Open Source aerospace software development in Europe

10/15/03 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Adam Przybyla runs POLSEK which is a Polish space advocacy blog. Adam has an article on the Second Galileo Software Engineering Workshop GSOFT 2003 which is currently going on. What caught his eye was this section of the agenda: bq. Technical Session 5: Open Source Software - Open Standards (Chairman: Gérard Bulsa/Maxime Perrotin)

16:00 - 16:20 “The Rationale for Open Source Software and Open Standards” (Peter Claes, ESA/GPO)

16:20 - 16:50 “Montavista Linux RTOS for Galileo” (Peter Van Ackeren, Montavista)

16:50 - 17:20 “Experiences with the Use and Selection of Open Source Components” (Ir. Marco Nijdam, West Consulting BV)

17:20 - 17:45 Round Table (Chaired by ESA/GPO)

Update: while we're both chatting on IRC, he found some interesting presentations from the 2003 DASIA conference that is held by the EuroSpace association of European Space Industry. Many of the presentations are for aerospace software projects that are being run using Open Source techniques.