Since we last gathered, the Eclipse community has had a terrific period of change, growth, and innovation. This talk is going to celebrate some of the people, projects, working groups, and members that make the Eclipse community a special place to collaborate on open technologies.
Digital autonomy has become a critical topic, especially in Europe. From new regulations such as the EC Data Act to industry initiatives such as GAIA-X, there is a strong movement towards achieving digital autonomy and providing a better market for technology. Perhaps the most critical areas of concern for digital autonomy are in consumer devices and cloud services. Two new open source initiatives at Eclipse, Oniro and Open Services Cloud, can provide a strong, open approach to achieving consumer choice, better data security, an open market for all, and true digital autonomy
There are some IT-borne technologies that are currently trending in automotive industry discussions: "containers," "devops," "cloud native," etc. Software-Defined Vehicle itself is something of a blanket term, which is used as a projection surface for all kinds of visionary ideas in the space of automotive software.
Ferdinand Tönnies set out to develop concepts that could be used as analytic tools for understanding why and how the social world is organized in "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft" (1887). What he couldn't realize is that he was giving us good tools for thinking about how open source software communities are organized and why there can be confusion and friction as project communities and non-profits mix.
A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich has showcased a software stack for fully autonomous driving on the racetrack at the Indianapolis and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway capable of speeds of up to 270kph and successful overtakes. This talk will present the technical architecture of the stack and the impact of open source projects such as ROS 2 on the success. Beyond the utilization of existing projects, there has been a strong spirit of collaboration between the race teams which has been coordinated as an open-source project.