Make sure
              you’re in the mix. 
        Don’t let
              the OSGi and Eclipse communities – including your
              competitors and partners -- talk, make plans, set
              priorities or resolve challenges/problems without you. 
        If you
              want to get involved in the OSGi Community Event and
              present don't forget to submit by August 12, 2013!
         
        Instructions on how to submit are to be
            found here: http://www.osgi.org/CommunityEvent2013/HomePage
        The presentations can be submitted
            here: http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/propose-session
         
        We look forward to see you there.
         
        Best regards,
        Susan Schwarze
         
        VP Marketing and Member of the Board, OSGi
          Alliance
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        CALL
              FOR PRESENTATIONS OPENS
        "Tap
              into the Broader Ecosystem"
        October
              29-31, 2013
        Ludwigsburg,
              Germany
        The
            OSGi Alliance is pleased to announce the Call for
            Presentations opens today for the OSGi
              Community Event 2013, "Tap into the Broader
            Ecosystem," Oct. 29-31, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Everybody
            in the OSGi community is invited to submit
                proposals by
            July 31, 2013, for early bird submissions or August 12,
            2013, to meet the final submission deadline. The OSGi
            Community Event will be co-located with EclipseCon Europe
            again at the Forum am Schlosspark. 
        The
            OSGi Community Event will help attendees understand how
            others are using OSGi to compete in their own industries.
            Share your story of how OSGi adopters are realizing benefits
            with OSGi. 
        Suggested
            topics of interest for the OSGi Community Event include:
        
          - 
            Improving
              the Developer Experience (e.g. tooling, bundle
              repositories, Bundle Recipe Project at Eclipse)
- 
            Cloud
- 
            Embedded
- 
            Enterprise
- 
            Device
              Abstraction Layer
- 
            M2M
- 
            _javascript_,
              C/C++
- 
            Use
              cases
- 
            Tutorials
              and training
This
            year's theme, "Tap into the Broader Ecosystem," highlights
            the unique and rising role OSGi plays in a surprising number
            of environments. OSGi is increasingly deployed in
            large-scale distributed systems as well as small, embedded
            devices and applications, sustaining an ecosystem that
            includes operators, utilities, enterprise and embedded
            software vendors, and device and automotive manufacturers.
            Offerings include enterprise application servers, enterprise
            service bus, customer premise equipment and telematics
            solutions. Accordingly, the OSGi Alliance liaises with other
            vertical industry consortia and supports joint
            standardization efforts in industry markets such as Smart
            Home and M2M. The Alliance supports Eclipse open source
            projects such as Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools,
            Gemini, Virgo and the SOA Platform Project.
        Please submit
            your proposal soon. Panel proposals are welcome also and
            should be submitted as standard talks. Standard talks are 35
            minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A. The
            OSGi Community Event 2013 shares a common registration and
            submission system with EclipseCon Europe 2013. Please note
            the final submission deadline is August 12, 2013. 
        The
            OSGi Community Event attracts enterprise and embedded
            software architects, IT decision-makers and software
            leaders, as well as developers who are using OSGi as the
            basis for their next-generation IT
            infrastructure. EclipseCon Europe 2013 is Eclipse’s premier
            European event.