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 <p>The Eclipse Kura project is a proposed open source incubator project under the <a
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 	Eclipse Technology Project</a>.</p>

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 Until recently, machine-to-machine projects have been approached as embedded systems
 designed around custom hardware, custom software, and custom network connectivity.
 The challenge of developing such projects was given by the large customization and
 integration costs and the small re-usability across similar engagements.
 The results were often proprietary systems leveraging proprietary protocols.
 </p>
 <p>
 The emergence of the service gateway model, which operates on the edge of an M2M
 deployment as an aggregator and controller, has opened up new possibilities.
 Cost effective service gateways are now capable of running modern software stacks
 opening the world of M2M to enterprise technologies and programming languages.
 Advanced software frameworks, which isolate the developer from the complexity of the
 hardware and the networking sub-systems, can now be offered to complement the service
 gateway hardware into an integrated hardware and software solution.
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 The goals of the Eclipse Kura project can be summarized as:
 </p>
 <ol>
 <li>Provide an OSGi-based container for M2M applications running in service gateways.
 Kura complements the Java 6 SE and OSGi platforms with API and services covering the most
 common requirements of M2M applications. These extensions include but they are not limited
 to: I/O access, data services, watchdog, network configuration and remote management.</li>
 <li>Kura adopts existing javax.* API for its functionalities when available - for example
 javax.comm, javax.usb, and javax.bluetooth. When possible, Kura will select an open source
 implementation of such API that is compatible with the Eclipse-license and package it in
 an OSGi bundle to include it in the Kura default build.</li>
 <li>Design a build environment, which isolates the native code components and makes it
 simple to add ports of these components for new platforms in the Kura build and
 distribution.</li>
 <li>Provide a development environment which allows developers to run M2M applications in
 an emulated environment within the Eclipse IDE, then deploy them on a target gateway and
 finally remotely provision the applications to Kura-enabled devices on the field.</li>
 </ol>
 <p>
 Kura offers a foundation on top of which other contributions for higher-level M2M protocol
 implementations like ModBUS, CanBUS, ProfiBUS can reside.
 </p>


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 Kura aims at offering a Java/OSGi-based container for M2M applications running in service
 gateways. Kura provides or, when available, aggregates open source implementations for
 the most common services needed by M2M applications. Kura components are designed as
 configurable OSGi Declarative Service exposing service API and raising events.
 While several Kura components are in pure Java, others are invoked through JNI and
 have a dependency on the Linux operating system.
 </p>
 <p>
 Kura is currently planning this initial set of services:
 </p>
 <ul>
 <li><strong>I/O Services</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Serial port access through javax.comm 2.0 API or OSGi I/O connection</li>
 		<li>USB access and events through javax.usb, HID API, custom extensions</li>
 		<li>Bluetooth access through javax.bluetooth or OSGi I/O connection</li>
 		<li>Position Service for GPS information from a NMEA stream</li>
 		<li>Clock Service for the synchronization of the system clock</li>
 		<li>Kura API for GPIO/PWM/I2C/SPI access</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Data Services</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Store and forward functionality for the telemetry data collected by the
 		gateway and published to remote servers.</li>
 		<li>Policy-driven publishing system, which abstracts the application developer
 		from the complexity of the network layer and the publishing protocol used.
 		Eclipse Paho and its MQTT client provides the default messaging library used.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Cloud Services</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Easy to use API layer for M2M application to communicate with a remote server.
 		In addition to simple publish/subscribe, the Cloud Service API simplifies the
 		implementation of more complex interaction flows like request/response or remote
 		resource management.</li>
 		<li>Allow for a single connection to a remote server to be shared across more
 		than one application in the gateway providing the necessary topic partitioning.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Configuration Service</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Leverage the OSGi specifications ConfigurationAdmin and MetaType to provide
 		a snapshot service to import/export the configuration of all registered services
 		in the container.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Remote Management</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Allow for remote management of the M2M applications installed in Kura
 		including their deployment, upgrade and configuration management. The Remote
 		Management service relies on the Configuration Service and the Cloud Service.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Networking</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Provide API for introspects and configure the network interfaces available
 		in the gateway like Ethernet, Wifi, and Cellular modems.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Watchdog  Service</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Register critical components to the Watchdog Service, which will force a
 		system reset through the hardware watchdog when a problem is detected.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 <li><strong>Web administration interface</strong>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Offer a web-based management console running within the Kura container
 		to manage the gateway.</li>
 	</ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 Kura will provide a pre-made build for popular open hardware platforms like the RaspberryPi.
 </p>


