Working Group

To kickoff 2024, ELISA hosted an annual Working Group Update where all of the leads shared a quick overview, milestones achieved and plans for the new year. The update meetings, which was hosted online for a few hours over two days, was open to the public. If you missed the meeting, the videos can be found on-demand on a new Working Group playlist on the ELISA Youtube Channel.

Each week, we’ll feature a new Working Group video and details for how to get involved in meetings and join the discussions. Today, we shine a spotlight on the Medial Devices Working Group, led Kate Stewart, Chair of the Medical Devices Working Group and Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, and Milan Lakhani, Vice-chair of the Medical Devices Working Group and Software Engineer at Codethink. Watch the video below or check out the PPT here.

 

 

Engage with the Medical Devices Working Group: 

Attend a meeting: 

• The Medical Devices WG meets every Wednesday.
• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/medical-devices/calendar 

Join the Mailing List:

• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/medical-devices

Participate in GitHub:

• https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-medical-devices

ELISA is open to everyone. Anyone can develop and contribute code, get elected to the Technical Steering Committee, or help steer the project forward in any number of ways.

Learn more about the ELISA Project by:

• Joining a Working Group
• Following us on X at @ProjectElisa
• Connecting with our LinkedIn page
• Subscribing to our Youtube Channel

To kickoff 2024, ELISA hosted an annual Working Group Update where all of the leads shared a quick overview, milestones achieved and plans for the new year. The update meetings, which was hosted online for a few hours over two days, was open to the public. If you missed the meeting, the videos can be found on-demand on a new Working Group playlist on the ELISA Youtube Channel.

Each week, we’ll feature a new Working Group video and details for how to get involved in meetings and join the discussions. Today, we shine a spotlight on the Aerospace Working Group, led by Steven H. VanderLeest, Chair of the ELISA Aerospace Working Group and Chief Technologist at Boeing. Watch the video below or check out the PPT here.

 

Engage with the Aerospace Working Group: 

Attend a meeting: 

• The Aerospace WG meets on the 1st Wednesday and 3rd Thursday each month. 
• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/aerospace/calendar 

Join the Mailing List:

• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/aerospace

Participate in GitHub:

• https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-aerospace

ELISA is open to everyone. Anyone can develop and contribute code, get elected to the Technical Steering Committee, or help steer the project forward in any number of ways.

Learn more about the ELISA Project by:

• Joining a Working Group
• Following us on X at @ProjectElisa
• Connecting with our LinkedIn page
• Subscribing to our Youtube Channel

Written by Igor Stoppa, Senior Software Architect at NVIDIA and ELISA Project contributor

The ELISA Project’s Open-Source Engineering Process (OSEP) Working Group examines how software engineering processes can be used to facilitate the certification of safety-critical systems incorporating Linux and other FOSS. They aim to consider the roles that a Linux-based OS might have in such systems, and identify how FOSS developers, system integrators and product creators can specify these, and provide evidence to support associated safety arguments.

These documents below, which were contributed to the ELISA PROJECT OSEP WG are intended to help functional safety professionals, linux kernel developers, assessors and oems find a common ground:

1. Checklist of FuSa woes associated to Linux in a safety context
2. Contextualizing safety requirements in the scope of a Linux system
3. Analyzing interference within a Linux System based on arm

Although they are not written in the formal language typical of Functional Safety, they cover important technical aspects that might not be obvious to those who are not familiar with Linux.

They can also help with introducing FuSa concepts to Linux engineers and can be a supporting tool to anyone trying to reach safety goals on a system based on Linux.

Ideally, they can help both assessors and OEMs who are either transitioning or considering the transition to a Linux based system, in evaluating the offerings and FuSa solutions that they have available.

Check out the contributions and learn more about the OSEP WG here.

To kickoff 2024, ELISA hosted an annual Working Group Update where all of the leads shared a quick overview, milestones achieved and plans for the new year. The update meetings, which was hosted online for a few hours over two days, was open to the public. If you missed the meeting, the videos can be found on-demand on a new Working Group playlist on the ELISA Youtube Channel.

Each week, we’ll feature a new Working Group video and details for how to get involved in meetings and join the discussions. Today, we shine a spotlight on the Safety Architecture Working Group, led by Gabriele Paoloni, Chair of the ELISA Project Governing Board and Open Source Community Technical Leader at Red Hat. Watch the video below or check out the PPT here.

 

 

Engage with the Safety Architecture Working Group: 

Attend a meeting: 

• Every other Thursday at 2-3 pm (UK time).
• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/safety-architecture

Join the Mailing List:

• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/safety-architecture

Participate in GitHub:

• https://github.com/elisa-tech/Safety_Architecture_WG

ELISA is open to everyone. Anyone can develop and contribute code, get elected to the Technical Steering Committee, or help steer the project forward in any number of ways.

