Great news for OSGi users/developer and those who care about a good component design, Java modules and a clean classpath. Ian Skerrett cited the quarterly OSGi newsletter on his blog:

In the time since my last e-mail to members, the OSGi Alliance has welcome two new members. One of the, Sun Microsystems, is a previous (and actually founding) member, and the other, SAP, is brand new to the OSGi Alliance. I welcome both of them and look forward to their participation and contributions to the OSGi Alliance. In fact, both of these organizations have nominated candidates for the OSGi board —

The yesterdays second Haskell in Leipzig Meeting (HaL) was just great. As last time we reached the limits of our conference room we decided to arrange the next Haskell meeting at Victor Jara. This was the absolutely right decision. We had a pleasant ambience in the cellar of the old Leipziger Felsenkeller. The team of Victor Jara prepared us a really great conference atmosphere - so, many thanks and compliments to you, Lütti.

The first talk was hold by Johan Jeuring (Univ. Utrecht) who gave an overview over Generic Programming in Haskell. He presented a field of his actual work: Finding criteria for a standardized Generic Programming library for Haskell. At the end of this talk he gave yet another hint for this year's functional programming contest.

I'm going to Italy for holiday with my wife and friends of us for one long week, yeah. We are coming back on june, 24th which is our first wedding anniversary. Wow, what a short year. A happy one which was not sooo different from the preceding years living together, but it was different in many kinds.

On june, 27th I'm going to the OSGi Alliance Community Event in Munich. I'm looking forward to hear some talks with very promising titles and to have some good discussions. Just have to find a place to stay in Munich. Most friends of mine where I got shelter in the past left the city lately. Hope to learn something more about the different field of application of the OSGi Plattform apart from Eclipse, of course, and to get to know those people, whose blogs I read regularly.