2019 Annual Community Report | The Eclipse Foundation

Welcome to the eighth annual Eclipse Foundation Community Report. Comments and feedback on the style and content would be appreciated at emo@eclipse.org.
Except where noted this report will cover the period April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019.
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.
This makes the Eclipse community a unique open source community. Not only are we interested in building open source code and community, but we are equally committed to creating a commercially successful ecosystem around that code. This combination of interests has been a key part of Eclipse’s success.
In short, our vision for the Eclipse community is:
To be the leading community for individuals and organizations to collaborate on commercially-friendly open source.
The following are the strategic goals of the Eclipse Foundation for 2019, as established by the Board of Directors. It is worth noting these are consistent with the goals established for 2018, and represent a continued drive towards meeting our vision for the Eclipse community.
Over the past year, the Board has made a number of strategic decisions that will impact how Eclipse evolves in the future. A brief summary of these is listed below. More details can be found in the minutes of the Board, found on our website.
As of March 31, 2019, the Eclipse Foundation has ten (10) strategic members, including CA Technologies, CEA List, Fujitsu, IBM, Obeo, Oracle, Red Hat, Robert Bosch GmBH, SAP, and Tomitribe.
Of note, the Eclipse Foundation also counts over 1,586 committers. Committers are entitled to membership in the Foundation, and play a valuable role in the Eclipse Foundation governance, including representation on the Eclipse Board and many working group steering committees.
As of March 31, 2019, the Foundation counts a total of 273 organizations as members. A total of 28 new companies joined as new members of the Foundation from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019, including
Advantest Europe GmbH, Baloise Holding AG, Cirrus Link, Cloud Native Computing, Cloud To Go, Inc., Cloudreach Europe Limited, Codescoop, Edgeworx, Inc., Fraunhofer IESE, Fujitsu Limited, iJUG, iMotion Automotive Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd, Inductive Automation LLC, Istanbul JUG, Izmir JUG, Karakun AG, K-Teq Srls, Kuehn & Wey Software, Liferay, Mettenmeier GmbH, Mizuho International, OpenDevise Inc, RTD Embedded Technologies Inc., Toyota Europe, Tradista, TU Dresden, Tu Graz, and Useopen Middleware.
The recruitment of new projects and members has been greatly assisted by the strategy of creating Eclipse working groups. As participation in working groups grows, our membership has grown and diversified into different industries such as automotive, aerospace, geospatial, edge computing and the Internet of Things.
The Jakarta EE Working Group comprises six (6) Strategic and fifteen (15) Participant members, and over 100 committers. It was formed in 2018 as part of the contribution of Java EE to Eclipse, which was announced by Oracle in the fall of 2017. The working group, and the corresponding Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) top-level project, is an open source initiative intended to create technical specifications, implementations of those APIs, and technology compatibility kits for Java runtimes that enable development, deployment, and management of server-side and cloud-native applications. EE4J is based on the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) standards, and uses Java EE 8 as the baseline for creating new specifications and implementations. Since it was formed, the Jakarta EE Working Group has focused on the move of Java EE technologies to the Eclipse Foundation where they will evolve under the Jakarta EE brand, with the goal of accelerating business application development for a cloud-native world. The working group’s strategic members are the world’s Java ecosystem leaders, including Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Payara, and Tomitribe.
Specifically, the Jakarta EE Working Group purpose is to:
Jakarta EE Working Group achievements through March, 2019 include the following:
The Eclipse IoT Working Group is a community of organizations and individuals building open source technology that is used to build IoT solutions. Eclipse IoT has 34 different open source projects and 44 working group members. The technology portfolio includes technology for embedded constrained devices, IoT gateways, and IoT cloud platforms.
New members of the Eclipse IoT Working Group in the past 12 months include BREDEX, Calypso Networks Association, Cirrus Link Solutions, Compex Commerce, Edgeworx, the Engineering Group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Inductive Automation, and Kynetics.
The IoT Working Group has actively supported the efforts of the Eclipse Foundation as it works with the respective members engaged in establishing the new Edge, Sparkplug, and Tangle EE working groups. It is expected that some of the members of the IoT WG will join those emerging working groups as they get formally established, since they are tightly coupled to the Internet of Things.
A number of new projects joined the Eclipse IoT community in the past year, including:
The Eclipse IoT Working Group continues to undertake a number of community outreach and development programs.
The Eclipse openMDM (measured data management) Working Group aims to foster and support an open and innovative ecosystem providing tools and systems, qualification kits, and adapters for standardized and vendor independent management of measurement data in accordance with the ASAM ODS standard.
Since May 2017, the openMDM working group has changed its development effort. The Eclipse Foundation has been tasked to contract a product manager as well as a standing development team funded by the working group. Since then, development of technology in the related project Eclipse md