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Putting the Railway Industry on the Open Source Track

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Talkat FOSS Backstage 2025 · 2025-03-10..03-11· [open-source]

speaker

name:Cornelius Schumacher
bluesky:cschum.bsky.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/XpZjfgyqTTg
slides:none on file

summary

OpenRail Association launches in 2024 to coordinate railway-specific open source, incubating five incubated projects across infrastructure simulation, timetable creation, freight digital coupling, track condition imaging and a linear reference library. The foundation reports 80 active committers, a Technical Committee that enforces open governance and stage-based incubation, tools like a compliance assistant that generates SBOMs and GitHub org management-as-code, and an OSR-style railway simulator already used for network and energy simulations though no project yet reaches multi-operator production adoption.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Introduction to open rail
  2. 3:57Why create a new foundation
  3. 7:31Open rail Association launch
  4. 12:23Incubation process explained
  5. 16:56Open governance principles
  6. 22:35Importance of communication
  7. 25:01Lessons and next steps
  8. 26:04Q&A with audience

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