| <boardmember id="arthorne" type="committer"> |
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| <name>John Arthorne</name> |
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| <title>Senior Software Developer, IBM</title> |
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| <image>arthorne.jpg</image> |
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| <email>john_arthorne at ca.ibm.com</email> |
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| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Eclipse Project and Cloud Development Project PMC; Orion Project co-lead; |
| Eclipse Architecture Council; Committer on Platform, Equinox, e4, Orion, and Flux; |
| EclipseCon Program Committee, 2012-2014 |
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| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> |
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| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
| <p> |
| It is a time of exciting changes for the Eclipse Foundation. The foundation started out over ten years ago |
| as a venue for software tool vendors to collaborate. It turns out this "place" that was created for a very specific |
| collaboration - its policies, governance, development practices, staff and community - translates very well to many |
| different domains. Today there are whole industry sectors, from automotive, to geomatics, aerospace, and large scale |
| science labs, that have discovered the value of the Eclipse community as the ideal place to collaborate on software projects. |
| Thanks to this new breadth, the foundation is at an all-time high in both membership and active projects. If I am |
| re-elected to represent committers on the board, I will work on reducing barriers for these new projects and contributors |
| coming on board. I will push on further simplifying and automating development processes to allow committers to focus |
| more of their time on coding. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| At the same time, the wider software development community continues to equate the Eclipse Foundation with the |
| original development tool platform and its widely known IDEs for Java, C, and other languages. The platform has |
| suffered from dwindling investment and support over the years, and has suffered in quality, performance, and |
| ease of use. The success and reputation of the Eclipse Foundation remains linked to the success of the Eclipse |
| Platform, and I believe the Foundation needs to renew its focus on helping the Eclipse Platform improve. If re-elected, |
| I will work on the board to help make this happen. This will include continuing to encourage more companies to actively |
| contribute to the Platform, and for the Foundation staff to take a more active role in its development. |
| </p> |
| ]]> </vision> |
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| <bio> <![CDATA[ |
| John has worked on <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse" target="_blank">Eclipse</a> open source projects for the past 14 years in many different areas. He was the main developer |
| on the Eclipse Platform resource model for many years, and designed the platform's concurrency infrastructure. In past years |
| he has also worked on on provisioning <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/P2" target="_blank">(p2)</a>, <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/E4" target="_blank">e4</a>, and overall platform <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/API_Central" target="_blank">API quality</a>. His current focus is on building cloud-based |
| development tools, as co-lead on both the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion" target="_blank">Orion</a> and <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Flux" target="_blank">Flux</a> projects, as well as co-lead of the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECD" target="_blank">Eclipse Cloud Development</a> PMC. John is a |
| member of the Eclipse <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council" target="_blank">Architecture Council</a>, <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC" target="_blank">Eclipse Project PMC</a>, and the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/directors.php" target="_blank">Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors</a>. He has also |
| served past terms on the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Planning_Council" target="_blank">Planning Council</a>, and as Chair and member of the EclipseCon Program Committee. John is a Senior Development |
| Manager at IBM, based in Ottawa, Canada. |
| ]]> </bio> |
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| <affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| IBM Software Lab, Ottawa, Canada |
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| ]]> |
| </affiliation> |
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| </boardmember> |