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<channel>
<title>Units of Measurement.</title>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io/</link>
<atom:link href="http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<description>For future use?</description>
<language>en</language>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2024, 21:50:29</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>14 Oct 2024, 21:50:29</lastBuildDate>
<item>
<title>World Metrology Day 2024</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2024/wmd24.html</link>
<pubDate>20 May 2024, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2024/wmd24.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/wmd_2024.png" alt="World Metrology Day 2024 is Measurement for Health" title="World Metrology Day 2024" /></p>
<p>May 20 is <a href="http://www.worldmetrologyday.org">World Metrology Day</a>, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.</p>
<p>The theme for World Metrology Day 2024 is Sustainability.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>10 Years JSR 363</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2024/10years_jsr363.html</link>
<pubDate>7 Apr 2024, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2024/10years_jsr363.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/253xTen_Years.png" alt="10 Years JSR 363" title="10 Years" /></p>
<p>Today marks the 10th anniversary of the <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5666">JSR 363 approval</a>.<br />
Only 2 days before <a href="https://iotday.org/events/2024/">IoT Day 2024</a></p>
<p>Congratulations and thank you everyone who helped over all these years with JSR 363 and 385.</p>
</description>
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<item>
<title>JSR 385 Maintenance Release 2</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2024/mr2.html</link>
<pubDate>11 Mar 2024, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2024/mr2.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/maintenance-1151312_320.png" alt="JSR 385 MR2" title="Maintenance" /></p>
<p>Today Maintenance Release 2 of JSR 385 was published by the Java Community Process: <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr385/index2.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr385/index2.html</a></p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.2">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.2</a><br />
for the RI: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.2">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.2</a><br />
and for the TCK: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.2">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.2</a></p>
<p>Thanks everyone who helped with this release.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>JSR 385 Maintenance Review Ballot 2</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2024/mr2_ballot.html</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2024, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2024/mr2_ballot.html</guid>
<description>
<p>Today Maintenance Review Ballot for Maintenance Release 2 of JSR 385 at the Java Community Process finished. MR2 of JSR 385 was unanimously approved by the JCP Executive Committee: <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6364">https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6364</a>.<br />
Maintenance Review 2 page: <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr385/index2.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr385/index2.html</a><br />
GitHub project to track the MR: <a href="https://github.com/orgs/unitsofmeasurement/projects/7">https://github.com/orgs/unitsofmeasurement/projects/7</a></p>
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</item>
<item>
<title>Halloween 2023</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2023/halloween23.html</link>
<pubDate>31 Oct 2023, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023/halloween23.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/pexels-skitterphoto-3738-640.jpg" alt="Halloween" title="Halloween 2023" /></p>
<p>Happy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween">Halloween</a>!</p>
<p>Today is also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation_Day">Reformation Day</a>.</p>
<p>And the the final artifact of JSR 385 MR 2 was released as well:<br />
* <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.2">unit-tck 2.2</a></p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>World Refrigeration Day 2023</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2023/wrefd23.html</link>
<pubDate>26 Jun 2023, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023/wrefd23.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="https://worldrefrigerationday.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WRD-Logo-web.jpg" alt="World Refrigeration Day" title="World Refrigeration Day" /></p>
<p>Happy birthday, Lord Kelvin. It’s World Refrigeration Day.<br />
Lord Kelvin was born 199 years ago: June 26th, 1824. 26 June is also World Refrigeration Day.</p>
<p>All info here: <a href="https://worldrefrigerationday.org/">https://worldrefrigerationday.org/</a></p>
<p>Today further artifacts of JSR 385 MR 2 were also released:<br />
* <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-lib/releases/tag/2.2">uom-lib 2.2</a><br />
* <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.2">indriya 2.2</a></p>
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<item>
<title>World Metrology Day 2023</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2023/wmd23.html</link>
<pubDate>20 May 2023, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023/wmd23.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/wmd_homepage_poster_2023_handy.jpg" alt="World Metrology Day 2023 is Measurement for Health" title="World Metrology Day 2023" /></p>
<p>May 20 is <a href="http://www.worldmetrologyday.org">World Metrology Day</a>, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.</p>
<p>The theme for World Metrology Day 2023 is Measurements supporting the global food system. This theme was chosen because of the increasing challenges of climate change, and global distribution of food in a world whose population reached 8 billion at the end of 2022.</p>
<p>Today the first artifacts of JSR 385 MR 2 were also released:<br />
* <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-parent/releases/tag/2.2">uom-parent 2.2</a><br />
* <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.2">unit-api 2.2</a></p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Pi Day 2023</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2023/piday23.html</link>
<pubDate>14 Mar 2023, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023/piday23.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="https://www.piday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/pi-day-square-logo-150x150.png" alt="Pi Day Logo" title="Pi Day" /></p>
<p>Happy Pi Day 2023!<br />
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.piday.org/">Pi Day</a> for more.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>27th CGPM</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2022/cgpm27.html</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2022, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2022/cgpm27.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/27072194/Logo+CGPMpt.jpg/2ab1f2ce-96be-5783-b51b-f134d07e06af?t=1590504481185" alt="CGPM" title="General Conference on Weights and Measures" /></p>
<p>The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), at its <a href="https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/">27th meeting</a>,</p>
<p>recalling that decisions were made at previous meetings when it was considered timely to extend the range of SI prefixes including Resolution 12 (paragraph 3) adopted by the CGPM at its 11th meeting (1960), Resolution 8 adopted by the CGPM at its 12th meeting (1964), Resolution 10 adopted by the CGPM at its 15th meeting (1975), and Resolution 4 adopted by the CGPM at its 19th meeting (1991), decided to add to the list of SI prefixes to be used for multiples and submultiples of units the following prefixes:</p>
<table width="60%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th width="50%">Multiplying factor</th>
<th width="30%">Name</th>
<th>Symbol</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10<sup>27</sup></td>
<td class="title-third">ronna</td>
<td>
<h4>R</h4>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10<sup>–27</sup></td>
<td class="title-third">ronto</td>
<td>
<h4>r</h4>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10<sup>30</sup></td>
<td class="title-third">quetta</td>
