benefit for all of us.
- </p>
- ]]>
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- The Eclipse Foundation is a place that allows individual open source
- enthusiasts and companies – big or small – to work together at eye level.
- While this is already an incredible achievement, I often see that the
- hurdle to starting with open source development and understanding its
- workflows and benefits is still high for many people and small companies.
- I would like to have the Eclipse Foundation as one of the best addresses
- for getting into OSS. Next, I would like to have more small companies
- join the foundation to support critical OSS on which they already depend
- today.
- </p>
- <p>
- The Eclipse Foundation has an ever-growing Java community, and it is
- important to me to continue to strengthen it and bring it together. In
- addition, the Eclipse Foundation is already a well-known player in the
- global Java community. It is essential to expand its position as the OSS
- Foundation for Java and to make the Eclipse Foundation visible as an
- essential pillar of the global Java community.
- </p>
- <p>
- With the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group, something huge and
- important was created last year: several open source foundations and
- stewards collaborate as an Eclipse Foundation Working Group to work
- united on sustainable, solid, and open solutions for the Cyber
- Resilience Act and other regulations on (open source) software. This is
- an essential step in positioning the Eclipse Foundation as a global and
- especially European leader for solid open-source projects and
- stewardship, including essential connections to politics and
- governments.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Hendrik Ebbers is a Java Champion, a member of JSR expert groups, and
- JavaOne Rockstar. He has achieved all this through his belief in open
- source and open communities. Hendrik is the founder and leader of the
- Java User Group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations in user groups
- and at conferences worldwide. Hendrik is a member of the Jakarta WG and
- the Adoptium WG. In both projects, he was already involved before they
- became Eclipse working groups: Hendrik was a member of the AdoptOpenJDK
- TSC and part of the Java Bean Validation expert group.
- </p>
- <p>
- Hendrik is founder and CEO of Open Elements, a company focusing on
- open source software and the open source community. The main goal of Open
- Elements is to strengthen open collaboration. Open Elements is partnering
- with Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation and Apache Foundation to move
- critical OSS forward. Especially in the Java ecosystem Open Elements is
- currently responsible for moving the Apache Maven project forward by
- managing investments of the German government for the project.
- </p>
- <p>
- Hendrik is an Eclipse Foundation Board of Director since 2023. That
- position helps him to have an even better insight on the Java related
- working groups and communities at Eclipse Foundation. With that
- background he started the “Eclipse loves Java†series by doing several
- sessions about that topic and co-organising the Java Community Day at
- EclipseCon/OCX.
- </p>
- <p>
- Next to Eclipse-related projects, Hendrik is leading the TSC for the
- Hiero project at Linux Foundation and is a member of a technical advisory
- committee at Linux Foundation.
- </p>
- ]]>
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-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
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- <![CDATA[
- <a href="https://open-elements.com/">Open Elements GmbH</a>
- ]]>
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-
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- <name>Matthew Khouzam</name>
-
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- <email>matthew.khouzam@ericsson.com</email>
-
- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact></contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- I work on Trace Compass, as well as the Trace Compass environment as a
- manager and developer. I also work with Eclipse Theia, Blueprint, and CDT
- cloud. I work within the tools team at Ericsson.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- My vision for 2024 has evolved slightly. The foundation has seen a large
- growth with SDV, Oniro and ThreadX. I want to encourage cross project
- collaboration. Basically, I want to make sure the wheel is not
- re-invented but improved collaboratively if it makes sense. I would
- encourage the foundation to act as the bridge between various parties,
- making stronger communities based on technical excellence. I am already
- volunteering as a board representatitve on the Code Of Conduct workgroup
- to ensure the community remains such a wonderful and welcoming place.
- </p>
- <p>
- Previously, I focused on security, integrity, clarity, performance and
- community aspects. On the community side, I would push for efforts to
- make Eclipse more interesting for academia and smaller businesses, in an
- effort to diversify the ecosystem. For the performance aspect, Despite
- being a "manager," in my heart I am a performance engineer.
- </p>
- <p>
- On the clarity side, the Eclipse Foundation is a role model of openness,
- and I would continue to defend their efforts. On the integrity side,
- projects such as dash-licenses show that the project is open in a
- responsible way and encourages strong IP due diligence, and I would
- continue to support such initiatives as well as the open chain
- initiative.
