ELISA

The Linux Foundation Member Summit (Napa, California)
2024-11-19 - 2024-11-21
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations taking place in Napa, California on November 19-21.
An annual gathering for Linux Foundation members that fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation, and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.
ELISA Ambassador Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will be on-site to give a few presentations including:
Tuesday, November 19 at 3-3:30 pm PST – Zephyr: Overview and Roadmap
This session will provide an overview of the project’s accomplishments to date, and provide a roadmap of what is being planned for 2025. Zephyr project is now the 5th most active project hosted by the Linux Foundation. Each release sees about 30% new contributors, and these contributors are resulting in around 3 changes per hour in the code base. Products as diverse as Chromebooks, to Wind Turbines, to Hearings Aids, and Pet Trackers are being built with Zephyr. Learn about the open source and security best practices that have been applied to Zephyr over the years, and why it is now one of the most active open source projects at the Linux Foundation. Add it to your schedule here.
Thursday, November 21 at 12-12:30 pm – SPDX: From Software to Systems
Kate will be joined by Gary O’Neall, Founder and Principal Consultant at Source Auditor. The “Software” Product Data Exchange was created in 2010 to provide machine and human readable metadata for licensing information to consumers of open source software. Over the years, the SPDX community has added support for a wide range of additional use cases. Complex software component interactions between open source and proprietary as well as the requirements to support SBOMs optimized for security risk management have been driving forces for many of the changes. With the SPDX 3.0 release and work being done for the upcoming SPDX 3.1 release, the scope of SPDX has expanded beyond software to entire systems including datasets, AI models, services and hardware. This will enable consumers to satisfy additional use cases in areas like product safety and export regulation compliance. With the SPDX 3.0, we’ve renamed SPDX from “Software” Product Data Exchange to “System” Product Data Exchange to better reflect where the project is aiming. In this talk, we’ll go over changes we’ve made to the SPDX model to support systems, the additional profiles that are focused on system level problems and what this means to both the producers and consumers of SPDX data. Add it to your schedule here.
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is an invitation-only event for member companies of The Linux Foundation. Invitation codes have been sent to member companies for the event. If you are a member company and need information regarding your invitation code, please contact Event Support.

ELISA Workshop at NASA Goddard - Space Grade Linux
2024-12-10 - 2024-12-12
This ELISA workshop is hosted in collaboration with NASA with topics and discussions focused on advancing Space Grade Linux.
Location
Goddard Visitor Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Cost
Free to attend, in-person registration will be capped at 40.
Registration
Registration closed on November 25. Foreign nationals (non-US citizens) who registered after November 5th won’t be able to join the NASA tour but can participate in workshop sessions.
Please contact events@elisa.tech if you have questions about registration.
Suggested Hotel
The Hotel at The University of Maryland (Please note there are no contracted rooms and we can’t guarantee rates or availability.)
Schedule (sessions and speakers are subject to change): all times in Eastern Standard Time
December 10 (in person only)

12:30-13:00 ELISA/NASA welcomes and orientations (Philipp Ahmann – ETAS, Michael Monaghan – NASA, Ramon Roche – Linux Foundation and Kate Stewart – Linux Foundation) (slides)
13:00-15:30 NASA tour
15:30-16:00 Space Grade Linux Intro (Michael Monaghan – NASA) (slides)
16:00-16:30 Lessons from Automotive Grade Linux (Walt Miner – Linux Foundation) (slides)
16:30-17:00 Linking external test results to test cases in BASIL to support preexisting test infrastructure (Luigi Pellecchia – Red Hat) (slides)
17:00-17:30 How to use ks-nav for a feasible and meaningful test campaign in the kernel (Alessandro Carminati – Red Hat) (slides)

December 11 (in person and virtual)

9:00-9:45 Verification and validation of the OS and “certification package” (Scott Tashakkor – NASA) (slides) (video)
9:45-10:30 Test and assurance of non-volatile memory devices for space (Ted Wilcox – NASA) (slides) (video)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Addressing security topics for future space systems using Linux (Joshua Krage – NASA) (video)
11:30-12:15 Linux Kernel design documentation (Gab Paoloni – Red Hat, Kate Stewart – Linux Foundation, and Chuck Wolber) (slides) (video)
12:45-13:15 Space Grade Linux survey results during lunch (Ramon Roche – Linux Foundation and Kate Stewart – Linux Foundation) (slides) (video)
13:15-13:45 F prime (Michael Starch, NASA) (slides) (video)
13:45-14:15 Space ROS (Ivan Perez – NASA) (slides) (video)
14:15-14:45 cFS overview (Richard Landau – NASA and Ashok Prajapati – NASA) (slides) (video)
14:45-15:15 Break
15:15-15:45 Investigating implementation of Linux-based payload computers: a review of in-orbit demonstrations for Edge AI in space missions (Dongshik Won – TelePIX Co., Ltd.) (slides)
15:45-16:15 Container and immutable patterns for operating systems and wordloads (Michael Epley, Red Hat) (slides) (video)
16:15-16:45 Containerization in space: Podman for mission-critical operations and resilience (Douglas Schilling Landgraf – Red Hat and Dan Walsh – Red Hat) (slides) (video)
16:45-17:00 Wrap up, next steps summary (Philipp Ahmann – ETAS, Michael Monaghan – NASA, Ramon Roche – Linux Foundation and Kate Stewart – Linux Foundation)

December 12 (in person and virtual)

9:00-9:30 Real Time Linux update (Steve Rostedt – Google) (slides) (video)
9:30-10:30 Building an OSS Ecosystem for Space (Tim Bird – Sony) (slides) (video)
10:30-11:00 Linux Adoption in Safety Critical ECU’s (ADAS) (Naresh Ravuri – Magna Electronics) (video)
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Wrap up, next steps summary (Philipp Ahmann – ETAS, Michael Monaghan – NASA, Ramon Roche – Linux Foundation and Kate Stewart – Linux Foundation)

Meet ELISA Project at FOSDEM 2025
2025-02-01 - 2025-02-02
How many of you are planning to attend FOSDEM 2025?
Are you planning to speak at the event or attend as an participant to learn?
What topics excite you the most this year? Whether you are interested in embedded systems, open source innovation, safety or security, FOSDEM 2025 promises to be a hub of activity for everyone in the developer community.
This time there will be talks from the ELISA Project community. You will have the chance to meet the community ambassadors, some of whom will be available at the Zephyr Project stand at Building K, Level 1.
Don’t miss the opportunity to engage with these experts and learn about the latest developments in the ELISA community!
Mark your calendar to attend these ELISA Project talks!
Saturday, February 1:
Enhancing Testing Strategies for Critical Systems: Statistical Path Coverage

Track: Testing and Continuous Delivery
Speaker: Imanol Allende, OpenTech GmbH
Room: UD6.215
Day: Saturday
Start: 10:30
End: 10:55

