OSGi BOF Tonight @ OSGi DevCon 2014

OSGi DevCon 2014 is well underway and Tonight we have an OSGi BOF.

Its at 19.30hrs in Comedians Room in the South Tower at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge.

Its your chance to come and meet with your peers, network and ask any questions.  There will be a number of the OSGi Alliance Board Members at the BOF including Dan Bandera, the President.

David Bosschaert will kick us off with a quick demo creating a project through Bndtools and then showing how to work with this project both inside Bndtools as well as from the command line with Maven.

Peter Kriens will also be around and keen to talk with anyone about OSGi enRoute or answer any questions.

In the true spirit of a BOF there will be plenty of opportunity for everyone to take part asking and answering questions, sharing and gathering insights and experience.

We hope you can join us at 19.30hrs this evening.

Mike

PS Don't forget its tutorial day tomorrow at OSGi DevCon - sign up to be sure of your seat.

Only 2 weeks to go to the Big Apple...

June 11 to 13, New York at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge.

We are on the final countdown to OSGi DevCon 2014 in New York.  There are just 2 weeks to go, so if you have not registered yet be sure to REGISTER NOW.

You can still save $200 by booking before June 9 and for groups of 3 or more there is a group booking discount.

We have an excellent schedule for the event this year and don't forget all attendees also get full access to the QCon New York conference as well as OSGi DevCon. 

Thanks to the OSGi DevCon sponsors Adobe and Cloudyle for supporting this event.

In total you have access to 4 keynotes and over 100 speakers, along with 2 dedicated OSGi Tutorials and an OSGi BOF. In addition there are deep technical case studies from organisations including NASA, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, and others.

With a 1:5 speaker to attendee ratio, over 500 of your peers in attendance, and numerous breaks and parties, the combined OSGi DevCon and QCon event offers fantastic opportunities for peer sharing and networking.

You can full details about OSGi DevCon on the conference home page including how to register, the conference location, how to book accommodation and the schedule.

We look forward to seeing you in the Big Apple on June 11.

If you have any questions you can contact the Program Committee by email.

OSGi DevCon 2014 Schedule Announced

We are pleased to announce that the OSGi DevCon 2014 Schedule is now available.

Register before April 19 to save $400 per ticket. Yes thats just 8 days away!  Don't forget there is a group discount available if there are 3 or more of you registering at the same time.

Click here for the OSGi DevCon 2014 Schedule

As you will see there is plenty to keep you busy for the 3 day conference (June 11 to 13) in New York.

There are:

• 23 Talks
• 2 Tutorials
• 4 keynotes
• An Open Space session
• A BOF

In addition attendees to OSGi DevCon 2014 also have full access to the QCon New York schedule which offers 5 tracks each day.

Plus there are plenty of social activities on offer to:

• Exhibitor Reception
• Conference Party
• IBM Reception
• QCon Reception

Your conference pass also includes breakfast (8am to 9am) and lunch each day.

Thanks to everyone who made a submission to the CFP. We really appreciate the time and effort that goes in to these.  The quantity and quality of the submissions was extremely good which gave the Selection Committee a tough time in coming up with the Schedule.

Thanks must also go to the Selection Committee for their assistance and time to produce the excellent Schedule for OSGi DevCon this year.

We hope yo can join us in New York in June.  As ever if you have any questions you can contact the Program Committee by email.

Click here for the OSGi DevCon 2014 Schedule

OSGi DevCon 2014 Update - Save $500 booking before March 15

The Call For Papers is now closed and the Selection Committee are hard at work picking the program.

Thanks to everybody who made a submission. We look set to have a fantastic program and we are expecting to announce this in early April.

BOOK NOW TO SECURE BEST PRICE

You can get the best prices for attending by booking early.  Bookings made before March 15 save $500 per person so don’t delay and secure your place today. Registration is easy and is provided using the QCon registration system.

If there are 3 or more of you planning to attend you also qualify for a Group Booking discount.  Please contact the QCon conference team to obtain a group discount code.