Learn more about the ELISA Project by:

• Joining a Working Group
• Following us on X at @ProjectElisa
• Connecting with our LinkedIn page
• Subscribing to our Youtube Channel

To kickoff 2024, ELISA hosted an annual Working Group Update where all of the leads shared a quick overview, milestones achieved and plans for the new year. The update meetings, which was hosted online for a few hours over two days, was open to the public. If you missed the meeting, the videos can be found on-demand on a new Working Group playlist on the ELISA Youtube Channel.

Each week, we’ll feature a new Working Group video and details for how to get involved in meetings and join the discussions. Today, we’ll feature the Open Source Engineering Process Working Group update by Paul Albertella, Consultant at Codethink. Watch the video below or check out the PPT here.

 

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Engage with the Open Source Engineering Process Working Group: 

Attend a meeting: 

• Thursdays at 14.00 (UK time).
• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/osep/calendar

Join the Mailing List:

• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/osep

Participate in GitHub:

• https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-osep

ELISA is open to everyone. Anyone can develop and contribute code, get elected to the Technical Steering Committee, or help steer the project forward in any number of ways.

Learn more about the ELISA Project by:

• Joining a Working Group
• Following us on X at @ProjectElisa
• Connecting with our LinkedIn page
• Subscribing to our Youtube Channel

To kickoff 2024, ELISA hosted an annual Working Group Update where all of the leads share a quick overview, milestones achieved and plans for the new year. The update meetings, which was hosted online for a few hours over two days, was open to the public. If you missed the meeting, the videos can be found on-demand on a new Working Group playlist on the ELISA Youtube Channel.

Each week, we’ll feature a new Working Group video and details for how to get involved in meetings and join the discussions. Today, we’ll feature the Tools Working Group update by Matt Kelly, Software Team Lead at The Boeing Company. Watch the video below or check out the PPT here. 

 

Engage with the Tools Working Group:

Attend a meeting:

• 2nd Tuesday of the month @ 9:30 AM EST / 2:30 PM UTC
• 4th Thursday of the month @ 11:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM UTC

Join the Mailing List:

• https://lists.elisa.tech/g/tool-investigation

Participate in GitHub:

•  Tools WG: https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-tools
• BASIL: https://github.com/elisa-tech/BASIL
• ks-nav: https://github.com/elisa-tech/ks-nav

ELISA is open to everyone. Anyone can develop and contribute code, get elected to the Technical Steering Committee, or help steer the project forward in any number of ways.

Learn more about the ELISA Project by:

• • Joining a Working Group

• • Following us on X at @ProjectElisa

• • Connecting with our LinkedIn page

• • Subscribing to our Youtube Channel

As Linux continues to be a key component in safety-related applications, Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) is an open source project that aims to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safetycritical applications and systems. Launched in February 2019, ELISA works with Linux kernel and safety communities to agree on what users should consider when using Linux in safety-critical systems.

In 2023, ELISA increased the technical resources created for the Linux community, including a Seminar Series of no-cost, on-demand videos that provide overviews of a special focus and project workshops for community members who are interested in advancing the milestones and goals of the project. The ELISA Seminar series hosted sessions that many organizations hosted, including Red Hat about an open source tool, tentatively named Basil, for tracing requirements, code, and tests; AMD about Xen safety certification; the Linux Foundation with AlektoMetis about automating adherence to safety profiles after fixing vulnerabilities; and the Boeing Company about DO-178C Level D certified Linux and NASA.

Two in-person workshops in Berlin and Munich brought together industry thought leaders and open source community members to discuss all safety-related issues, challenges, and next steps for the project. The project has several dedicated Working Groups (WGs) that provide resources for system integrators to apply and use to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze their systems:

• Aerospace WG is busy surveying aerospace’s state of the art on using Linux and the associated certification approach and equivalent Design Assurance Level and identifying the challenges to adopting Linux in aerospace and candidate use cases using Linux.
• Architecture WG is adopting the ks-nav tool set to implement and expand the STPA approach within the kernel.
• Linux Features WG analyzed the potential and challenges of real-time safety-critical systems and presented their work at the Embedded Open Source Summit.
• Medical Devices WG set out to discover the Linux kernel subsystems that OpenAPS used, shared key findings, and upstreamed the workload tracing guide.
• Open Source Engineering Process WG documented how to apply a safety analysis process based on STPA suitable for Linux and other OSS use.
• Systems WG shared the work on creating a reproducible example system consisting of Linux, Xen, and Zephyr on real hardware at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
• Tools WG has enabled Continuous Integration.

To kick off the new year, ELISA Working Group leads will be giving an annual update next week. The updates will include the following topics:

• A recap of milestones in 2023
• Current focus and activities
• What’s coming up in 2024 and areas and opportunities for collaboration
• Onboarding resources and how to get involved

This is a great opportunity to get up to speed with what each of the Working Group is working on and how you can participate and contribute this year. For more details and to register to attend please click here: https://elisa.tech/event/working-group-annual-updates/.