Modern embedded and autonomous systems are pushing the boundaries of software complexity, especially in critical applications. Traditional testing methods often struggle to meet the demands of these systems, particularly when operating on resource-sharing architectures running complex operating systems like Linux. To address this challenge, we introduce Statistical Path Coverage (SPC), a novel statistical approach designed to enhance test effectiveness by statistically focusing on the execution paths exercised by target applications.
This presentation will discuss how SPC can quantify execution path coverage, estimate the risk of untested paths, and support assurance. We will also introduce DB4SIL, a tool leveraging FTrace to collect and analyze execution traces, enabling actionable insights into the kernel’s behavior during testing campaigns. Through examples, we will demonstrate how SPC and DB4SIL can guide developers in prioritizing testing efforts, improving test coverage, enabling continuous monitoring, and reducing risk in complex, software-driven systems.
The Trustable Software Framework: A new way to measure risk in continuous delivery of critical software

Track: Testing and Continuous Delivery
Speaker: Paul Sherwood, Codethink
Room: UD6.215
Start: 11:00
End: 11:25

Many of the international standards for software in critical systems (e.g. IEC 61508, ISO 26262) are published under restrictive licences, at high prices. They broadly discourage the use of FOSS, by imposition of processes that do not align with modern open source best practices such as continuous delivery and automated testing. As a result some industries such as automotive, medical and aerospace, are locked in to proprietary software.
This talk will introduce the Trustable Software Framework (TSF), a new free and open source project which establishes an evidence-based method for measuring the actual risks involved in continuous delivery of software in critical systems.
TSF is applicable over the entire software supply chain, including CICD tools and infrastructure, build dependencies, operating systems, target applications and test environments, and is intended to measure risk on projects delivering critical systems which demand reliability, availability, security and safety.
Obtaining Safety & Security Certifications for L4Re

Track: Microkernel and Component-Based OS
Speaker: Marcus Hähnel
Room: UB4.136
Day: Saturday
Start: 16:50
End: 17:15

In this talk I will share some details on the path towards the recently obtained Security (EAL4+, German GEHEIM) and Safety (ISO26262 ASIL-B, SIL-2) certifications that have been achieved for the L4Re Operating System Framework. I will show some details on where generic software development, operating systems, and third-party code clash with the expectations of the safety norms. I will also shed some light on the challenges we face in maintaining these certifications while staying true to the open source nature of the system with contributions form a multitude of actors from various fields. I will conclude with an outlook of the things to come and how we want to ensure that open source microkernel-based operating systems can be a vital cornerstone to safe & secure systems.
Sunday, February 2:
Intro to the SPDX Functional Safety Model

Track: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Speaker: Nicole Pappler, Alektometis.com
Room: H.2213
Day: Sunday
Start: 09:30
End: 10:00

While SPDX provides with its relationships already a good starting base to model the internal dependencies, setting all actions and work products that are part of a functional safety release of a project sparked some discussions in the Functional Safety community. This talk lines out the main discussion points with the different viewpoints discussed in the SPDX FuSa group, along with matching prototype models.
BASIL an open source tool that supports requirements traceability with design SBOM

Track: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Speaker: Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat
Room: H.2213
Day: Sunday
Start: 13:30
End: 14:00

BASIL is an open source software quality management tool that has been developed to simplify the definition and maintenance of traceability matrix in Safety Critical applications. Even if BASIL provides several features as the management of quality related work items and a test execution framework, usually in critical applications we have to deal with complex toolchains. Due to that it is mandatory to have a way to share data between tools in a consistent way. Join us in a session where we will see how BASIL is supporting SPDX to share quality related work items as a SBOM.

Automotive BOF

Track: BOF – Track B
Room: H.3242
Day: Sunday
Start: 13:00
End: 14:00

This Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at FOSDEM will focus on the growing intersection of open source and the automotive industry, highlighting the latest advancements, challenges, and opportunities for collaboration. As the automotive sector increasingly adopts open-source software, it is driving innovation in areas such as in-vehicle systems, autonomous driving, and vehicle connectivity. Key projects like Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) initiative are at the forefront of this transformation, providing open-source frameworks for developing scalable, secure, and reliable automotive software. This session will bring together developers, engineers, and enthusiasts to discuss how these initiatives are shaping the future of mobility and explore how open-source communities can work together to solve the unique challenges of the automotive domain.
Attendees will have the opportunity to share experiences, discuss key technical topics such as real-time operating systems, safety-critical systems, and compliance with automotive standards (e.g., ISO 26262), and explore potential new collaborations. The session will delve into the importance of open standards, the growing need for security in connected vehicles, and how projects like AGL and ELISA enable safer, more efficient automotive software development. By fostering cross-industry dialogue and strengthening the automotive open-source ecosystem, this session aims to inspire future collaborations that can help define the next generation of smart, connected, and autonomous vehicles.
If you would like to meet our community experts at FOSDEM or you have any project related questions, please feel free to contact us at info@elisa.tech.
We look forward to meeting you!

Working Group Annual Updates 2025
2025-02-12 07:00 - 09:00, 2025-02-13 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the ELISA Working Group Annual Updates on February 12 and 13, 10:00-12:00 EST / 7:00-9:00 PST / 16:00-18:00 CET / 15:00-17:00 UTC when each of the group leads will bring you up to speed on their group’s progress, roadmap, and how you can participate.
The updates will include the following topics:

Look back at major milestone and achievements in 2024
Current focus and activities
What’s coming up in 2025 and areas and opportunities for collaboration
Onboarding resources and how to get involved

The first day begins with a 15-minute overview of ELISA by the Technical Steering Committee Chair, Philipp Ahmann. Each Working Group update will be approximately 20 minutes long followed by a 5 minute Q&A. The second day ends with a 15-minute closing and final thoughts.
Session on February 12 will include updates from speakers/WG leads of the following horizontal Working Groups:

15:00-15:15 UTC: ELISA Project Overview (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:15-15:40 UTC: Tools (Matt Kelly, The Boeing Company)
15:40-16:05 UTC: Open Source Engineering Process (Paul Albertella, Codethink)
16:05-16:30 UTC: Safety Architecture (Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat)
16:30-16:55 UTC: Linux Features for Safety-Critical Systems (Alessandro Carminati, Red Hat)

Session on February 13 will include updates from speakers/WG leads of the following the use-case focused Working Groups

15:00-15:05 UTC: Welcome back (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:05-15:30 UTC: Systems and Automotive (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:30-15:55 UTC: Medical Devices (Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation)
15:55-16:20 UTC: Aerospace (Matthew Weber, The Boeing Company)
16:20-16:45 UTC: Space Grade Linux (Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation)
16:45-18:00 UTC Closing and final thoughts (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)

How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the details about joining the sessions. And don’t forget to add the event to your calendar from the confirmation email.
Note: Session schedule is subject to change.

2025 FSW Workshop
2025-03-24 - 2025-03-27
Stoke Space in conjunction with The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, The Southwest Research Institute and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is hosting the 18th Annual Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software (FSW 2025) in Seattle, Washington from March 24th to 27th, 2025

In the last several years, there has been a significant increase in the next generation of flight system architectures for space. Some of the advancements have been in multicore, soft-core, FPGA’s, space computers, operating systems, flight software and machine learning. This presents many opportunities in the space industry, as well as some significant challenges.
ELISA Project members Matt Weber, Chief Software Architect at Boeing, and Michael Monaghan, Computer Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will be at the workshop on Wednesday, March 26 at 11:20-11:45 am to give a presentation titled, “Making Penguins Fly.”

