Saturday, February 2, 2019 marked the 15th birthday of the Eclipse Foundation and we'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you! Over the years we've thrived, grown, and changed tremendously and we couldn't have done it without the support of our community! We are looking forward to many more years of success for the Eclipse Foundation and the Eclipse community.

The candidates for this year’s election are listed below. The community will choose three Committer and three Sustaining Member representatives. Individual candidate pages are available here.

 We encourage everyone to consider participating in the election process by reading the position statements and contacting the nominees with any questions.

 Voting begins on February 11, 2019, and ends on February 28 at 3pm Eastern. Winners will be announced on March 5.

All nominees listed below are in alphabetical order

 Committer Representatives

• Chris Aniszczyk
• Dani Megert
• Ed Merks
• Martijn Verburg

Sustaining Member Representatives

• Mark Brewer
• Tracy Miranda
• Farah Papaioannou
• Torkild Ulvøy Resheim
• Gunnar Wagenknecht

Thank you to all the candidates for participating in this valuable process.

We are proud to announce that the IoT Marketing Committee has been launched.

To increase market awareness and adoption of Eclipse IoT, this committee has been established for Working Group members to collaboratively grow the Eclipse IoT brand by developing co-marketing strategies, aligning on events, amplifying messaging on social channels, and sharing best practices.

The IoT Marketing Committee currently includes representatives from Bosch Software Innovations, Red Hat, Cloudera, and Eurotech.

If you’re a marketing, branding, or social media pro, WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU! Feel free to contact Jameka Woodberry if you have any questions or want to get involved.

Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 is now Java EE 8 certified, which represents a key step to ensuring backward compatibility of Jakarta EE. The completion of Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 was a key accomplishment in allowing work to begin on the release of Jakarta EE 8.  Work is now underway on migrating all of the Java EE specifications to new Eclipse specification projects.  The Eclipse Foundation aims to have Eclipse GlassFish 5.2 be a Jakarta EE 8 compatible implementation. All of the major vendors who have Java EE 8 compatible versions of their commercial products have committed to ensuring their products are Jakarta EE 8 compatible as well.

The release, Eclipse GlassFish, is fully tested under both the open source TCK and proprietary Oracle Java EE 8 TCK and represents more than 13 million lines of code and 95,000 files. Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 is available for download here.