<td>
<h4>Q</h4>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10<sup>–30</sup></td>
<td class="title-third">quecto</td>
<td>
<h4>q</h4>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>With an upcoming <a href="https://github.com/orgs/unitsofmeasurement/projects/7">Maintenance Release 2 of JSR 385</a> we will add those new prefixes to <code>MetricPrefix</code> in the API.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Ada Lovelace Day 2022</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2022/ald22.html</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2022, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2022/ald22.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Ada_Lovelace.jpg/302px-Ada_Lovelace.jpg" alt="Ada Lovelace" title="Ada Lovelace" /></p>
<p>Happy Ada Lovelace Day 2022!<br />
Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/ada-lovelace-day/">Days of the Year</a>.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Units of Measurement with Groovy</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2022/groovy_baby.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Aug 2022, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2022/groovy_baby.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/DALL-E-2022-08-marvin-307x307.png" alt="Units of Measurement with Groovy" title="UoM Groovy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/paulk-asert">Paul King</a> just wrote a nice article about <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/groovy/entry/life-on-mars-units-of">Units of Measurement Support for Groovy</a> on the Groovy blog.</p>
<p>The GitHub repo is: <a href="https://github.com/paulk-asert/UomGroovy">https://github.com/paulk-asert/UomGroovy</a>.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Stormy Monday Ukraine</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2022/stormy_monday_ukr.html</link>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2022, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2022/stormy_monday_ukr.html</guid>
<description>
<p>We anticipated to call the latest Indriya version &quot;Stormy Monday&quot; based on a series of storms like Eunice:</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PRLcksCJNgw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>However, given <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017-07-06-russian-exoskeleton-suit-turns-soldiers-into-stormtroopers.html">Russian Stormtroopers</a> just started to invade Ukraine we decided to call it &quot;Free Ukraine&quot;.<br />
<img src="/img/1618138263Ukraine-heart-shape-flag-300.png" alt="Free Ukraine" title="Ukraine patriotic flag symbol" /></p>
<p>Also remembering when Teo presented the JSR in Kiev 2019:</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kmE6J8NTQxg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>The corresponding GitHub release tag for the RI is: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.3">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.3</a></p>
</description>
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<title>2.0 Maintenance Release 1 Published</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/mr1_published.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2021/mr1_published.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/maintenance-1151312_320.png" alt="JSR 385 MR1" title="Maintenance" /></p>
<p>Today Maintenance Release 1 of JSR 385 was published by the Java Community Process: <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr385/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr385/index.html</a></p>
<p>It took a while, maybe partly due to COVID19, including fewer meetings and activities, we also had to send the Spec Documents again with different dates, but thanks everyone for getting the last deliverables out there now.</p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1.1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1.1</a><br />
for the RI: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.1</a><br />
and for the TCK: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.1</a></p>
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<title>World Metrology Day 2021</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/wmd21.html</link>
<pubDate>20 May 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>May 20 is <a href="http://www.worldmetrologyday.org">World Metrology Day</a>, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.</p>
<p>The theme for World Metrology Day 2021 is Measurement for Health. For somewhat obvious reasons.</p>
<p>As a nice coincidence, <a href="https://www.majug.de/">Mannheim JUG</a> held a Meetup (in German) <a href="https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/mannheim-java-usergroup/events/277421859">javax.measure bringt verständliche Einheiten in die Software</a> allowing me to share insight and experience with the audience especially during Q&amp;A.<br />
The presentation looked more at domain specific use cases for JSR 385 and how to integrate Units of Measurement support in your applications from the backend or middleware to the UI frontend using UI frameworks like React or Angular.</p>
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<title>IoT Day 2021</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/iotday21.html</link>
<pubDate>9 Apr 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>After visiting IoT Meetup Zurich several times in person, I was honored to virtually join it again and give a short version of the JSR 385 talk at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/IoT-Zurich/events/277320104/">IoT Day 2021 Virtual Meetup</a>.</p>
<p>It was nice to see an old picture from the 2014 event:<br />
<img src="https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/c/9/a/highres_350907802.jpeg" alt="IoT Day 2014 Zurich Meetup" title="IoT Day 2014 Zurich Meetup" /><br />
Hope to join it again in person another year.</p>
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<title>20th Anniversary of JSR 108</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/20yearsjavaxunits.html</link>
<pubDate>19 Mar 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/medal-2539595_320.png" alt="20th Anniversary" title="Happy 20th Anniversary" /></p>
<p>Today marks the 20th anniversary of the JSR 108 <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=101">creation review ballot</a>. Approved by then JCP EC members like BEA, Borland, Compaq, Sun or WebGain. All companies that no longer exist at least not in their form they had at the time. Apple also a JCP EC member then and Oracle did not vote, although they both participate in the <a href="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode</a> Consortium which also added <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/">unit support for Java</a> but much later.</p>
<p>The JSR was withdrawn in 2004 and about a year later superseded by <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=275">JSR 275</a>, but the intended RI of JSR 108 also continued under <a href="https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/">NetCDF Java</a> as a <a href="https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/">UCAR</a> community project.<br />
Lately there had been <a href="https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-java/issues/256#issuecomment-780807415">discussions</a> about a possible implementation of JSR 363 (or hopefully 385) by a future version of NetCDF Java, so the &quot;long lost relatives&quot; could one day even be reunited, if that happens;-)</p>
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<title>Hidden Figures</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/hidden_figures.html</link>
<pubDate>21 Feb 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/NSF-2020-05-11-15-32-43-831_463.png" alt="Hidden Figures Launch" title="Hidden Figures" /></p>
<p>Honoring the Black mathematician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson">Katherine Johnson</a> whose calculations contributed to the Feb. 20, 1962, mission that made John Glenn the first American to orbit the globe, and had a spacecraft on its way to the ISS named after her: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/20/969790056/spacecraft-named-for-hidden-figures-mathematician-launches-from-virginia">https://www.npr.org/2021/02/20/969790056/spacecraft-named-for-hidden-figures-mathematician-launches-from-virginia</a></p>
<p><img src="/img/Katherine_Johnson_at_NASA,_in_1966.jpg" alt="Katherine Johnson" title="Katherine Johnson at NASA in 1966" /></p>