This presentation will touch on the objectives, challenges, and developments of the Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) foundation’s Aerospace and Space Grade Linux working group (WG.) The presentation will include specific topics from a Dec 10-12 Goddard Space Flight Center workshop. ELISA was formed to make it easier for companies to build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications – systems whose failure could result in loss of human life, significant property damage, or environmental damage. ELISA members are working together to define and maintain a common set of tools and processes that can help companies demonstrate that a Linux-based system meets the necessary safety requirements for certification. The Aerospace Working Group develops use cases to inform and influence Linux architecture and related tools, works to derive technical requirements for avionics operating systems, and seeks to enhance and expand avionics software lifecycle processes, practices, and tools to enable the use of Linux in avionics systems that are certified to high design assurance levels. Space grade Linux, which recently made its open-source debut as an ELISA Special Interest Group (SIG), is a collaborative, open-source project bringing together space agencies, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations to establish a trusted ecosystem of Linux-based, open-source software for mission-critical spacecraft operations.

Other themes of the technical presentations include:

Resiliancy, safety, and security

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and onboard data processing

Space networking

Onboard data storage and representation

Flight software architectures, frameworks, and software buses

Software enabled mission concepts

Digital twin, config management, and software enabled emulation

DevOps, continuous integration, and automated testing

FSW, embedded processor, and FPGA interactions

Flight Operating Systems

New languages (bring your non-C work)

To learn more about the workshop or to register, visit the main event website here: https://flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW2025.

ELISA Workshop Lund 2025
2025-05-07 - 2025-05-09
The ELISA Project hosts in-person workshops on a regular basis to gather the project members, contributors, and other partners in the ecosystem to further collaboration, accelerate project progress, and plan for future goals. The next workshop will be held on May 7-9 in Lund, Sweden. We strongly encourage in-person participation for the best collaboration; a virtual component may be added if there is sufficient interest.

Location: Volvo Cars Lund Office in Lund, Delta 3, Scheelevägen 23, 223 63 Lund, Schweden
Date/Time: 1/2 day in the afternoon on May 7th, full day on May 8th, and 1/2 day in the morning on May 9th
Meals: lunch and Fika will be provided on site; dinner will be provided offsite on the 1st day.
Accommodation: Motel L Lund or Elite Hotel Ideon (please note that ELISA/Linux Foundation didn’t contract rooms at these properties and cannot guarantee rates, availability, or service. These hotels are recommended only because it’s located near the event venue.)
Getting There: Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup (CPH) is the closest airport. Local transport is available from the airport to get you to within a few minutes of walking distance from the event location.
Cost: free to attend, in-person registration will be capped at 30
Registration: closed
Schedule (all times in local CEST)
Note: schedule subject to change without prior notice

May 7, 2025
13:00 Welcome & Introductions
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Robert Fekete, Volvo Cars
13:30 Ask Me Anything about ELISA or Use of OSS in Safety Critical Applications
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH; Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
14:30 Fika
15:00 Arduino Portenta X8 as a community reference hardware for safe systems
David Cuartielles, Arduino
15:15 Example System within ELISA as Cross Community Effort with AGL, Eclipse S-Core, KernelCI, Xen, Zephyr, and more
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH; Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motors

16:30 Fika
16:45 Interaction between ELISA and Adjacent Communities such as Eclipse, Linaro, Rust, SPDX, Yocto, and more
Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
17:45 Day 1 wrap-up
18:00 Day 1 ends
19:00 Dinner Offsite at stäket

May 8, 2025
8:30 Coffee and Warm-up
9:00 Safety Linux vs Safe(ty) Linux
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH; Paul Albertella, Codethink
10:30 Fika
10:45 How far do we go at the hardware level? An analysis of current state of kernel and integration
Olivier Charrier, Wind River; Alessandro Carminati, Red Hat
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Special Topics

PX4Space, Pedro Roque, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
SPDX Safety Profile, Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis
Safe Continuous Deployment, Håkan Sivencrona, Volvo Cars
Resilient Safety Analysis and Qualification, Igor Stoppa, Nvidia

15:00 Fika
15:15 KernelCI, BASIL & Testing
Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat; Gustavo Padovan, Collabora
16:30 Requirements Traceability
Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
17:45 Day 2 wrap-up
18:00 Day 2 ends
18:00 Pizza party on-site

May 9, 2025
8:30 Coffee and Warm-up
9:00 Trustable Software Framework
Paul Albertella, Codethink; Daniel Krippner, ETAS GmbH
10:15 Review Role of Rust in Safety Critical Applications and Explore Potential Implication for ELISA
Paul Albertella, Codethink; Daniel Krippner, ETAS GmbH
10:45 Best Practices Standard
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH; Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Olivier Charrier, Wind River
12:00 Workshop wrap-up
12:30 End of Workshop

ELISA Seminar - Criteria and Process for Evaluating Open-Source Documentation
2025-05-21 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: Criteria and Process for Evaluating Open-Source Documentation
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 CET
Speaker: Pete Brink, Principal Consultant at UL Solutions
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:

As the open source and safety (and security) communities collaborate more closely, there’s an opportunity to build trust by showcasing how open source development aligns with key safety principles. This webinar aims to introduce a flexible, practical framework for evaluating documentation that supports trustworthiness in development practices. Along with clear evaluation criteria, we’ll walk through a straightforward process designed to adapt to a variety of projects and contexts. The goal is to empower teams to highlight their commitment to quality and safety in a way that works for them.

Safety-Critical Software Track @ Open Source Summit (Denver)
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-25
Open Source Summit North America, happening on June 23-25 in Denver, Colorado, is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors. One of the tracks includes, Safety-Critical Software, which will feature several ELISA-project related sessions.
The Safety-Critical Software track will take place on Wednesday, June 25. It explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Check out the sessions below, which dive into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems.

Learn more about the conference at the main event site or register here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/.

IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology / Space Computing Conference (SMC-IT/SCC 2025)
2025-07-28 - 2025-08-01
We are thrilled to share that the ELISA Project is proudly serving as a Silver Sponsor for the IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology / Space Computing Conference (SMC-IT/SCC 2025) taking place Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 1, 2025, at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. This unique event brings together system designers, engineers, computer architects, scientists, practitioners, and space explorers with the objective of advancing information technology, and the computational capability and reliability of space missions. The forums will provide an excellent opportunity for fostering technical interchange on all hardware and software aspects of space missions. The joint conferences will focus on current systems practice and challenges as well as emerging hardware and software technologies with applicability for future space missions.
Systems in all aspects of the space mission will be explored, including flight systems, ground systems, science data processing, engineering and development tools, operations, telecommunications, radiation-tolerant computing devices, reliable electronics, space-qualifiable packaging technologies. The entire information systems lifecycle of the mission development will also be covered, such as conceptual design, engineering tools development, integration and test, operations, science analysis, quality control.
Register for the event using this link.
Our ELISA Project community members will be on the ground in LA, and we would love to connect with you there.
We hope to see you at SMC-IT/SCC 2025!

