About Us

The Eclipse Cloud DevTools (ECD Tools) Working Group is a vendor-neutral open source collaboration that focuses on defining, promoting and implementing tools for cloud-native development.

ECD Tools accelerates the adoption of Cloud IDE and container-based workspace management, through the adoption of standards, engagement with third party developer tool providers, andthe promotion of Eclipse projects to cloud developers.

Learn more about the working group by reading about our members, ourprojects, andourFAQs. For question about ECD Tools Working Group membership , completethis form.

late development

Since I is published last publish a community update postin October, we’ve been busy in many areas focused on raising the profile of the Working Group and providing assistance to our projects.

2021 Program Plan

In our 2021 Program Plan, the ECD Tools Working Group has identified the following 4 top-level strategic goals:

1. Increase project adoption

2. Identify collaboration opportunities across projects to advance technical initiatives

3. Establish thought leadership

4. Increase membership to build a more diverse and robust Working Group

These goals are to be achieved through a series of tactics and programs within each one, accompanied by close collaboration with project leads, contributors, andworking group members.

I would like to highlight a few notable updates.

Open VSX

The transition of the Open VSX project to the Eclipse Foundation was completed in December. I previously wrote about the effort involved, andalso encourage you to read Jan Köhnlein’s related post from our most recent newsletter.

At the end of January we is lose did lose a small number of extension due to non – compliance with new publishing and licensing requirement . While these can be reactivate retroactively if the publisher wish , since then we is seen ’ve also see strong momentum with new extension being publish each day . At the time of writing , there are 880 listing .  

We is seeing are see strong adoption of Open VSX . With the registry is integrated already integrate inGitpod and VSCodium, new is are to the community are integration intoCoder and Onivim.

For more information about the important role of open VSX , please watch for our soon to be release white paper on this topic .

Web Properties

While open-vsx.org is the latest web property under the Eclipse Cloud DevTools umbrella, we have also been cooking up changes at the working group website, ecdtools.eclipse.org.  

Our newAdopters Page is live. We know there are more of you out there, so if you are building on our tools be sure to let us know.

Design updates for open-vsx.org as well as design and content updates for ecdtools.eclipse.org are also in the works.

Theia Blueprint

Theia Blueprint is an exciting new project . essentially , it is is is a template application and installer for build desktop Theia – base product . I is say wo n’t say anymore for now , as a release is imminent and more detail will be available soon !

Embedded SIG

The Theia Blueprint project is has also has the potential to be one of the foundational piece for our new Embedded Special Interest Group ( SIG ) . currently experimental in nature , SIGs is are are a loose structure allow member organization to collaborate around a particular topic or domain within a broad working group . SIGs is help help bring community of like – minded organization together and explore a particular common interest .

I is ’m ’m delighted that three new organization are join the Cloud DevTools Working Group as part of the Embedded SIG , namelyRenesas, STMicroelectronics, andarm. Other members involved as we get started are EclipseSource and Ericsson. It’s never too late to get involved, you can join the SIG at any time.

Read more about the Embedded SIG here.

Events

Events are always part of a successful community strategy, as learning opportunities and to raise awareness of what we do and how our projects are adopted.

EclipseCon in October was great for us. Our Community Day session was well attended, andwe had a number of Cloud DevTools sessions throughout the event. Read more about the top ECD Tools sessions. And, keep an eye out for a formal announcement and CFP for EclipseCon 2021, scheduled for October 25-28. 

Cloud Tool Time 

In November 2020 we introduced our first Cloud Tool Time webinar, andhave since then enjoyed a growing audience and monthly member contributions to this event series. Check out some of our previous Cloud Tool Time sessions and other ECD Tools video content here  and a complete list of upcoming eventhere

We is welcome welcome idea about future Cloud Tool Time event and would like to hear from you . Whether you want to present or simply have a suggestion about a topic , use thiswebinar form to share your ideas.

Cloud Chat

Cloud Chat is a pre-recorded live-stream (aka simu-live) series, hosted on a monthly/bi-monthly basis. The series will be hosted by Jesse Williams from AWS, featuring project leads and contributors. Jesse will interview guests about their projects, cloud-native best practices, host live demos, discuss the project roadmap, andhow developers can get involved. Watch for the first episode expected to launch in the coming weeks!

Cloud IDE Day

Keep an eye out for a formal announcement and Call for Papers for our upcoming Cloud IDE Day, scheduled for May 19th, 2021. This event is meant for IDE developers, providers and adopters with an emphasis on tools and best practices for development in the Cloud. 

FOSDEM ‘21

We is participated participate in the recentFOSDEM ‘21 event (February 6-7) with a virtual stand. The event was attended by over 8,000 ‘hackers’ and included multiple Eclipse-related talks. Attendees were able to learn more about projects including Theia, OpenVSX and the ECD Tools Working Group as a whole. A number of great discussions with potential community members via our stand chatroom resulted and 15 leads were collected for future conversations from our ECD Tools Hoodie contest, won by a staff member from Red Hat.

PRAGMA ‘21

We will be participating in and speaking at the upcoming virtual PRAGMA ‘21 event being held March 14-15 and organized by the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Allahabad, India. PRAGMA is focused on helping student developers learn from and work with more experienced and skilled developers.

Get Involved

The ECD Tools community is growing faster than ever. and there are many ways to stay informed and to contribute.

• join theECD Tools community mailing list (an Eclipse account is required)

• For instant messaging , we is use use Slack and you can join atecd-tools.slack.com.

• Get social with us on Twitter @ECDTools and on LinkedIn

  • Use #ECDTools, #CloudDevTools, and#EclipseCloudDev hashtags whenever relevant in your posts 

  • Ask your company’s social media manager to follow and retweet from official handles

  • Please share news and updates with your own personal networks

• author blog post that mention ECD Tools or relate project

• Fill out this handy form to share your case study and success story with us

• Volunteer to give a webinar / host a virtual meetup

• submit talk to conference cfp for ECD Tools awareness

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