Join Us for OSGi in Ghent - Weds, Sept 20, 2017

The OSGi Alliance is holding its next technical Expert Group meetings in Ghent later this month.

On Weds, Sept 20, 2017 you can join us for an evening of OSGi. Organised in collaboration with BeJUG.

Registration is required as places are limited so be sure to sign up on the BeJUG meetup event page.

ACA-IT Solutions are kindly hosting the event and providing sandwiches while everyone assembles from 18.30 hrs.  And then the evening kicks off with a welcome from 19.00hrs.

The agenda for the rest of the evening is:

• 19.10 hrs - What's coming in the OSGi R7 Specification (David Bosschaert & Carsten Ziegeler)
• 19.50 hrs - OSGi Push Streams, scalable event processing - pushing the limits (Tim Ward)
• 20.30 hrs - OSGi; from amateur to invited contributor (Tim Verbelen)

There will also be opportunity to network and ask questions with your peers and OSGi Expert Group members.

The event is being held at ACA-IT Solutions Ghent office (Voorhavenlaan, 31/008, Ghent). ACA have been actively using OSGi for many years and support the community by committing to open source OSGi projects. Thanks also to BeJUG for their support in promoting the event.

We hope you can join us. Don't forget to REGISTER in advance.

An Evening of OSGi - Stockholm, Sweden - Tues, 27 June

The OSGi Alliance are holding their next Expert Group technical meetings in Stockholm at the end of this month.

Jforum has kindly arranged 'An Evening of OSGi' while the technical experts are in town. This is taking place on Tuesday 27 June, 2017.

Registration starts from 5.15pm and there will be some snacks and drinks available.

Mattias, Joakim & Victor from Jforum Stockholm will welcome everyone and then hand over to Christer Larsson (VP EMEA OSGi Alliance & CEO Makewave) to introduce the evening and explain the historical links of OSGi to Sweden! before moving on to the main program:

• Short introduction to the OSGi Technology - BJ Hargrave
• OSGi Push streams, scalable event processing - pushing the limits - Tim Ward
• What's coming in OSGi R7 - Carsten Ziegeler & David Bosschaert

Registration is essential.  You can find out more information and register at goo.gl/xDdJnY. 

We hope to see you there.

OSGi PushStreams @ Portland JUG

The recent OSGi evening at the Portland JUG included a number of talks from members of the OSGi Expert Groups.  Co-chair of the IoT Expert Group, Tim Ward, can be seen in the video below discussing OSGi PushStreams and demonstrating them in use with real time train information.

Thanks to Portland JUG (@pjug) for organising the event and making the video. Thanks also to New Relic for hosting the meeting.

What are OSGi PushStreams? from Ian Downard on Vimeo.

In case you missed it previously, you can also watch a video of OSGi Alliance CTO, BJ Hargrave, presenting 'What is OSGi?' at the same meeting.

OSGi Evening in Darmstadt - June 28

The OSGi Alliance Expert Groups are meeting in Darmstadt at the end of June.  As we will have many of the OSGi Expert Group members in town the Darmstadt JUG and IoT Hessen have kindly arranged a meetup on the evening of Tuesday June 28.

The evening will include updates on the Expert Group activities and a presentation about OSGi enRoute from:
- BJ Hargrave (OSGi Alliance CTO and Core Platform Expert Group Chair)
- David Bosschaert & Raymond Augé (OSGi Enterprise Expert Group Co-Chairs)
- Seven Ganlu & Tim Ward (OSGi IoT Expert Group Co-Chairs)
- Peter Kriens (OSGi Alliance Evangelist)

The meeting will run from 18.30 to 20.30 after which I believe everyone will retire for some well earned German Beers.

Thanks also to Deutsche Telekom / Qivicon who are hosting the event at their offices at T-Online-Allee 1, Darmstadt.

Registration is essential.  Please visit the Darmstadt JUG meetup page to secure your spot and find out more details.

Ad of course a special thanks should also be extended to Software AG who are hosting all of the Expert Group meetings for the OSGi Alliance that week which means everyone will be in town.

Hope to see you there.

OSGi at Chicago JUG - Tues 19 April

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Due to demand a larger room has been laid on by LIferay.  Please now head to 2nd Floor Conference Room A at the same location.

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The Chicago JUG is kindly hosting two OSGi talks next week on Tuesday 19 April.  

The OSGi Alliance Expert Groups are in Chicago next week for a face-to-face meeting and it is a good opportunity to come and meet some of the OSGi Experts.  

The two talks are:

• Intro to OSGi – The Microservices Kernel - Peter Kriens (aQute) and Tim Ward (Paremus
• Maximize the Power of OSGi - Carsten Ziegeler (Adobe) and David Bosschaert (Adobe)

The evening starts at 18.00hrs and is kindly being hosted by Liferay at 205 W. Wacker Drive, 2nd Floor Conference Room A Suite 720, Chicago, IL.  [MAP]

Registration is essential to secure a place and access to the meeting.  You can find more details and how to register on the Chicago JUG meetup page.

Thanks to the Chicago JUG and Liferay for their support for this event.

Building the IoT with OSGi - Jaxenter

There is a great article published earlier this week in Jaxenter talking about the important role that OSGi has to play in IoT.  The article is by Tim Verbelen from iMinds. Tim is an invited contributor at the OSGi Alliance.

Tim discusses how the OSGi service model offers an elegant and easy way to deal with the challenges presented by the sheer volume of different devices, APIs and protocols, and the different lifecycle requirements that they all have.

The big improvements in OSGi tooling from Bndtools and OSGi enRoute are also covered.  If you haven't checked these out for yourself then they are definitely worth a look.

The article goes on to look at a Smart Home Dashboard case study that Tim has been working on with his colleagues at iMinds.

And to emphasise the concluding point - you can get involved with the OSGi IoT Expert Group to help define and deliver the specifications to further improve the IoT experience and ensure that the interfaces to all of these devices are interoperable.