Attendees to OSGi DevCon also get full access to all of the QCon program and are invited to all of the planned QCon conference social activities. Full details about OSGi DevCon 2014 location, hotel and registration are available on the OSGi DevCon 2014 website.

QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about OSGi DevCon 2014 please contact the OSGi DevCon Program Committee by email at osgidevcon@osgi.org.

QCon New York is busy confirming speakers for its program.  Software Engineers, Technical Leads, and Data Scientists from LinkedIn, Netflix, Foursquare, Google, Mount Sinai, Gilt and others will describe how they're dealing with some of the greatest challenges in the arenas of Big Data, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Architecture, and Software Delivery.

The following sessions for QCon New York 2014 have just been confirmed:

• Data Science @ LinkedIn, by Daniel Tunkelang, Head of Query Understanding at LinkedIn; Asif Makhani, Director of Engineering, Search at LinkedIn
• Data Science @ Mount Sinai, by Jeff Hammerbacher, Founder, Cloudera; Creator of Facebook's Data Science Practice
• Scaling Foursquare: From Check-ins to Recommendations, by Jon Hoffman, Foursquare Engineer
• Solidifying the Cloud : How Google Backs Up the Internet, by Raymond Blum, Data integrity obsessed Site Reliability Engineer, Google
• End to End Reactive Programming at Netflix, by Jafar Husain, Technical Lead at Netflix
• Scaling Gilt: from Monolithic Ruby Application to Distributed Scala Micro-Services Architecture, by Yoni Goldberg, Lead Software Engineer, Gilt
• Are your GC logs speaking to you, the G1GC edition, by Kirk Pepperdine, World Renowned Java Performance Expert
• Spring 4 on Java 8, by Juergen Hoeller, Software Engineer, Pivotal
• Building an Enterprise PaaS, Dave McCrory, SVP of Engineering, Warner Music

There are 15 track themes for the 2014 QCon conference, see the full list of QCon tracks.

Hope to see you in New York at OSGi DevCon 2014 in June.

The OSGi DevCon 2014 Program Committee

Don't Delay - OSGi DevCon 2014 CFP Deadline Feb 28, 2014

The Call For Presentations (CFP) for OSGi DevCon 2014 deadline is this coming Friday, February 28.

With the deadline rapidly approaching please make sure you get your submissions in as soon as you can so you don't miss the cut off date.

The conference is being held in New York for the first time, co-located with QCon New York. We know there are lots of you out there in New York and the surrounding areas using OSGi so we hope you take the opportunity to submit a talk or at least join us for the conference while we are on your doorstep.

We are looking for submissions from anyone who has something to share about OSGi, large or small, new or old.  This can include use cases, case studies and your real world experiences from using OSGi. Tools and frameworks that improve the developer and user experience are also popular topics.  Examples and users of OSGi in the Cloud or in the IoT and M2M areas are of particular interest.

Submissions are invited in the following formats:

• Presentations (50 mins)
• Panel Sessions (50 mins)
• Tutorials (180 mins)
• BOFs

Further details about how to make a submission and access to the submission system are provided on the conference home page.

Submissions that are accepted will not only give you the opportunity to share your experiences and knowledge, but also provide the speaker with one (1) 100% discount for a 3 day pass to OSGi DevCon 2014 (June 11 to 13 in New York) - a value of up to $2,295!  This pass will give you access to the OSGi Tutorials on Day One (June 11) and the presentations, panel sessions, BOF's and other activities at OSGi DevCon on Days Two and Three (June 12 & 13).

Through our co-location with QCon New York attendees to OSGi DevCon are also entitled to full access to the QCon sessions and social activities that are taking place between June 11 to 13.

Save More By Booking Early

And for those of you who don't fancy presenting you can save more off the ticket price by booking early. The registration is open now and the next price increase is on March 15.  Full details on prices and how to register can be found here.

The Selection Committee are eagerly awaiting  your submissions so that we can start the review process in March and we expect to be able to confirm the schedule of selected talks in early April.

If you have any questions feel free to post a comment or email the OSGi DevCon 2014 Program Committee.

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