- </p>
- <p>
- For security, Eclipse is world class, in my opinion. Their response time
- to CVEs such as Log4j and XercesJ was exemplary. I would continue
- encouraging such behaviour in any way possible.
- </p>
- <p>
- We are a large and diverse community. This is great — let's share
- our ideas more, and have fun in the process.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- I have been using Eclipse tools since the Callisto release and have
- been a committer on Eclipse projects for 10 years, with almost 5,000
- reviews to my name. I am the product manager for Eclipse Theia, OpenVSX,
- Eclipse Trace Compass within Ericsson and co-lead for the Eclipse Trace
- Compass Incubator. I am also co-lead of the CDT.cloud project. I am a
- technology enthusiast, especially in the field of performance
- engineering. In the copious amounts of free time I have left, I am a
- husband, a father, and I enjoy cooking, biking and woodworking. I am
- also a budding doodler and has been co-developing a game in my remaining
- spare time.
- </p>
- <p>
- I have worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and
- small companies as well as university research labs.
- </p>
- <p>
- Finally, I am a great big nerd. I will gladly broach any subject if the
- other side brings enthusiasm.
- </p>
- <p>
- I was honored to have been elected in 2022 and 2023 and have focused on
- protecting Eclipse's brand as well as increasing a focus on security and
- software origins/SBOMs in general. I will continue pushing these issues
- as with the current climate, this will benefit all committers.
- </p>
- <p>
- I am not related to Marc, though he is wonderful!
- </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Ericsson</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
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- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact></contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
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- Eclipse SDV
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
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- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Thomas has 25+ years of experience in automotive in different roles. He
- and his teams have created fundamental solutions like DoIP, Automotive
- Ethernet, and SOME/IP. In the last years, he was focusing on current and
- future vehicle architectures for multiple OEMs worldwide.
- </p>
- <p>
- Thomas believes that traditional automotive processes must be improved
- to make OEMs more competitive. His unique system-level understanding of
- vehicle system architectures and technologies can be an essential
- contribution to the Eclipse Board.
- </p>
- <p>
- Thomas' vision for Eclipse is to be the place for the best talents to
- come together in creating tomorrow’s solutions.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Formerly at BMW, he was involved in a multitude of activities leading to
- today’s <strong>Automotive Ethernet ecosystem</strong>. A pioneer in
- this field, he led the team that created and brought the flash update
- solution using Ethernet on the OBD into series production (SOP 2008),
- which were later standardized as DoIP. Thomas started the discussions
- with different semiconductor vendors to create the first Automotive
- PHY. The joint development led to first prototypes in 2009 and the
- first SOP 2013 of what today is known as 100BASE-T1.
- </p>
- <p>
- He was also the leading Ethernet Architect and technical project lead
- for the - at that time - biggest Automotive Ethernet architecture (2015
- SOP). The architecture started with up to 9 ECUs and 4 Ethernet-based
- cameras.
- </p>
- <p>
- After 18 years at BMW, Thomas joined Technica Engineering as the CTO in
- 2017. In his new role he works with multiple OEMs worldwide to help with
- all Automotive Ethernet aspects from <strong>E/E</strong> Architecture
- Design to <strong>Test/Validation</strong>.
- </p>
- <p>
- He is well known in the field of Automotive and OEMs seek his guidance
- when they struggle with their SOPs or want to improve their upcoming E/E
- Architecture.
- </p>
- <p>
- He has studied Telematic at the Technical University of Graz and holds
- special interest in solving the complexities of Software Defined
- Vehicles (SDV).
- </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Technica Engineering GmbH, a member of KPIT Group</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
-
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- <name>Shelley Lambert</name>
-
- <title>Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat</title>
-
- <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. -->
- <image>lambert.jpg</image>
-
- <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. -->
- <email>slambert@gmail.com</email>
-
- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact></contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- <![CDATA[
- <ul class="padding-left-20">
- <li>Steering Committee member of Eclipse Adoptium Working Group</li>
- <li>PMC member at Eclipse Adoptium</li>
- <li>Project Lead at Eclipse AQAvit</li>
- <li>Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin</li>
- <li>Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin-compliance</li>
- <li>Committer at Eclipse Adoptium Incubator</li>
- <li>Committer at Eclipse OpenJ9</li>
- </ul>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Ensure that Eclipse Foundation services are continuously improved to
- provide high-quality, relevant and easy-to-use outcomes for projects and
- project committers.
