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This year’s second SDV Community Days were held on 4-5 June at IAV’s offices in Gifhorn, Germany, providing a live stream for remote participants during the conference session. The event brought together around 130 Eclipse SDV community members and enthusiasts on-site and online to explore the latest advancements and challenges...

Open source is often described as a global movement, but for developers like Christopher Lumu, it’s also deeply personal. Born and raised in Uganda and trained in Computer Science, Christopher found in open source not just a career path but a purpose – a way to serve his community, his...

LMOS enables existing development teams to build and scale AI-driven cloud-native applications.

For the third part of our series of short interviews with the most active Eclipse SDV committers, we sat down with Frank Märkle from the Eclipse openDUT project for a quick interview. Eclipse openDuT is designed to streamline the testing and validation of automotive software and applications by offering a...

Some key highlights from the Eclipse SDV Community Days Q1 in Rotterdam.

The pathways into the automotive industry and the Eclipse SDV Working Group as are as diverse as software developers themselves. For the second part of our series of short interviews with the most active Eclipse SDV committers, we sat down with Kerstin Keller, maintainer of Eclipse eCAL , to find...

Curious about what draws individuals to the automotive industry and to the Eclipse SDV Working Group?This month, we're kicking off a new series of brief interviews with our most active Eclipse SDV committers.

Collaboration in the software-defined vehicle (SDV) space is not just a best practice; it’s a necessity. As the automotive industry shifts toward software-driven innovation, the role of open source becomes pivotal. However, fostering collaboration in a historically siloed industry presents both immense opportunities and significant challenges. At Open Community for...

An Interview with Frédéric Desbiens, Eclipse SDV ThreadX SIG Lead This year, the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle Working Group founded a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Eclipse ThreadX , a versatile and mature RTOS technology that has been at the forefront of embedded systems development since 1997. With a small...

While the so-called "Draghi Report", published by the European Commission in September 2024, primarily focuses on the transition to low- and zero-carbon mobility, it also provides valuable insights on SDVs and, implicitly, open source*, which we summarised in this post.