If your products rely on Eclipse Platform technologies, this matters.
🧠Eclipse Platform (aka RCP) components remain widely deployed, but the model sustaining them is under pressure.
From long term maintenance to EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance, relying on open source platform technologies for free is no longer a responsible option.
👇 Read the full article to understand the risk and the concrete ways to act 👇
The Open Regulatory Compliance WG has created new resources on GitHub for those who are just getting started or who want to learn how to contribute. We hosted our first workshop in Brussels, joined the EU Open Source Policy Summit and attended the first CRA Expert Group meeting, had multiple community members present during FOSDEM, and developed a deliverables plan that better defines next steps and how others can contribute.
We are introducing a virtual meeting series to update all members on initiatives that will be of interest and value to members. The meetings are open to all members.
The first virtual Members’ Meet-up will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, 11 February 2025 at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST. At this meeting, we will provide updates on the progress of the ORC working group, as well as new initiatives being led by our ecosystem development team.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act will introduce new cybersecurity requirements for software released in the EU. Learn what it means for your open source projects and what GitHub is doing to ensure the law will be a net win for open source maintainers.
Three years from today all obligations of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will be fully applicable, with vulnerability reporting obligations applying already from September 2026. By that time, the CRA—from idea to implementation—will have been high on GitHub’s developer policy agenda for nearly six years.
Come join the Eclipse Foundation’s newly formed Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group for its first in-person meeting focused on the implementation of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). This hands-on workshop will address different topics throughout the day with sessions specifically focused on vulnerability management, the CRA’s attestation program and its potential to help make open source more sustainable, and the collaboration with the NSBs and ESOs on the development of the harmonized standards.
The publication of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the Official Journal of the European Union on November 20, 2024, has started a three year race for compliance for the global tech industry and the open source community. Join us to better understand how this upcoming legislation will impact you, how the Eclipse Foundation’s Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC WG) is collaborating with open source foundations, maintainers, SMEs, and industry to address this challenge, and how you too can get involved.
What makes an open source project flourish? We want to encourage more discourse about the non-coding aspects of successful open source projects. Join us to learn more about what goes on behind the stages of Free and Open Source Software!
The two day conference is dedicated to everything related to FOSS governance and open collaboration. The fifth edition of FOSS Backstage will take place as a hybrid conference both online and in Berlin at our venue TUECHTIG. Talk will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.