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 Being an M2M project, Kura aims at becoming another component of the interesting
 set of technologies grouped under the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group umbrella.
 Kura already has a strong relationship with other Eclipse projects:
 </p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/paho/">Eclipse Paho</a> is the default message
 protocol library used in Kura. The default communication protocol in Kura is MQTT and
 it is used to transport both data and device management messages.</li>
 </li>
 <li>Eclipse Equinox is the default OSGi container for Kura.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/rt.concierge/">Eclipse Concierge</a>,
 a small-footprint OSGi container optimized for embedded devices, will be considered
 as another runtime platform for Kura.</li>
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 Kura originates from Eurotech Everyware Software Framework.
 The UI client view of that framework has already been contributed to the Eclipse Paho
 project.
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 The initial contribution of the Kura project will be a large subset of the current
 Eurotech Everyware Software Framework. In particular:
 </p>
 <ul>
 <li>Kura source code and build system for most of the services described above
 including the web management administration UI</li>
 <li>A Kura M2M application developer's guide with an example application</li>
 <li>Documentation on the Kura application protocol to perform remote resource management
 and remote administration of M2M applications</li>
 <li>A build of Kura for an open-hardware platform like the RaspberryPi</li>
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 Eurotech will go through the Eclipse legal review process to make sure all Kura
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 	<dl>
 		<dt>Wes Johnson, Eurotech</dt>
 		<dd>Wes Johnson is the Director of Software Engineering at
 			Eurotech Inc. He is one of the initial promoters and developers of
 			Eclipse Kura. He specializes in framework design, Java, OSGi, Cloud
 			Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
 			communications, and application software development. He lives in
 			Vancouver Washington where he earned a BS in Computer Engineering and
 			Physics from Portland State University.</dd>
 		<dt>Marco Carrer, Eurotech</dt>
 		<dd>Marco Carrer is leading the M2M software efforts at Eurotech.
 			He was one of the architects of the Eclipse Kura project and he
 			actively contributed the integration of the Eclipse Paho technology
 			into the Kura Data Services. Before joining EUROTECH as VP of
 			Software Engineering, Marco spent 13-years in Oracle, where he was
 			responsible for the design and development of several products in the
 			areas of Web Services, Enterprise Collaboration, and CRM Service.
 			Marco Carrer holds a Laurea in Electronic Engineering from University
 			of Padova, a Master in Computer Science from Cornell University, New
 			York.</dd>
 		<dt>Cristiano De Alti, Eurotech</dt>
 		<dd>Cristiano De Alti is a principal software developer at
 			Eurotech S.p.A. He is one of the initial developers and designers of
 			Eclipse Kura where he contributed the remote configuration management
 			service, the remote deployment management service, and the data
 			service. He has 10+ years of experience in designing and deploying
 			embedded systems, especially in the area of firmware development for
 			microcontrollers, embedded Linux distributions and wireless sensor
 			networks. He received his degree in electronic engineering at the
 			University of Padua.</dd>
 		<dt>Dave Woodard, Eurotech</dt>
 		<dd>David was the project lead for Arrow Electronic's Arrow Cloud
 			Connect initiative. This initiative provides engineers with a low
 			overhead introduction to IoT technologies. Since joining Eurotech,
 			David has been contributing to the Eclipse Kura project especially in
 			the area of the networking and web administration. David holds a
 			Masters of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Portland
 			State University</dd>
 		<dt>Elbert Evangelista, Eurotech</dt>
 		<dd>Elbert has over ten years of experience, previously
 			developing embedded software for printers and multi-function devices
 			at Xerox, then working on data collection services for cloud
 			connected energy monitors at Verlitics. He joined Eurotech in 2012
 			and has been contributing primarily to the networking and web admin
 			services on the Kura project. He has a BS in Computer Science and
 			Physics from the University of Portland.</dd>
 		<dt>Pierre Pitiot, Eurotech</dt>
 		<dd>Pierre has been working in embedded software development for
 			25 years with systems deployed in a variety of verticals including
 			oil fields, industrial and railway transportation. Pierre is part of
 			the Eclipse Kura development team in Eurotech contributing the
 			support for high-level protocols. He holds a PhD in geology and an
 			engineering degree in Software and Electronics in Lyon (France)
 			University.</dd>
 		<dt>Walt Bowers, Hitachi</dt>
 		<dd>Chief Architect OSGi Solutions at Hitachi.</dd>
 		<dt>Will Frazer</dt>
 		<dd>Will Frazer has more 20+ years of experience in embedded
 			systems especially in the area of embedded Linux customization and
 			firmware development. His contributions to Kura focus on the I/O
 			Service including support for GPIO and I2C. He graduated in
 			Electronic Engineering at Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland.
 		</dd>
 		<dt>Ilya Binshtok</dt>
 		<dd>Ilya has over 15 years of embedded software development
 			experience across multiple platforms. He specializes in C, Java,
 			OSGi, and wireless networking. Ilya contributes to the Eclipse Kura
 			project by supporting various cellular and Wi-Fi devices. He earned a
 			BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas.</dd>
 		<dt>Alberto Codutti</dt>
 		<dd>Alberto is the newest member of the Eclipse Kura project. He
 			recently joined the team and is going to contribute on the Kura web
 			management interface.</dd>
 		<dt>Hitesh Dave</dt>
 		<dd>Mr. Hitesh Dave is a Solutions Architect in Hitachi with
 			expertise in enterprise application integration and development. He
 			bring over more than 20 years of experience in developing software
 			solutions utilizing various middleware technologies. His expertise
 			include service oriented architecture, middleware messaging
 			technologies, networking protocols and java based application
 			development. He is well versed in the M2M architecture and embedded
 			systems development. He was one of the key contributor of the
 			Internet of Things (IoT) in Motion demo development presented during
 			JavaOne 2013.</dd>
 	</dl>

