2021 Candidate:
Torkild Ulvøy Resheim

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.

If reelected as a contributing member representative I would like to:

Continue to support efforts to establish the Eclipse Foundation as the premier open source foundation – based in Europe, and with a global reach.

Improve the Eclipse Platform — 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.

Encourage and support new projects. Moving to Europe and changing the bylaws in favor of a neutral legislation enables new opportunities.

Take care of committers and community. 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.

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.

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.

I founded the Trondheim Eclipse User Group in 2013 and have with Itema hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp for a few years before that.

I can be reached on Twitter using the @torkildr handle.