2008 Candidate:
Konstantin Komissarchik

The last year has gone by very quickly. It has been an honor and privilege to represent the committers to Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. During the course of the year, I pushed on a variety of fronts to make sure that the foundation is effectively serving committers and protecting their investment. I am active in the ongoing discussions to improve the IP Process. I have also been involved in defining a way to bring tasteful advertisement to eclipse.org as a way to improve member value and make sure that Foundation continues to be fully funded and is able to serve committers effectively.

When I ran for this position last year, I set some specific goals for myself. While some progress has been made, a lot of work still remains. I am passionate about bringing committers from different projects together and enabling them to collaborate in creating a cohesive user experience rather than the silo effect that is so evident in Eclipse today. There are many aspects or reasons for the situation that we find ourselves in today. Some of them are social. Some of them are infrastructural. It is the second one where I think the Eclipse Foundation can make the biggest difference. Imagine if there was a way to easily create micro-components for projects to collaborate on a feature or two. Imagine if build was a service provided by the foundation (just like CVS) and every project didn't have to struggle with this on their own. Some progress has been made, but there is a lot more work still left to do. You can visit http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nexus_Project to get more information about one aspect of my efforts in this area.

Konstantin is an engineering team lead at BEA Systems working on a product with close ties to Eclipse and has been a committer on the Web Tools Platform since before its first release. He has designed and implemented the Faceted Project Framework which made it possible for people to easily extend capabilities of WTP projects. In his prior life, he has worked on compilers, custom servers and network protocol design. He graduated from the University of Washington with BS in Computer Science.