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| <name>Thomas Mäder</name> |
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| <title>Dipl. Informatik Ing. ETH</title> |
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| <email>thomas@devotek-it.ch</email> |
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| <phone>+41 78 888 30 29</phone> |
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| Grundgasse 2 |
| 9500 Wil |
| Switzerland |
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| <eclipse_affiliation>I'm a committer emeritus of Eclipse IDE and an active committer on the Eclipse Theia and Che projects</eclipse_affiliation> |
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| <p>Dani Megert, who passed away recently, had been my colleague at Object Technology Intl. 20 years ago when we set out to revolutionize the IDE market. |
| The election to replace him as a committer representative on the board of the Eclipse foundation got me thinking that I might well have what it takes |
| to serve in that function.</p> |
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| <p>Having been around since the beginning, I understand the ins and outs of Open Source licensing and governance. I know many of the people |
| involved with the foundation, including former board members who I'm sure would be willing to help me navigate the politics of the |
| Eclipse board. But I haven't been involved in Eclipse Foundation administration directly. This means I owe no-one any favours and I have no axes to grind. |
| I work for Red Hat/IBM and I would probably best represent the committers that work for a large corporation, but as they like to say in Twitter bios: |
| "My opinions are my own, not my employers". Ask anyone who knows me. (follow me on twitter, b.t.w.: @tsmaeder)</p> |
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| <p>And finally, I am an actual committer on active Eclipse projects, not a "head of" or some manager. I write code and open PR's every day, just like you.</p> |
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| <p>The Eclipse Foundation has traditionally been a place for businesses to cooperate more than individual contributors. That is OK. But there are areas |
| where the priorities of the individual contributors are not necessarily the same as those of organisations.</p> |
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| <p>We want our individual contributions to be recognized. When I'm in a job interview I want to be able to point to my contributions to an Eclipse project and say: |
| "Look! I did that". When I contribute great value to a project, I expect my role and influence in that project to grow accordingly. |
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| <p>We want to write software, not CQs. As a contributor I would want the Eclipse Foundation to make it as simple as possible to run a project, while maintaining |
| the secret "business-friendly" sauce. Recent improvements in tooling allowing projects to self-certify their license compliance are a good step in the direction |
| I mean.</p> |
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| <p>As software is eating the world, we are the snout of that particular crocodile. Our work might end up in a pacemaker, it might guide a missile into its target, |
| or it might determine the outcome of an election. Corporations cannot be morally responsible. We as individuals shoulder the moral credit and the blame. |
| Because the structures and rules we give our software development organisation will shape what they will create, we as the creators or that software |
| are entitled to having a voice in making those rules and structures. I am aware this is a difficult topic and don't expect any ready-made recipes |
| from me, but I believe it's something we as an industry need to address.</p> |
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| <p>But as a committer representative, my main job would be to listen to you and bring your issues to the board table. Starting now, I would be delighted for any suggestions, |
| complaints or words of encouragement on the above email or @ me on Twitter.</p> |
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| <p>I am one of the IBM engineers that created the Eclipse IDE before the Eclipse foundation even existed. At IBM's Object Technology Intl. |
| subsidiary, I also contributed to what is the Eclipse Open J9 Java VM today. After having spent some years working in more business-oriented settings |
| and an ill-fated online file storage startup, I am now a principal software engineer at Red Hat and an active committer to the Eclipse Theia |
| and Eclipse Che online IDE projects.</p> |
| <p>Away from work, I enjoy playing golf, ice hockey and tennis. In summer, you'll find me hiking in the mountains. I tinker with software synthesizers |
| in my home studio and I cook a pretty good aloo gobi. I live in Switzerland. |
| </p> |
| ]]></bio> |
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| <affiliation>Red Hat</affiliation> |
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