elections/2015/andersen.xml

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

	<name>Max Rydahl Andersen</name>

	<title>Consulting Engineer at Red Hat</title>

	<image>andersen.jpg</image>

	<email>manderse@redhat.com</email>

	<eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[
	  M2E-WTP committer, retired Dali committer
	]]> </eclipse_affiliation>

	<vision>  <![CDATA[

	 <p>Eclipse has been around for 10+ years. It gained its fame by
	 providing an IDE that was not only just open source but heaps
	 and bounds better than at the time competition.</p> 

         <p>Over the years the Eclipse IDE gained massive momentum and
	 from that the Eclipse Community has grown stronger and larger and
	 into other areas than just the IDE.</p> 

         <p>This Eclipse Community which goes beyond the IDE is doing very
	 well and I think Eclipse is gaining a very strong presence
	 and has a bright future to be a home for building open source
	 ecosystems.</p> 
 
         <p>But the Eclipse IDE work is stagnating.</p> 

         <p>Today, many commercial and open source vendors base their own IDE
	 on the tooling ecosystem provided by the efforts done at
	 Eclipse - but they tend to more and more build on top of
	 the IDE; they do not contribute directly to maintain and
	 keep the Eclipse IDE competitive or even simply just
	 alive. Some are not aware that they can or should contribute,
	 some try but get met with a deafening silence or overwhelming
         amout of work to make their contribution happen.</p> 

         <p>If this trend continues the Eclipse IDE will not survive.</p> 

         <p>There are new and ongoing work at Eclipse to make a new IDE -
	 an IDE that is built on webbased technology (Eclipse Cloud
	 Development project), but it will take years with the current speed
	 before it will reach the level of maturity Eclipse had 10
	 years ago.</p> 

         <p>That said the IT industry is moving towards heterogeneous
         development environments. My belief is that both the
         traditional desktop based IDE and the upcoming
         web/html5/cloud based IDE's will play a part for many years
         going forward. Hopefully in a way that makes these play well
         together.</p>

         <p>Unfortunately getting contributions and work on these IDE's
	 are a challenge.</p> 

         <p>I believe there are many past and future contributions that
	 are being held back because resources have moved away from
         Eclipse IDE projects to other projects.</p> 

         <p>We need to bridge these gaps of resources.</p> 

	 <p>Based on those observations, my focus on the board will
	 continue to be:</p> 

        <p> a) working on finding a way to get the companies and individuals that
	 already have invested in Eclipse IDE to understand the importance of contributing to the Eclipse
	 IDE platform.</p> 
         <p>b) Remove the technical and organizational barriers in
	 projects that prevent contributions from making it into Eclipse.</p> 
         <p>c) encourage and support projects that help build bridges between the
	 Eclipse IDE, Orion, Che and other IDE's </p> 
         <p>d) work on identifying projects or pieces of projects that
	 could be dropped or changed to reduce complexity and make other
	 contributions possible.</p> 
        
	 <p>In short - continue to keep the tooling platforms that have been built
	 and will be built at Eclipse.org alive and viable for years
	 to come.</p> 
	]]> </vision>

	<bio> <![CDATA[Max Rydahl Andersen is leading the development
	of JBoss Tools and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and have
	several years working with Eclipse from both outside and
	inside of eclipse.org. His main interests for Eclipse.org is
	to keep the Eclipse IDE a viable platform for building desktop
	based tooling while also getting involved in offering a
	complementary cloud
	and web-based tooling offering.
        ]]> </bio>

	<affiliation> <![CDATA[ 
	   Red Hat	
	   ]]>
	</affiliation>

		
</boardmember>