Eclipse UOMo Graduation
Today Eclipse UOMo successfully finished its Graduation Review from the Incubator.
Thanks everyone who was involved and contributed to either UOMo or the underlying Units of Measurement modules.
World Metrology Day 2025
May 20 is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.
This year, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention - a milestone that underscores a century and a half of international collaboration in measurement science. Also the OIML, the International Organization of Legal Metrology, turns 70 on October 12th this year.
The theme for World Metrology Day 2025 is Measurements for all times, for all people.
We also released version 2.2.2 of SI Units.
World Metrology Day 2024
May 20 is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.
The theme for World Metrology Day 2024 is Sustainability.
10 Years JSR 363
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the JSR 363 approval.
Only 2 days before IoT Day 2024
Congratulations and thank you everyone who helped over all these years with JSR 363 and 385.
JSR 385 Maintenance Release 2
Today Maintenance Release 2 of JSR 385 was published by the Java Community Process: https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr385/index2.html
Corresponding GitHub release tags for API are: https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-api/releases/tag/2.2
for the RI: https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/releases/tag/2.2
and for the TCK: https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/unit-tck/releases/tag/2.2
Thanks everyone who helped with this release.
JSR 385 Maintenance Review 2 Ballot
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: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6364.
Maintenance Review 2 page: https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr385/index2.html
GitHub project to track the MR: https://github.com/orgs/unitsofmeasurement/projects/7
Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween!
Today is also Reformation Day.
And the the final artifact of JSR 385 MR 2 was released as well:
* unit-tck 2.2
World Refrigeration Day 2023
Happy birthday, Lord Kelvin. It’s World Refrigeration Day.
Lord Kelvin was born 199 years ago: June 26th, 1824. 26 June is also World Refrigeration Day.
All info here: https://worldrefrigerationday.org/
Today further artifacts of JSR 385 MR 2 were also released:
* uom-lib 2.2
* indriya 2.2
World Metrology Day 2023
May 20 is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875.
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.
Today the first artifacts of JSR 385 MR 2 were also released:
* uom-parent 2.2
* unit-api 2.2
Pi Day 2023
Happy Pi Day 2023!
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.
Check out Pi Day for more.
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