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 	<li>Dave Locke, IBM</li>
 	<li>Andy Piper, Eclipse Paho project co-lead</li>
 	<li>Pascal Rapicault, Rapicorp, Inc.</li>
 	<li>Kai Kreuzer, openHAB</li>
 	<li>Werner Keil, Eclipse UOMo Project lead</li>
 	<li>Paul Pishal, Hitachi CTA</li>
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 		<th>Date</th>
 		<th>Change</th>
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 		<td>16-June-2013</td>
 		<td>Document created</td>
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 		<td>30-June-2013</td>
 		<td>Incorporated Eurotech's internal feedback</td>
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 		<td>11-July-2013</td>
 		<td>Incorporated Benjamin Cabé's feedback</td>
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 		<td>15-July-2013</td>
 		<td>Incorporated Dave Locke's feedback</td>
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 		<td>10-Aug-2013</td>
 		<td>Add more interested parties and Kura logo</td>
 	</tr>
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 		<td>21-Oct-2013</td>
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	<p>The Eclipse Kura project is a proposed open source incubator project under the <a
	href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=technology">
	Eclipse Technology Project</a>.</p>

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	scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the Eclipse
	community. Please send all feedback to the
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	Until recently, machine-to-machine projects have been approached as embedded systems
	designed around custom hardware, custom software, and custom network connectivity.
	The challenge of developing such projects was given by the large customization and
	integration costs and the small re-usability across similar engagements.
	The results were often proprietary systems leveraging proprietary protocols.
	</p>
	<p>
	The emergence of the service gateway model, which operates on the edge of an M2M
	deployment as an aggregator and controller, has opened up new possibilities.
	Cost effective service gateways are now capable of running modern software stacks
	opening the world of M2M to enterprise technologies and programming languages.
	Advanced software frameworks, which isolate the developer from the complexity of the
	hardware and the networking sub-systems, can now be offered to complement the service
	gateway hardware into an integrated hardware and software solution.
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	The goals of the Eclipse Kura project can be summarized as:
	</p>
	<ol>
	<li>Provide an OSGi-based container for M2M applications running in service gateways.
	Kura complements the Java 6 SE and OSGi platforms with API and services covering the most
	common requirements of M2M applications. These extensions include but they are not limited
	to: I/O access, data services, watchdog, network configuration and remote management.</li>
	<li>Kura adopts existing javax.* API for its functionalities when available - for example
	javax.comm, javax.usb, and javax.bluetooth. When possible, Kura will select an open source
	implementation of such API that is compatible with the Eclipse-license and package it in
	an OSGi bundle to include it in the Kura default build.</li>
	<li>Design a build environment, which isolates the native code components and makes it
	simple to add ports of these components for new platforms in the Kura build and
	distribution.</li>
	<li>Provide a development environment which allows developers to run M2M applications in
	an emulated environment within the Eclipse IDE, then deploy them on a target gateway and
	finally remotely provision the applications to Kura-enabled devices on the field.</li>
	</ol>
	<p>
	Kura offers a foundation on top of which other contributions for higher-level M2M protocol
	implementations like ModBUS, CanBUS, ProfiBUS can reside.
	</p>


	<h2>Description</h2>
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	Kura aims at offering a Java/OSGi-based container for M2M applications running in service
	gateways. Kura provides or, when available, aggregates open source implementations for
	the most common services needed by M2M applications. Kura components are designed as
	configurable OSGi Declarative Service exposing service API and raising events.
	While several Kura components are in pure Java, others are invoked through JNI and
	have a dependency on the Linux operating system.
	</p>
	<p>
	Kura is currently planning this initial set of services:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li><strong>I/O Services</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Serial port access through javax.comm 2.0 API or OSGi I/O connection</li>
	<li>USB access and events through javax.usb, HID API, custom extensions</li>
	<li>Bluetooth access through javax.bluetooth or OSGi I/O connection</li>
	<li>Position Service for GPS information from a NMEA stream</li>
	<li>Clock Service for the synchronization of the system clock</li>
	<li>Kura API for GPIO/PWM/I2C/SPI access</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Data Services</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Store and forward functionality for the telemetry data collected by the
	gateway and published to remote servers.</li>
	<li>Policy-driven publishing system, which abstracts the application developer
	from the complexity of the network layer and the publishing protocol used.
	Eclipse Paho and its MQTT client provides the default messaging library used.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Cloud Services</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Easy to use API layer for M2M application to communicate with a remote server.
	In addition to simple publish/subscribe, the Cloud Service API simplifies the
	implementation of more complex interaction flows like request/response or remote
	resource management.</li>
	<li>Allow for a single connection to a remote server to be shared across more
	than one application in the gateway providing the necessary topic partitioning.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Configuration Service</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Leverage the OSGi specifications ConfigurationAdmin and MetaType to provide
	a snapshot service to import/export the configuration of all registered services
	in the container.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Remote Management</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Allow for remote management of the M2M applications installed in Kura
	including their deployment, upgrade and configuration management. The Remote
	Management service relies on the Configuration Service and the Cloud Service.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Networking</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Provide API for introspects and configure the network interfaces available
	in the gateway like Ethernet, Wifi, and Cellular modems.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Watchdog Service</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Register critical components to the Watchdog Service, which will force a
	system reset through the hardware watchdog when a problem is detected.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li><strong>Web administration interface</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>Offer a web-based management console running within the Kura container
	to manage the gateway.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
	Kura will provide a pre-made build for popular open hardware platforms like the RaspberryPi.
	</p>