Open Source Summit: Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
2025-08-25 - 2025-08-27
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open source code and community contributors.
Why Attend

Connect with the people shaping open source
Learn from maintainers, architects, and industry leaders
Discover new technologies and real-world solutions
Collaborate on ideas that move projects forward
Grow your skills, your network, and your career

ELISA Project at the Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
We are excited to announce that the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project will be participating in the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe, taking place August 25-27, 2025 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
As a proud Bronze Sponsor of this year’s event, ELISA will also be part of the Safety-Critical Software Summit, one of the focused tracks within Open Source Summit Europe
This is a key opportunity to connect with developers, system architects, functional safety experts, and open source contributors working at the intersection of Linux and safety-critical systems.
What to Expect from ELISA Project at Open Source Summit Europe?
Yes, we have a booth and we would love to see you there!
Stop by Booth #29 to:

Learn more about ELISA’s mission and progress
See how Linux can support safety-critical systems across industries
Explore tools, processes, and working group initiatives
Check out live demos
Meet with project members, contributors and users
Pick up your favourite ELISA branded giveaways

And if you have been following ELISA for a while, you may have noticed we have refreshed our logo!
Come by the booth to grab special edition stickers and updated designs featuring the new logo. Quantities are limited, so be sure to stop by early!
Whether you are in automotive, industrial, medical, or another safety-focused domain, this is a great opportunity to ask questions and see how ELISA might support your work.
ELISA Talks and Sessions
The ELISA Project will also be featured in the Safety Critical Software track sessions. You can find the full schedule information here.
This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems.
Join the ELISA Community
If you are interested in functional safety or contributing to the project, we would love to have you involved. Learn more.
Join the community discussion here in the ELISA Project discord server.
👋 See You in Amsterdam
The ELISA Project is proud to be part of Open Source Summit Europe 2025 and the growing conversation around safety-critical open source systems. From booth activities to in-depth technical talks, this is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and collaborate.
Don’t forget to stop by Booth #29, attend our talks at the Safety-Critical Software Summit, and meet the people behind the project.
We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

Opportunity Open Source Conference 2025
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-07
Join the open source community at IIT Kanpur from September 5-7, 2025 for a gathering that brings together developers, enthusiasts, industry experts, and academics to explore the latest trends, tools, and projects in open source.
The Open Source Conference (OOSC 3.0), is a premier event dedicated to fostering innovation, collaboration, and learning in the open-source community. This gathering brings together developers, enthusiasts, industry experts, and academics to explore the latest trends, tools, and projects in open source.
Be a part of the vibrant open-source community this year, at IIT Kanpur. Whether you are a developer, student, researcher, or enthusiast, the OOSC offers something for everyone. Join us to learn, innovate, and contribute to the open-source movement.
Share your expertise, projects, and experiences with the community.
Learn more about the event and register here.

eLSA Symposium - Göttingen, Germany - September 25-26, 2025
2025-09-25 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The eLSA Symposium has been initiated 2025 to support enabling the utilization of open source software in (highly) regulated context, mainly functional safety and security. The idea is to bring together academia with peers from industry from different domains. The symposium is for everybody, who

utilizes open-source software in safe and secure embedded systems
wonders how to utilize and maintain open-source software in regulated context
works on methods and tools used to qualify open-source software

Learn more about eLSA Symposium here.
At this symposium, our ELISA Project ambassador Philipp Ahmann (ETAS GmbH) will be presenting a talk on “Code, Compliance, and Confusion: Open Source in Safety-Critical Products“.
About the talk:
The integration of Open Source Software (OSS) in functionally safe systems represents a critical intersection of innovation and compliance requirements across multiple industries. This talk examines two complementary aspects of this evolving landscape: the current state of OSS in functional safety applications and the persistent barriers hindering wider adoption.
2024 has marked significant acceleration in the visibility and adoption of OSS in safety-critical environments, with diverse projects demonstrating varying levels of maturity. Foundation-backed initiatives like the ELISA project within the Linux Foundation are establishing frameworks for Linux in safety applications, while specialized operating systems such as Zephyr and Xen continue to gain traction. The Eclipse Foundation’s Safe Open Vehicle Core (S-Core) project represents another significant advancement, aiming to create a common certifiable automotive middleware stack that addresses critical safety requirements. The ecosystem now spans from microkernel solutions like L4Re and seL4 to full-featured platforms, with Linux serving as a prime example of the opportunities and challenges in this space. Infrastructure improvements like the SPDX safety profile address critical aspects of safety documentation in Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), while safety-certified components like the Ferrocene Rust compiler create new possibilities for language-level safety guarantees.
Despite this progress, substantial barriers impede broader OSS adoption in functionally safe systems. A particularly persistent challenge remains the confusion around terminology and approaches – exemplified by the distinctions between “safety Linux” versus “safe Linux” that illustrate broader issues in how safety responsibility is allocated between OSS components and system-level mitigations. By examining architectural concepts currently implemented in production systems or under development, this presentation cuts through marketing rhetoric to provide clear distinctions between approaches across various open source technologies.
The author will address uncertainty around certification pathways, challenges in establishing sufficient evidence for safety arguments, fragmented governance models, and incomplete understanding of OSS development processes among safety assessors.
Attendees will gain practical insights for evaluating safety approaches in OSS-based systems, including key questions to ask when assessing different safety concepts across industries, with particular emphasis on applications where both manufacturers and suppliers are seeking to implement open source software in safety-critical production systems.
Key take-aways for the audience:
(Software) Architectural concepts used in the usage of OSS in safety-critical systems.
State of various project in their way to address functional safety.
Approaches towards safe usage and certification by OSS projects.
Understanding the marketing elements and tricks used to promote safe OSS.
Better understanding about the OSS safety landscape.
Learn more and register for this event.

ELISA Seminar - Software Hash ID: you will not be able to live without it
2025-10-15 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: Software Hash ID: you will not be able to live without it
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 CET
Speaker: Thomas Aynaud, Chief Technology Officer at Software Heritage
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:

The Software Hash Identifier (SWHID[1]) is an intrinsic identifier for software source code and artifacts that became an international standard in April 2025 (ISO/IEC 18670:2025[2]). As an open standard, SWHID is developed under open governance and was originally championed by Software Heritage[3], which remains its largest and most prominent use case.
Intrinsic identifiers like SWHID will play a foundational role in activities where provenance, reproducibility, auditing, and SBOMs are essential—such as in industries with complex supply chains, safety-critical systems, highly regulated sectors, and security-sensitive environments.
With recent legislation worldwide making SBOMs mandatory or strongly encouraged, their creation and maintenance have become increasingly challenging, especially for organizations managing complex supply chains. SWHID offers a significant simplification, which explains the growing interest and early adoption.
In this talk, Thomas Aynaud will present Software Heritage missions and data model, introduce the concept of intrinsic identifiers, explain the SWHID specification, and present its open standard governance model. He will share how open source projects and companies can adopt and benefit from SWHID through real-world use cases. The session will conclude with a summary of the key advantages of SWHID and an update on Software Heritage’s plans to support its development and adoption in the coming months.

