June 2025

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Eclipse Foundation News

Mike Milinkovich

Executive Director Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse Foundation Executive Report

I hope this report finds you well. As we head into the second half of the year, the Eclipse Foundation continues to make strides across key initiatives that reflect our objective to foster open, vendor-neutral collaboration in both emerging and critical technology domains.

Based on feedback from our members and community, we have been focusing on creating a collaboration space for artificial intelligence.

Open source AI tooling is proving essential in ensuring that developers and organisations retain control, adaptability, and transparency as they integrate AI into software workflows. Projects like Theia AI demonstrate the potential of open tooling with rapid model integration, full prompt visibility, and support for the Model Context Protocol. Meanwhile, Eclipse LMOS is building the foundations for agent-based computing, enabling scalable, privacy-compliant AI systems and advancing the vision of a sovereign “Internet of Agents.” I encourage all members to consider bringing your AI-related projects to Eclipse and join our growing AI community.

In the Java ecosystem, I’m pleased to highlight that we have launched the Eclipse Temurin Sustainer Program. This program is the first of its kind at Eclipse, and offers a new path for those downstream organisations that rely heavily on Eclipse Temurin to directly aid financially in ensuring the long-term vitality of Eclipse Temurin and the broader Adoptium projects. This program enables companies and individuals to invest directly in sustaining the most widely adopted open source JDK for mission-critical workloads.

Looking ahead, I’d also like to draw your attention to several important events on the horizon:

Adoptium Summit 2025 will take place online on 1 October as a premier virtual gathering for the global Java community. Registration is now open, and we welcome talk submissions.
JakartaOne Livestream 2025 returns on 2 December, continuing to spotlight enterprise Java innovation and cloud-native development. Register now to secure your spot.
Open Community Experience (OCX) will be held 21–23 April in Brussels. In particular, I urge all our members to consider sponsoring OCX 2026. The feedback from sponsors of OCX 2024 was overwhelmingly positive, and we believe OCX represents a great opportunity for your organisation to benefit from the largest gathering of the year of our community. We invite you to download the prospectus and explore flexible sponsorship options that let you connect with our vibrant global audience.

Your engagement, whether through participation, contribution, or sponsorship, makes our ecosystem stronger.

Our membership remains strong. As of 31 May, we have 390 Organisational Members and 2,061 Committers. The 2025 budget includes further growth for the Foundation, once again driven by our working groups and new initiatives.

Financially, we are solidly on track with our 2025 budget, and consistent with our plans for managing our consistent year over year growth. As always, I thank you for your continued trust and support.

See the chart below for a year over year comparison:

Eclipse Foundation Group Total Budget

2023 Actual (EUR)

2024 Actual (EUR)

2025 Budgeted (EUR)

Revenue
Expenses
Net Income

11.3M

11.6M

(0.3M)

12.8M

13.1M
(0.3M)

15.4M

0.0M

Membership

Mark Your Calendars: General Assembly on 29 July 2025

A meeting of the General Assembly (GA) of the Eclipse Foundation AISBL has been scheduled. The formal convening notice was sent to Member Representatives on 26 June 2025. The primary agenda item is to enable the members to review and approve the audited financial statements and the auditor’s report for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2024.

The GA meeting will be held on Tuesday, 29 July 2025 at 16:00 CEST/10:00 EDT via Zoom, and all members are welcome to attend. Formally, the meeting is being held at the Regus office, 8 Rue Rémusat 31000, Toulouse, 31000.

Member Representatives of Voting Members (i.e., Strategic and Contributing member organisations) will receive details, including the materials for the meeting and electronic ballots to vote in advance of the meeting. Please reach out to secretary@eclipse-foundation.org if you have any questions.