	<h2>Why Eclipse?</h2>
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	<p>
	Being an M2M project, Kura aims at becoming another component of the interesting
	set of technologies grouped under the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group umbrella.
	Kura already has a strong relationship with other Eclipse projects:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/paho/">Eclipse Paho</a> is the default message
	protocol library used in Kura. The default communication protocol in Kura is MQTT and
	it is used to transport both data and device management messages.</li>
	</li>
	<li>Eclipse Equinox is the default OSGi container for Kura.</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/rt.concierge/">Eclipse Concierge</a>,
	a small-footprint OSGi container optimized for embedded devices, will be considered
	as another runtime platform for Kura.</li>
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	Kura originates from Eurotech Everyware Software Framework.
	The UI client view of that framework has already been contributed to the Eclipse Paho
	project.
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	<h2>Initial Contribution</h2>
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	<p>
	The initial contribution of the Kura project will be a large subset of the current
	Eurotech Everyware Software Framework. In particular:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Kura source code and build system for most of the services described above
	including the web management administration UI</li>
	<li>A Kura M2M application developer's guide with an example application</li>
	<li>Documentation on the Kura application protocol to perform remote resource management
	and remote administration of M2M applications</li>
	<li>A build of Kura for an open-hardware platform like the RaspberryPi</li>
	</ul>


	<h2>Legal Issues</h2>
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	<p>
	Eurotech will go through the Eclipse legal review process to make sure all Kura
	dependencies are eligible for contribution. While Kura has selected open-source
	components with friendly licenses, a detailed review will be conducted with
	the Eclipse legal team.
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	Kura has already been tested on open Java VM implementations like OpenJDK.
	</p>



