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Introducing Our Keynote Speakers at OCX 2024
As we approach the Open Community Experience (OCX), scheduled to take place from 22-24 October in Mainz, Germany, my anticipation and excitement continues to build. This event marks a new chapter for our community, with a fresh conference format that I believe will bring even more value to all of us. The focus on collocated events is something I’m particularly enthusiastic about, as it allows us to explore a broader range of topics including automotive and Java, while EclipseCon remains at the heart of this experience.
Whether you’re a regular EclipseCon attendee or joining us from one of the many communities that make up our “community of communities,” I look forward to connecting with you. For me, our flagship conference is more than just an event—it’s a yearly highlight where I get to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, and engage in the meaningful conversations that drive our collective work forward.
I’m honoured to be delivering the keynote on “The State of the Eclipse Foundation” this year. I’ll be sharing key updates, our vision for the future, and how we plan to continue driving innovation in the open source space. As we celebrate the Eclipse Foundation’s 20th anniversary, it’s a pivotal moment for us, and I’m excited to take you along on this journey.
But it’s not just me you’ll hear from. We’ve lined up a stellar group of keynote speakers, each bringing their unique expertise and deep expertise in their respective fields. Prepare to be inspired by some of the brightest minds in the industry:
- Haibo Chen from Huawei will deliver an exciting session titled “Empowering a Connected Intelligent World With OpenHarmony and Oniro.” This talk will explore how OpenHarmony and Oniro, both open source initiatives, are driving the connected intelligent future.
- Cédric Dumont, an extreme sports athlete and base-jumping pioneer, will provide the inspirational keynote “Scaling New Heights: Emerging trends in performance and leadership for thriving as a team in disruption.”
- Ruth Ikegah, an Open Source Program Manager, acclaimed speaker, and GitHub Star, will deliver her keynote “From Local Roots to Global Impact: Building an Inclusive Open Source Community in Africa.” Ruth will highlight how inclusivity fuels innovation and growth within the global open source community.
- Yann Lechelle from Probabl will take the stage with “Eyes Wide Open, AIs Wide Open – Or How to Remain in Control in the Age of AI,” exploring the big picture implications of compute, data, and machine learning, and how we can stay competitive while safeguarding the values that make us human.
- Sarah Novotny, a leading voice in open source, who has guided projects like Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX, and MySQL, will present “We Build Software in the Open to Build Trust.” She’ll discuss the need for transparent and collaborative open source software development and its profound economic and societal impact.
- Leandro von Werra, from Hugging Face, will offer insights into the future of LLMs for code and how the BigCode project is paving the way for open and responsible AI-driven development at the session “BigCode: Building Open LLMs for Code”.
And that’s just the beginning. OCX 2024 is packed with sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities designed to spark innovation, collaboration, and growth. Whether you’re deeply involved in open source software or just beginning your journey, there’s something here for everyone.
I’m genuinely excited about what we’ll experience together at OCX 2024. This is our chance to come together, share our knowledge, and set the stage for the future of open source development. Don’t miss the opportunity to save by taking advantage of early bird pricing—register before 7 October 2024.
See you there!
Security Leadership at the Eclipse Foundation
As everyone who is involved in the software industry is well aware, security is a significant topic these days. In particular, open source supply chain security is top of mind across the entire ICT industry. The Eclipse Foundation, its community, its projects, and its working groups all have a strong motivation to be leaders in advocating and implementing security best practices. Our members, adopters, users, and stakeholders all desire that their security risks be mitigated to the degree possible.
One thing that is clear, however, is that simply putting the burden of added security work on the shoulders of our committers and project leaders is not an option. This topic needs to be addressed by services provided by the Eclipse Foundation to our project community or it will fail. Without strong support in terms of release and build engineering, tooling, and education, developers simply do not have the time, interest, or skills necessary to be responsible for implementing security best practices. It is equally true that security, and particularly supply chain security, requires a programmatic approach. Security is not an attribute that you simply add to existing software.
So we need to provide services to our projects to implement our Open Source Software Supply Chain Best Practices. We envisage this as a collection of services provided to our projects by staff to protect our code repositories, secure third party artifacts, provide security audits, secure build pipelines, and protect build outputs.
The Eclipse Foundation has long had a security policy, and is a CVE numbering authority. We have a long track record of taking security seriously. However, we are not going to be able to accomplish more without leadership. So, to that end, I am very pleased to announce that we have recently promoted Mikaël Barbero as our new Head of Security. Mikaël is well known to our community as having led our Common Build Infrastructure for many years, as well as having authored the best practices document referenced above. Mikaël will be providing leadership to our security initiatives, and will be working closely with our projects and our IT staff to steadily improve security across the Eclipse community. Some of this work will complement or leverage related efforts to improve our IP processes and provide software bill of materials (SBOMs) for all of our projects. We expect to make a number of program announcements over the coming months, so stay tuned. Please join me in welcoming Mikaël in his new role.
