Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020

Bosch as well as many other industrial companies use GNU/Linux as an operating system for a large portion of the devices they produce in particular in the IoT context. While Linux distributions have done a great job to compile and maintain a consistent set of packages to provide the software stack for these devices it still requires huge extra efforts to fulfil the increasing requirements over the entire device life cycle that is currently done internally for each device. As it is based on open source the question is if a significant part of this work could also be done in an open source way with all the positive effects that we can see in the community. There are first approaches already in the open, like Apertis (https://www.apertis.org/) or the CIP project (https://www.cip-project.org). In this panel, we want to discuss with partners from the industry and service companies about the need and possibilities of this approach and raise the question to the audience about their experiences and potential needs in this area and how we can together improve the situation for us all.