diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/adams.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/adams.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 5dcefc705c0c2fdbe135ccebc1a877ce89b7fe8b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/adams.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/adams.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/adams.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 4758929a8cac9b35f360eca13cc4448abd337989..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/adams.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="adams" type="committer"> - - <name>George Adams</name> - - <title>Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and Working Group chairperson of Eclipse Adoptium</title> - - <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. --> - <image>adams.jpg</image> - - <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. --> - <email>georgeadams1995@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[ - Chairman & Steering Committee member of Eclipse Adoptium Working Group<br/> - PMC member at Eclipse Adoptium<br/> - Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin<br/> - Project Lead at Eclipse AQAvit</br> - Project Lead at Eclipse Mission Control</br> - Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin-Compliance</br> - Committer at Eclipse Adoptium Incubator</br> - ]]> - </eclipse_affiliation> - <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. --> - <vision> - <![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 Working Group 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>Senior Program Manager at Microsoft</affiliation> - -</boardmember> diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/corsaro.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/corsaro.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 7c492f36fbdbc98da71bcb1db2d97f678d998cd3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/corsaro.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/corsaro.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/corsaro.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 4d48a2e083c3617cbece13296707edd6b4faedf6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/corsaro.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="corsaro" type="add-in-provider"> - - <name>Angelo Corsaro</name> - - <title>CEO / CTO Zettascale Technology</title> - - <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. --> - <image>corsaro.jpg</image> - - <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. --> - <email>angelo@zettascale.tech</email> - - <phone></phone> - - <!-- How do we contact you? e.g. postal address --> - <contact></contact> - - <!-- What do you do with eclipse? --> - <eclipse_affiliation> - <![CDATA[ - <ul> - <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> - - <!-- Who do you work for? --> - <affiliation>ZettaScale Technology</affiliation> - -</boardmember> - diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/ebbers.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/ebbers.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 86f7bc6b1cf451efef791bd2561d39a812e71fbd..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/ebbers.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/ebbers.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/ebbers.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 34d1dd167f3347b9cd1df9ba7348d67ef80fc392..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/ebbers.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,123 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="ebbers" type="contributing"> - - <name>Hendrik Ebbers</name> - - <title>Founder, Open Elements GmbH</title> - - <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. --> - <image>ebbers.jpg</image> - - <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. --> - <email>hendrik.ebbers@me.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> - 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, JakartaEE, - 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. 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> - ]]> - </eclipse_affiliation> - - <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. --> - <vision> - <![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 by continuing and - strengthening the support of events like Google Summer of Code and - Hacktoberfest next to providing "Getting Started" support like "good - first issue" issues. Next, I would like to have more small companies join - the foundation to support critical OSS on which they already depend today - (like the Java virtual machine). - </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 important to expand its position as the OSS - Foundation for Java and to make the Eclipse Foundation visible as an - important pillar of the global Java community. - </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 founded the company 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. Since - last year Hendrik is part of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. - 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. - </p> - <p> - Next to Eclipse-related projects, Hendrik contributes to other OSS. For - example, Hendrik is a core committer of the <a href="https://hedera.com">Hedera Hashgraph</a>, - the only open source public ledger written in Java. Here, Hendrik helps - Hedera and <a href="https://swirldslabs.com/">SwirldsLabs</a> create secure, - fast, and reliable components using open source standards, components, - and well-known workflows. - </p> - ]]> - </bio> - - <!-- Who do you work for? --> - <affiliation> - <![CDATA[ - <a href="https://open-elements.com/">Open Elements GmbH</a> - ]]> - </affiliation> - -</boardmember> - diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/khouzam.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/khouzam.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 33db5d5a8dbd899da1726fd7e22779ab401663ff..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/khouzam.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/khouzam.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/khouzam.xml deleted file mode 100644 index d275039cb3eb66d906c29323ec719f0201b5f61f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/khouzam.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,106 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="khouzam" type="committer"> - - <name>Matthew Khouzam</name> - - <title>Product Manager / Developer at Ericsson</title> - - <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. --> - <image>khouzam.jpg</image> - - <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. --> - <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? --> - <eclipse_affiliation> - 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. --> - <vision> - <![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> - diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/lambert.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/lambert.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index aee27ec5adba2a9bd2985aa1408671993544b970..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/lambert.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/lambert.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/lambert.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 857f0431c41124646a840365bfb12187e6ac2694..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/lambert.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="lambert" type="committer"> - - <name>Shelley Lambert</name> - - <title>Senior Principal Engineer at 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/2024/mader.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/mader.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 63aab57d1e026252623cac85a4d1e6caae15aa01..