<boardmember id="kamutzki" type="addin"> | |
<name>Hans Kamutzki</name> | |
<title> <![CDATA[Managing Director, MicroDoc]]> </title> | |
<image>kamutzki.jpg</image> | |
<email>hka@microdoc.com</email> | |
<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ | |
MicroDoc has been an Eclipse add-in member for many years and Eclipse is a core element of MicroDoc's | |
company strategy. MicroDoc has donated "Java Bindings for OpenVG", a vector graphics library | |
for mobile devices, to the eRCP project. Hans is currently serving his third term as a Sustaining | |
Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation, is a member of the | |
Eclipse Finance Committee, and has recently been elected to be a member of the IP Advisory | |
Board.]]> </eclipse_affiliation> | |
<vision> <![CDATA[ | |
<p>Serving as an Sustaining Member Representative on the Board of Directors of the | |
Eclipse Foundation in my third term, I see ongoing challenges and opportunities | |
for the Eclipse Ecosystem: | |
</p> | |
<p> | |
While Eclipse needs to maintain its leading position in the Java IDE and runtime world, it is necessary | |
to open up the Eclipse ecosystem for new technologies. During my term as a Board member, I supported | |
every proposal and resolution that opens up Eclipse to non-Java projects and I plan to | |
continue to do so in the future. The core strength of the Eclipse Foundation (managed IP progress, | |
well governed open source projects) should be applicable to any serious open source project with | |
commercial attitude. I also support the idea of cooperating with other open source communities to | |
help users to easily integrate the "best of all worlds" software components. | |
</p> | |
<p> | |
My vision for the Eclipse membership model is to generate more tangible membership value for | |
small and mid-sized companies (committers and consumers), while keeping the large companies | |
interested in staying in the Foundation. The "long term support" initiative and the industry | |
working groups are good examples for increased member value. I will support future | |
initiatives for industry working groups and hope that these groups help to grow the community | |
and make the Eclipse Foundation financially robust - so we all can benefit from using Eclipse | |
software in the future. I also want to work on a program that activates the quiet community members to | |
more actively participate in the development of the ecosystem and the Foundation. | |
</p> | |
]]></vision> | |
<bio><![CDATA[ | |
Hans Kamutzki is co-founder and Managing Director of MicroDoc, Munich. | |
He studied Physics and Computer Science in Bonn and Munich, Germany and focused on realtime image | |
processing and process control in the early days of his professional work. For a "device and algorithm | |
for the automatic detection of objects" he was co-awarded a German and European patent. After many | |
years of development and project management practice in Smalltalk and Java, Hans now runs the | |
Embedded Java operations at MicroDoc. | |
]]></bio> | |
<affiliation><![CDATA[ | |
MicroDoc is a software consultancy and product development business founded in 1991 by Hendrik Hoefer and | |
Hans Kamutzki. In the 90s, MicroDoc's focus was on object oriented programming with Smalltalk. Hans Kamutzki | |
was a main contributor to a MicroDoc product called "Objects for Notes," a technical Smalltalk to Lotus Notes gateway | |
that was licensed to IBM in 1995. He worked as a technical and operational liaison between MicroDoc and IBM and spent | |
several months with integration work in the RTP labs in Raleigh, NC and on other lab engagements. Even before | |
Java became mainstream, MicroDoc invested in this technology and provided a number of product components to | |
the international market of reusable components. Among these products are Java based persistence frameworks, | |
an EJB persistency container and a variety of migration and quality assurance tools as well as some contributions | |
to IBM's VisualAge for Java product. MicroDoc's work with Eclipse started in 2002 with an IDE migration project for a | |
large airline. Eclipse has become a universal tool within MicroDoc since then. Eclipse is used as a development platform, | |
but also heavily as a runtime environment for RCP and eRCP clients and server applications. As MicroDoc is building | |
end-to-end solutions (starting on the mainframe and scaling down to mobile and embedded devices), the Eclipse RCP/eRCP platforms are | |
essential building blocks for harmonizing the architecture in many MicroDoc projects today. As a Managing Director, Hans is in | |
charge of the embedded Java business as well as legal and contractual matters within MicroDoc today. | |
]]></affiliation> | |
</boardmember> |