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<name>George Adams</name>
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Chairman &amp; 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>
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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
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>
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<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>
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<name>Angelo Corsaro</name>
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<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>
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<p>
Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) at ZettaScale Technology.
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<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.
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<title>Founder, Open Elements GmbH</title>
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<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.
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<p>
The Eclipse Foundation is a place that allows individual open source
enthusiasts and companies &mdash; big or small &mdash; 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>
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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>
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<name>Matthew Khouzam</name>
<title>Product Manager / Developer at Ericsson</title>
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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.
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<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 &mdash; let's share
our ideas more, and have fun in the process.
</p>
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<![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>
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<li>Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin</li>
<li>Project Lead at Eclipse Temurin-compliance</li>
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<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>
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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.
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<name>Thomas Mäder</name>
<title>CEO, Castle Ridge Software</title>
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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.
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<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>
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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.
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<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.
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<name>Johannes Matheis</name>
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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.
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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.
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<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!
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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.
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<name>Ed Merks</name>
<title>Director, macromodeling GmbH</title>
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<email>Ed.Merks@gmail.com</email>
<phone>+41 78 400 26 49</phone>
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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
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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, 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>
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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>
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<a href="https://www.macromodeling.com/" target="_blank">macromodeling</a>, Director
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<name>Carlo Piana</name>
<title>Founding partner, Array</title>
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I am affiliated as Contributing Member through Array. I am a member of the
SC of the Eclipse Oniro WG.
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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>
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<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.
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<affiliation>Array, founding partner</affiliation>
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<name>Torkild Ulvøy Resheim</name>
<title>Senior Software Engineer and Co-owner, Itema AS</title>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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<![CDATA[
<a href="https://www.itema.no/?lang=en">Itema AS</a>
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