[1] https://www.swhid.org/
[2] https://www.iso.org/standard/89985.html
[3] https://www.softwareheritage.org/

The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit
2025-10-28
The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit is an annual gathering for Linux Foundation Europe members, along with invited speakers, sponsors and media.
This event cultivates collaboration, open innovation, and partnerships among those in the private public sectors working to drive digital transformation through open collaboration. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance a Europe-wide open source strategy and mobilise resources in their organisations to collaboratively influence the largest shared technology investment of our time.
The event will feature prominent speakers from the private and public sectors and existing and upcoming Linux Foundation projects, as well as offer an opportunity for members of LF Europe to share their organisational priorities and put forward collaboration opportunities to the Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board and membership at large.
Learn more and register for the event here.
The next day, the LF Europe Roadshow opens its doors to a wider audience of developers, policymakers, and community leaders. It will bring together developers, community leaders, industry, and policymakers for a full day of exchange. The program is built around two parallel tracks that reflect the most pressing themes for open source today.
The week concludes in Brussels with the European Open Source Security Forum, co-hosted by OpenSSF and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). This invite-only event will unite policymakers, security experts, and open source leaders to advance impactful security initiatives and policy efforts. The program will include:

Keynotes from European policymakers
Panels on regulation, CRA readiness, and emerging technologies such as quantum security
Targeted discussions on cybersecurity skills and future EU policy frameworks

This Forum provides a unique platform to align Europe’s policy direction with open source security priorities, ensuring that community voices are represented at the highest levels.
ELISA Project at the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit

We are excited to share that at the upcoming Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit, ELISA Project Ambassador Philipp Ahmann (ETAS) will present “Driving Automotive with Open Source: From Compliance to Collaboration.”
Philipp will explore how automakers and suppliers can align safety and security requirements with open collaboration covering practical processes, tooling, and community models that turn compliance evidence into shared engineering momentum.
If you are attending, add this session to your agenda and connect with the ELISA Project to learn how our working groups help make Linux fit for safety-critical use. Learn more.
Philipp will also participate in a Panel Discussion: Open Source Enabling Industrial Innovation with Paul Brooks, Rockwell Automation; Christophe Villemer, Savoir-faire Linux; Renzo Cherin, Lloyds Banking Group moderated by Paula Grzegorzewska, Linux Foundation.
This session will bring together representatives from diverse vertical industries, including manufacturing, energy, finance, and beyond, to explore how open source is enabling them to achieve their strategic goals. Each panelist will begin with a 15-minute presentation highlighting experience in their specific sector. Then, we will host a 30min panel discussion which will examine the role of open source technologies and joint collaboration in fostering innovation, effectiveness, and long-term growth. Learn more.

ELISA Project at the Open Source Summit: Seoul, South Korea 2025
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-05
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
A Cross-Domain Home for the Entire Open Source Ecosystem
Open Source Summit is not a single-focus, niche event—it’s the big tent that unites the full spectrum of open source technologies and communities. Whether you work in cloud infrastructure, Linux kernel development, AI/ML, embedded systems, DevOps, security, or safety-critical systems, Open Source Summit offers a shared space to exchange ideas, make connections, and learn across domains. It’s where technologists who don’t typically land in the same room get a chance to collaborate.
At the same time, Open Source Summit brings in the leaders and practitioners who support the ecosystem from non-technical angles: open source program office (OSPO) staff, legal experts, policy advocates, standards organizations, equity champions, community managers, and foundation leaders. Together, they help shape the frameworks, culture, and strategy that make open source work.
A Strategic Gathering for Open Source’s Future
This event serves as a strategic checkpoint for the open source movement. It’s where conversations happen about not only what’s being built—but how and why. From sustainability and funding models to licensing, AI alignment, security, and governance, Open Source Summit brings clarity and direction to a fast-changing open source landscape.
Whether you’re deep in code or focused on enabling the communities and structures that support it, this is where your work gains momentum and impact.
ELISA Project will be part of the Safety Critical Software Track. This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems.
Safety Critical Software Track Sessions:
Driving Safety Forward: Lessons Learned From Deploying OSS in Real-world Automotive – Jaylin Yu, EMQ
Wednesday November 5, 2025 13:35 – 14:05 KST
While OSS in Automotive is seen as the holy grail to solve SDV complexity challenges with faster time to market and higher performance, it still lacks practical real-world examples and showcases that address OSS usage in compliance with the stringent safety and security demands of Automotive. In this talk, the author shares his real-world story of bringing OSS into mass production vehicles. This includes the impact of a healthy open-source community and how academic research helped solve security gaps, leading to increased system stability. This also embraces the impact of the software supply chain, providing a proven approach, refined through failures, helping to lower dependency risk for MQTT-based remote vehicle diagnostics.The session is rounded out by highlighting the link between system utilities and safety functions, covering time synchronization, dependency management, and data integrity within a Linux system, which impact the selection of a file system, and what happens when a customer suddenly requires STR. The audience will leave the session with a holistic impression of what to consider when creating a secure, safe, OSS-based SDV automotive system. Add this session to your schedule.
DO-330 Qualification of Enhanced LLVM Structural Coverage Tool – Minji Park & Seojin Kim, The Boeing Company
Wednesday November 5, 2025 14:15 – 14:45 KST
Structural coverage identifies parts of the code that were not exercised during testing, which is crucial for the reliability of safety-critical applications. The tools used in this verification process must be qualified for confident use.This talk introduces ongoing efforts at Boeing to qualify an enhanced LLVM structural coverage tool, an open-source solution, to comply with RTCA DO-330 standards. Our goal is to utilize this tool to generate coverage data and fulfill the code coverage requirements outlined in RTCA DO-178C for safety-critical avionics software.This talk is connected to the session, “Measuring Code Coverage of the Linux Kernel in Accordance with RTCA DO-178C Considerations,” presented at the 2024 Embedded Open Source Summit North America.The talk will provide an overview of the DO-330 requirements and outline our qualification steps, including validation and verification activities. These efforts are aimed at ensuring that the data generated by the tool is considered reliable evidence for DO-178C objectives. In addition, we will discuss the challenges faced during the qualification of this open-source tool and the approaches we have taken to overcome them. Add this session to your schedule.
Introduction and Consideration of Temporal Partitioning in Avionics With Open Source Eco-System – Haesun Kim & Gihwan Kwon, The Boeing Company
Wednesday November 5, 2025 14:55 – 15:25 KST
The ARINC 653 standard is crucial for the development of integrated modular avionics (IMA) systems, providing a framework for partitioning and managing resources in safety-critical applications. This presentation explores the requirements of ARINC 653 and the considerations necessary for implementing it within an open-source environment through an operating system. We discuss the motivation for adopting ARINC 653 in IMA systems and highlight how it extends beyond a traditional POSIX environment by offering enhanced capabilities for resource management and fault tolerance, which are essential for the rigorous demands of avionics systems. Add this session to your schedule.
Smarter Code, Sneakier Risks: Supply Chain Security in the Age of AI – Lavakush Biyani, Harness
Wednesday November 5, 2025 15:55 – 16:25 KST
AI-powered code assistance tools are reshaping how we develop software, but they also introduce new and unexpected security risks. While helpful, these tools can unintentionally introduce vulnerabilities by suggesting insecure, misleading, or unverified dependencies due to incomplete or inaccurate context. This creates new risks in the software supply chain.In this talk, we will explore real-world examples of AI-generated code leading to security issues and demonstrate how to detect these threats by analyzing code changes, generating AI Bills of Materials (AIBOMs), tracking unexpected dependencies, and monitoring builds for unusual behavior. We will also cover how to identify subtle risks such as dependency confusion by tracking package versions and changes over time.I will also cover how to add these checks into CI/CD pipelines without slowing down the development cycle, giving DevSecOps teams and developers practical ways to stay secure in an AI-driven world. Add this session to your schedule.
Detecting Double Free With BPF – Bojun Seo, LG Electronics
Wednesday November 5, 2025 16:35 – 17:05 KST
Double free vulnerabilities remain a critical security and safety issue in C and C++ programs. These errors, where memory is freed multiple times, can lead to crashes or exploitable security flaws. Developers usually rely on static and dynamic analysis tools, which effectively catch most issues during testing. However, detecting double frees in production environments, particularly in embedded systems, is challenging. The reason is that conventional debugging tools often alter the memory footprint and introduce significant overhead, frequently failing to reproduce the issue due to these changes, so-called Heisenbug. This talk introduces a novel double free detection tool leveraging BPF(Berkeley Packet Filter). By collecting data in a separate process, this tool preserves the target process’s memory footprint, minimizing interference. With significantly lower overhead compared to traditional debugging tools, it enhances the reliability of detecting double frees in production, especially in performance-sensitive embedded systems. I will demonstrate how BPF’s lightweight tracing capabilities improve memory safety, offering an effective solution for real-world double free detection. Add this session to your schedule.
Telco Supply Chain Security: Implementing ISO 18974 & SBOM – Haksung Jang, SK Telecom
Wednesday November 5, 2025 17:15 – 17:45 KST
As the digital transformation of the Telco industry accelerates, the use of open source is surging. However, this has also led to unprecedented complexity and security risks in the software supply chain. This session presents a core strategy to address these challenges: supply chain management centered on the latest international standard, ISO/IEC 18974 (Open Source Security Assurance), and SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). Based on SK Telecom OSPO’s real-world adoption case and the activities of the OpenChain Korea Work Group, we will share the practical process of establishing an open source security governance framework tailored for the Telco environment. Attendees will gain actionable guidance and lessons learned for policy-making, automated SBOM generation and verification, and collaboration with supply chain partners, moving beyond mere theory. Add this session to your schedule.

