May 2012 Schedule

Just took the time to go through my travel schedule for May. 

An I get pretty excited, there's a whole lot of interesting events coming up! 

While it is not really in May yet, I'm looking forward to traveling to Düsseldorf on Thursday, April 26 for the Eclipse evening of the Java User Group Düsseldorf. If you don't have plans for the evening yet, come and join us. You'll hear some from me (keep it short, Ralph) and then the more interesting technical program including talks about Eclipse 4 (the next big thing), XText (modeling magic) and the ALM / delivery productivity gains that you can experience with Eclipse technology. After the talks there shall be some beer, right?

Early May will get me to Italy. On May 2nd we are invited at an air-defense engineering school near Naples to speak about Open Source in general and Polarsys in particular to the staff there. Would be great if we can get them to join the Polarsys community.

On May 4th we will attend the Eclipse Day in Florence. The folks from RCP-Vision have put together a quite rich program for you. But really doubt that it was too hard to attract speakers to come to Florence in May :-)

From the 22nd to the 25th I will be in Toulouse. Here we have a lot of stuff going on: On the 23rd we'll have parallel meetings of the Automotive IWG and Polarsys, and on the 24th the next edition of the Eclipse Day Toulouse will take place. 

As not all the information for Toulouse is available, please register to the Auto IWG - and the Polarsys mailing lists if you would like to know more about these events.

I look forward to meeting you. 

PS: I was making my travel arrangements for Toulouse over the weekend. Be advised that the many hotels in the city are already sold out. You better move fast if you don't want to stay at the airport :-)

 

Automotive Industry Working Group News

I wanted to take the opportunity and inform you about things going on in the Eclipse Auto-IWG. We had a face-2-face meeting in Stuttgart at ETAS GmbH. We have made a lot of progress with the work packages as you can see from the meeting minutes and the updates made on the wiki.

In addition, we were listing to presentations from Stefan Voget (Continental) about EATOP, a potential Eclipse project implementing EAST-ADL, a presentation from Bosch India on an OSEE for Automotive package that they have created and finally from Oscar Slotosch from Validas in Germany on tool qualification. All the presentations are already available or will be made available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG#Documents.

I'm also very pleased to welcome Validas AG from Munich, Germany and The Virtual Vehicle Competence Center from Graz, Austria as new Solution Members to the Eclipse Foundation. They have expressed strong interest in participating in the AutoIWG, and we are very happy to have their industry know-how and experience on board.

Is Eclipse important to Automotive and is Automotive important in Eclipse? Looking at the program of the upcoming EclipseCon in Reston, Virginia, I note that Ford's "What's next guy, Mr. Prasad and Peter Semmelhack, founder of Bug Labs will talk in their keynote presentation about the App Development Platform of the future car.

And in the 'normal' program, I can also find quite a number of talks that are of interest to the automotive crowd.

And last but not least, we will have an 'automotive meeting' at EclipseCon. Please add yourself to this Doodle poll if you are interested in participating or presenting.

Ralph

Eclipse Embedded Day and Open Forum

I would like to point you to an extraordinary conference that is coming up.

On July 12 and 13, the Open Forum Stuttgart will provide a very good program trends in the systems engineering industry.

We were able to merge the Eclipse Embedded Day together with 2 other conferences and were able to create an exciting program with great speakers from the industry.

The keynotes are presented by:

• Dr. Willibert Schleuter, former head of electronics development, Audi AG
  
• Harald Hönninger, head of research for software intensive systems, Robert Bosch GmbH
  
• Mike Millinkovich, CEO, Eclipse Foundation
  
• Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy, Technical University of Munich
  

Ralph