<p>Having met Don Eyles who also worked on the Apollo Program a few months ago at <a href="../2019/codemotionmilan19.html">Codemotion Milan 2019</a> and celebrating <a href="https://youtu.be/3VRsJcbAg_s">Black History Month 2021</a> with the API release last week, we dedicate the 2.1.2 Patch Release of Indriya to Katherine Johnson and her colleagues.</p>
<p>The corresponding GitHub release tag for the RI is: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.2">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.2</a><br />
Fixing the following issues: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/milestone/8?closed=1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/milestone/8?closed=1</a></p>
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<title>Buffalo Soldier</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/buffalo_soldier.html</link>
<pubDate>12 Feb 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Today celebrating both the <a href="https://chinesenewyear.net/">Chinese New Year</a> (of the <a href="https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2021/lunar-new-year-2021-multiple-countries-6753651837108857-2x.png">Ox</a>) and <a href="https://youtu.be/3VRsJcbAg_s">Black History Month 2021</a>, besides addressing issue <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/issues/220">#220</a> as well as removing Bintray links from the POM and build settings, we just released a patch version 2.1.2 of the API.</p>
<p>The corresponding GitHub release tag for the API is: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1.2">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1.2</a></p>
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<title>Kiss the Frog Goodbye</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/ktfg.html</link>
<pubDate>7 Feb 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/dead-frog-48235_320.png" alt="Kill the Frog" title="Goodbye Frog" /></p>
<p>JFrog recently announced, that by May 1st, 2021 Bintray/JCenter, GoCenter and ChartCenter will be discontinued, seemingly giving in to stronger competitors like MavenCentral, ArtifactHub or pkg.go.dev, see: <a href="https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/">https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/</a></p>
<p>So it's time to kiss JFrog Goodbye and move on to use MavenCentral/Sonatype repositories instead. The only case where we explore the possibility of Artifactory in the Cloud for Open Source projects is the limited area of Eclipse P2 repositories.</p>
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<title>2.0 Maintenance Release 1 Ballot</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2021/mr1.html</link>
<pubDate>12 Jan 2021, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/maintenance-1151312_320.png" alt="JSR 385 MR1" title="Maintenance" /></p>
<p>Yesterday Maintenance Review Ballot for Maintenance Release 1 of JSR 385 at the Java Community Process finished. MR1 of JSR 385 was unanimously approved by the JCP Executive Committee: <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6257">https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6257</a>.<br />
Maintenance Review page: <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr385/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr385/index.html</a></p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1.1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1.1</a><br />
for the RI: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.1.1</a><br />
and for the TCK: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.1">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.1</a></p>
<p>Most other artifacts like unit systems, libraries or <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos">uom-demos</a> got corresponding &quot;2.1.x&quot; tags or are about to get them, also check out the <a href="https://github.com/orgs/unitsofmeasurement/projects/5">2.1 Release Train</a> for more news and the progress of these releases on top of MR1.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone who helped with this release.</p>
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<title>2nd Anniversary of CGPM26</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2020/2yearsgpm26.html</link>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2020, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>2 years ago we witnessed a historic moment. When the members of the Metre Convention unanimously approved the SI Redefinition at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA67T7FPBME">26th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in Versailles, Paris</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/img/SI_Illustration_Full_497x497.png" alt="alt text" title="SI Redefinition 2019" /></p>
<p>On this occasion we released <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.1">version 2.1</a> of the API.</p>
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<title>World Science Day 2020</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2020/wsd20.html</link>
<pubDate>10 Nov 2020, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>November 10 is <a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-science-day">World Science Day</a>, highlighting the significant role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues.</p>
<p>This year, at a time when the world is struggling with the global COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of World Science Day is on “Science for and with Society in dealing with the global pandemic.”</p>
<p><img src="/img/world_science_day_2020_poster.jpg" alt="alt text" title="World Science Day 2020" /></p>
<p>Join the conversation with the hashtag #ScienceDay.</p>
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<title>Hanna</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2020/hanna.html</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2020, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/Hanna.png" alt="Hanna" title="HANNA" /></p>
<p>No, it's not about your favorite teenage assassin <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6932244/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Hanna</a> from the Amazon Original series. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hanna_(2020)">Hurricane Hanna</a> reached Texas today.</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wqtsWXCzNd0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Usually the first Hurricane of the season won't reach the US before August 10, so Hanna is nearly two weeks early, most likely due to climate change.</p>
<p>We updated our <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos/tree/master/console/systems">Console Systems Demos</a> especially the Hurricane wind scale demo <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos/blob/master/console/systems/common/src/main/java/tech/uom/demo/systems/common/ThePerfectStorm.java">The Perfect Storm</a>.</p>
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<title>15th Anniversary of JSR 275</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2020/15yearsjavaxmeasure.html</link>
<pubDate>13 Jun 2020, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/15th-anniversary-celebration.jpg" alt="15th Anniversary" title="Happy 15th Anniversary" /></p>
<p>After we just celebrated the <a href="https://www.oracle.com/de/java/moved-by-java/">25th birthday of Java</a> a few weeks ago, today marks the 15th anniversary of the JSR 275 <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=3216">creation review ballot</a>.<br />
2005 was also the &quot;World Year of Physics&quot; or &quot;Einstein Year&quot;, celebrating Einstein's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers">Annus Mirabilis papers</a> being published 100 years earlier, the first on the 9th of June, 1905.</p>
<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/WYP2005_logo.png" alt="Einstein Year" title="World Year of Physics 2005" /></p>
<p>The JSR was rejected by the JCP EC about 5 years later, largely because the Internet of Things or connected devices did not exist then and several members that later joined the IoT bandwagon felt, there was not enough momentum. Nevertheless that JSR introduced some key aspects also used in later successors like type-safe Generics or the &quot;javax.measure&quot; namespace. While the JCP and its EC felt it was too early, JSR 275 and JScience 4 were all but abandoned by the community and used by many projects or commercial products despite its non-final verdict.</p>
<p>Since its creation, the JSR 275 API was downloaded nearly 855,000 times from Maven type repositories. In the last 12 months, the &quot;javax.measure&quot; APIs were downloaded more than a Million times, with Unit-API (JSR 363/385) now getting more downloads per year than 275 did in its entire lifetime, but it also still is downloaded around 250k times, a number not many Open Source projects hold, especially after 15 years.</p>
