Open Source Delivers

GENIVI is the alliance of companies in the automotive supply chain jointly developing a Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI) platform. The All Member Meeting (AMM) in Barcelona drew about 400 attendees, mostly from Europe, though there were plenty of Americans and Asians as well. Highlights of the conference were previews of BMW’s  future GENIVI-based IVIs, Ford’s [...]

At long last, two automotive industry behemoths have mapped out a joint route to serve the growing community of automotive app developers.  This week, Ford Motor Company announced that it will contribute the software for their in-car smartphone app interface, AppLink™, to the GENIVI Alliance.  While this makes Ford the first American automaker to contribute [...]

This week, Black Duck announced the 2012 Open Source Rookies of the Year, recognizing the top new open source projects from this past year. Open Source Delivers blogger Dave Gruber wrote a post on the trends that were identified in the Rookies list. Before we get to recent news from the rest of the open [...]

While product launches, announcements and keynotes from CES seem to have taken over the web this week, a (somewhat) unlikely sector has made a lot of noise around open source technology… government. Not to be outdone by the recent open source news from Ubuntu and Ford, multiple government agencies have made news of their own [...]

With 2012 coming to a close and the New Year just around the corner, it’s a time for reflection and predictions.  A revolution of sorts began taking place in the auto industry over the last couple of years. New vehicles today contain over a 100 million lines of code, driving changes in automotive development. As [...]

The White House is officially a contributing member of the Drupal community, OpenMAMA turned one and there is a new mobile operating system in town. Check out these and other open source stories from this week: Gunnar Hellekson posted “Open Source Software Policy is Better Without Open Source” on opensource.com, arguing that if a development [...]

Last week I was pleased to moderate a panel on Super Communities in Embedded Systems at the Open World Forum in Paris, after which I addressed a group involved in starting a new embedded systems community. Super communities are specific to a vertical industry and are typically based on the idea of competitors and supply [...]

Each day, when I get in my car and drive to work I think about the software business I’m involved in. Yet it seldom occurs to me that there are over 1 million lines of code running in the car that I’m riding in -And it just works! No bugs, log files, no visible defects [...]

The Best of Open Source Software Awards (or Bossies, if you prefer) announced its winners this week. With seven categories and over a hundred products recognized, it is clearer than ever that open source is playing a major role in contributing to technology innovation across industries and categories. Take a look at a few of [...]

This week marks two major milestones for OSS-based automotive platform development. First, the GENIVI Alliance, an industry consortium of automotive OEMs and suppliers dedicated to building an open source in-vehicle infotainment platform, has opened three projects to the open source community, and stressed their continued dedication to open source-based IVI standards. The Linux Foundation will host these [...]