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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
BND Tools 7.0 Release Candidate 1 is available
We are happy to announce the BND Tools 7.0.0 Release Candidate, which can now be downloaded here. Thanks to the support by members of the OSGi Working Group the code base has been ported to Java 17 and the release features the support of multi release JARs (among many other changes). For the changelog and release notes, please check out Github. You can also contribute via the issue tracker or discuss the latest release in the bnd forums.
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
OSGi Summit 2023
After your vibrant and numerous attendance last year, the OSGi Working Group is pleased to announce the second edition of the OSGi Summit in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
As last year, the summit will be held in parallel with the EclipseCon from October 16-18, 2023. The first day is scheduled as OSGi Community Day and is a whole day loaded with talks on the newest things happening in the OSGi world, content about the community and many other exciting topics! The program for days 2 and 3 is still work in progress, but will include an open to attend face to face meeting of the OSGi Specification project. Stay tuned!
Help us make it a success and enter your submission to the Summit under: https://www.papercall.io/osgi-summit-23
We can also confirm that pricing will be as follows:
€40 + VAT for a 1-day-pass (Monday, Oct 16th)
€350 +VAT for the whole OSGi Summit (Monday to Wednesday, Oct 16th-18th)
This year's summit will be hosted in the Mozart I Room in the Nestor Hotel next to the Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
OSGi Summit 2022
Hi, OSGi enthusiasts!
This year the OSGi Working Group is pleased to announce the first ever OSGi Summit in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The summit will be held in parallel to EclipseCon from October 24th to 26th, 2022. The first day is OSGi Community Day and is a whole day packed full with talks on the newest things happening in the OSGi world, content about community and many other topics. On day 2 and 3 the OSGi Specification Project and the OSGi Working Group Steering Committee are meeting and there will be a Birds of a Feather session for all OSGi enthusiasts.
This year's speakers include, among others, Dirk Fauth from Bosch, BJ Hargrave from IBM and David Bosschart from Adobe, but the full agenda has something to offer for anyone working with OSGi 😉
How can I get my ticket?
There is only a limited number of tickets available.
You can choose if you want to participate at the OSGi Community Day (Monday Only - €125) or if you want to participate at the whole OSGi Summit (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - €350).
In order to get your ticket:
- Go to the registration site
- Enter your personal information
- In the box labeled Special Pass Access code, enter this code: 22OSGI
- Select OSGi Community Day Pass or OSGi Summit Pass
- Answer the rest of the questions on the form
- Enter your payment information
- Be sure to click on REGISTER at the bottom of the page
- You will receive a confirmation email after your registration is complete
Location?
The OSGi Summit itself will take place right next to the EclipseCon in the Film-und-Medienzentrum (FMZ) Ludwigsburg , a two-minute walk from the Forum am Schlosspark, the main conference venue. Lunch and receptions will be at the Forum.
Agenda
Monday (FMZ Konferenzraum 3)
Tuesday (FMZ Konferenzraum 3)
Wednesday (FMZ Konferenzraum 3)
What more?
If you are also interested in the specification work or generally in OSGi:
- On Wednesday at 16:15 you can get a crash course on how to write an OSGi Technology Compatibility Kit
- On Tuesday and Wednesday (whole day) you can take part in the OSGi Specification Project Meetings, so if you ever wondered how the OSGi Specs come to life, then this is a session for you
We can't wait to meet you all in Ludwigsburg 😊
Friday, January 21, 2022
Goodby 2021, welcome 2022!
In the spirit of the presidential letter from the OSGi Alliance days, I’d like to take the time to recap the previous year and give you all a heads up on what is to be expected in the new year.
The past year has been a new Playing Field for us. With the transition to the Eclipse Foundation we had to figure out how everything works and find our feet so to speak. It was our first year but we learned a lot and managed to reach most of the admittedly vague goals we gave ourselves for the first year. Viewed from the outside we managed the following:
Setup the working Group
Establish the Specification and Technology Project (Yes, the technology Project is not officially in the scope of the Working Group)
Handed the OSGi github repository to the Eclipse Foundation.
Finalize and Release Compendium R8
A lot of work was done behind the scenes to transfer assets from the OSGi Alliance to the OSGi Working Group and to establish the framework to operate under the Eclipse Foundation. Daniel Bandera, the previous, long time president moved on into well earned retirement. As the Steering Committee we owe him a debt of gratitude because he shouldered a lot of the administrative effort that was required. We also had quite a productive BoF at the EclipseCon and a lot of the input we received helped us to set the course for 2022.
What’s cooking for the new year?
Before we dive into the new year, we need a quick view back in history. The OSGi Alliance was created in 1999 with the sole focus of creating Standards. At the time Open Source was around but not that prominent. As most Members had closed source solutions in mind, the Alliance was structurally hampered in its community building efforts. This should have happened by the member companies while they promote their specific implementations.
For this reason we explicitly and prominently put community building and promotion of the technology in our charter. That said, we will focus this year on making good on that promise.
The first step is already in progress. We are currently working together with the Marketing Team of the Foundation to give the www.osgi.org site the attention it deserves. Besides this our community goals are as follows:
Create a questionnaire for the community to get input on what people are interested in and act accordingly.
