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<boardmember id="dupuis" type="addin">

	<name>Christian Dupuis</name>

	<title>Director, R&amp;D, Pivotal</title>

	<image>dupuis.jpg</image>

	<email>cdupuis@gopivotal.com</email>

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	<vision>  <![CDATA[
	<p>Over the past several years I've been an active user of Eclipse technologies and 
	used the Eclipse platform to build open source and commercial solutions like Spring IDE or the Spring
	Tool Suite. During my work on open source technologies, I have come to recognize the unique 
	value that the Eclipse Foundation brings to the intersection of open source and corporate software development. 
	In conjunction with a large, active and vocal community, the Eclipse Foundation had helped to define the primacy 
	of the developer as an agent of change in the world of enterprise software.
	</p>
	<p>As a developer I've grown to enjoy the benefits of social coding and the interaction with the ever growing
	community on my work on Spring projects. Social coding is huge for today's developer community. We see it every day.
	</p>
	<p>Within recent times we've seen the rise of the Cloud, an ever increasing number of mobile devices accessing 
	the internet and an insane amount of data being captured each day. Without question these developments affect 
	the ways developers are building the next generation of applications; a completely new set of application 
	styles, frameworks and tools is emerging to support these new demands.
	</p>
	<p>All of the above poses a challenge for Eclipse and its ecosystem; there are certain areas in which the Eclipse 
	ecosystem could put additional focus to maintain its momentum and market leading position. In case 
	the Eclipse community elects me to the Board of Directors, I would like to help making this a reality.
	</p>
	<p>My vision for Eclipse in 2014:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Social Coding: I strongly believe it is important for the Eclipse Foundation to move forward with adopting social
	coding standards and open itself up for tighter integration with sites like GitHub etc. This move is essential to ensure 
	that the Eclipse Foundation stays in sight of developers. Especially if the Foundation wants to attract more projects outside
	of the traditional IDE space.
	</li>
	<li>Web + Mobile: we are seeing the growing importance of HTML5 and JavaScript 
	in modern web and mobile application development. There is a tremendous opportunity 
	in this space with a wide and growing addressable market, both in terms of developers 
	and commercial vendors that will potentially build on top of Eclipse technologies. Vert.x 
	and its potential move to the Eclipse Foundation is a good example of what role the Eclipse 
	Foundation could play in this space; even beyond the traditional tooling. As a board member, 
	I will help ensure that Eclipse gets the necessary resources to extend the Eclipse stack 
	and become a viable option for web and mobile application development.
	</li>
	<li>Cloud: many people may see Cloud as a buzzword. But while working at Pivotal I have 
	come to see that the Cloud is a reality through the community interest in the open source 
	Cloud Foundry platform. While I was working on the Eclipse integration for Cloud Foundry it 
	became clear that there is a lot that Eclipse could offer as part of the platform to support 
	Cloud platforms and vendors.
		<ul>
		<li>Eclipse, through the WTP project, managed to build a platform for traditional 
		application server vendors to extend for their server runtimes. This has led to a 
		flourishing ecosystem of providers for nearly every application server in the market. 
		I think a similar effort is required to provide extension mechanisms for cloud providers 
		to plug in their PaaS and IaaS offerings. This goes beyond simple deploy-start-stop scenarios 
		and will include, for example, provisioning and configuring platform services in a Cloud environment.
		</li>
		<li>More and more components of the development lifecycle are moving into the Cloud. I think 
		it is only natural for cloud providers to host editing or IDE solutions in close proximity 
		to the application code. There is a unique opportunity to work with the various cloud providers to 
		position Orion as the editing solution of choice in those environments. Also there are various portions of the
		Eclipse platform that could be broken out into cloud services and therefore being used in new and exciting ways.
		</li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	</ul>]]> </vision>

	<bio> <![CDATA[
	<p>Christian Dupuis is Director, R&D at Pivotal with responsibilities for the Spring project offerings, 
	including the Spring Framework. From the very early days of Spring, Christian worked with the Spring team
	around Rod Johnson and others in the open source space. In 2004 Christian co-founded the well known Spring IDE 
	open source project that brings development tools for the Spring projects to the Eclipse platform. Christian
	joined Interface21 in late 2007 and stayed through the journey from Interface21 to SpringSource, to VMware and 
	finally to Pivotal.
	</p>
	<p>More recently Christian was responsible for the implementation of the Cloud Foundry Integration for 
	Eclipse which gives developers easy access to VMware's multi-language, multi-framework PaaS. He is 
	also actively involved in moving the SpringSource dm Server Tools into Eclipse Virgo project.
	</p>
	<p>Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian 
	designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server 
	applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource, 
	Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting 
	firms in the financial sector in central Europe.
	</p>
	<p>Christian served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors starting February 2013.
	</p>]]>
	</bio>

	<affiliation> <![CDATA[ 
	GoPivotal, Inc.
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