ORT Community Day 2025
The ORT Community Day is an opportunity for anyone who is looking to automate open source management within their organization whether license, security or ways of working. At the event several ORT users will share how they use ORT to manage their open source usage or contributions so whether you are new to ORT or an existing user this is the event to meet, learn and create with other ORT users.
This year, the ORT Community Day will be part of the larger OpenChain & Friends event in Stuttgart, providing you with three days to engage and collaborate with other open source management professionals or interested parties.
The ORT Community Day will take place on Day 3 of the OpenChain & Friends event, specifically on April 9th, 2025, at Bosch Digital in Ludwigsburg, Germany. As previous years the event will be a mix of presentations, workshops, and round-table discussions covering a wide range of topics related to ORT, including best practices, technical deep-dives, and process development.
You can register yourself via the OpenChain & Friends registration page and simply select the days you would like to attend.
Please note that this is a community event and not a sales opportunity - vendors offering ORT related services are welcome as long as they are active contributors to the ORT community.
Below you can find the preliminary schedule - expect some slots to change.
| Agenda | Time | Session Details | Speaker(s) | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doors open and hallway track | 08:30 - 09:00 | |||
| Welcome words and participants poll | 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome follow by quick collaborative poll of attendees expectations and their #1 hot topic. | Community Day organizers | |
| Fireside chat with ORT TSC | 09:30 - 10:00 | Informal interview / Q&A session with the ORT technical steering committee | Panel with Marcel Bochtler, Martin Nonnenmacher & Thomas Steenbergen, moderated by Nikola Babadzhanov | |
| Eclipse Apoapsis | 10:00 - 10:30 | An progress update and demo on ORT Server | Martin Nonnenmacher (Bosch) | |
| Break | 10:30 - 10:45 | |||
| Open Source compliance at CARIAD | 10:45 - 11:30 | How CARIAD build its compliance processes on top of ORT | Helio Chissini de Castro (CARIAD/Volkswagen) | |
| Project OCCTET.eu - the why, what and how | 11:30 - 12:15 | The OCCTET project (Open Source Compliance Comprehensive Tools and Resources) is an EU-funded initiative aimed at improving cybersecurity and compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The project focuses on creating an open-source toolkit to automate the compliance process for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) used in digital products. | Andreas Kotulla (Bitsea), Martin von Willebrand (DoubleOpen) | |
| Lunch | 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch break | ||
| First Steps With ORT: An Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Experience | 13:15 - 13:45 |
Once upon a time, researchers at Ericsson developed Erlang/OTP, a programming language for the telecom industry. 39 years later, Erlang/OTP is used by the telecom, messaging, banking, and even game industry. Not only that, new languages were created and run on top of the Erlang BEAM virtual machine: Elixir, now a well-established language, and Gleam, the newest addition. The proliferation of libraries and languages powering the BEAM ecosystem led to the creation of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EFF),a foundation that caters for the BEAM ecosystem. Today, 39 years from the creation of Erlang, it is not an easy task to categorise and be compliant with the more than 13000 (total) files that make up Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam. Yet, Erlang and Elixir are OpenChain compliant, and Gleam compliance is work in progress. What steps took EEF towards making sure that Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam comply with the different licenses and copyrights? This presentation features the collaboration between the Erlang/OTP team (Ericsson) and the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF), and the steps taken, and experience of using ORT as a crucial part of the EEF Ecosystem. |
Kiko Fernández (Ericsson, Online talk) | |
| ORT roadmap roundtable | 13:45 - 14:45 | Roundtable on ORT roadmap -where and how can we work together on shared desired features, for example supporting SBOMs as input to ORT, refactor SPDX reporter to use SPDX official library | Moderated by Nikola Babadzhanov & Thomas Steenbergen | |
| Open speaker slot | 14:45 - 15:15 | |||
| Break | 15:15 - 15:30 | |||
| Workshop breakout | 15:30 - 16:30 | Workshop / roundable breakouts based on participants voted topics | ||
| Workshop recap & closing words | 16:30 - 17:00 | Discuss outcomes of breakout sessions and day wrap-up | Community Day organizers |
The ORT Community Day will held at Bosch Digital | Lb079 (Halle 8) Groenerstraße 5/1, 71636 Ludwigsburg, Germany
Please use the entrance from the Schwieberdinger Straße – behind the petrol station. Address for the navigation is Schwieberdinger Str. 70/1, 71636 Ludwigsburg.
Distance to the airport: 40 kilometers / Public Transport 1 Hour 10 Minutes
The Community Day will be under Chatham House Rule, ORT's Code of Conduct and the Linux Foundation's antitrust policy.
Note that photographs and video recordings may be taken at the event for publicity purposes by the ORT project. By attending this event you consent to being included in photographs and video recordings, if you do not wish to be included you must contact the community day organizers prior to the event.
The ORT Community Day brings together a unique mix of user and organizations all interested in automating open source management whether license, security or ways of working and sharing their experiences under Chatham house rule. To give you a better idea of past attendees and talks we recommend you have a look at last year's schedule.
Please the OpenChain & Friends registration to register yourself, if you run into any issues or have questions please email events@oss-review-toolkit.org.
Please email events@oss-review-toolkit.org with a proposal of your talk including title, abstract and your bio.
Yes you can, simple mention in your talk proposal email that you would like to present remotely.
ORT Community Day is an in-person event but for some talks the speaker maybe be presenting remotely via Microsoft Teams. If you are unable to attend in-person but would like to attend the remote speaker sessions, then please email events@oss-review-toolkit.org. Once the schedule is finalized we will send registered remote attendees a meeting invite with a Teams link.
Yes there is, if you or your organization is interested in sponsoring or willing to provide swag please email events@oss-review-toolkit.org.
You can reach the organizers at events@oss-review-toolkit.org or on the #events ORT Slack channel.
- Marcel Kurzmann - Bosch
- Nikola Babadzhanov - Bosch
- Thomas Steenbergen - OSSYN