It is that time of year again — the elections for your committer and add-in representatives to the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors is here. This year the list of candidates is most impressive. Last year the committer rep candidate list was unfortunately dominated by IBMers (including me!). This year less than half the candidates are from IBM and Mik and me are from small Eclipse-related startups (yes, I left IBM). The better breadth of experience and focus is greater this year as well. There are candidates from the embedded, web and tooling platform areas of Eclipse. It would be good to have more than me waving the runtime flag but that will come as Eclipse broadens this year.

Regardless of what part of Eclipse you focus on, please check out the various mission statements and see which fit best with where you think Eclipse is and where it should be going. The coming year is going to be very exciting with lots of new projects, directions and challenges. Voting in the election is one way that you can help shape those changes. Voting starts on February 25th and goes until March 7th.

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