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<title>World Metrology Day 2020</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2020/wmd20.html</link>
<pubDate>20 May 2020, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>May 20 is <a href="http://www.worldmetrologyday.org">World Metrology Day</a>, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.</p>
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<p>The theme for World Metrology Day 2020 is Measurements for global trade. This theme was chosen to create awareness of the important role measurement plays in facilitating fair global trade, ensuring products meet standards and regulations, and satisfying customer quality expectations.</p>
<p><img src="/img/WMD_2020_EN_A4_h.jpg" alt="alt text" title="World Metrology Day 2020" /></p>
<p>We plan to release domain specific extension modules, libraries or demos for JSR 385 and Units of Measurement in the upcoming weeks and months to support Measurements for trade and business.</p>
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<title>Codemotion Milan 2019 - Apollo 11 Anniversary</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/codemotionmilan19.html</link>
<pubDate>25 Oct 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Do you know what happened on July 20 1969 at 20 UTC? Does the “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” ring a bell…? Yes, it’s moon landing! 2019 was the 50th anniversary of this historical milestone, so Codemotion decided to celebrate it during its 2019 Conferences around Europe.</p>
<p><img src="/img/moonlanding.jpg" alt="Moon Landing" title="Moon Landing of Apollo 11" /></p>
<p>In particular, <a href="https://events.codemotion.com/conferences/milan/2019/">Codemotion Milan 19</a> was the selected location of some <a href="https://events.codemotion.com/conferences/milan/2019/news/moon-landing-celebrations/">special events</a>. Among the speakers, we had the pleasure to listen to Don Eyles (October, 24) and Russ Olsen (October, 25) as keynote speakers.</p>
<p>Before our own JSR 385 session at Codemotion Milan 2019 on October, 25, Thodoris and Werner had the privilege to interview both Don Eyles and Russ Olson.<br />
<img src="/img/DSC01079_640x480.jpg" alt="Interview with Don Eyles" title="Werner and Thodoris with Don Eyles at Codemotion Milan 2019" /></p>
<p>Here's a more detailed video by <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/">Scientific American</a> about Mars Climate Orbiter:</p>
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<title>CodeOne, JCON 2019, JCP Award</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/code1jcon19-jcpaward.html</link>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>A little less than a month after the Final Release of JSR 385 was published it won another <a href="https://jcp.org/en/press/news/awards/2019award_nominees">JCP Award</a>. A combined Spec Lead and JSR of the Year category.</p>
<p><img src="/img/71655780_10157723152878474_3670494620418048000_n.jpg" alt="JCP Party" title="Thodoris and Otavio at the JCP Party" /></p>
<p><img src="/img/70874174_1583996151730761_8764685317941755904_o_480x640.jpg" alt="JCP Award" title="JCP Award for Spec Lead and JSR of the Year" /></p>
<p>Before our JSR 385 session at JCON 2019 in Düsseldorf Thodoris and Werner visited Oracle City, a small version of Legoland at <a href="https://jcon.one/en/">JCON</a> 2019 demonstrating Oracle Cloud and IoT features.</p>
<p><img src="/img/DSC00767_640x480.jpg" alt="JCON 2019" title="Thodoris and Werner with the JCP Award in Oracle City at JCON 2019" /></p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone and thanks a lot for your contribution that helped us win this award.</p>
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<title>90-Thousand Downloads of Unit-API per month</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/unit-api_90k_per_month.html</link>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>A few weeks ago a massive download surge started with almost 100k downloads of Unit-API (JSR 363 and 385) in just 30 days.<br />
<img src="/img/downloads_api_30day_2019-09-16.png" alt="90k+ Unit-API downloads" title="Unit-API exceeded 90-thousand downloads in 30 days" /></p>
<p>This also made the Unit-API (JSR 363 and 385) downloads exceed those of JSR 275 in the course of the last year.</p>
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<title>2.0 Final Release</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/final.html</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Judgement Day</p>
<p><img src="/img/T2_Final.png" alt="JSR 385 Judgement Day" title="Judgement Day" /></p>
<p>On Thursday, August 29, 2019 the <strong>Final Release</strong> of JSR 385 was published by the Java Community Process: <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr385/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr385/index.html</a>.</p>
<p>The date coincides with <strong>Judgement Day</strong> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day">Terminator</a> movies.<br />
If a computer system like Skynet ever did become self-aware, hopefully it gets not only its measurement units right. If it ran on Java, then JSR 385 might help ;-)</p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags are:<br />
API: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.0</a><br />
RI: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.0</a><br />
TCK: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.0</a></p>
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<title>Valhalla</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/valhalla.html</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Zeus in Valhalla</p>
<p><img src="/img/valhalla_854x363.jpg" alt="Valhalla" title="Valhalla" /></p>
<p>In the &quot;Zeus&quot; hall on <a href="http://www.jcrete.org/">JCrete 2019</a> Hack day Werner got the <a href="https://jdk.java.net/valhalla/">Valhalla Early-Access Build</a> of Java 14 to run with Unit API.</p>
<p>Bringing together Ancient Greek gods with their equivalents from Nordic mythology if you want. You can find them under <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos/tree/master/console/valhalla">valhalla demos</a>.</p>
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<title>Public Review Final Approval</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/prfa.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>This week the first ever <strong>Public Review Final Approval Ballot</strong> for JSR 385 at the Java Community Process finished. JSR 385 was approved by the JCP Executive Committee: <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6199">https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6199</a>.</p>
<p>We plan to release a final Specification document and publish all artifacts to JCP.org soon. In the meantime, you can find them on Github already, API: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.0</a><br />
RI: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.0</a><br />
and the TCK: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.0</a></p>
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<title>Utrecht JUG Adopts JSR 385</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/adopt-a-jsr-day-utrecht-jug.html</link>
<pubDate>1 Jun 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>Adopt-a-JSR Day for Utrecht JUG</p>
<p><img src="/img/adopt-jsr385-day-utrecht.jpg" alt="Utrecht JUG Adopts JSR-385" title="Utrecht JUG adopts JSR-385" /></p>
<p>On the 1st of June Werner visited Utrecht to host an Adopt-a-JSR Day for the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Utrecht-Java-User-Group/">Utrecht JUG</a></p>
<p>You can find a few related links below:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Utrecht-Java-User-Group/events/261238917/">Event's page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Adopt-a-JSR/jsr385-demos">Demos developed during the day</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlQ2gM9iSlQ">Spring Boot video demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggO5Du3DQYE">Vaadin video demo</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Interview with Werner after the event:</p>
<iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kEMZmoMXYbY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<title>World Metrology Day 2019</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/wmd19.html</link>
<pubDate>20 May 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p><img src="/img/SI_Illustration_Full_497x497.png" alt="alt text" title="World Metrology Day 2019" /></p>
