OSGi BoF - We Want Your Topic Suggestions

The OSGi Alliance will be hosting a Birds of a Feather (BoF) on the evening of Tuesday 25 Oct at the OSGi Community Event in Ludwigsburg, Germany.  The BoF will be open to all attendees of the OSGi Community Event and EclipseCon Europe (registration for the conference Oct 25 to Oct 27 is open so book your tickets today). Full details on the timing and room location will be confirmed n due course.

By Richard Taylor
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The BoF is a regular occurrence at our annual event.  This year we are asking you, the OSGi community, to provide us with your suggestions on topics that you think would be good to consider and discuss at the BoF.  You can send us your ideas, even if you are not able to join us for the event or the BoF. We would, of course, love to have you there on person too to participate, so please do attend if you can.

To make your suggestions please visit our online form. You can optionally provide us with your name and email address if you would like to receive an update on the final BoF topic list.

The program for the conference has been announced.  We will have 1 OSGi Keynote, 1 tutorial, 25 talks, the BoF, the OSGi IoT Demo, and lots of opportunity to meet and mingle with your peers and colleagues and participate in the included conference evening social events.  Attendees to OSGi Community Event also get full access to the EclipseCon schedule and talks, so there is plenty to keep you busy for all 3 days.

Paul Fraser is presenting on OSGi enRoute and he has put together a 40-second fun video to entice you to join his talk - Its Beautiful enRoute. The talk is taking place on Tuesday 25 October between 15.45 and 16.20 in Seminarräume 1-3.

Finally, but definitely importantly, many thanks to our OSGi Community Event sponsors, whose support ensures we can continue to provide an excellent conference value every year.

For 2016 we are pleased to have sponsorship so far from:

If you would like to explore how your company could join the sponsors please contact us by email.

And a final big thank you to our event partners EclipseCon Europe with whom we are co-located and who provide all of the logitstics and organisation for running OSGi Community Event.

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.

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.

Concluding the Spanish OSGi Events for September

The Barcelona JUG is hosting two more events about OSGi on September 26 and 27.

Peter Kriens will be presenting "OSGi made easy with enRoute".

The session on September 26 is a introductory presentation in the evening and the session on September 27 is a half day workshop. Both of these events are free to attend.

You can find out more details and register for these events as follows:


Friday Sept 26 - 19.00hrs     REGISTER HERE
Mobile World Centre at Plaça Catalunya
Carrer Fontanella, 2, 08002, Barcelona



Saturday Sept 27 - 10.15hrs to 14.00hrs     REGISTER HERE
Espai Jove La Fontana
Carrer Gran de Gràcia, 190, 08012 , Barcelona

Thanks to the Barcelona JUG for organising and hosting these.

Live Streaming of Peter Kriens presenting enRoute Today @ Madrid JUG

Peter Kriens is presenting at Madrid JUG this evening (Sept 10) about OSGi enRoute. The presentation will be in English.

Our friends at the Madrid JUG have kindly arranged to stream the session. You can also follow the event and ask questions on twitter using the hashtag #mjugOSGi.

Its taking place at 19.00hrs CEST/ 18.00hrs BST/ 13.00 EDT / 10.00hrs PDT /  02.00hrs on Sept 11 (JST) (apologies to anyone in Asia).

You will be able to watch the stream from You Tube.  If you are in Madrid its being hosted by Liferay (thanks) but there are no spaces left so you will have to watch the live stream.

Hope you can join us for the stream if you aren't one of the lucky ones attending in person.

*** Update - the video recording below of the event will be made available in due course ***