| Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] July 9 2026 ETAC Meeting Agenda |
Hey Eclipse Technical Advisory Council.
Please read all the way to the bottom (I'll try to keep this brief)
I've posted the minutes from last week's call on our wiki. I realise I haven't been consistently capturing attendee information. I will make sure to do that moving forward. My apologies.
Over the past year, I've worked to make participation in the Eclipse Technical Advisory Council more valuable. A key part of this has been bringing more important topics to your attention to solicit feedback. I've endeavored to involve the council in every major undertaking of the EMO. I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have been attending the meetings. Our meetings have been extremely valuable to me and have meaningfully impacted the evolution of the Eclipse Foundation's policies, processes, and practices.
The EMO has several sources of feedback from the community that we serve (e.g., committer office hours, issues, surveys, the EMO inbox, PMC mailing lists), but the Eclipse Technical Advisory Council is by far our most direct source of frank feedback.
The next phase of the plan is to grow participation in the ETAC generally, and in the calls specifically. To that end, I want to do several things:
- Encourage more current members of the ETAC to attend the meetings;
- Engage with all of our PMCs to ensure they have active representation;
- Engage with the Eclipse Foundation's strategic members to ensure they have active representation;
- Challenge our current members to identify members of our committer community who would be good candidates to join the ETAC.
Soliciting your feedback on this will be on the agenda for our next meeting.
Our next meeting is on July 9 2026. I've started assembling the agenda. Here's what I have so far:
- New member introduction (5 minutes)
- Growing ETAC participation (15 minutes)
- Review our process for adding new members and solicit additional candidates (10 minutes)
- Incubation revitalisation update (10 minutes)
If you have other topics that you'd like to discuss, please let me know.
FYI, on this call, I will introduce Shelley Lambert and Sebastian Schildt and welcome them to the Eclipse Technical Advisory Council. The Executive Director appointed them under the authority granted by the Eclipse Foundation's Bylaws. I personally support these appointments and look forward to their participation.
Our July 2026 meeting is on Thursday July 9 at 11:00 am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 5:00 pm CET (Central European Time) via Zoom. Note that I have changed the Zoom link to use my personal account for this call so we can use the transcription features.
Our meeting calendar is here.
If you've made it all the way to the bottom of this message... thanks! :-) As you may recall, when we recast the Eclipse Architecture Council as the Eclipse Technical Advisory Council in the bylaws, we automatically appointed every then-current member of the council to a three year term. When that term expires, our intention is to automatically reappoint all active council members and retire all inactive members. From my perspective, activity in either the calls or in the mailing list and ETAC issues counts. In the meantime, if you feel you can no longer provide a meaningful contribution to the ETAC and wish to retire, please let me know (either on this list or via direct email).
Wayne--
Wayne Beaton (he/him)
Head of Open Source Projects | Eclipse Foundation
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