Ivar Grimstad: Open Community eXperience 2026 (opens in new tab)

Open Community eXperience 2026 is a wrap. This is the second time since the rebranding from EclipseCon. It is certainly a different type of conference than EclipseCon used to be. The feeling is that it is slightly less community-oriented and more geared toward industry collaborations. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but with so many different types of people attending, creating a cohesive experience is difficult. In 2024, we hosted the Open Community for Java as a so-called co-located ev...