To learn more about the event and register, check here.

ELISA Seminar - Introduction to Requirements Engineering
2025-11-05 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend.
Title: Introduction to Requirements Engineering
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 7:00-8:00 Pacific / 15:00-16:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 CET
Speaker: Pete Brink, Principal Consultant – Software Intensive Systems at UL Solutions
How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. And please add the webinar joining details to your calendar from the confirmation email you will receive upon registering
Description:
This talk provides an introduction to the fundamentals of requirements engineering, covering the following topics:

What are requirements for?
What is a basic process for creating them?
What are some techniques to specify them?
How to evaluate individual requirements or groups of requirements?
Suggestions on how to write requirements. – Challenges with writing and maintaining requirements

ELISA Workshop Munich 2025
2025-11-18 12:00 - 2025-11-20 13:00 (Europe/Berlin)
The ELISA Project hosts in-person workshops on a regular basis to gather the project members, contributors, and other partners in the ecosystem to further collaboration, accelerate project progress, and plan for future goals. The next workshop will be co-hosted with Red Hat on November 18-20 in Munich. We strongly encourage in-person participation for the best collaboration; a virtual component may be added if there is sufficient interest.

Location: Red Hat Munich Office, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 12, 85630 Grasbrunn, Germany
Date/Time: 1/2 day in the afternoon on November 18, full day on November 19, and 1/2 day in the morning on November 20
Meals: Lunch provided onsite each day; group dinner provided offsite on November 18
Accommodation: Search for hotels around the Berg am Laim station (please note that ELISA/Linux Foundation didn’t contract rooms at these properties and cannot guarantee rates, availability, or service. These hotels are recommended only because it’s located near the event venue.)
Cost: Free to attend, made possible by the generous support of ELISA Members and our co-host, Red Hat
CFP: closed
Registration (required): Please use this form to register for the workshop. We have reached the maximum capacity for in-person participation; you will be added to our waitlist and we will notify you if an in-person spot becomes available. Virtual participation can be accommodated up till the event start date.
Schedule (all times in local CET)
Note: schedule subject to change without prior notice

November 18, 2025
12:00 Check-in and Lunch
13:00 Welcome & Introductions
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
13:30 Ask Me Anything – New Contributor Onboarding
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
14:30 Break and Hallway Track
14:45 Research questions and publication directions of Aerospace WG
Martin Halle, Hamburg University of Technology – Institute of Aircraft Systems Engineering, Matthew Weber, Boeing
15:00 Towards Practical Program Verification for the Linux Kernel
Keisuke NISHIMURA, Inria
15:30 Towards a More Sustainable and Secure Software Tooling in Free/Libre Open Source Software Environments
Stefan Tatschner, Fraunhofer AISEC
16:00 Break and Hallway Track
16:15 Introducing SW Requirements in the Linux kernel development process: status and next steps
Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat; Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Chuck Wolber, Boeing
17:15 Exploring possibilities for integrating StrictDoc with ELISA’s requirements template approach for the Linux kernel
Tobias Deiminger, Linutronix; Stanislav Pankevich, Reflex Aerospace
17:45 Day 1 wrap-up
18:00 Day 1 ends
19:00 Dinner at Gashof Obermaier

November 19, 2025
8:30 Coffee and Welcome Back
9:00 Architectures for Linux in Railway Safety Applications
Florian Wühr, Red Hat; Daniel Weingaertner, Red Hat
10:15 Hypervisors are scary, so why use them for enabling Linux for Safety Applications!!
Aqib Javaid, Elektrobit
10:45: Break and Hallway Track
11:00 Open Functional Safety: Safety-Qualified Lifecycle with Sphinx
Christopher Zimmer, innotec GmbH
12:00 Lunch
13:00 AGL SDV SoDeV Insights
Naoto Yamaguchi, AISIN; Harunobu Kurokawa, Renesas
13:45 Best Practices in Open Source and Standards – Evaluation of Example Projects
Simone Weiss, Linutronix
14:45 Beyond the OS: What else is required for safe automotive applications?
Isaac Trefz, Elektrobit
15:15 :Break and Hallway Track
15:45 BASIL
Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat
16:15 Continuous Compliance in Safety-Critical Open Source Projects
Rinat Shagisultanov, InfoMagnus
16:45 Industry Safety Level(s) vs. Aerospace Use Cases
Matthew Weber, Boeing
17:45 Day 2 wrap-up
18:00 Day 2 Ends

November 20, 2025
8:30 Coffee and Welcome back
9:00 Linux Virtual Address Space Safety
Alessandro Carminati, Red Hat
10:00 Behind the Scenes: Elisa Yocto meta-layer and the ELISA CI infrastructure
Sudip Mukherjee, Codethink
10:30 :Break and Hallway Track
11:00 The SPDX Safety Profile Release Candidate – towards standardised safety supply chain documentation
Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis
12:00 Drawing an open source safety-critical landscape
Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
12:30 Workshop wrap-up
Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation; Philipp Ahmann, ETAS GmbH
13:00 Lunch and Farewell

Open Source Summit: Tokyo, Japan 2025
2025-12-08 08:00 - 2025-12-10 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Open Source Summit: Tokyo, Japan is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Why Attend

Connect with the people shaping open source
Learn from maintainers, architects, and industry leaders
Discover new technologies and real-world solutions
Collaborate on ideas that move projects forward
Grow your skills, your network, and your career

ELISA project will be represented by our community members at the Safety Critical Track.
This track explores the intersection of open source and safety standards, covering best practices for regulatory compliance, security updates, and safety engineering. Sessions will delve into requirements traceability, quality assessments, safety analysis methodologies, and technical development for safety-critical systems. Learn more.