	<h2>Committers</h2>
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	The following individuals are proposed as initial committers to the project:
	</p>
	<dl>
	<dt>Wes Johnson, Eurotech</dt>
	<dd>Wes Johnson is the Director of Software Engineering at
	Eurotech Inc. He is one of the initial promoters and developers of
	Eclipse Kura. He specializes in framework design, Java, OSGi, Cloud
	Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
	communications, and application software development. He lives in
	Vancouver Washington where he earned a BS in Computer Engineering and
	Physics from Portland State University.</dd>
	<dt>Marco Carrer, Eurotech</dt>
	<dd>Marco Carrer is leading the M2M software efforts at Eurotech.
	He was one of the architects of the Eclipse Kura project and he
	actively contributed the integration of the Eclipse Paho technology
	into the Kura Data Services. Before joining EUROTECH as VP of
	Software Engineering, Marco spent 13-years in Oracle, where he was
	responsible for the design and development of several products in the
	areas of Web Services, Enterprise Collaboration, and CRM Service.
	Marco Carrer holds a Laurea in Electronic Engineering from University
	of Padova, a Master in Computer Science from Cornell University, New
	York.</dd>
	<dt>Cristiano De Alti, Eurotech</dt>
	<dd>Cristiano De Alti is a principal software developer at
	Eurotech S.p.A. He is one of the initial developers and designers of
	Eclipse Kura where he contributed the remote configuration management
	service, the remote deployment management service, and the data
	service. He has 10+ years of experience in designing and deploying
	embedded systems, especially in the area of firmware development for
	microcontrollers, embedded Linux distributions and wireless sensor
	networks. He received his degree in electronic engineering at the
	University of Padua.</dd>
	<dt>Dave Woodard, Eurotech</dt>
	<dd>David was the project lead for Arrow Electronic's Arrow Cloud
	Connect initiative. This initiative provides engineers with a low
	overhead introduction to IoT technologies. Since joining Eurotech,
	David has been contributing to the Eclipse Kura project especially in
	the area of the networking and web administration. David holds a
	Masters of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Portland
	State University</dd>
	<dt>Elbert Evangelista, Eurotech</dt>
	<dd>Elbert has over ten years of experience, previously
	developing embedded software for printers and multi-function devices
	at Xerox, then working on data collection services for cloud
	connected energy monitors at Verlitics. He joined Eurotech in 2012
	and has been contributing primarily to the networking and web admin
	services on the Kura project. He has a BS in Computer Science and
	Physics from the University of Portland.</dd>
	<dt>Pierre Pitiot, Eurotech</dt>
	<dd>Pierre has been working in embedded software development for
	25 years with systems deployed in a variety of verticals including
	oil fields, industrial and railway transportation. Pierre is part of
	the Eclipse Kura development team in Eurotech contributing the
	support for high-level protocols. He holds a PhD in geology and an
	engineering degree in Software and Electronics in Lyon (France)
	University.</dd>
	<dt>Walt Bowers, Hitachi</dt>
	<dd>Chief Architect OSGi Solutions at Hitachi.</dd>
	<dt>Will Frazer</dt>
	<dd>Will Frazer has more 20+ years of experience in embedded
