Keynote: Challenges in Industrializing OSS and How Siemens Tackles Them
summary
Siemens describes concrete practices for industrializing OSS: stabilizing Debian/Linux stacks for products with 50-year lifetimes, running an upstream-first workflow that tries to avoid thousands — even hundreds of thousands — of local vendor patches, and creating a bill of materials and SPDX-style compliance process that actually catches license issues before release. Examples include internal tooling for tracking patches, qualification test cycles measured in years, and policies that force contributors to push fixes upstream.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Siemens and OSS challenges
- 2:14Industrializing open source
- 4:16Long lifecycle requirements
- 6:42Regulatory and quality constraints
- 8:45Upstream-first approach
- 10:18Supplier integration with OSS
- 13:10Embedded OSS technologies
- 14:06License compliance in OSS
- 15:50Compliance reporting strategies
- 17:32Q&A
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