Safety Critical Track Highlights

Keynote: Space Grade Linux: Building a Safer, Open Source Future for Space Systems – Ramon Roche, General Manager, Dronecode Foundation – Wednesday December 10, 2025 09:10 – 09:25 JST

A Human-Centric Quality Assurance Process for Open Source Software Projects – Wendi Urribarri & Carlos Ramirez, Woven by Toyota – Wednesday December 10, 2025 11:10 – 11:50 JST
Comparison and Proposal of Vulnerability Management Approaches in Yocto-Based Linux for the CRA – Akihiko Takahashi, Fujitsu Limited – Wednesday December 10, 2025 12:00 – 12:40
JST
Driving Safety Forward: Lessons Learned From Deploying OSS in Real-world Automotive – Jaylin Yu, EMQ – Wednesday December 10, 2025 14:00 – 14:40 JST
Decoding Safe(ty) Linux Architectural Approaches for Critical Systems – Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH – Wednesday December 10, 2025 14:50 – 15:30 JST
LF Energy 101: How Open Source Is Powering the Digital Energy Transition – Darshan Chawda & Nao Nishijima, Hitachi -Wednesday December 10, 2025 16:40 – 17:20 JST

Learn more about the Safety Critical talks here.
Register for the event here.

Linux Plumbers Conference: Tokyo, Japan 2025
2025-12-11 - 2025-12-13
The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.
Taking place on Thursday 11th, Friday 12th and Saturday 13th of December, this year we will be both in person and remote (hybrid). However to minimize technical issues, we’d appreciate most of the content presenters being in-person.
The in-person venue is the Toranomon Hills Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

LPC Microconference

A microconference contains several sessions based on the same general topic. Each session will be between 15 to 30 minutes in length and be discussion oriented.
Safe Systems with Linux MC
As Linux continues to be deployed in systems with varying criticality constraints, progress needs to be made in establishing consistent linkage between code, tests, and requirements, to improve overall efficiency and ability to support necessary analysis.
This MC addresses critical challenges in expectation management (aka requirements tracking), documentation, testing, and artifact sharing within the Linux kernel ecosystem. While tests are contributed for the code, traditionally the underlying requirement that the tests satisfies is likewise not documented in a structured manner. This has resulted in a large amount of “tribal knowledge” associated with subsystems, which results in technical debt when maintainers stop working on subsystems.
Taking in the feedback from last year’s “Safe Systems with Linux” miniconference 1, on how we can improve the documentation of the kernel’s design [1a] the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) community has focused on prototyping a template for capturing the requirements with volunteer linux kernel subsystem maintainers. The ELISA architecture team 2 has been meeting weekly and has developed a structured approach for documenting testable expectations with a template that allows embedding requirements directly with relevant code (as requested in the initial workshop) while maintaining machine readability and forming a base for improving testing with initiatives like KernelCI. The prototype format got initial review and feedback in December at the ELISA workshop at Goddard [3] and after incorporating that feedback in the workshop in Lund in May [4].
Initial pilots in the TRACING subsystem [5] have demonstrated the value of this approach, even resulting in the identification and fixing of previously unknown issues. [6,7]
Building on the last year’s discussions, the goal of this miniconference is to get wider feedback from additional maintainers and developers of different subsystems on the approach being proposed.
Potential Topics

Progress on Linux Kernel Requirements Framework
Discussing the SPDX-based template for low-level requirements, lessons learned from initial pilots, and plans for wider adoption.
Technical Debt Reduction
How documented requirements capture understanding of original functionality, and can be leveraged for verification when code needs to be rewritten (ie. C to Rust), etc.
Requirements-Driven Testing
How documented requirements can drive test case development and validation. Connecting relevant test cases with specific requirements and code, should be able to yield more efficient testing.
Semantic Aspects of Kernel Requirements
Exploring how to properly document expected behaviors with consideration for design elements that impact or are impacted by these behaviors.
Practical Implementation Challenges
Addressing the balance between detailed requirements documentation and maintaining kernel development velocity.
Required tools for automation
Progress on tools to generate, validate, and track work products increasing dependability throughout the kernel development process.
Industry Adoption
How safety-critical industries are beginning to leverage these developments for certification and compliance purposes. How their safety engineers can participate in contributing formalized requirements to the kernel and providing linkage.
Requirements as an Education Tool
How linux kernel documentation can mine the requirements, and help new contributors understand kernel functionality and design intent and attract new upsteam developers

Session Highlights:

Aspects of Dependable Linux Systems – Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH)) – 12 Dec 2025, 10:00
NVIDIA Approach for Achieving ASIL B Qualified Linux: minimizing expectations from upstream kernel processes -Igor Stoppa (nvidia) -12 Dec 2025, 10:10am
Applying Program Verification to Linux Kernel Code: Challenges, Practices, and Automation – Keisuke Nishimura – 12 Dec 2025, 10:35
Defining and maintaining requirements in the Linux Kernel – Chuck Wolber, Gabriele Paoloni (Red Hat), Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation) – 12 Dec 2025, 11:00
KUnit Testing Insufficiencies – Matthew Whitehead (The Boeing Company) – 12 Dec 2025, 12:00
Exploring possibilities for integrating StrictDoc with ELISA’s requirements template approach for the Linux kernel – Tobias Deiminger (Linutronix GmbH) – 12 Dec 2025, 12:25
BASIL: Open Source Traceability for Safety-Critical Systems” – Luigi Pellecchia – 12 Dec 2025, 12:40
Tooling and Sharing Traceability Discussion – Luigi Pellecchia, Matthew Whitehead (The Boeing Company), Tobias Deiminger (Linutronix GmbH) – 12 Dec 2025, 12:55
Wrap up and next steps – Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH)) – 12 Dec 2025, 13:20

Learn more about the sessions here.

ELISA Project at FOSDEM 2026
2026-01-31 - 2026-02-01
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
The ELISA Project Ambassadors will be at FOSDEM 2026, actively participating across the event. They will be giving presentations, joining discussions, and meeting contributors and attendees in various developer rooms throughout the weekend. You can also connect with them at the Linux Foundation Europe stand, where they will be available to talk about ongoing work, community activities, and how to get involved with ELISA.
In addition, Philipp Ahmann, ELISA TSC Chair, Systems and Automotive WG Chair, and Sr. OSS Community Manager at ETAS GmbH (BOSCH), will be giving a talk at FOSDEM 2026. Philipp will also be at the Linux Foundation Europe stand throughout the weekend for anyone who would like to learn more about the ELISA Project, ask technical questions, or discuss collaboration opportunities.
From the TSC, Kate Stewart (VP, Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation) and Nicole Pappler (Senior Safety Expert & Founder at AlektoMetis.com) will also be at FOSDEM.