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/mader.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/mader.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/mader.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 7c68a7d5ae3125231fabf61c0045c8b32e28007b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/mader.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,204 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="mader" type="committer"> - - <name>Thomas Mäder</name> - - <title>CEO, Castle Ridge Software</title> - - <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. --> - <image>mader.jpg</image> - - <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. --> - <email>t.s.maeder@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[ - <p> - I was part of the Eclipse project team before the Eclipse Foundation was - even formed. I currently serve as a project lead and active committer on - the Theia project. I retain committer status on the jdt, - <a href="https://jdt.ls/">jdt.ls</a> and Che - projects. - </p> - ]]> - </eclipse_affiliation> - - <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. --> - <vision> - <![CDATA[ - <p> - What sets apart the Eclipse Foundation from other Open Source - organisations is the focus on governance vs. pure licensing and project - hosting. The rules of the Foundation allow organisations to cooperate on - a level playing field. This is ideal for the development of ecosystems - where you want to prevent a single player extracting more than their - fair share of the value created by the community. The Foundation should - continue to focus on this role, but be more active in shaping the Open - Source landscape. - </p> - <p> - As a committer member representative my role would be to look after the - interests of the individuals doing the work, not their employers. That - would mean, for example, that the individual contributions of a - committer are recognized over their career independent of the employer. - Also, I would advocate for making the experience of working in an - Eclipse project is as pleasant as possible while preserving the IP - discipline the Eclipse Foundation is known for. Since I am not employed - by a large Eclipse member company, I can be the voice of the committers - without competing interests in mind. - </p> - <p> - On a more general level, You might say that Open Source software has - won: I cannot think of a widely used software product that is not built - upon Open Source code. But the Free and Open Source world is facing - three main challenges going forward: - </p> - <ol> - <li class="margin-bottom-30"> - Regulation - <p> - Policy-makers have grown concerned with the power platform - companies like Google, Meta, Twitter, Apple or even Uber have - amassed - over our lives. They are impinging on our basic rights like privacy. - They wield huge influence over the information we consume, - influencing our democratic process. They have enormous economic - power, resulting in favourable tax deals and legislation. - </p> - <p> - Politicians, especially the EU, are starting to curb the influence - of platform capitalists by creating regulations like the GDPR, the - Cyber Resilience ACT (CRA) and the Common Services (CSA) and Markets - (CMA) acts. You can be sure that the large old and new heavyweights - of the industry have their lobbyists working the floor in Brussels, - Washington and even Beijing. But what about the rest of us? We need - to make sure that the regulations being created work for the larger - software industry and not just for the big five. To achieve this, we - need a voice that can articulate our needs and formulate policy that - works for the Open Source community. - </p> - <p> - The Eclipse Foundation could be that voice. - </p> - </li> - <li class="margin-bottom-30"> - AI - <p> - We all probably have had some experience with large language models - (LLM) like the ones used in GitHub Copilot by now. And if you work - on Open Source some of the code you have written has been used to - create that model. This raises a bunch of legal and moral questions: - are the weights in the Copilot model a derivative work of the code - that was used to compute them? If the code was GPL, must the weights - be GPL as well? Is it fair that Microsoft charges 10 dollars a month - for something created from your code? - </p> - <p> - In the long run, even if coding assistants like Copilot become - available on acceptable terms, we need to think about this: where - will the training data for the next generation LLM's come from? - LLM's may be uncannily good at generating reasonable code, but they - are not creative: they cannot produce code without having seen large - amounts of example solutions for a particular problem. Even in an AI - world, we will need to have programmers who create new and - innovative solutions that the LLM's can copy. The humans creating - those innovations will have to be fairly compensated for the value - they create, or the AI economy will have engineered its own demise. - </p> - <p> - The Eclipse Foundation should speak out clearly on behalf of - software innovators and advocate for their just compensation. - </p> - </li> - <li class="margin-bottom-30"> - "Source available" - <p> - The last twenty years have been a period of "free money" that - resulted in the easy availability of large scale financing to many - start-up companies. A good part of that capital was invested into - making software. As the investors were more interested in - hyper-growth than in profitability, a lot of the software was - released under an Open Source (OS) license. But even though the - software was released under an OS license, the code was controlled - and owned by a single company in many cases. - </p> - <p> - Now the investment money is drying up and companies are pressured to - increase profitability. One way to do so is to monetize the OS - software these companies control. You can increase cash flow by - steering the community to paid-for services using "open core" - licensing while charging for the "enterprise" parts of the software. - A second way to generate money is by keeping the competition from - offering similar services. This is usually done by including "field - of use" restrictions in the software license. For example, a vendor - offering a web service might include a clause that prohibits the use - of the software to offer a similar service. There is nothing wrong - with that. A company can license the software it created any way it - wants. So why is this a problem? - </p> - <p> - If you have a large Open Source project like Eclipse Theia, you - probably rely on thousands of libraries. Most of them are no direct - dependencies, but are required by some third party library you use. - The "field of use" restrictions in "source available" licenses are - usually "viral" in that they infect any derivative of the library. - </p> - <p> - The Open Source software ecosystem is hyper-productive because we - all stand on the shoulders of giants. Because everyone is using the - work of others, we can produce amazing works that would have been - impossible before. "Source available" licenses destroy this - productivity: we have a hard enough time making sure that our - dependencies are properly licensed. We can do it because there is - only a handful of open source licenses, many very similar. Tracking - arbitrary use restrictions for thousands of packages is simply not - feasible. - </p> - <p> - So if "source available" becomes widely adopted, the Open Source - ecosystem will eventually collapse. People will not be willing to - contribute to the commons if others are not willing to do the same. - </p> - <p> - The Eclipse Foundation should make clear that "source available" - software is not Open Source and must not be used in Open Source - projects. The Foundation should publicly advocate against "source - available" licenses and educate the community about there harmful - effects on the industry. - </p> - </li> - </ol> - ]]> - </vision> - - <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. --> - <bio> - <![CDATA[ - <p> - I hail from a small town in Switzerland and studied computer science at - ETH Zürich. I had the good fortune to get hired into the team around - Erich Gamma that built the first Eclipse IDE and later I worked on the - IBM Java VM. After doing stints in business software, I returned to - developer tools to work on Eclipse Che for Red Hat. I've been working on - Eclipse Theia now for a couple of years and I very much enjoy working in - that community. - </p> - <p> - I left Red Hat a couple of years ago to run my own small software - consultancy, Castle Ridge Software. I do sponsored development for Theia - and consult on interacting with open source communities. - </p> - ]]> - </bio> - - <!