--- title: Eclipse Foundation Member Newsletter – December 2025 --- Celebrating our communities through projects and more | View in browser Eclipse Foundation News December 2025 Mike Milinkovich Executive Director Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Foundation Executive Report As 2025 comes to a close, I want to extend my sincere thanks to our community of members, committers, contributors, and staff. This year has been one of meaningful progress across all corners of the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem. Together, we advanced critical technologies, strengthened our position in Europe, and continued building a vibrant global community around open source. Advancing open source AI Our work in AI took a major step forward with the launch of the Agent Definition Language (ADL) in Eclipse LMOS, the first open, model-neutral framework for governing agent behaviour. ADL positions the Foundation as a leader in building trustworthy, interoperable agentic AI for enterprise use.   Strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty This year, the Eclipse Foundation significantly expanded our thought leadership in Europe through two major publications: The Vital Role of Open Source in Europe, which highlights how open source underpins the EU’s competitiveness, regulatory alignment, and long-term innovation capacity. The 2025 Open Source Congress Report, which captured urgent themes facing the global open source ecosystem, including rising geopolitical complexity, the growing weight of EU-origin regulations, and the increasing need for coordinated, multi-stakeholder advocacy. Jakarta EE 11 release The release of Jakarta EE 11 represents a major evolution of enterprise Java. It brings modern, cloud-native capabilities to millions of developers and reaffirms Jakarta EE’s importance in mission-critical environments.   A fresh identity for a growing Foundation Our brand refresh modernised our visual identity and better reflects who we are today: a global community shaping the future of open, collaborative digital infrastructure. The new design brings clarity, and a stronger human-centered narrative across our communications.   Community engagement and events This year featured highly successful editions of Adoptium Summit, JakartaOne Livestream, TheiaCon, and SDV Community Days, each showcasing the depth of innovation across our working groups. Building off of these individual community events, I look forward to meeting all our members at OCX 2026 in Brussels, where we will bring together all our communities. Secure your early bird ticket.    Our membership remains strong. As of 30 November, we have 400 Organisational Members and 2,168 Committers. Financially, the 2025 budget recognises the significant growth the Foundation has experienced over the past 12 months, once again driven by our working groups and new initiatives.    Check the chart below for a year over year comparison: Eclipse Foundation Group Total Budget  2023 Actual (EUR) 2024 Actual (EUR) 2025 Budgeted (EUR) Revenue Expenses Net Income 11.3M 11.6M (0.3M) 12.8M 13.1M (0.3M) 15.8M 15.3M 0.5M Membership   Mark Your Calendar: 2026 Eclipse Foundation Board Elections  Mark your calendars: the nominations for the 2026 Eclipse Foundation Board elections will open on Monday, 5 January 2026.   The Eclipse Foundation AISBL Board includes representatives from both Contributing Members and Committer Members. By providing insight into issues and opinions of the broader membership, elected representatives play a vital role in the Foundation's governance process. We encourage all eligible members to participate in these elections.   Check the details on the duties and responsibilities of board directors, the election process, and the 2026 key dates of the elections. We’ll send email reminders when the nominations are open and when the voting begins.  New Members & Industry Collaboration Participants for November 2025 Contributing members mtrail Deutschland GmbH Libelium WirelessCar   Associate members SignPath Foundation University of California Santa Barbara     Industry Collaborations and Interest Groups Eclipse IDE Working Group mtrail Deutschland GmbH   Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group OpenNebula Systems SL SignPath Foundation   OpenHW Foundation Working Group Siemens AG   Eclipse Project Governance Contributing a Git Repository It is completely reasonable/normal for a contributor to offer to contribute an entire Git repository to an Eclipse Foundation open source project. It is also completely reasonable/normal to elect some subset of the maintainers of that repository as new committers. Learn more. Events OSPO Alliance OnRamp \| 16 January  Eclipse Aidge Developer Days \| 21 - 23 January Code&Compliance \| 29 January FOSDEM 2026 \| 31 January - 1 February SDV Community Days \| 24 - 25 February Community Latest News The Eclipse Dataspace Working Group (EDWG) advances two open protocols toward global ISO/IEC standardisation Moving Forward with Clear Technical Definitions Under the CRA ORC Monthly: Celebrating a successful 2025! Caribbean contributors: Fred Peña and Eudris Cabrera OSPO Alliance: The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) handbook version 1.3 has been released The OSPO Alliance supports the FLOSS PSO network initiative by providing a collaborative space for public OSPOs Eclipse Foundation, Rond Point Robert Schuman, Brussels, Belgium 1040 Unsubscribe Manage preferences Copyright © 2025 Eclipse Foundation. All rights reserved. | | --- |