<p>May 20 is <a href="http://www.worldmetrologyday.org">World Metrology Day</a>, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. This treaty provides the basis for a coherent measurement system worldwide that underpins scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international trade, as well as the improvement of the quality of life and the protection of the global environment.</p>
<p>World Metrology Day 2019 has a special importance, because on 16 November 2018, the General Conference on Weights and Measures agreed perhaps one of the most significant revisions to the International System of Units (the SI) since its inception. Research into new measurement methods, including those using quantum phenomena, underpin the change, which comes into force on 20 May 2019. The SI is now based on a set of definitions each linked to the laws of physics and have the advantage of being able to embrace further improvements in measurement science and technology to meet the needs of future users for many years to come.</p>
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<title>100-Thousandth Download of Unit-API exceeded</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/unit-api_100k.html</link>
<pubDate>13 May 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>Just one week before World Metrology Day 2019 and shortly before the Public Review of JSR 385 the combined downloads of Unit-API (JSR 363 and 385) exceeded the 100-thousandth download within a period of 12 months:<br />
<img src="/img/jsr385_111k.png" alt="111k Unit-API downloads" title="Unit-API exceeded 100-thousandth download" /></p>
<p>Currently the vast majority are JSR 363 downloads, but once JSR 385 goes Final, we expect to see more of it and probably even a higher total number across both versions.</p>
</description>
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<title>ACCU 2019</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/accu19.html</link>
<pubDate>10 Apr 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>On the April 10th, shortly after the originally anticipated Brexit, Filip gave another JSR 385 presentation at ACCU 2019 in Bristol: <a href="https://conference.accu.org/2019/sessions.html#XJSR385Learningfromthe125MillionDollarMarsClimateOrbiterMistake">JSR-385: Learning from the 125 Million Dollar Mars Climate Orbiter Mistake</a></p>
<p>For everyone who did not attend the session or wants to watch it again, here's the YouTube recording:</p>
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QJ5LVsxLrZs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<title>OOP 2019</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2019/oop19.html</link>
<pubDate>1 Feb 2019, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>At <a href="https://www.oop-konferenz.de/oop2019/startseite-englisch.html">OOP 2019</a> in Munich <a href="https://github.com/filipvanlaenen">Filip</a> and <a href="https://github.com/keilw">Werner</a> gave the audience a chance of <a href="https://www.oop-konferenz.de/oop2019/startseite-englisch/program/sessiondetails/action/detail/session/do-23-4/title/jsr-385-learning-from-the-125-million-dollar-mars-climate-orbiter-mistake.html?tx_dmconferences_session%5BshowRooms%5D=0&amp;cHash=ae8cd0224ec0f74399cc148402e8e90f">Learning from the 125 Million Dollar Mars Climate Orbiter Mistake</a> and how JSR-385 could have prevented it.</p>
<p>During the session a &quot;Graphic Novel&quot; of it was created:<br />
<img src="/img/IMG_20190124_155810_888_768x768.jpg" alt="OOP Graphic Novel" title="Graphic Novel about JSR-385" /></p>
<p>So Filip and Werner are actual <strong>Comic Heroes</strong> now ;-D<br />
According to OOP organizers the session was very well received by attendees, too.</p>
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<title>26th CGPM</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/cgpm26.html</link>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>Witness a historic moment; join an open session of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)<br />
considering the revision of the SI – including redefinition of four base units: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA67T7FPBME">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA67T7FPBME</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/thebipm">https://www.youtube.com/thebipm</a></p>
<p>What is the International System of Units and why do we need it?</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/srmZ2Tat3OY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</description>
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<title>JavaZone 2018</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/javazone18.html</link>
<pubDate>13 Sep 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>On the 2nd anniversary of the JSR 363 Final Release Filip gave a JSR 385 presentation at JavaZone 2018 in Oslo: <a href="https://2018.javazone.no/program/48dbefe3-fedc-43f5-8b8e-e9f8ac92f043">How JSR-385 Could Have Saved the Mars Climate Orbiter</a></p>
<p>For everyone who did not attend it here's the Vimeo recording:</p>
<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/289668490?color=ff9933&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/289668490">How JSR-385 Could Have Saved the Mars Climate Orbiter : Filip van Laenen</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/javazone">JavaZone</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
</description>
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<item>
<title>Early Draft of JSR 385</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/edr.html</link>
<pubDate>13 Sep 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>Today exactly 2 years after JSR 363 went Final, the Java Community Process published the Early Draft Release of JSR 385 for Review:<br />
<a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr385/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr385/index.html</a>.</p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for the API:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.0-EDR">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.0-EDR</a><br />
For the RI:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.0-EDR">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.0-EDR</a><br />
And for the TCK:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.0-EDR">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.0-EDR</a></p>
</description>
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<item>
<title>World Metrology Day 2018</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/wmd18.html</link>
<pubDate>20 May 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2018/wmd18.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="/img/wmd_2018_s.jpg" alt="alt text" title="World Metrology Day 2018" /></p>
<p>May 20 is <a href="http://www.worldmetrologyday.org">World Metrology Day</a>, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. This treaty provides the basis for a coherent measurement system worldwide that underpins scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international trade, as well as the improvement of the quality of life and the protection of the global environment.</p>
<p>World Metrology Day celebrates the signature by representatives of seventeen nations of The Metre Convention on 20 May 1875. The Convention set the framework for global collaboration in the science of measurement and in its industrial, commercial and societal application. The original aim of the Metre Convention - the worldwide uniformity of measurement - remains as important today, in 2018, as it was in 1875.</p>
</description>
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<item>
<title>Ready for Java 10</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/java10.html</link>
<pubDate>28 Apr 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2018/java10.html</guid>
<description>
<p><img src="http://technikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/java-10_1.png" alt="alt text" title="Ready for Java 10?" /></p>
<p>Indriya and JSR 385 are ready for and working with Java 10!<br />
While the API and Indriya remain fully backward compatible with Java SE 8 and at least the API will do (for Indriya we may explore <a href="https://blog.codefx.org/tools/multi-release-jars-multiple-java-versions/">Multi-release JARs</a> if it was highly beneficial and justified the increased JAR size) both work perfectly fine with Java 10.</p>
<p>The first <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos/tree/master/console/java10">Units of Measurement Console Demos</a> show how to use the Java 10 <code>var</code> feature with JSR 385 and Indriya. More to come. Stay tuned or contribute Java 9, 10 or 11 support you would like to see and use.</p>
