We are happy to co-organize the Railways and Open Transport devroom at #FOSDEM 2026, and welcome your proposals.

Are you working with #OpenSource in this space? Do you have practical insights and lessons abour operations, traveller info, data analytics, or standards to share? Then submit it!

Key information:
📅 30 Nov: submission deadline
📌 31 Jan & 1 Feb 2026 in Brussels
ℹ️ Call for Participation with all details: https://github.com/OpenRailAssociation/FOSDEM/blob/main/2026-cfp.md

Looking forward to your proposals and the event!

🚆💡 Save the Date – OpenRail Day @Paris

On 17 Dec 2025, OpenRail Association will gather the community in Paris for its first public event.
A full day of project demos, inspiring talks, workshops & networking to explore how open source is transforming #railways.

ℹ️ More info soon 👉 https://openrailassociation.org

#OpenRail #OpenRailDay #Railway #Paris #OpenSource #RailInnovation

🚄 We partned with SBB, DB & ÖBB to organize the #Hack4Rail hackathon in Bern. 170 railway and tech enthusiasts, also from SNCF, Infrabel & Flatland, worked in 21 teams to solve real challenges with #OpenSource solutions.

We established open collaboration from day one, ensuring innovative projects are sustained, and supported the whole event with FOSS infrastructure, e.g. @nextcloud and @matrix.

Check out the video for event highlights. We look forward to further collaboration!

#OpenRail

🎉 The first year of real Open Source collaboration in the railway sector - let's look back!

OK, actually it's been more than a year already, but we've finished our first actual report which was exciting for us. We had high hopes when we started #OpenRail, but onboarding 5 projects and enlarging the membership to 8 organisations from 2 continents has been nothing but a blast 💥

The hardest part is yet to come: establishing collaboration by #OpenSource as the default in the #railway industry 💪

"Putting the Railway Industry on the Open Source Track" - this is what Cornelius Schumacher is talking right now about at #FOSSbackstage.

He explains why #OpenRail Association has been founded, shares experiences of the first year in operation with the crowd, and presents our projects and opportunities for collaboration.

https://25.foss-backstage.de/session/putting-the-railway-industry-on-the-open-source-track/

#fossback

Last call for submissions for the #railway and open #transportation devroom at #FOSDEM 📢

We are looking forward to interesting proposals and a great lineup. You will find all required info here: https://github.com/OpenRailAssociation/FOSDEM/blob/main/2025-cfp.md

See you in Brussels!

🎤 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝘁 𝗙𝗢𝗦𝗗𝗘𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!

Once again, we will organise a half-day track at Europe's largest #OpenSource conference #FOSDEM. We welcome you to give a talk about anything open* in the wide space of #railway and #transportation.

📅 Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2024
ℹ️ All information and links for submissions: https://github.com/OpenRailAssociation/FOSDEM/blob/main/2025-cfp.md

We are looking forward to interesting proposals and meeting you in Brussels next year!

#OpenRail #devroom @fosdem

The Open Source movement within the railway sector grows 🎉
Three organisations joined the OpenRail Association: Infrabel from Belgium, Entur from Norway, and Flatland Association from Switzerland. They will contribute to the #OpenSource ecosystem and culture of collaboration we are creating together for the whole #railway and #transportation sector.

Curious about the details? Find the member organisations at #InnoTrans and check out the news: https://openrailassociation.org/news/2024/three-new-members-have-joined-openrail-association/

#openrail

Whoever thinks that #OpenSource doesn't play a vital role in railways and transportation, has been proven wrong at FOSDEM.

For the second time, team members of the OpenRail Association have coordinated the Railways and Open Transport devroom at #FOSDEM. 4 hours, 10 talks, constantly 100+ participants 🎉

➡ Have a look at the program and the recordings which we have listed in our report: https://openrailassociation.org/news/2024/recordings-of-the-fosdem-railways-and-open-transport-devroom-available/

#OpenRail #foss #fosdem2024 #railways #transportation