Session Highlight:
Code, Compliance, and Confusion: Open Source in Safety-Critical Products
The integration of Open Source Software (OSS) in functionally safe systems represents a critical intersection of innovation and compliance requirements across multiple industries. This talk examines two complementary aspects of this evolving landscape: the current state of OSS in functional safety applications and the persistent barriers hindering wider adoption.
2024/2025 have marked significant acceleration in the visibility and adoption of OSS in safety-critical environments, with diverse projects demonstrating varying levels of maturity. Foundation-backed initiatives like the ELISA project within the Linux Foundation are establishing frameworks for Linux in safety applications, while specialized operating systems such as Zephyr and Xen continue to gain traction. The Eclipse Foundation’s Safe Open Vehicle Core (S-Core) project represents another significant advancement, aiming to create a common certifiable automotive middleware stack that addresses critical safety requirements. The ecosystem now spans from microkernel solutions like L4Re and seL4 to full-featured platforms, with Linux serving as a prime example of the opportunities and challenges in this space. Infrastructure improvements like the SPDX safety profile address critical aspects of safety documentation in Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), while safety-certified components like the Ferrocene Rust compiler create new possibilities for language-level safety guarantees.
Despite this progress, substantial barriers impede broader OSS adoption in functionally safe systems. A particularly persistent challenge remains the confusion around terminology and approaches – exemplified by the distinctions between “safety Linux” versus “safe Linux” that illustrate broader issues in how safety responsibility is allocated between OSS components and system-level mitigations. By examining architectural concepts currently implemented in production systems or under development, this talk cuts through marketing rhetoric to provide clear distinctions between approaches across various open source technologies.
The author will address uncertainty around certification pathways, challenges in establishing sufficient evidence for safety arguments, fragmented governance models, and incomplete understanding of OSS development processes among safety assessors.
Attendees will gain practical insights for evaluating safety approaches in OSS-based systems, including key questions to ask when assessing different safety concepts across industries, with particular emphasis on applications where both manufacturers and suppliers are seeking to implement open source software in safety-critical production systems. Learn more.

BoF/Unconference
Safety-Critical Linux: Challenges across industries (Sat, Jan 31 – 12:00pm – 12:55pm)
Linux is being used more often in safety-critical areas like cars, planes, medical devices, robots, and trains. But each industry faces similar challenges when trying to meet safety and certification requirements. This BoF is an open discussion about those real-world problems: timing and determinism, documentation, certification, tooling, and system design. Anyone interested in safety-critical Linux is welcome to join, share experiences, ask questions, and explore where collaboration could help. Learn more.

WG SIG Annual Updates 2026
2026-02-11 07:00 - 09:00, 2026-02-12 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the ELISA Working Group and Special Interest Group Annual Updates on February 11 and 12, 10:00-12:00 EST / 7:00-9:00 PST / 16:00-18:00 CET / 15:00-17:00 UTC when each of the group leads will bring you up to speed on their group’s progress, roadmap, and how you can participate.
The updates will include the following topics:

Look back at major milestone and achievements in 2025
Current focus and activities
What’s coming up in 2026 and areas and opportunities for collaboration
Onboarding resources and how to get involved

The first day begins with a 15-minute overview of ELISA by the Technical Steering Committee Chair, Philipp Ahmann. Each Working Group update will be approximately 20 minutes long followed by a 5 minute Q&A. The second day ends with a 15-minute closing and final thoughts.
Session on February 11 will include updates from speakers/WG leads of the following Working Groups:

15:00-15:15 UTC: ELISA Project Overview (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:15-15:40 UTC: Open Source Engineering Process (Paul Albertella, Codethink)
15:40-16:05 UTC: Systems and Automotive (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
16:05-16:30 UTC: Safety Architecture (Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat)
16:30-16:55 UTC: Linux Features for Safety-Critical Systems (Alessandro Carminati, Red Hat)

Session on February 12 will include updates from speakers/WG leads of the following the use-case focused Working Groups and SIGs

15:00-15:05 UTC: Welcome back (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
15:05-15:30 UTC: Aerospace (Matthew Weber, The Boeing Company)
15:30-15:55 UTC: Space Grade Linux (Ramon Roche, The Linux Foundation)
15:55-16:20 UTC: BASIL & Tools WG evolution (Luigi Pellecchia, Red Hat)
16:20-16:45 UTC: Lighthouse SIG (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)
16:45-17:00 UTC Closing and final thoughts (Philipp Ahmann, ETAS)

How to Attend: Register here in advance to attend for free. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the details about joining the sessions. And don’t forget to add the event to your calendar from the confirmation email.
Note: Session schedule is subject to change.

Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) - North America 2026
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Embedded Linux powers everything from automotive and industrial systems to healthcare devices and consumer electronics. As the most widely used open source operating system for embedded computing, Linux is at the heart of innovation across industries.
Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) is the premier technical forum for the embedded Linux community, gathering developers, maintainers, and industry experts for deep technical collaboration, hands-on learning, and knowledge sharing to advance the future of embedded systems.
Who can attend:

Developers & Engineers – Embedded Systems, Kernel & Operating Systems, Device Drivers, IoT, Real-Time & Safety-Critical Systems, Toolchains, and Applications
Architects & Technical Leads – System, Hardware/Software Integration, Platform, and Product Architects shaping embedded solutions
Operations & Deployment – DevOps, QA & Test Engineers, System Administrators, and those managing large-scale or resource-constrained deployments
Community & Leadership – Technical Managers, Project Maintainers, Open Source Program Offices, Community Leaders, and Executive Decision Makers driving embedded strategy
Academic, Media & Other – Professors, Researchers, Students, Analysts, Media, Product Managers, and Business Development professionals exploring embedded Linux and IoT

Why attend LPC?

Learn from Experts: Gain deep technical knowledge from the engineers and maintainers building embedded Linux and related technologies.
Collaborate with Peers: Connect with a diverse community of developers, architects, and product managers solving real-world challenges.
Stay Ahead of the Curve: Discover emerging trends in areas such as real-time Linux, safety and security, power management, AI/ML, and more.

Whether you are a longtime embedded developer, a product architect exploring Linux-based solutions, or a newcomer interested in contributing to the ecosystem, ELC is the place to learn, network, and shape the future of embedded systems.
Dates to remember:

CFP Closes: Monday, February 9 at 1:59 AM CST (UTC-6) / Sunday, February 8 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC -8)
CFP Notifications: Monday, March 9
Schedule Announcement: Tuesday, March 12
Event Dates: Monday, May 18 – Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Submit your talk proposal here.
Learn more about the event here.

Open Source Summit - May 18-20, 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-20
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers and contributors. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward. It’s the home for code, community, and the people driving the future of open source.
Why Attend

Connect with the people shaping open source
Learn from maintainers, developers and community leaders
Discover emerging technologies and practical solutions you can use right away
Collaborate on ideas and code that move projects forward
Grow your skills, your network, and your career

Dates to remember

CFP Closes: Monday, February 9 at 1:59 AM CST (UTC-6) / Sunday, February 8 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC-8)
CFP Notifications: Monday, March 9
Schedule Announcement: Tuesday, March 12
Event Dates: Monday, May 18 – Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Learn more about CFP submission
Register for the event here