Create an Examples Project demonstrating each specification.
Facilitate Spaces of Interested groups to exchange thoughts and ideas
Define parameters for an annual Working Group event
Discuss a return to F2F Meetings (if COVID allows)
Alongside all of this we will also work on new releases and aim towards a more frequent release cycle of specifications and bundles.
The Program Plan was recently approved by the Foundation and is published in the Working Group google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19d9MJLbjN5QaPfdAmNFC5TFkPKgVJW9D
For all of this we hope for your support and input! We are a volunteer army now more than ever and are happy about every helping hand and mind. We will actively throw ideas around to become more community friendly and will require your input on this.
With this in mind, we wish you all a productive and healthy new year and hope that we can get a chance to see you again in person!
Best regards,
your OSGi Working Group Team.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Update on the OSGi Working Group
Dear OSGi enthusiasts,
It has been a couple of months since we announced the move of your favorite Specification Organization to the Eclipse Foundation. We have been silent since, but this does not mean that we have been inactive. So we want to use this chance to give you a brief update on the current state of affairs.
In early January we started our work, by forming the OSGi Working Group Steering Committee. We basically started the Working Group (WG) up by ratifying the Charter. Despite our Veterans on the Committee, we needed to find our feet and learn how to navigate the new waters of the Eclipse Foundation. Thanks to the tremendous support we receive from the Eclipse Team we persevered and made a lot of progress to manage the necessary formalities.
What is the current status you ask? We have formed the following bodies:
OSGi WG Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is the overall governing body of the WG. If you are interested in details on the function of the committee, have a look at the Powers and Duties section in the Charter. At the moment we have two elected Participant members in addition to the Strategic members with a permanent seat. The seat for an elected Committer representative is currently vacant and an election will take place in the May timeframe, as soon as the Projects are completely set up and everyone has had sufficient time to join.
For the time being, we have adopted the vanilla Eclipse Specification Process as suggested by the Specification Committee. All the specification work will fall under the Implementation Patent License. We are currently working on the migration of the old Alliance assets (Website, Twitter etc.) and to chaperon the projects that are being set up as we speak.
OSGi WG Specification Committee
This committee governs the Specification Process and votes on the final Specifications. It thus steers the technological direction our Specifications will take. For more details you can again look at the charter.
At the moment it is composed of the same members as the Steering Committee. The real work of the committee will start once specification work begins in the OSGi Specification Project. We need to get a feeling for the Eclipse Specification Process and need to see if we want to make adjustments.
OSGi Specification Project
This is where the magic happens. All specification work will be done in this project. It is already open to join, however you must be a member of the OSGi Working Group to be a project committer. The original OSGi github repository was handed over to the Eclipse Foundation and is now public. It is currently undergoing final integration into Eclipse Foundation processes. As soon as this is done, we can commence our actual specification work. How we will proceed with the design repository, is still an open point and will be addressed soon. We are currently discussing things like: Do we want to keep RFPs and RFCs?, How will they be written in the future?, etc. If you want to get on the notification train for this project, please subscribe to the project's mailing list. The
OSGi Technology Project
Here our companion projects like osgi-test or OSGi enRoute. If you are a committer already or plan to become one, please join the project. Becoming a committer in this project does not require you to be a member of the OSGi Working Group.
What else?
The old osgi.org website is dead and the current version is just a placeholder. Creating fitting and prevailing content is currently discussed and we hope to get the new version online as soon as possible. Javadoc and Specifications are still available under docs.osgi.org.
There are a lot of other minutiae we will not bother you with. We still have a lot of work ahead of us and as a volunteer army, everyone who is willing to help is welcome. So please spread the word.
We try to get everything up and running as soon as possible and will keep you posted.
You Committee Team.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
OSGi Core Release 8 is now final and published
The specifications, reference implementations, and compliance tests for OSGi Core Release 8 have been approved as final by the members of the OSGi Alliance as one of the final actions of the OSGi Alliance as we transition the mission to the OSGi Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation.
You can find the online version of the Core Release 8 specification on the OSGi Specification Project Documentation website. A PDF version is also available for download. Javadoc is also available and the artifacts are now available on Maven Central.
As part of the mission transfer to the OSGi Working Group, the work will of course be done in open source projects. So I have recently submitted project proposals at Eclipse to form the OSGi Specification Project and the OSGi Technology Project. The OSGi Specification Project will be responsible for OSGi specification development and evolution and will take direction from the OSGi Working Group as a specification project under the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process. The OSGi Technology Project will host OSGi technology-related (non-specification) projects like the exciting osgi-test project we recently presented at EclipseCon 2020.
One of the immediate results of moving the mission to Eclipse is that we have now made the OSGi git repositories public. Check out the OSGi GitHub organization and, in particular, the OSGi Specification Project Build repository.
Finally, I would like to encourage everyone to consider joining the OSGi Working Group and get involved in continuing to evolve the OSGi specifications. Your company can join and individuals can also join as well. Work on Compendium Release 8 was well underway in the OSGi Alliance when we started the mission transfer to the OSGi Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation and we will get right back at it once we get the OSGi Working Group and OSGi Specification Project bootstrapped at Eclipse. I hope to see you there!
Monday, October 19, 2020
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