Get Involved

Open Source and Open Collaboration

Eclipse Cloud Development Tools (ECD Tools) is a community of members, adopters, developers, and other contributors that collaborate to define, promote and implement Web and Cloud-based development tools and drive the evolution and broad adoption of these tools.

The ECD Tools working group is a vendor-neutral community made up of Eclipse Foundation members that wish to freely collaborate on new technology development in the Cloud Dev Tools space.

Membership in the working group brings many benefits, including joint marketing initiatives and direct access to a community of skilled and dedicated open source developers.

You will find below ways to get involved.

Communication Channels

Mailing lists

We use mailing lists for all official communications. They are freely accessible but you need an Eclipse.org account to be able to subscribe to them.

• ECD Tools working group list
• ECD Tools Project Management Committee (PMC) list

Most ECD Tools projects also have their own mailing list. You will find them on this page.

IM

For instant messaging, we use Slack and you can join at ecd-tools.slack.com.

Social Media

• Follow us on Twitter @ECDTools
• Follow us in LinkedIn

Some ideas to amplify our message.

• Use the #ECDTools or #EclipseCloudDev hashtags whenever relevant in your posts
• Ask your company’s social media manager to follow and retweet from official handles
• Please share news and updates with your own personal networks

Calendar

All ECD Tools calls and events are managed through a single shared Google calendar.

Formats

• Web version - Use the + in the bottom right to add it to your calendar
• iCal format - compatible with most other calendar clients

Calls

Community Calls

We hold a call for our community regularly. The aim of this call is to discuss upcoming events, ongoing initiatives and give projects the opportunity to share updates with the community.

We use a publicly available document to manage the meeting’s agenda. You can add items to it anytime, we just ask you leave your name and a way to follow up about it before the event.

Project Calls

Several ECD Tools projects hold calls to keep in touch with their communities. Please consider attending if you leverage one of the projects below or are just curious about them.

• Eclipse Che: These calls are meant for Che adopters and contributors to chat about some project development details (can be planning, concerns, or more technical details). The goal is to better synchronize and organize efforts of the various contributors in order to make Che better.
• Eclipse Theia Dev Meetings: Developers and everyone interested meet to discuss anything related to the development of Theia.

Virtual ECD Tools Meetups and Events

Our virtual Webinar Series is coming soon.

To propose a topic for a virtual event, whether to present yourself or just to suggest, please fill out this form. Virtual meetups are managed through our Meetup.com Virtual Eclipse Community Meetup.