About Working Groups
Fostering open industry collaboration to develop new industry platforms
Companies, organizations, and individuals looking to drive innovation and efficiencies within industry are increasingly looking to external sources to advance new ideas. Commonly referred to as “open innovation,” this paradigm encourages collaboration across organizational boundaries, and is often practiced in the open source community. Working groups allow organizations to combine the best practices of open source development with a set of services required for open innovation, enabling organizations to foster industry collaborations.
At the Eclipse Foundation, working groups provide a vendor-neutral governance structure that allows members of the foundation to collaborate on solving industry problems and to drive shared innovation through the related Eclipse Foundation open source projects. The collaboration promotes and augments Eclipse technologies to meet the needs of specific industries and communities, including through the development and implementation of joint marketing programs to increase awareness, adoption, and contributions. Find out more about the relationship between working groups and projects.
Through working groups, member organizations can collaborate to:
- Help improve the supply chain of software development tools, frameworks, and runtimes in a particular industry
- Develop specifications in open source
- Create new technology platforms that increases interoperability among organizations and technologies
- Drive the industry adoption and support of strategic open source projects and technologies, including developer advocacy, marketing outreach, brand promotion, compatibility program, etc.
Participation in a working group is only open to Eclipse Foundation members.
Services for Working Groups
The Eclipse Foundation provides working groups with vendor-neutral governance, ecosystem development and marketing services, collaborative management, specification development and