Editor's Note

In this month’s newsletter, we’re focusing on Eclipse IoT and the exciting advances our community is making in IoT and edge technologies.

I’ll start with our articles about the Eclipse IoT Packages project. To give you the complete perspective on the project, we asked two of our community authors to tell the story from a different perspective:

• To explain why Eclipse IoT needs packages, Kai Hudalla reviews the challenges that make it hard to use Eclipse IoT projects today.
• To provide a closer look at the Eclipse IoT Packages project, Jens Reimann explains how use cases will make it easier to choose and combine Eclipse IoT projects.

We’re also introducing the Edge Working Group, a new open industry collaboration that will drive the evolution and broad adoption of edge computing and related technologies. Eclipse ioFog Project Lead, Kilton Hopkins, explains why the Eclipse Foundation is focusing on edge computing, the relationship between edge and IoT, and the motivations behind creating the new working group. 

For insight into the diversity and trends revealed in our IoT project releases, check out Frédéric Desbiens’ article explaining why our release history is a roadmap to the future.

EclipseCon Kicks Off

By the time you read this, EclipseCon Europe 2019 will be underway. As our community’s biggest gathering of the year, EclipseCon Europe brings together developers, architects, and open source business leaders from around the world. We’re excited to share our recent innovations around cloud native Java, the Eclipse IDE and cloud development tools, IoT and edge computing, automotive development, and much more. Stay tuned for community updates and news from the conference.

Check Out Our Short Takes

Finally, this month’s newsletter also includes a new section called Short Takes. Short Takes highlights late-breaking news from the Eclipse Foundation and provides important reminders and links for upcoming events, so be sure to check it out.

Happy reading!
Thabang Mashologu
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