The Eclipse IDE Working Group Celebrates Its First Anniversary
Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Eclipse IDE Working Group. A year ago, the Eclipse Foundation launched this Working Group focused on the Eclipse IDE and the Eclipse Simultaneous Release (SimRel). We would like to share some of our successes since the launch of the Working Group in April 2021.
Highlights
- 20 Years of the Eclipse IDE: 2021 was a momentous year for the Eclipse IDE, as we celebrated its 20 year anniversary!
- Welcome Ed! Ed Merks joined us as a SimRel Architect and Release Engineer. Ed’s first set of tasks included preparing PGP signing support for the 2022-06 release and mapping out the project dependencies.
- Productive collaboration Our collaboration with the Planning Council has been very effective. We have identified the top issues as outlined by the Planning Council and have a plan to address them.
PGP: A Community Success Story
A great community success story for the Eclipse IDE Working Group is the delivery of a fully-functional, secure PGP implementation for Eclipse 4.23 (SimRel 2022-03). This enhancement augments Eclipse’s existing security support which is based on jar signing. Jar signing has the significant drawback that artifacts originating from external dependencies must be modified in order to sign them, i.e., jar signatures are intrinsic to the artifact. In contrast, PGP signatures are extrinsic to the artifact and have long been used in Maven repositories to provide certification of origin. Eclipse’s PGP support facilitates significantly streamlined consumption of Maven-based artifacts by Eclipse projects, making it easier for our community to exploit and deliver the latest and greatest libraries with each quarterly simultaneous release.
The initial proof-of-concept PGP implementation was contributed by Mickael Istria. In combination with Mickael’s on-going participation, along with Christoph Läubrich’s technical insights, the working group has helped to harden the PGP implementation to industrial-strength quality for the SimRel 2022-03 delivery. Even the existing support for jar signing has been improved, as users can now easily save trusted X.509 certificates to avoid repeated trust prompts as is typical with self-signed certificates. Issue 11 provides a detailed track record of all the activities around PGP signing during the 2022-03 release cycle as well as additional background information.
With this groundwork in place, our community as a whole can exploit PGP signing for broader adoption in the Eclipse 4.24 (SimRel 2022-06) delivery this coming June.
Planning Council’s Top 3 Items
The Planning Council plays an important role in the Eclipse IDE WG. The Planning Council can be seen as the “technical” arm of the WG. At the beginning of the first year, under the leadership of Mélanie Bats, the Planning Council was tasked by the Steering Committee to identify the top issues affecting the successful release and adoption of the Eclipse IDE as a platform and a product.
After much brainstorming and debate the Planning Council recommended the “top three” items to the Steering Committee to focus on:
- The “Bus Factor“, particularly of the release engineering processes of the Simultaneous Release (SimRel).
- Identifying individual project risks, for example identifying which projects contributing to the SimRel are under-resourced and understanding which downstream projects are affected.
- Updating the graphical layer Eclipse where it is lagging behind operating system changes, for example improving dark mode, better operating system and web browser integration.
The Steering Committee took these items and translated them to action points that are now being carried out and has allocated a substantial portion of the IDE WG’s budget to improving these common parts of the Eclipse IDE. The highlights of this work include:
- Hiring Ed Merks as the SimRel release engineer.
- Ed has also found time to start mapping out the incredibly complicated dependency graphs between the dozens of different projects contributing to the SimRel to better understand the impact of any particular project discontinuing participation and to fully understand the dependency chain of each bundle in the SimRel repository.
- The Eclipse Foundation has created new guidelines for funding work such as the graphical layer improvements. This is the most recent action point and already some bugs are being fixed under this program.
One year into the Eclipse IDE WG and Jonah Graham is now the chair of the Planning Council. The Planning Council is pleased to see some concrete actions taking place under the new Working Group. The structures and processes in the Working Group have progressed well and additional funding of the IDE WG will see direct improvements in the quality, stability and adoption of the Eclipse IDE.
Engage in the Working Group
We still have much to do! If you are interested in joining us and supporting the development of the Eclipse IDE technology stack, improving the user experience of the platform, and making it more attractive for organisations, let us know. We welcome the opportunity to speak with everyone who wants to help shape the future of the Eclipse IDE.
The resources funded by the IDE Working Group members are really paying dividends for our community, both for the producers and for the consumers. If you’re a consumer, please consider investing in our community’s ongoing success by supporting the Eclipse IDE with funding, contributions, new ideas, new points of view, and by getting directly involved in development efforts. Better funding enables us to achieve more, and more hands make the work lighter.
If you are interested in becoming a Working Group member, you can get in touch with us by completing the membership form or by sending an email to the Membership Coordination Team. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, let us know.
Stay In Touch
We love exchanging ideas, so if you have any questions or would like to know more about what we do here, connect with us! You can also join our meetings to find out more about what we’re up to. They are open to the community and take place every 2 weeks from 2:30pm to 3:30pm (CET) on Tuesdays. Or you can contact a member of the steering committee, we’re always happy to talk to you.
Life at Eclipse 