On 1 and 2 February 2025, FOSDEM 2025, Europe’s largest event gathering free and open-source software developers and enthusiasts, will take place in Brussels, Belgium, at the Université libre de Bruxelles .
For the third time in a row, there will be a railway and open transport devroom coordinated by several OpenRail stakeholders. This devroom will be hosted on Sunday afternoon, one of the busiest sessions, attracting a large number of Open Source developers, enthusiasts, railway fans, and active members. There will be a perfect opportunity for the wider community to meet, learn and connect.
The call for presentations is open until 1 December 2024 on the following topics:
- Dealing with schedules, timetables, and live train and public transport information
- Simulating network behaviour, traffic, dispatching, and schedules
- Open approaches to transport interoperability and standards
- Operating infrastructure and vehicles, open source in a safety-critical environment
- Information systems for trains, stations, infrastructure, etc.
- Geo software, mapping, and navigation tools
- Accessibility assistants for travellers
- Railway games
- Research topics, AI applications, augmented reality, and conversational user interfaces
- Booking, tickets, travel planning
- …Or any other interesting topic not mentioned above
Information on how to submit proposals is available on the devroom landing page.
For more information on the last edition, please feel free to have a look at the 2024 talks and recordings.
FOSDEM is the largest European event dedicated to free and open-source software, attended by more than 8 000 people and 600 lecturers, and is shared via live streaming each year. For further information about this non-commercial event, please click here.
https://openrailassociation.org/news/2024/railways-and-open-transport-track-at-fosdem-2025/
