EclipseCon: Program announced & Registration is now open
Become an EclipseCon Sponsor
Announcing the Models for Privacy Engineering Interest Group
OSPO Alliance News
Featured Community: Eclipse IDE
New Members and Working Group Participants
Executive Report
I hope that you and yours are well and are enjoying these warm summer months.
The past few months have been incredibly busy and I would like to start by recognizing the dedication of the staff here at the Eclipse Foundation. We just recently had our annual all hands internal event and it was great to reconnect in person, and to welcome so many new colleagues to our team.
We recently announced the formation of two new and important working groups. The Open VSX Working Group is dedicated to supporting the evolution, operation, and sustainability of the Open VSX Registry, which provides a vendor-neutral repository of VS Code extensions for use by Eclipse Theia, vscodium, and others. With 2 million downloads a month, and support from Google, Huawei, Posit, Salesforce, Siemens, and STMicroelectronics Open VSX is clearly meeting an industry need.
We have also recently announced the formation of the Eclipse Cyber Risk Initiative, which I personally believe is one of the most important initiatives ever undertaken by the Eclipse Foundation. As we are all aware, cyber security and supply chain security are massive industry challenges. ECRI’s purpose is to ensure the security and integrity of Eclipse Foundation's community, projects, systems, and data by implementing the best practices and standards for software production, risk management and incident response. Our goal is to ensure that our community, projects, systems and data are protected against potential threats and vulnerabilities, and that we are able to respond promptly and effectively in the event of a security incident. This initiative needs the support of all of our members in order to be successful. Please subscribe to the ECRI mailing list to join the initiative, or to follow its progress.
Government regulation of the software industry is coming, and pending legislation in Europe such as the Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive pose enormous risks to the open source community and ecosystem.
We will be holding an all members call next Thursday, July 13, at 14:30 CEST to provide an update on the challenges we face as a community and as an industry. We hope that you and your colleagues will be able to join us!
Membership and Budget Update
I’m pleased to report our membership remains strong. As of the end of May, our current corporate members now total 361, and our number of committers has grown to 1,966.
The Eclipse Foundation’s finances remain on target for 2023, as shown in the chart below. The 2023 budget approved by the Foundation’s board of directors and general assembly included significant growth for the Foundation as compared to 2022. You will notice that the budget includes an anticipated negative operating income for 2023; this was planned and coincides with the significant positive operating income from 2022 as we ramped up both our security and SDV initiatives over the past 12 months.
The Board approved a small revision to the 2023 budget for Eclipse Foundation AISBL in June, and as noted below in this newsletter, a meeting of the general assembly has been called for July 26, 2023 at which the General Assembly will be asked to approve the revised budget. I ask all voting members of the Belgian organization to please either attend or cast your vote in advance, as this is an important step in our governance operations. As a reminder, our reporting of all financial information is in Euros.
Eclipse Foundation Group Total Budget
2021 Actual (USD)
2022 Actual (EUR)
2023 Budgeted (EUR)
Revenue Expenses Net Income
7.6
7.4
0.2
9.4
8.6 0.8
11.1
11.7
(0.6)
Extraordinary General Assembly: July 26, 2023
An extraordinary General Assembly of the Eclipse Foundation AISBL will be held via Zoom on July 26, 2023, starting at 9:00 AM EDT / 15:00 PM CEST. The meeting will also take place at the Eclipse Foundation's operating office, located at 2934 Baseline Road, Suite 202, Ottawa, ON, Canada. The primary purpose of the meeting is to enable the General Assembly to receive the report of the Foundation’s financial auditor for the 2022 financial year.
The official Convening Notice including the meeting agenda was previously sent to all members by email. Specific instructions regarding either attending or voting electronically in advance was sent to the member representatives of member organizations on July 6, 2023.
All members are encouraged to attend.
2023 Annual Community Report
This past year has been another year of significant growth for the Eclipse Foundation and its community. In particular, we have seen many new projects, industry collaborations, members, and committers join, as well as seen us start strategic new initiatives.
As you will see in the 2023 Annual Community Report, the Eclipse Foundation community has achieved great things over the past year. The community report identifies many of these accomplishments.
We hope the Annual Community Report is useful to you in summarizing the Foundation’s activities and progress.
EclipseCon 2023
EclipseCon Program Announced &
Registration is now open
The waiting is over! Check out the 2023 programfor EclipseCon, then register early to save your spot (prices go up after September 29).
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. There were many excellent submissions, and we appreciate the community effort to create an amazing program for 2023.
New Items to Note
Tutorials: Tuesday morning will be devoted to tutorials, which are three-hour, hands-on sessions from technical experts in the community. Pre-registration is required, but there is no extra charge to attend. You may select a tutorial during registration.
Community Day: Monday, October 16 is devoted to community-organized content, with lots to choose from. Visit the Community Day page to learn more before you register (you will be asked to choose a Community Day Option during registration).
Lower prices: We are offering Community Day at a much lower price this year. For those attending EclipseCon, the price to add Community Day is €25 plus VAT. For those attending Community Day only, the price is €40 plus VAT.
Speaker discounts: Speakers discounts now apply to either an All-Access Pass or a Three-Day Pass.
We look forward to seeing you in Ludwigsburg, October 16 - 19!
Become an EclipseCon Sponsor
Join us as a sponsor or exhibitor and play a significant role in EclipseCon 2023. Your organization's participation demonstrates leadership within the Eclipse community, increases your brand recognition and awareness, and can help drive interest in the Eclipse projects that are important to your business. Learn more.
Announcing the Models for Privacy Engineering Interest Group
The Models for Privacy Engineering Interest Group has been formally created based on our Interest Group Process with five members of the Eclipse Foundation leading the collaboration; Fraunhofer, KentYou, Tecnalia, TNO Innovation for Life and Trialog. The scope of this new Interest Group is to promote the use, creation and sharing of privacy models as a common language for descriptive capability and as an information sharing tool for prescriptive capabilities. You can read more details about the Interest Group here.
Participation is open to all Eclipse Foundation members. If you are interested in joining, please subscribe to the Interest Group’s mailing list and indicate your organization's interest to participate and/or contact our Industry Collaborations Team at any time.
OSPO Alliance News
The OSPO Alliance is dedicated to promoting excellence in open source software management. Our goal is to create an open platform for sharing experiences, discovering tools, and defining best practices in this field. Here are our latest news:
The OSPO Alliance has recently launched a revamped website along with a new domain name, which now represents its full name as ospo-alliance.org.
In addition, the Good Governance Handbook v1.1 has been translated into Portuguese, making it the fourth official translation alongside English, German, and French versions. However, assistance is still required in translating the handbook into Dutch, Italian, and Spanish languages. Read more
During our latest OnRamp session on June 16, Jan Anaili from the Foundation for Public Code introduced the Governance Game. Click the link below to catch up on what was covered during the session.
The Leading Open Platform for Professional Developers
The Eclipse® IDE Working Group is formed to ensure the continued sustainability, integrity, evolution and adoption of the Eclipse IDE suite of products and related technologies.
Celebrating another planned coordinated release on schedule, the Eclipse IDE projects just delivered its 2023-06 release on schedule on June 14, 2023. For more information, including downloads, please see the Eclipse IDE release page.
We encourage all members to support the Eclipse IDE working group by sponsoring.
Get Featured
Each issue of the member newsletter will feature different working groups. Leaders of working groups wishing to be featured during a particular month should contact marketing@eclipse.org.
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