I joined the Eclipse Foundation five years ago as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate. Time flies when you’re having a good time, and I certainly enjoy what I do. Being able to serve the community in the company of great colleagues certainly is a very good place to be.

During the five years, I have traveled nearly half a million miles ^*) around the world to engage with the community and speak at conferences and Java User Group events.
_{*) If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, this number would most likely have been a lot higher.}

In addition to speaking at conferences and events, I have also produced nearly 500 blog posts during these five years. You can read them all here or on the Eclipse Foundation blog aggregator. I have also authored numerous articles and videos as well as a Jakarta EE Overview course on LinkedIn Learning. Another thing I did as soon as I joined Eclipse Foundation was to establish the weekly Jakarta EE Platform call. Since then I have meticulously been publishing the meeting minutes on the Jakarta EE Platform project’s web page. Check out the entire list.

The first event I spoke at after joining Eclipse Foundation in 2019 was EclipseCon Europe. The conference became EclipseCon after that, and this year it is rebranded to Open Community Experience where I will be speaking as well as helping out with the logistics for the co-located event Open Community for Java. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. The reduced price is still available until October 7, so go ahead an register now if you haven’t done so already.