[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Proposal to establish the Eclipse Clou

[Paul White <paul.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

A proposal has been made to establish the Eclipse Cloud Interest Group [1].

The scope states the intent of Eclipse Cloud Interest Group is to focus on preliminary assessments, collaborative exploration, and preparation to enable future advancements in open source technologies and frameworks that promote cloud interoperability.

This interest group will facilitate cloud service autonomy for Cloud Service Providers, Users, and Industry Vendors by addressing foundational technical and procedural aspects.

The primary objective of the Eclipse Cloud Interest Group is to foster innovation and preparing for the development of open source cloud technologies, protocols and specifications that enable multi-cloud interoperability and align with regulations like the Data Act, while supporting digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy

To achieve this, the interest group will focus on key areas, including:

• Emergence of Critical Cloud Components : Facilitate the emergence of essential cloud components necessary for the development of autonomous cloud infrastructures, cloud Services Portability & Autonomy : Assess and promote foundational technologies and processes that could enable effective switching between cloud providers.

• Multi-Cloud managed services Interoperability : Leverage Open Source technologies to investigate ways to achieve services  interoperability and portability across different cloud platforms.

• Conformity and Quality Assurance : Explore approaches to ensure that cloud services are not only interoperable and deployable across multiple cloud providers but also meet the expected quality, service level agreement (SLA), and performance standards..

• Technologies Enabling this vision : Encourage and evaluate technologies that align with the vision of  strategically autonomous cloud infrastructures. This includes projects like:

• Xpanse: Creating managed services for any cloud, focusing on portability.

• Biscuit: A decentralized authentication token supported by a strong community.

• Verifiable Credentials & Linked Data: Implement approaches from (among others) Gaia-X for secure and verifiable data management.

• Conformity Assessment Profile: Ensure compliance with established standards to maintain interoperability and reliability.

• XCP-ng: XCP-ng is a high performance enterprise level virtualization platform with a rich ecosystem that can be integrated in an entire stack to do management and backup for it. 

This Interest Group is committed to fostering collaboration, conducting foundational research, and establishing the groundwork for eventual advancements in open source technologies and frameworks for cloud interoperability.

We invite you to learn more about this opportunity. 

All Members of the Eclipse Foundation may join the interest group and there are no additional fees involved to do so.  Should you wish to follow along, please subscribe to the Interest Group’s mailing list [2] and indicate your organisation’s interest in participation.  

Based on the Interest Group Process [3], the interest group will be officially created shortly.

Please feel free to contact either the Foundation’s Collaboration Team [4] or myself if you have any questions.

[1] https://projects.eclipse.org/interest-groups/eclipse-cloud
[2] https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/jakarta.ee-future-directions
[3] https://www.eclipse.org/org/collaborations/interest-groups/process.php
[4] mailto: collaborations@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks

Paul

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Paul White
Secretary/Treasurer | Eclipse Foundation