Wednesday, May 17, 2017

OSGi Community Event 2017 CFP


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The OSGi Community Event Program Committee is pleased to announce that the Call For Papers (CFP) for the 2017 event is NOW OPEN.

We are looking for submissions from anyone who has something to share about OSGi technology, the OSGi ecosystem or OSGi community.  All successful submissions receive a free speaker all access pass to the OSGi Community Event and EclipseCon Europe.

Popular topics often include use cases and case studies of using OSGi, OSGi open source projects or commercial OSGi products where you have some experience to share. Presentations on tools and frameworks that can improve the developer experience are also well received.  We are also looking for a 3-hour tutorial, so if you have a project or some examples on an OSGi specification where the audience can participate with you then we would welcome your submissions.



OSGi is used in many different environments and markets and we are interested in hearing from your use in any of them, be it enterprise, telecommunications, transport, retail, IoT, Industry 4.0, M2M, Cloud, or Smart Home, to name just a few.

It's always great to get submissions from new members to the community and/or new speakers so please don't be shy and get your submissions in.  Whether what you have to share is small or large, state-of-the-art or traditional, business critical or a pet project, we want to hear from you.

Your submission should be either for a 35-minute talk or a 3-hour tutorial. 

We are sharing the submission system with EclipseCon Europe so please be sure to select OSGi as the track when making your submission to be sure the OSGi Program Committee will get to review your proposal.

The CFP is open until July 17, however the Early Bird submission deadline is June 30.

As an added incentive to get your submissions in for the Early Bird deadline we will award a €50 Amazon Voucher to the talk selected for the OSGi Early Bird pick. Be sure to submit by June 30 to be in with a chance of winning this.


The OSGi Community Event 2017 will be taking place between October 24 to 26.  Once again this year the event is being held at the Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, Germany.  As always there will be plenty of talks, BOFs, social events, beer, wine and food so make sure you have the dates in diary and start planning your travel and accommodation early.

If you have any questions please contact us by email.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Come and see Christer Larsson at IoT Tech Expo in Berlin, 1-2 June

Christer Larsson, OSGi Alliance vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa, will participate in a panel at the co-located event series: IoT Tech Expo, Blockchain Expo and AI Expo in Berlin 1-2nd June. The event series will also host 200+ speakers sharing their use cases, attracting C-Level execs from across the board. 

There is just one week left to register for an all-access pass at the discounted rate as prices will go up on the 19th May. The Ultimate Pass will give you access to all 10 conferences, the expo, copies of session materials in addition to the messenger tool and an invitation to the networking party on day one.

You can also save an additional 20% discount on your pass using the discount code OSGi20 during registration


10:50AM Panel: Creating a standards framework for IoT

  • What does the concept of standards really mean in the context of IoT?
  • How can the varied standards relevant to the area effectively be integrated for IoT solutions?
  • Can a verticalized approach to standards work?

For more information on the event, visit https://www.iottechexpo.com/europe/why-attend/. 

Monday, May 1, 2017

OSGi and JSR 376 Java Platform Module System (JPMS)

The OSGi Alliance is aware that there are a number of conversations taking place about the Public Review draft of JSR 376 Java Platform Module System (JPMS). This is planned to be a major feature of Java 9 and is under ballot to complete Public Review. The OSGi Alliance will analyze JPMS and may comment on our findings in the future.

In the meantime our Expert Groups are busy working on the OSGi Release 7 which is planned for October this year. You can find the RFPs and RFCs for the new Release 7 features at https://github.com/osgi/design and draft specifications at https://www.osgi.org/developer/specifications/drafts/.

BJ Hargrave
OSGi Alliance CTO