This is my last day at the Eclipse Foundation. If you missed my earlier post, I have resigned from the Foundation and am starting to look for new opportunities. Thank you to everyone in the Eclipse community for making my time with the Foundation an amazing experience. It is the people that make a community. I will definitely miss the people in the Eclipse community. My plan is to stop posting to this blog. I’ve always wanted to start on medium so now seems like a good time. I will continue to be active on Twitter and LinkedIn. I hope we meet again soon. #Onward   ..read more

The new year brings a big change; I will be leaving the Eclipse Foundation at the end of January. This has been a difficult decision to make but it is time to take on a new challenge. I am extremely proud to have been part of the Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse community since the early days. I fondly remember the chaotic and exciting early years of setting up the Foundation and the explosive growth of projects, members and users. The Eclipse Foundation was one of the first open source foundations that showed how professional staff can help bring together companies and open source developers to ..read more

Last year I made the bold move to write-up the 2017 trends I thought would be important for the IoT industry and Eclipse IoT community. It seemed like a useful exercise so I thought a 2018 version is appropriate. 1. Edge/Fog/IoT Gateway computing will continue to gain traction.  It is not feasible that all IoT devices will be communicating directly with the cloud. The amount of data, network availability and latency, security are some of the primary drivers for pushing IoT compute toward the edges of the network. For example, an IoT solution for an oil rig needs to work regardless of conn ..read more

A key industry that is driving the Internet of Things is Manufacturing. Companies are always looking to make their manufacturing process more efficient, flexible and improve quality, while lowering costs. Therefore, modernizing factory floors and integrating factory equipment with the enterprise IT systems is of interest to many manufacturing companies. In Germany, they call this trend Industrie 4.0. They see IoT as being the fourth industrial revolution to fundamentally change the manufacturing industry. For history buffs, the other industrial revolutions are considered to be: mechanization w ..read more

Over the last couple of months a number of announcements have been made that change the the Java ecosystem. These changes could have a long-term impact on Java developers and the Eclipse community. This week at JavaOne I expect we will hear about a lot of these changes. For the most part I think there are 5 key trends that all Java developers will need to watch.  If you can’t make it to JavaOne, many of these trends will also be highlighted at EclipseCon Europe. 1. Adoption of Java 9 Java 9 is finally out the door. This release has been a long time in development so now the process of ado ..read more

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that is mainly funded by fees from our corporate members. Our corporate members definitely get a lot of value from their involvement with the Eclipse Foundation. Their support of the Eclipse Foundation is essential to the ongoing operations. There are also millions of software developers who make use of Eclipse technology on a daily basis. For the most part these developers and their organization use the Eclipse IDE and other projects free of charge. Of course this is perfectly fine given the open source license for Eclipse projects. Howe ..read more

This year it is going to be All Things IoT at EclipseCon Europe. There will be a wealth of content that focuses on the IoT industry and technology.  It is going to be a great learning experience for anyone interested in IoT. The main highlight is 3 days of single track IoT content: Smart Home Day is scheduled for Sunday, October 22.  This will be the go to event for anyone interested in home automation and specifically openHAB and Eclipse SmartHome. Thanks for Deutsche Telekom for sponsoring this event. The Eclipse IoT Working Group will be hosting a face-2-face meeting on Monday, O ..read more

This is the last week Kat Hirsch, the Eclipse Foundation marketing specialist, will be with the Foundation. Kat is moving on to a new opportunity and the next step in her marketing career.  We have been lucky to have Kat at the Foundation and we will certainly miss her dedication and passion. At the same time, we are lucky to announce Stephanie Swart will be taking on the role of Marketing Specialist. Some Eclipse community members might already know Stephanie in her current role of Program Coordinator for the Foundation. Stephanie has done a great job helping and coordinating Eclipse pro ..read more

Once again we are hosting an Eclipse IoT Day in London on September 11. Like last year, we are co-locating with the awesome Thingmonk event, one of my favourite IoT events of the year. Thingmonk brings together some of the best thinkers in IoT so it is always a great chance to learn and network. If you are serious about IoT, you need to attend this event. Like last year, we are doing a half-day Eclipse IoT Day as the pre-conference event for Thingmonk. We have put together a pretty awesome set of speakers to showcase what is going on in the Eclipse IoT community. Check out the line-up: Ian Cra ..read more

It is hard to believe the Eclipse IoT Working Group was launch over 5 years ago on November 1, 2011, at the time we called it Eclipse M2M.  A lot has changed over these 5 years, including the name, and the IoT industry has matured to be one of the dominant technology trends in the technology industry. The good news is the Eclipse IoT Working Group has been a huge success. We have a thriving open source community that includes 30 different projects, more than 200 developers and 30 member companies. Eclipse IoT is well known and positioned in the industry and continues to see momentum and g ..read more