</description>
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<item>
<title>New TLDs</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/new_tlds.html</link>
<pubDate>18 Mar 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>Following a recent vote <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/issues/35">Indriya #35</a> we decided to switch from virtual TLDs &quot;.tec&quot;, the only option back in 2014 to actual new &quot;tech&quot; TLDs that became usable after 2015. A small difference, but with domains like &quot;uom.tech&quot; or &quot;units.tech&quot; we can also use them for web pages and email addresses.</p>
<p>Similar to JSR 363 &quot;units.tech&quot; will be reserved for the JSR (mostly RI and TCK) while &quot;uom.tech&quot; serves the wider project and all other artifacts.</p>
<p>Find them on Search.maven.org under <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ctech.units">tech.units</a> or <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ctech.uom">tech.uom</a></p>
</description>
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<title>JSR 385 Accepted</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2018/accepted20.html</link>
<pubDate>8 Jan 2018, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>The JCP Executive Committee has accepted the Creation of JSR 385, Units of Measurement API 2.0</p>
<p>See <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6096">https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6096</a></p>
</description>
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<item>
<title>Eclipse UOMo 0.7</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2017/uomo07.html</link>
<pubDate>31 Dec 2017, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p><img src="/img/uomo.png" alt="alt text" title="Eclipse UOMo" /></p>
<p>Following Apache SIS 0.8 Eclipse UOMo 0.7 offers another compatible JSR 363 implementation. A Release Candidate is available <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/uomo/download.php">here</a>. You can find a matching TCK harness under <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck-usage/tree/uomo">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck-usage/tree/uomo</a>.</p>
<p>Until EMO concludes the Release review, please build UOMo 0.7 from source or install it into a local Maven repository before running the tests. After that we'll make UOMo 0.7 available in public repositories like JCenter or MavenCentral.</p>
</description>
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<title>Apache SIS 0.8</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2017/sis08.html</link>
<pubDate>24 Nov 2017, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p><img src="http://sis.apache.org/img/logo.png" alt="alt text" title="Apache SIS" /></p>
<p>The Apache SIS PMC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of<br />
the SIS 0.8 release.</p>
<p>The release can be obtained from the Apache SIS download page -<br />
<a href="http://sis.apache.org/downloads.html">http://sis.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
<p>Release notes are available at -<br />
<a href="http://sis.apache.org/release-notes/0.8.html">http://sis.apache.org/release-notes/0.8.html</a></p>
<p>Apache SIS is a Java language library for developing geospatial<br />
applications. SIS provides data structures for geographic features and<br />
associated metadata along with methods to manipulate those data<br />
structures. The library is an implementation of GeoAPI 3.0 interfaces<br />
and can be used for desktop or server applications.</p>
<p>Some Apache SIS features are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Geographic metadata (ISO 19115)<br />
o Read/write ISO 19139 compliant XML documents<br />
o Read from netCDF, GeoTIFF, Landsat, GPX and Moving Feature CSV<br />
encoding</li>
<li>Referencing by coordinates (ISO 19111) or by identifiers (ISO 19112)<br />
o Well Known Text (WKT) version 1 and 2 (ISO 19162)<br />
o Geographic Markup Language (GML) version 3.2 (ISO 19136)<br />
o Geodetic objects and operations from EPSG geodetic dataset<br />
o Mercator, Lambert, stereographic and more map projections<br />
o Geohashes and Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)<br />
o Optional bridge to Proj.4 as a complement to Apache SIS own<br />
referencing engine</li>
<li>Units of measurement<br />
o <strong>JSR-363</strong> with parsing, formating and unit conversion functionalities</li>
</ul>
<p>For general information on Apache SIS, please visit the project website:<br />
<a href="http://sis.apache.org/">http://sis.apache.org/</a></p>
</description>
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<title>A Taste of Indriya</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2017/taste_of_indriya.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Aug 2017, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p><img src="/img/N_Indriya_Small.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Indriya" /></p>
<p>We recently did a <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/issues/67">survey</a> about a matching future code name for a Units of Measurement RI. Anticipating a follow-up JSR along a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_redefinition_of_SI_base_units">proposed redefinition of SI base units</a>. The winner was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indriya">Indriya</a>, the Sanskrit word for sense.</p>
<p>While officially in &quot;Stealth Mode&quot; until a new JSR starts, please have a look at <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya">Indriya</a>. It is based on <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-se">uom-se</a> with a few tweaks and improvements like the first draft of a <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/issues/1">CompoundUnit</a> etc. Therefore fully compatible with the API and other existing implementations. It is a bit early, but for those who like their &quot;coffee&quot; fresh and hot, please feel free to already taste it.</p>
</description>
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<title>DevoXX US 2017</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2017/devoxxus17.html</link>
<pubDate>23 Mar 2017, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>On the first ever DevoXX US in San Jose, California, Leo and Otavio presented JSR 363.</p>
<p>After DevoXX UK and Belgium in 2015 and a related session Werner gave while DevoXX Morocco was still called JMaghreb, this marked 4 out of currently 6 DevoXX venues with a session on JSR 363.<br />
Although at Geecon and not DevoXX Poland, Werner also presented Standards for Java Embedded in Krakow, so that way it's actually 5 out of 6 with only Paris missing ;-)</p>
<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/xKMvrwBXPHPXap" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/LeonardoDeMouraRocha/jsr363-devoxx-us" title="JSR363 - Devoxx US" target="_blank">JSR363 - Devoxx US</a> </strong> by <strong><a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/LeonardoDeMouraRocha">Leonardo De Moura Rocha Lima</a></strong> </div>
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<title>100-Thousandth Download of JSR 275 exceeded</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2016/jsr275-100k.html</link>
<pubDate>13 Dec 2016, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>About two months after JSR 363 had gone <a href="2016/final.html">Final</a> its predecessor JSR 275 exceeded the 100-thousandth download within a period of less than 12 months:<br />
<img src="/img/jsr275_100k.png" alt="alt text" title="JSR 275 exceeded 100-thousandth download" /></p>
<p>We hope, over time some of those users will migrate to JSR 363 where can get support for an official standard. A very large number of those 100k plus downloads seems related to <a href="http://www.geoapi.org/">GeoAPI</a> and various products or projects implementing and extending it. An upcoming version of GeoAPI should migrate to JSR 363, so where those downstream projects started using new versions, we shall sooner or later see those numbers shift towards JSR 363.</p>
</description>
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<title>JavaOne 2016</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2016/javaone16-f2f.html</link>
<pubDate>20 Sep 2016, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>After meeting for a JCP EC F2F / EG F2F for the last time (because the EG officially no longer exists after JSR 363 went final), Leonardo, Otavio and Werner presented JSR 363 during a JavaOne BOF (BOF5981) on Sep 19th, right before the annual JCP Party.</p>
