2024 Annual Community Report | The Eclipse Foundation

Except where otherwise noted, this report covers the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Eclipse Foundation, I am filled with gratitude and admiration for the vibrant community that has been instrumental in our journey. Your unwavering dedication and support have been the cornerstone of our success, and as we reflect on the past two decades, it is clear that our collective achievements are a testament to the power of collaboration and shared vision.
This year, we proudly mark two decades of innovation, growth, and community-driven progress. Our anniversary is not just a milestone, but a celebration of the people who have made this journey possible — our committers, contributors, members, and staff who have contributed their time, expertise, and passion to the Foundation's mission.
In this report, we are excited to highlight the significant strides we have made in expanding our presence and initiatives in Europe. Our European community has shown remarkable growth, embodying the Foundation's commitment to fostering global innovation and collaboration.
This year also marked a pivotal moment for the Foundation as we ventured into the realm of policy advocacy, influenced by the Cyber Resilience Act. This unexpected yet crucial engagement underscores our commitment to being at the forefront of addressing critical issues that impact the open source ecosystem and the wider software industry. Our involvement in policy advocacy is a new chapter in our mission, reflecting our dedication to championing the interests and sustainability of the open source community.
As we celebrate this landmark anniversary and look to the future, I extend my deepest gratitude to each and every past and present member of our community. Thank you for being an integral part of our journey. Here's to celebrating our past achievements and to the exciting opportunites that lie ahead. Together, we will continue to innovate, collaborate, and shape the future of open source.
I hope you find this annual report useful and informative. As always, we welcome input from all our community. Let us know your thoughts at emo@eclipse.org or on X @EclipseFdn.
The long-term success of the foundation is driven by our dedication to nurturing open source projects and communities while fostering commercially viable ecosystems around these projects. Our core mission focuses on:
The Eclipse Foundation is led by our executive team and the board of directors.
Over the past year, the Eclipse Foundation together with its community has achieved great things. None of these achievements would be possible without the support of our members.
Digital sovereignty remains at the core of initiatives for Europe's digital innovation, positioning the Eclipse Foundation as a pivotal player in this field. In 2023-24, we reinforced our position as the main European steward for open source of key projects contributing to European digital sovereignty; we created the Eclipse Dataspace Working Group, and Tractus-X was integrated into Catena-X that went into production in October.
The Eclipse Foundation made significant strides in enhancing the security measures and safeguarding the supply chain of its projects, supported by OpenSSF Alpha-Omega project funding. Key initiatives included strengthening IT infrastructure, widespread adoption of two-factor authentication, refining vulnerability management processes, and upgrading development infrastructure with secure code signing. The Foundation also introduced OtterDog for efficient repository management, conducted security audits to foster a culture of security, and positioned Eclipse Temurin to achieve SLSA Level 3 compliance.
Since the Eclipse Foundation's inception in 2004, events have played a key role in our community development; Open Community Experience 2024 is set to continue this tradition, promising to be an industry-leading conference for our vibrant community of communities.
Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle has continued to drive forward automotive open source with 44 members and 27 projects onboarded. The inaugural SDV hackathon, quarterly community days, and the annual Automotive Open Source Summit demonstrate the growing engagement and vibrancy of the SDV community.
Jakarta EE 11's upcoming release demonstrates the ongoing commitment to addressing the evolving needs of enterprises.
Adoptium's Eclipse Temurin's rise to our most downloaded project, with more than 20 million downloads per month, underscores our sustained momentum in Java.
The Eclipse IDE working group continued its support of the quarterly release drumbeat, membership grew, and a Platinum membership level was added. Their development effort program, in partnership with the IDE Planning Council, continued to fund important enhancements and release engineering support for the IDE.
We released Sparkplug 3.0, and has been transposed to now be an ISO international standard.
ThreadX was contributed to the Eclipse Foundation and is set to become the world's first open source real-time operating system, boasting certification for functional safety and security.
In our commitment to fostering good governance in the adoption of open source within industry and the public sector, we maintain a pivotal role in the initiative now known as the OSPO Alliance. This year, we significantly increased our investment in this initiative to further support this community. The Good Governance Handbook has been enhanced to be more accessible, including translation into six languages. Additionally, we have introduced a new public forum to broaden our community's reach.
Research at the Eclipse Foundation continues to grow with seven new research projects won in the following topics:
Thus far in 2024, the foundation has been invited to participate in 48 research project proposals, which resulted in 31 proposal submissions.
The Eclipse community continues to be engaged in the projects and initiatives that impact their respe