- </p>
- <p>
- Eclipse Foundation services, such as infrastructure support, serve 400+
- projects hosted at the foundation.
- </p>
- <p>
- Committers need to give early and direct feedback to the foundation to
- ensure these services are valuable and easy-to-use. Input from
- committers helps tune the community services and provides the
- much-needed perspective from the 'trenches' to build a strong
- foundation. If re-elected, my role as a committer representative on the
- Eclipse Foundation board is to communicate the requirements and feedback
- of Eclipse Foundation committers and from my own experience, to ensure
- Eclipse projects run smoothly.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Shelley is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She is
- interested in secure development initiatives for open-source projects
- and is actively collaborating across projects and organizations in risk
- reduction activities. She is also deeply committed to creating
- environments where everyone has opportunities to learn and grow,
- encouraging diversity, equity and inclusion to attract and keep a broad
- community of open-source contributors.
- </p>
- <p>
- To achieve work-life balance with her technical career, Shelley also
- serves as a Director of Forêt Capitale Forest, a non-profit with a
- mission to increase the urban forest canopy and biodiversity in Canada's
- National Capital Region.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Red Hat</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
-
diff --git a/content/org/elections/2025/matheis.xml b/content/org/elections/2025/matheis.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index d73ba4b661da04ee6731b12b4b69d90075797384..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/content/org/elections/2025/matheis.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension
- type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" -->
-<boardmember id="matheis" type="contributing">
-
- <name>Dr. Johannes Matheis</name>
-
- <title>Senior Director, Vector Informatik GmbH</title>
-
- <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. -->
- <image>matheis.jpg</image>
-
- <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. -->
- <email>Johannes.Matheis@vector.com</email>
-
- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact></contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[
- <p>
- My experience with the Eclipse IDE extends back to my university studies
- in computer science. I first worked with version 2.x of the IDE while at
- the startup company aquintos to build the software tool PREEvision. After
- the integration of aquintos into the Vector group, Vector Informatik
- became a member of the Eclipse Foundation. Through the years I have
- enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to the Eclipse IDE Working Group as
- a Platinum Member Representative from Vector. Vector is also a Strategic
- Member of the Software Defined Vehicle Working Group.
- </p>
- <p>
- Over the years, I have participated in the first OCX, various Eclipse
- Cons and Eclipse Demo Camps and followed the evolution of the Eclipse IDE
- and the Eclipse Foundation firsthand. Since April 2023 I have also served,
- on your behalf, as a Contributing Member Representative of the Eclipse
- Board of Directors.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </eclipse_affiliation>
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- My vision for the Eclipse Foundation is to support the further
- growth of the organization so that it may continue to promote
- opportunities for open-source collaboration worldwide. I would
- like to introduce three areas of focus that would support this
- vision.
- </p>
- <h3 class="h5 fw-700">Strengthening the Open-Source Concept</h3>
- <p>
- I would like to expand the awareness of the open-source model
- among companies and public policymakers by highlighting the
- benefits of open-source membership and joint work for mutually
- beneficial goals. These potential contributors should understand
- the distinctive work atmosphere found in an open-source
- environment.
- </p>
- <h3 class="h5 fw-700">Intensify Working Group Collaboration</h3>
- <p>
- Given the large and growing number of working groups in the
- Eclipse Foundation, coordination and collaboration are critical.
- Creating practical and natural opportunities for collaboration
- where all members can interact and learn from one another benefits
- all our initiatives. These efforts will magnify the value the
- Eclipse Foundation brings to its member companies.
- </p>
- <h3 class="h5 fw-700">
- Advance Eclipse IDE's position as a vital part of the Eclipse
- Foundation
- </h3>
- <p>
- The Eclipse IDE, as the namesake and core of the Eclipse
- Foundation, has much to offer. The benefits should clearly be
- emphasized to secure the future of a vendor neutral IDE.
- </p>
- <p>
- I believe Eclipse IDE has an outstanding community. Which delivers
- great value to developers and businesses. The Eclipse platform is
- used as a basis in so many different applications all over the
- world. To ensure the ongoing enhancements it is necessary to
- provide sufficient funding and manpower, both of which I would
- like to help secure.