	systems especially in the area of embedded Linux customization and
	firmware development. His contributions to Kura focus on the I/O
	Service including support for GPIO and I2C. He graduated in
	Electronic Engineering at Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland.
	</dd>
	<dt>Ilya Binshtok</dt>
	<dd>Ilya has over 15 years of embedded software development
	experience across multiple platforms. He specializes in C, Java,
	OSGi, and wireless networking. Ilya contributes to the Eclipse Kura
	project by supporting various cellular and Wi-Fi devices. He earned a
	BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Kansas.</dd>
	<dt>Alberto Codutti</dt>
	<dd>Alberto is the newest member of the Eclipse Kura project. He
	recently joined the team and is going to contribute on the Kura web
	management interface.</dd>
	<dt>Hitesh Dave</dt>
	<dd>Mr. Hitesh Dave is a Solutions Architect in Hitachi with
	expertise in enterprise application integration and development. He
	bring over more than 20 years of experience in developing software
	solutions utilizing various middleware technologies. His expertise
	include service oriented architecture, middleware messaging
	technologies, networking protocols and java based application
	development. He is well versed in the M2M architecture and embedded
	systems development. He was one of the key contributor of the
	Internet of Things (IoT) in Motion demo development presented during
	JavaOne 2013.</dd>
	</dl>

	<p>We welcome additional committers and contributions.</p>

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	<h2>Mentors</h2>
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	<p>The following Architecture Council members will mentor this
	project:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Benjamin Cabé</li>
	<li>Gunnar Wagenknecht</li>
	</ul>


	<h2>Interested Parties</h2>
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	<p>The following individuals, organisations, companies and projects have
	expressed interest in this project:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Dave Locke, IBM</li>
	<li>Andy Piper, Eclipse Paho project co-lead</li>
	<li>Pascal Rapicault, Rapicorp, Inc.</li>
	<li>Kai Kreuzer, openHAB</li>
	<li>Werner Keil, Eclipse UOMo Project lead</li>
	<li>Paul Pishal, Hitachi CTA</li>
	<li>Walt Bowers, Hitachi CTA</li>
	</ul>


	<h2>Project Scheduling</h2>
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	<p>
	Kura aims at the initial contribution to be completed by Q4 2013.
	</p>

	<h2>Changes to this Document</h2>

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	<th>Date</th>
	<th>Change</th>
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	<td>16-June-2013</td>
	<td>Document created</td>
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	<td>30-June-2013</td>
	<td>Incorporated Eurotech's internal feedback</td>
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	<td>11-July-2013</td>
	<td>Incorporated Benjamin Cabé's feedback</td>
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	<td>15-July-2013</td>
	<td>Incorporated Dave Locke's feedback</td>
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	<td>10-Aug-2013</td>
	<td>Add more interested parties and Kura logo</td>
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	<td>21-Oct-2013</td>
	<td>Added additional initial committers. Added bios for all committers.</td>
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