-- Who do you work for? --> - <affiliation>Castle Ridge Software</affiliation> -</boardmember> - diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/matheis.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/matheis.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 6e898cb9d77b49a38c2cd2a444d96013856e0365..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/matheis.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/matheis.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/matheis.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 8a955eb6ffbdb8da03253c1a619566b6414fb943..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/matheis.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,120 +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>Johannes Matheis</name> - - <title>Senior Manager at 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 Strategic Member Representative from Vector. - </p> - <p> - Over the years, I have participated in various EclipseCons 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. 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 needs a compelling vision in order to grow. - A particular emphasis on the UI and the performance of the - platform will be critical. Creating a focused vision and bringing - it to reality will require additional 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! - <br /> - Thank you! - </p> - ]]> - </vision> - - <!-- Tell us a little bit about yourself. --> - <bio><![CDATA[ - <p> - Dr. Johannes Matheis is a Senior 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 4000 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>Senior Manager at Vector Informatik GmbH</affiliation> - -</boardmember> - diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/merks.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/merks.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 10bc73c300d3863aa3892a4575c8b5c2c2981795..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/merks.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/merks.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/merks.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 07e65316a3a105eee3716051033d50ffd62b84ea..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/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>, Director - </p> - ]]> - </affiliation> - - -</boardmember> diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/piana.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/piana.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index e138caf4199ef7f503c7515c8cf39c36d88e228c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/piana.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/piana.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/piana.xml deleted file mode 100644 index bc64f8304f40e6ba42917d79372034cf896f32e9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/piana.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +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. - </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. I believe it must continue its renovation effort, to become - even more of a driving force of innovation in making Open Source even - more successful. - </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 is now Chair of the Board of the Open Source - Initiative. 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 last EclipseCon. - </bio> - - <!-- Who do you work for? --> - <affiliation>Array, founding partner</affiliation> - -</boardmember> - diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/resheim.jpg b/content/org/elections/2024/resheim.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index fd2a9a0cf876aa8abc59df8e2b6e2583db350f6a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Binary files a/content/org/elections/2024/resheim.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/org/elections/2024/resheim.xml b/content/org/elections/2024/resheim.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 813f5e6e1ba683a4d2f709ac253fe475dc669e91..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- a/content/org/elections/2024/resheim.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ -<!-- id is the same as the file name without the extension - type is one of "committer" or "add-in-provider" --> -<boardmember id="resheim" type="committer"> - - <name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name> - - <title>Senior Software Engineer and Co-owner, Itema AS</title> - - <!-- Name of the file containing the image of the candidate; location relative to this file. --> - <image>resheim.jpg</image> - - <!-- eMail address will be modified before it is included on a webpage so that robots will not harvest it. --> - <email>torkildr@gmail.com</email> - - - <!-- What do you do with eclipse? --> - <eclipse_affiliation> - <![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 and PMC; member of the Board of the Directors; 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> - - <!-- Feel free to include html tags and what-not between the CDATA tags. --> - <vision> - <![CDATA[ -<p> -Since I first joined the board in 2017, the Foundation has gone through many important changes. We have moved the organization to Brussels and Europe. We are now Europe's largest and most important open source foundation. We have had significant growth, both in revenue, member organizations and in employees. The Eclipse Foundation has shown that it can change with the times, adopting new practices when needed. -</p> - -<p> -If elected as a committer member representative I would like to focus on: -</p> - -<p> -Continue to support efforts to establish the Eclipse Foundation as the premier open source foundation – based in Europe, with a global reach. -</p> - -<p> -<b>Support Contributing Member organizations and committers:</b> Recognize and reward these for their efforts and contributions, and provide incentives for them to continue to participate and contribute. -</p> - -<p> -<b>Foster a welcoming and inclusive community:</b> Promote a culture of inclusivity and diversity, and take steps to address any negative behaviors or actions within the community. -</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 <a href="https://www.ntnu.edu">NTNU</a>) 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. These days focus has shifted to supporting developers and build tools for them as part of a platform team. -</p> - -<p> -I work for and are a co-owner of Itema AS, a small software consultancy with 34 highly skilled and dedicated people, all also co-owners with an equal share of the company. 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 37,000 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 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>