<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/snWt7RenZ9Hj8H" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/LeonardoDeMouraRocha/the-first-iot-jsr-units-of-measurement-jsr363-bof5981" title="The First IoT JSR: Units of Measurement JSR-363 [BOF5981]" target="_blank">The First IoT JSR: Units of Measurement JSR-363 [BOF5981]</a> </strong> by <strong><a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/LeonardoDeMouraRocha">Leonardo De Moura Rocha Lima</a></strong> </div>
<p>Like Adam Bien the year before Werner won a JCP Award but could not receive it right away at the JCP Party because of the BOF.<br />
<img src="/img/DSCF1226_600x800.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Werner with JCP Award" /><br />
Following the JCP Award Otavio won as Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR Participant 2014 and the Most Significant JSR Award 2015 this was the <strong>3rd JCP Award in a row</strong> either the JSR 363 Expert Group or one of its members had won :-)</p>
<p>Leo gave another presentation on IoT standards at JavaOne 2016</p>
<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/eSo8ZHArZTPWPI" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/LeonardoDeMouraRocha/using-java-and-standards-for-fast-iot-development-con5513" title="Using Java and Standards for Fast IoT Development [CON5513]" target="_blank">Using Java and Standards for Fast IoT Development [CON5513]</a> </strong> by <strong><a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/LeonardoDeMouraRocha">Leonardo De Moura Rocha Lima</a></strong> </div>
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<title>Final Release</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2016/final.html</link>
<pubDate>13 Sep 2016, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<description>
<p>Last week the Final Approval Ballot for JSR 363 at the Java Community Process finished. JSR 363 was approved by the JCP Executive Committee: <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5877">https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5877</a>.<br />
Final Release page: <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr363/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr363/index.html</a></p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/1.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/1.0</a><br />
for the RI: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/releases/tag/1.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/releases/tag/1.0</a><br />
and for the TCK: <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/1.0">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/1.0</a></p>
<p>Most other artifacts like unit systems, libraries or <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos">uom-demos</a> got corresponding tags like &quot;Final Release&quot; or &quot;Final equivalent&quot; buiding upon 1.0. All of them except demos can also be found either on MavenCentral, Bintray JCenter or both.</p>
</description>
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<title>JavaOne 2016 Announcement</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2016/javaone16-announce.html</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2016, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="https://www.oracle.com/us/assets/j1-250x250-im-speaking-3089473.jpg" alt="alt text" title="I'm speaking at JavaOne 2016" /></p>
<p>After meeting for a JCP EC F2F / EG F2F, Leonardo, Otavio and Werner will present JSR 363 during a JavaOne BOF (BOF5981) on Sep 19th, right before the annual JCP Party. On Wednesday, Sep 21, Werner presents JSR 374, JSON-P 1.1 (CON6264) with some real life use cases like Unicode CLDR tooling that are also related to JSR 363.<br />
<a href="https://oracle.rainfocus.com/scripts/catalog/oow16.jsp?event=javaone&amp;search=jsr-363&amp;search.event=javaone">https://oracle.rainfocus.com/scripts/catalog/oow16.jsp?event=javaone&amp;search=jsr-363&amp;search.event=javaone</a></p>
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<title>Proposed Final Draft</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2016/pfd.html</link>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2016, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Today, the Java Community Process posted the Proposed Final Draft of JSR 363:<br />
<a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr363/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr363/index.html</a>.</p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/0.9">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/0.9</a><br />
for the RI:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/releases/tag/0.9">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/releases/tag/0.9</a><br />
and for the TCK:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/0.9">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/0.9</a></p>
<p>Most other artifacts like unit systems, libraries or <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos">uom-demos</a> got corresponding tags like &quot;Public Final Draft&quot; or &quot;PFD equivalent&quot; buiding upon the PFD stage JSR. All of them except demos can also be found either on MavenCentral, Bintray JCenter or both.</p>
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<title>EG F2F during JCP EC F2F in Rio de Janeiro</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2016/jan16-f2f.html</link>
<pubDate>26 Jan 2016, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Leonardo, Werner and Otavio met for an EG F2F in Rio de Janeiro. As the <a href="../2015/pr.html">Public Review</a> Ballot of JSR 363 was just about to conclude, Leonardo and Werner gave a Spec Lead presentation to the EC answering questions of EC members prior to their vote.</p>
<p>After the presentation great host TOTVS invited attendees to a ride up Sugarloaf Montain with the cable car, many probably know from the James Bond movie &quot;Moonraker&quot;.<br />
<img src="/img/p1210658_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="EC Group Picture on Sugarloaf Mountain" /><br />
EC Group Picture on Sugarloaf Mountain</p>
<p>Werner used the opportunity to track <a href="https://www.strava.com/activities/482729393">the ride on Strava</a>. More of that coming soon to <a href="https://www.doag.org/konferenz/konferenzplaner/konferenzplaner_details.php?id=499959&locS=0&vid=509382"> JavaLand</a>...</p>
<p><img src="/img/p1220680_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Group Picture at the JCP EC F2F" /><br />
Group Picture at the JCP EC F2F</p>
<p>Although some EC members had to travel back a bit longer or later than expected due to Blizzard Jason causing major traffic disruption, all but 2 members were able to vote on the <a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5837">Public Review</a> of JSR 363 the following Monday and it passed with only &quot;Yes&quot; votes by all who voted.</p>
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<title>Public Review</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/pr.html</link>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Today, the Java Community Process posted the Public Review of JSR 363:<br />
<a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr363/index.html">https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr363/index.html</a>.</p>
<p>Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/0.8">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/0.8</a><br />
for the RI:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/releases/tag/0.8">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-ri/releases/tag/0.8</a><br />
and for the TCK:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/0.5">https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/0.5</a></p>
<p>Most other artifacts like unit systems, libraries or <a href="https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-demos">uom-demos</a> got corresponding tags like &quot;Public Review equivalent&quot; buiding upon the PR stage JSR. All of them except demos can also be found either on MavenCentral or Bintray JCenter.</p>
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<title>DevoXX BE 2015</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/devoxxbe15.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Nov 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>On the last day of DevoXX BE 2015 in Antwerp, after many had already seen cutting edge QS and Embedded technologies in <a href="http://www.devoxx.be/2015/10/james-bond/">James Bond Spectre</a> and a literal <a href="http://cfp.devoxx.be/2015/talk/EDW-7208/Providing_Eyes,_Ears,_and_a_Mouth_to_Your_IoT_Project">hands-on IoT session</a> by Yara and Vinicius, Werner presented <a href="http://cfp.devoxx.be/2015/talk/PPU-4757/The_First_IoT_JSR:_Units_of_Measurement_">The First IoT JSR: Units of Measurement</a>. Unfortunately, JSR 363 EG members and co-speakers Mohamed and Otavio could not make it due to travel budget constraints.<br />
