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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Users' Forum Meeting in Berlin - April 27

The OSGi Users' Forum Germany are holding a meeting on 27 April, 2016 in Berlin at the Bosch Software Innovations training centre.

The meeting will take place between 10.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs and has a focus on OSGi and IoT.

Thanks to Bosch Software Innovations for their support by hosting the meeting.

Registration is required. Full details and the agenda are available (in German) on the event home page.