- </p>
- <p>
- I would be very happy to continue serving on the Eclipse Board of
- Directors on your behalf!
- </p>
- <p>
- Thank you!
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio><![CDATA[
- <p>
- Johannes is Product Area Manager at Vector Informatik GmbH. He studied
- computer science in Karlsruhe and graduated with a diploma in Computer
- Science in 2004. While working as a developer in the start-up aquintos he
- completed his PhD at Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT). His areas
- of special interest include agile working methods, "model-based software
- engineering" and software development especially in Java.
- </p>
- <p>
- As Product Area Manager at Vector Informatik, he is responsible for the
- Platform & Base Development of PREEvision.
- </p>
- <p>
- Vector's more than 4500 employees at 33 locations worldwide support
- manufacturers and suppliers in the automotive and related industries with
- tools, software components and services for developing embedded systems.
- </p>
- <p>
- Apart from his job, he enjoys spending time with his family and loves to
- travel.
- </p>
- ]]></bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Vector Informatik GmbH</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
-
diff --git a/content/org/elections/2025/merks.xml b/content/org/elections/2025/merks.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index d3908483f45bae1bf49d61273c07469fdf046cb3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/content/org/elections/2025/merks.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension
- type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" -->
-
-<boardmember id="merks" type="committer">
-
- <name>Ed Merks</name>
-
- <title>Director, macromodeling GmbH</title>
-
- <image>merks.jpg</image>
-
- <email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
-
- <phone>+41 78 400 26 49</phone>
-
- <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- BIRT<br>
- DataTools Committer<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Project Lead<br>
- Eclipse Modeling Framework Project Lead<br>
- EPP Committer<br>
- Equinox Committer<br>
- GEF Committer<br>
- JustJ Project Lead<br>
- Mylyn Committer<br>
- Oomph Committer<br>
- Orbit Committer<br>
- PDE Committer<br>
- Platform PMC Member<br>
- Platform Committer<br>
- SimRel Project Lead<br>
- WindowBuilder Committer
- </p>
- ]]> </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <vision> <![CDATA[
-
-<p>
-What is Eclipse?
-That was an easy question to answer back in the early days:
-Eclipse is a highly-extensible, desktop IDE framework implemented in Java using native widgets.
-Clearly Eclipse has evolved and diversified.
-The Eclipse Foundation was formed to manage this technology, but it too has evolved and diversified dramatically and continues to do so.
-Now the answer to this simple question is far from clear.
-Is it a Foundation, a Project, a Community, a Java IDE, or Europe's largest open source organization?
-It is of course all those things, but not merely these things.
-For me personally, Eclipse is the world's biggest and best open-source Modeling community.
-But in the end, for each of us committers, Eclipse is something quite different,
-and we each personally help to make Eclipse what we collectively want it to be and to become.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This election is about how you as a committer are represented on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors.
-The board is relatively small, so each and every representative has significant influence.
-As your committer representative on the board, I will employ my seventeen years of experience to promote the interests of committers,
-and to help the Eclipse Foundation evolve into something even greater.
-The Eclipse Foundation needs to continue its growth beyond its early role as the manager of the Eclipse Project,
-while not losing sight of this core technology.
-My role is not only to represent committers, but to ensure the Eclipse Foundation's success, growth, and long-term viability.
-I will strive to be a visible and approachable technical representative, who navigates the political landscape on your behalf.
-I feel I've demonstrated this with my long track record as your representative on the board.
-My background as a Canadian immigrant, born in the Netherlands, living in Berlin and now in Switzerland and having learned Deutsch,
-leading Eclipse's Modeling Project,
-sensitizes me to the fact that great communities span cultural, technical, national, and linguistic boundaries.
-I am particularly proud to have worked with the board on the formation of an Eclipse IDE Working Group to help ensure the
-long term viability of Eclipse's flagship technology stack.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Cliche as it may sound, I believe strongly that helping is its own reward.
-I answer questions daily on a broad range of forums, not just those for my own projects,
-I fix Bugzillas quickly for the users of my software,
-and I develop cool new features and improve performance whenever possible.
-I endeavor to contribute constructively on the mailing lists.