While two Cloud/Big Data sessions by both Google and Microsoft as well as a &quot;CSI: Cyber&quot; style security talk by highly acclaimed Security consultant and Hacker Dan Tentler drew many attendees to the other 3 rooms, it still ended up with a decent crowd, exceeding all other JSR 363 related talks of 2015, including a similar DevoXX UK session in London.</p>
<p>For everyone who did not attend the session or wants to watch it again, here's the YouTube recording:</p>
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AGLX-HlPHrc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<title>JavaOne 2015, JCP Award</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/javaone15-jcpaward.html</link>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>After some EG members met at the end of the previous week for the JCP EC F2F Otavio, Leonardo and Werner demonstrated JSR 363 in two <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/javaone/entry/help_build_the_future_at">Hackergarten sessions</a> at JavaOne 2015. Running on Java SE 8 on Intel Edison as well as Java ME 8 Embedded on a Freescale board.</p>
<p>While there was no main conference session on JSR 363 it won the JCP Award as <a href="https://jcp.org/en/press/news/awards/2015award_nominees">Most Significant JSR of the year</a> presented at the 13th annual JCP Party.</p>
<p><img src="/img/IMG_7325_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="JSR 363 EG Members with JCP Awards" /><br />
JSR 363 EG Members with JCP Awards</p>
<p>In the Outstanding Adopt-a-JSR Participant category, EG member and adopter Raj from JUG Chennai won<br />
another JCP Award this year.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone and thanks a lot for your contribution that helped us win this award.</p>
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<title>Data Quality on Mars - Apache BigData Europe 2015</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/apache-on-mars.html</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Just a day after NASA had unveiled new images and details about Mars, I presented Data Quality and Unit standards from SensorML to ISO 80000 and how JSR 363 can support them at Apache Big Data Europe 2015 in Budapest:<br />
<a href="http://sched.co/3zww">Data Quality on Mars - ISO 80000 and other Standards</a>.</p>
<p>It was also a chance to meet EG veteran (initial member of JSR 108 already) and fellow speaker Martin.<br />
<img src="/img/DSCF8131_640x601.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Meeting Martin at Apache BigData Europe" /><br />
Meeting Martin at Apache BigData Europe.</p>
<p>We used the opportunity for a detailed review of Spec, API and TCK.</p>
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<title>Profiling JSR 363</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/profilage.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Sep 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p><img src="/img/tf1_media_ingest88463_image_0_600x800.jpg" alt="Profilage" title="Profilage S05" /></p>
<p>Following the very fine-grained <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javame/config/cldc/opt-pkgs/api/meep/api/doc-files/optionality.html#OptionalityAndDependencies">Optionality and Dependencies</a> of JSR 361 (Java ME Embedded Profile 8) and <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javame/config/cldc/opt-pkgs/api/meep/api/doc-files/profilesets.html">Profile Sets</a> recommended for it, we introduced a similar, yet far less complex number of profiles to JSR 363.</p>
<p>The current profiles are:<br />
- Minimal<br />
- Format<br />
- Base Quantity<br />
- Quantity<br />
- SPI<br />
- Full</p>
<p>See <a href="http://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck#profiles">TCK Profiles</a> for further details.</p>
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<title>R.I.P., hitchBOT</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/rip-hitchbot.html</link>
<pubDate>2 Aug 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Remember when I met <a href="http://socialmediaweek.org/hamburg/events/much-ai-social-robot-need-insights-hitchbot/">hitchBOT</a> at Social Media Week HH 2015 a few months ago?<br />
<img src="/img/DSCF5941_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Selfie with hitchBOT" /></p>
<p>Deeply saddened to hear the other day, some evil and ruthless person did not just look into hitchBOT's brain<br />
<img src="/img/DSCF5943_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="hitchBOT's brain" /><br />
but decided to perform an &quot;autopsy&quot;, leaving it scattered to pieces.</p>
<p><a href="http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/hitchhiking-robot-lasts-just-two-weeks-in-us-because-hu-1721544551">Gizmodo: Hitchhiking Robot Lasts Just Two Weeks in US Because Humans Are Terrible</a></p>
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<title>Fantastic Four vs The League of Extraordinary Developers</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/fanta4.html</link>
<pubDate>15 Mar 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>Right after <a href="http://www.developer-week.de/">Developer Week 2015</a>, this year with more Java than ever,<br />
<img src="http://www.developer-week.de/content/download/16739/120858/file/DWX2015_Bammer_728x90_statisch.png" alt="DWX '15" title="Developer Week 2015" /><br />
<a href="http://www.devoxx.co.uk/">DevoXX UK</a> will be themed &quot;The League of Extraordinary Developers&quot;</p>
<iframe src="http://www.devoxx.co.uk/" width="800" height="800" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe>
<p>JSR 363 will be represented on both by &quot;The Fantastic Four&quot;, 4 EG Members, 2 of them Spec Leads.</p>
<p><img src="/img/-654ae936-9c2b-4b02-9d8f-0fc55b09d735_uom_800x302.jpg" alt="The Fantastic Four" title="The Fantastic Four" /><br />
Local Hero &quot;Duck Asteroid&quot; Chris Senior, Mr. &quot;Flaming Brazilian/Texas BBQ&quot; Leonardo, &quot;Chickenman&quot; Mohamed and &quot;Java Godfather&quot; Werner will be holding 2 sessions on JSR 363 in London and Nuremberg almost simultanously in 2 different languages.</p>
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<title>Social Media Week 2015</title>
<author>keilw</author>
<link>http://https://unitsofmeasurement.github.io2015/smw15.html</link>
<pubDate>28 Feb 2015, 00:00:00</pubDate>
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<p>For the 2nd time I was invited to speak at Social Media Week Copenhagen. This time with some live demos it evolved around Quantified Self and how you can share your workouts and other information on social channels.<a href="http://socialmediaweek.org/copenhagen/events/?id=194198">Quantified Self and the Social Internet of Things</a></p>
<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/45147170" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//de.slideshare.net/keilw/social-media-week-2015-quantified-self" title="Social Media Week 2015 - Quantified Self and the Social Internet of Things" target="_blank">Social Media Week 2015 - Quantified Self and the Social Internet of Things</a> </strong> by <strong><a href="//www.slideshare.net/keilw" target="_blank">Werner Keil</a></strong> </div>
<p>Followed by the 4th consecutive time talking at Social Media Week Hamburg. The same presentation in German<br />
<a href="http://socialmediaweek.org/hamburg/events/?id=194192">Quantified Social und das Internet der Dinge</a></p>
<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/45294578" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//de.slideshare.net/keilw/quantified-social-und-das-internet-der-dinge" title="Quantified Social und das Internet der Dinge" target="_blank">Quantified Social und das Internet der Dinge</a> </strong> by <strong><a href="//www.slideshare.net/keilw" target="_blank">Werner Keil</a></strong> </div>
<p>Later that day I also met <a href="http://socialmediaweek.org/hamburg/events/much-ai-social-robot-need-insights-hitchbot/">hitchBOT</a>.<br />
<img src="/img/DSCF5941_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Selfie with hitchBOT" /><br />
A wide range of sensors and a brain controlled by Android (so it's also at least somewhat related to Java ;-)<br />
<img src="/img/DSCF5943_640x480.jpg" alt="alt text" title="hitchBOT's brain" /></p>
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