Liferay's OSGi Board Membership

Over the past couple of years Liferay has invested a considerable amount of effort to re-engineer Liferay Portal version 7.0 with modularity as the key focus. As part of this effort we've adopted OSGi as the modularity layer.

In September of 2013 we decided that in order to provide ourselves the most direct access to OSGi expertise we should join the OSGi Alliance as a Contributing Member. In this way we would sit in the very room with those engineers who've devised the standards, engineers with the most experience in applying their works. It would prove to be a fruitful opportunity for Liferay to learn as well as bring our own experiences with enterprise application development to the table.

After a successful freshman year in the Alliance Liferay decided it was the appropriate time to take a more significant role. In our second year (2014) we decided to graduate all the way to Strategic Member (the highest membership level within the Alliance). We would have the privilege (besides many others) to nominate our own employees into roles as officers of the Alliance.

Finally, in December 2014 Liferay was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the OSGi Alliance, and at the first board members Face-To-Face meeting of 2015, January 23, Liferay officially took it's seat as a Board Member.

This is a great honour because the OSGi Alliance has worked extremely hard and against an increasingly challenging and evolving software engineering industry. All the while, it has stayed relevant and effective, proving itself to measure up to it's core values.

Liferay is eager to participate in a long lasting exchange of experiences and support of the OSGi Alliance.

I invite individuals and organizations (no matter how small) to bring their knowledge and expertise to join Liferay in this great organization.

[James Falkner]

Congrats Ray, Miguel, & team! Nice to see you getting recognized for all your hard work in our community and efforts to improve modularity!

[Ray Augé]

Thank you James! It's certainly a team effort. I'm very proud of our accomplishments in this area so far.