-I am particularly proud of the
- <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Installer" target="_blank">Oomph
- technology</a> Eike Stepper and I have developed to help ease the
- installation and configuration of development IDEs,
- making Eclipse projects more welcoming for contributors.
-I am also proud of having worked with the board to enable the redistribution of Java Runtime Environments
- as well of the creation of
- <a href="/justj/" target="_blank">JustJ</a> to make JREs available as p2 installable units.
-I am deeply honored to have received Eclipse's
-<a href="/org/press-release/20120326_awardwinners.php"
-target="_blank">Lifetime Contribution Award</a> in 2012.
-I contribute actively to the Platform, and have been a driving force in helping to improve the consistency and quality to the simultaneous release.
-I feel my track record as an Eclipse committer since 2002 is demonstrated with deeds not merely with words.
-I focus on being a positive influence and on balancing the drive to fix problems and to make improvements
-with recognition of the fact that real problems are difficult to solve and that what constitutes improvement is often highly subjective.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-I will continue to work hard to ensure that Eclipse's processes are the best they can be and are ever improving.
-I believe in minimal processes that focus on best practices and achievable, pragmatic results.
-For example, do we really need to list each contributor in each and every file to which they have contributed?
-No, this is tracked by Git commits.
-Can we increase the CQ threshold for contributions from 250 lines to 10,000? No, but we can increase it to 1000.
-Life is compromise.
-I can be counted upon as the person who will speak up diplomatically even when personal risk is involved.
-As your representative, I commit to working tirelessly to promote not only Eclipse itself but also the community that drives it.
-It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your representative these past years.
-If reelected, you can count on the fact that Merks works for you.
-</p>
-
-]]> </vision>
-
- <bio> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company,
- <a href="https://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">macromodeling</a>.
- He is a coauthor of the authoritative book <a href="https://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780321331885"
- target="_blank">EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework</a> which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been
- an elected member of the <a href="/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation
- Board of Directors</a> for the past seventeen years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as
- Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed
- is well known for his dedication to the
- Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 33,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM,
- achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at
- Simon Fraser University. He is currently
- living in Switzerland and has learned to speak German. His
- experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
- </p>
- ]]> </bio>
-
- <affiliation> <![CDATA[
- <p>
- <a href="https://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">macromodeling</a>
- </p>
- ]]>
- </affiliation>
-
-
-</boardmember>
diff --git a/content/org/elections/2025/piana.xml b/content/org/elections/2025/piana.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 40ca7862d458693354ebcad9bd2b48e23331c6bb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/content/org/elections/2025/piana.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension
- type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" -->
-<boardmember id="piana" type="contributing">
-
- <name>Carlo Piana</name>
-
- <title>Founding Partner, Array</title>
-
- <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. -->
- <image>piana.jpg</image>
-
- <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. -->
- <email>piana@array.eu</email>
-
- <phone></phone>
-
- <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address -->
- <contact></contact>
-
- <!-- What do you do with eclipse? -->
- <eclipse_affiliation>
- I am affiliated as Contributing Member through Array. I am a member of the
- SC of the Eclipse Oniro WG and member of Open Regulatory Compliance Working
- Group.
- </eclipse_affiliation>
-
- <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. -->
- <vision>
- <![CDATA[
- <p>
- I believe Eclipse is in a unique position. It has deep roots in
- history, but has acquired a more agile and modern approach to perform its
- charter. My vision for Eclipse is to be a driving force for raising the
- relevance of Open Source and giving it more critical mass in the public
- discourse, also by building bridges and acting in synergy with other
- actors in the space.
- </p>
- ]]>
- </vision>
-
- <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. -->
- <bio>
- Carlo is a lawyer based in Milan, Italy, with over 30 years of experience
- in IT law and advocacy for digital freedoms. He has been involved in the
- battles for ensuring competition in networking protocols in one of the
- largest at the time litigation on antitrust matters before the EU Courts. Has
- served as General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation Europe for more
- than ten years and as Chair of the Board of the Open Source Initiative, of
- which is Board Member. He has joined The Eclipse Foundation as part of the
- Eclipse Oniro Working Group and is one of the designers of the OS compliance
- toolchain developed within the project, mainly targeting Yocto-based
- operating systems for embedded. He is also partner of OpenChain. Carlo speaks
- regularly at events, mainly in Europe, advocating for Open Source and digital
- freedoms, and has keynoted at the 2023 EclipseCon.
