2022 Annual Community Report | The Eclipse Foundation

Except where otherwise noted, this report covers the period April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022.
As the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation since its inception in 2004, it is my great honor to continue to serve this institution and its wonderful community. A great deal has changed over that time, and despite numerous external challenges, this past year has been one of exceptional growth for Eclipse. As you will see in this report, we have been joined by many new projects, working groups, members, and committers. It is my great pleasure to welcome them all to the Eclipse community.
I would also like to extend a personal thank you to the hundreds of members for their financial and organizational support, and to the thousands of committers and contributors for their talent and energy. You are what makes Eclipse the dynamic and innovative community that it is. I would also like to recognize the staff of the Foundation and the tireless efforts they apply daily to the success of our community.
This past year saw the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of inflation, and the invasion of Ukraine to name just a few of the global challenges we continue to face. I extend my best wishes to all, and hope that you and your families are safe and well. Despite the many challenges around us, I firmly believe that the Eclipse Foundation and the broader open source community continue to make the world a better place.
Looking forward, I am excited about the opportunities ahead of the Eclipse Foundation and our communities. Our move to become legally domiciled in Europe is now complete, and we are seeing greater interest than ever before from organizations and projects to join. We feel that our institution will have a strong role to play in growing the worldwide supply chain of open source technologies which are powering innovation and prosperity globally.
We have made a concerted effort to improve the presentation quality of our annual community report, and to provide greater information and transparency through a better layout and use of graphics. I hope that you enjoy the new look!
As always, we welcome your comments and feedback. Let us know your thoughts at emo@eclipse.org or on Twitter @EclipseFdn.
The Eclipse Foundation’s mission is summarized as follows:
The Eclipse Foundation’s purpose is to advance our open source software projects and to cultivate their communities and business ecosystems.
The Foundation’s long-term success comes from our dedication to a unique combination of fostering open source projects and community, coupled with our commitment to creating sustainable, commercially successful ecosystems around those projects.
To be the leading community for individuals and organizations to collaborate on open technologies.
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.
We have completed our migration to a Belgian-based organization. This includes migrating the majority of our members to the Eclipse Foundation AISBL and transferring the ownership of our German subsidiary.
We have engaged in initiatives, such as the OSPO.Zone, to encourage good governance in open source.
We have great new initiatives underway being driven by members:
We also celebrated the success of some of our longest running initiatives.
Our marketing and ecosystem development teams continue to support and promote our projects, working groups and their communities.
Introduced Featured Committer
key industry studies
attendees at EclipseCon 2021
We continue to invest in tools and resources for our members. For example, we launched a new Member Portal, which offers member organizations new insights into their participation in the Eclipse community.
Our governance continues to evolve to meet today’s challenges for the adoption of open source.
We updated both the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process and the Eclipse Foundation Working Group Process.
The Eclipse community continues to be engaged on the projects and initiatives that impact their respective communities.
Eclipse Foundation projects overall
European research projects supported
Members participating in commits
In 2021, we added four new top-level projects:
The Eclipse Automotive top-level project, created in January 2021, now has eleven active subprojects, provides a space for open source projects to explore ideas and technologies addressing challenges in the automotive, mobility and transportation domain.
The AsciiDoc top-level project, created in June 2021, now has two subprojects, is concerned with defining and evolving the AsciiDoc language and providing open source libraries, runtimes, platforms, documentation, tools, and integrations necessary to author content in AsciiDoc and transform it into consumable formats for publication.
The Oniro top-level project, created in October 2021, focuses on the design, development, production, and maintenance of an open source software platform. This project has an operating system, an ADK/SDK, standard APIs, and basic applications, e.g. UI, as core elements. Thanks to a next generation multi-kernel architecture, that simplifies the existing landscape of complex systems as well as its deployment across a wide range of devices, it targets different industries
The Eclipse Digital Twin top-level project, created in November 2021, provides a space for open source projects to produce implementations and increase adoption of solutions, prototypes and supporting software to build and consume information from digital twins.
In 2021, we terminated and archived nine Eclipse open source projects. Termination of projects is a pretty natural part of the process: Some projects just have a short expected lifespan, and others reach their natural conclusion for a variety of reasons. It’s always sad to see a project terminate, but it’s a natural and healthy part of the process.
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