| <boardmember id="pearce" type="addin"> |
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| <name> Shawn Pearce </name> |
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| <title>Software Engineer, Google</title> |
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| <image>pearce.jpg </image> |
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| <email> sop@google.com </email> |
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| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Solutions Provider |
| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> |
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| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
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| <p>Entering 2010 the Eclipse Foundation is facing many challenges. |
| </p> |
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| <p>The number of projects that desire to join a release train |
| has been increasing every year, placing more work on the IP team |
| during each release cycle. The development process needs to evolve |
| and become more streamlined, so that more projects can join the |
| foundation, follow its development model, and still release as |
| part of the release train. Wayne Beaton has already proposed some |
| changes, and as a board member I will support these efforts, and |
| continue to encourage further process improvements.</p> |
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| <p>The foundation is dealing with increasingly difficult revenue |
| issues. As a trade association dependent upon membership dues, |
| the foundation relies upon its membership to pay all of its |
| operating costs. But, as membership fluctuates due to external |
| market conditions, the foundation finds itself struggling to |
| meet member requests. Going forward the board needs to help the |
| foundation identify ways to diversify revenue, and make membership |
| a more valuable investment for all of the member companies.</p> |
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| <p>New contributors are the life-blood of any open source project, |
| but are often road-blocked gaining commit access to repositories. |
| Modern distributed systems often alleviate this by permitting change |
| recording at outside locations until IP agreements can be finished |
| and access granted. As the Eclipse Foundation and its members |
| are very careful with their IP review processes, the foundation |
| needs to encourage use of tools that make it easier for newcomers |
| to enter the ecosystem and meet the requirements, without losing |
| effort, history, or becoming frustrated and leaving. Moving the |
| foundation's repositories from CVS/SVN to Git is a huge leap forward, |
| and something I will continue to support while on the board.</p> |
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| ]]> </vision> |
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| <bio> <![CDATA[ |
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| <p>At Google, Shawn is committed to fostering the growth of the open |
| source ecosystem by supporting existing programs such as Google |
| Summer of Code, and the development of new communities, like the |
| Android Open Source Project. Prior to joining Google, Shawn lead |
| a development team at Bank of America building domain-specific |
| plugins for the Eclipse platform.</p> |
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| <p>Outside of work, Shawn is an active contributor in the Git |
| community, pushing the limits of distributed development tools.</p> |
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| ]]> </bio> |
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| <affiliation> <![CDATA[ |
| Google |
| ]]> |
| </affiliation> |
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| </boardmember> |