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| mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">The Eclipse Research Project |
| Top-Level Project Charter The Eclipse Foundation</span></b></td> |
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| <p><b>Overview<br> |
| </b>The Eclipse Research Top Level Project (the "Eclipse Research |
| Project") is an open source software research project, which encapsulates |
| two related activity streams, each of which is based on or uses the Eclipse |
| Platform and/or code from other Eclipse Top Line Projects: </p> |
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| <p>research projects sponsored by universities, public and private research |
| institutes, and other exploratory investigations ("Research |
| Stream"); </p> |
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| <p>development of educational materials, teaching aids and courseware |
| ("Education Stream")</p> |
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| <p><b>Mission</b><br> |
| The mission of the Eclipse Research Project is to foster greater community |
| awareness and understanding of Eclipse (Education Stream), and to encourage the |
| use of Eclipse software as a platform for research, especially in domains such |
| as programming languages, tools, and development environments that are relevant |
| to other Eclipse Top Line Projects (Research Stream). By so doing, the Eclipse |
| Research Project will create opportunities for researchers, academics, and |
| educators to play a significant role within the Eclipse community.</p> |
| <p><b>Scope</b><br> |
| The scope of the Eclipse Research Project will encompass a wide variety of small |
| projects, rather than a few large ones. While anticipating enormous diversity in |
| the content of these activities, from a process-oriented viewpoint they will all |
| share important common characteristics, which argues for a common approach to |
| management:</p> |
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| <li>Focus on pre-competitive development and research</li> |
| <li>Use of informal development processes</li> |
| <li>Fluid project tracking due to frequent plan changes</li> |
| <li>Flexible milestones which adapt based on partial results</li> |
| <li>Small teams</li> |
| <li>Resource commitments tentative, due to volunteer labor or lack of sponsor |
| funding</li> |
| <li>Development often cross-cuts the scope of several other Eclipse Foundation |
| Projects</li> |
| <li>Limited lifespan due to intent to explore and validate an idea, then |
| graduate or disband</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>The Eclipse Research Project serves as a single point of focus for such |
| teams, and provides them with a home within the Eclipse community, to encourage |
| communication, and where appropriate, collaboration and coordination. Providing |
| common management for these Projects facilitates maximum sharing and creation of |
| common components, and avoids redundant efforts. In many cases successful |
| Research Projects will evolve into incubators in Eclipse Technology Project. </p> |
| <p>The Education Stream plays a vital role in promoting the use of the Eclipse |
| Platform. By making high quality educational materials freely available, we both |
| enable self-education by individual users, and facilitate the incorporation of |
| Eclipse-related materials into university courses and commercial educational |
| offerings.</p> |
| <p><b>Other Terms<br> |
| </b>This Charter inherits all terms not otherwise defined herein from the "<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.html">Eclipse |
| Standard Charter v1.0</a>". This includes, but is not limited to, sections |
| on the Program Management Committee, Roles, Project Organization, The |
| Development Process, and Licensing.</p> |
| <p><b>Project Management Committee <br> |
| </b>Changes from the "<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.html">Eclipse |
| Standard Charter v1.0</a>" are:</p> |
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| <li>Providing the leadership and vision to guide the Project's overall |
| direction in a manner consistent with the <strike>Eclipse Foundation |
| Architectural Roadmap</strike> Eclipse Foundation's goals. </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><b>The Development Process <br> |
| </b>Changes from the "<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/processes/Eclipse_Standard_TopLevel_Charter_v1.0.html">Eclipse |
| Standard Charter v1.0</a>" are: </p> |
| <p>Research projects typically do not have as well-defined development plans as |
| product projects do. However, it is still important that Projects under the |
| Research Top-Level Project have a defined and publicly available release plan so |
| as to help interested parties track the progress of the research. |
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