- </bio>
-
- <!-- Who do you work for? -->
- <affiliation>Array</affiliation>
-
-</boardmember>
-
diff --git a/layouts/nominees/single.html b/layouts/nominees/single.html
index e56d48ce9124baaf20679ccef6f2b2eff472f5cd..e495f912afdd8f4a09ea813ece90475f4f4121da 100644
--- a/layouts/nominees/single.html
+++ b/layouts/nominees/single.html
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
<div class="candidate-content padding-top-15">
{{- with $nominee}}
- <img class="candidate-content-img" src="../{{ .image }}">
+ {{- with .image }}
+ <img class="candidate-content-img" src="../{{ . }}">
+ {{- end }}
<h1 class="margin-top-0">
{{ if eq $is_elected "false"}}
{{ .name}} <small class="padding-left-10">{{ $year }} candidate </small>
@@ -26,29 +28,43 @@
<p>{{ .title | safeHTML }}</p>
<p><em>{{ cond (eq $is_elected "false") "Nominee for" "Elected"}} {{ $type }} representative</em></p>
<p>{{ .eclipse_affiliation | safeHTML }}</p>
- <p>e-mail:<span class="padding-left-20">{{ .email }}</span></p>
+ {{- with .email }}
+ <p>e-mail:<span class="padding-left-20">{{ . }}</span></p>
+ {{- end }}
{{ if eq $is_elected "true" }}
- <p>Phone:<span class="padding-left-20">{{ .phone }}</span></p>
- <p>Contact:<span class="padding-left-20">{{ .contact }}</span></p>
+ {{- with .phone }}
+ <p>Phone:<span class="padding-left-20">{{ . }}</span></p>
+ {{- end }}
+ {{- with .contact }}
+ <p>Contact:<span class="padding-left-20">{{ . }}</span></p>
+ {{- end }}
+ {{- with .bio }}
<div class="homeitem3col">
<h3>About the Representive</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .bio | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
+ <blockquote>{{ . | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
</div>
+ {{- end }}
{{ end }}
+ {{- with .vision }}
<div class="homeitem3col">
<h3>Vision</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .vision | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
+ <blockquote>{{ . | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
</div>
+ {{- end }}
{{ if eq $is_elected "false"}}
+ {{- with .bio }}
<div class="homeitem3col">
<h3>About the Candidate</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .bio | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
+ <blockquote>{{ . | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
</div>
+ {{- end }}
{{ end }}
+ {{- with .affiliation }}
<div class="homeitem3col">
<h3>Affiliation</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .affiliation | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
+ <blockquote>{{ . | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
</div>
+ {{- end }}
{{- end}}
</div>
diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/pages/org/elections/nominee.html b/layouts/shortcodes/pages/org/elections/nominee.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d674b7b9cfcdb3ad7edc5c7ef0836c470fdaa35..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/layouts/shortcodes/pages/org/elections/nominee.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-<!--
- Copyright (c) 2025 Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
-
- This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
- terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
- http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
-
- SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
--->
-
-{{ $year := .Page.Params.year }}
-{{ $nominees := (index $.Site.Data.org.elections $year).items }}
-{{ $nominee := (index $nominees .Page.Params.username )}}
-{{ $type := "Contributing Member" }}
-{{ if eq $nominee.type "committer" }}
- {{ $type = "Committer Member" }}
-{{ end }}
-
-<div class="candidate-content">
- {{- with $nominee}}
- <img class="candidate-content-img" src="../{{ .image }}">
- <h1>{{ .name}}<small class="padding-left-10">{{ $.Page.Params.year }} candidate</small></h1>
- <p>{{ .title }}</p>
- <p><em>Nominee for {{ $type }} representative</em></p>
- <p>{{ .eclipse_affiliation | safeHTML }}</p>
- <p>email:<span class="padding-left-30">{{ .email }}</span></p>
- <div class="homeitem3col">
- <h3>Vision</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .vision | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
- </div>
- <div class="homeitem3col">
- <h3>About the Candidate</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .bio | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
- </div>
- <div class="homeitem3col">
- <h3>Affiliation</h3>
- <blockquote>{{ .affiliation | safeHTML }}</blockquote>
- </div>
- {{- end}}
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file