ELISA Project

Yuichi Kusakabe (Honda Motor Co., Ltd.) presents Driving Innovation: How Open Source Automotive Communities Accelerate the Future of Mobility at #LFMemberSummit 2026. From Automotive Grade Linux, The Xen Project, The Zephyr Project, and ELISA Project to software-defined vehicle technologies, this session explores how Linux Foundation backed communities are enabling interoperability, safety, and faster innovation across the automotive ecosystem. Discover how open source lowers barriers, reduces duplicated effort, and accelerates time-to-market for the future of mobility. https://hubs.la/Q043HzSr0 #opensource #ZephyrRTOS

Is the ELISA Project producing a safe Linux distribution?🤔 No, the Project is not producing a safe Linux distribution. Instead, the Project provides a neutral space for open source and safety communities to collaborate so that common tools, methods, processes and documentation can be defined and maintained to help companies more easily demonstrate that a specific Linux-based system meets the necessary requirements for safety certification. More questions❓Check this out: https://hubs.la/Q042RhW80 #ELISAproject #safety #linux #functionalsafety

In this blog, Alessandro Carminati (NVIDIA) explores /dev/mem as a powerful but dangerous relic of early Linux—and what it really takes to test it safely today. The post walks through why modern security, memory layouts, and configuration options like STRICT_DEVMEM radically change its behavior, and why “successful” reads or writes don’t always mean correct ones. The blog also shows how careful testing can be built using tools like /proc/iomem and userspace techniques to avoid crashing systems, turning historical kernel knowledge into practical tests. Read the blog: https://hubs.la/Q042Rh6h0

As #opensource and safety (and security) communities work more closely together, documentation becomes a key way to demonstrate disciplined development practices. In this ELISA Seminar, Peter Brink (UL Solutions / ELISA ambassador) presents a practical, flexible framework for evaluating open-source documentation designed to adapt across projects and contexts. The talk walks through clear evaluation criteria (clarity, correctness, consistency, verifiability, maintainability, compliance, and more), plus the metadata and review workflow needed to make documentation review repeatable and auditable. A strong theme throughout: language is inherently imprecise, so teams need structure, traceability, and collaborative review habits to minimize systematic error. The session also looks at real-world tooling, from Git-based workflows to purpose-built review tools. https://hubs.la/Q042Rh4b0

In this blog, Paul Albertella, ELISA Project TSC member and consultant at Codethink, reflects on how #opensource communities are tackling the challenge of building safety-critical systems. Based on multi-day workshops and cross-project discussions, the blog explores why safety is best understood at the system level, how transparency and process discipline help build trust, and how open source projects are addressing certification, traceability, hardware–software responsibilities, and continuous delivery in safety contexts. The blog shows how collaboration across industries from automotive to aerospace and medical, along with frameworks like the Trustable Software Framework, is helping open source projects develop practical, credible approaches to safety. Read the full blog to see how open source is reshaping safety culture through openness, iteration, and shared learning. https://hubs.la/Q042RdLp0

This Sunday is your LAST CHANCE to submit your content for the Safety-Critical Software track at Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America in May! Submit to speak by February 15 here: https://hubs.la/Q042WNnS0 ELISA Project The Linux Foundation #OSSummit #opensource #EmbeddedLinux #embedded Kate Stewart Min Yu Susan Remmert Maemalynn Nokdhes Meanor Philipp Ahmann Gabriele Paoloni

In an ELISA seminar - Introduction to Requirements Engineering, Peter Brink from UL Solutions shared practical insights into the fundamentals of requirements engineering and why they are especially important for safety-critical and open source projects. The session explored what makes good requirements (clear, atomic, testable, and implementation-free), how teams know when requirements are “done,” and how discipline, traceability, and iteration reduce risk. It also covered techniques like EARS syntax, common pitfalls such as ambiguity, and the challenges of managing requirements when code comes first, as often happens in open source. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q042R8mc0 #opensource #ELISAproject #functionalsafety #safety #linux

🚀 ELISA Annual Updates start tomorrow — and registration is still open! Join us on February 11–12 for two days of insights from the ELISA Working Groups and SIGs. Whether you're already involved or curious about open-source enablement for safety‑critical systems, this is a great opportunity to get up to speed on: • Key milestones from 2025 • Current focus areas across all WGs • What’s coming in 2026 • How to get involved and collaborate I’ll kick off Day 1 with a short project overview before we dive into updates from the Engineering Process, Systems & Automotive, Safety Architecture, and Linux Features for Safety‑Critical Systems groups. Day 2 continues with aerospace, space, tooling, and Lighthouse SIG insights — plus a wrap-up with final thoughts. Event details here: https://lnkd.in/eT6bkAGf 👉 Free registration is still open: https://lnkd.in/e-2QErJW Once registered, you’ll receive joining details and calendar invites. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

The ELISA Project Seminar Series continues with a new session on “From Requirements to Code: Managing End-to-End Traceability with BASIL.” This free seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, from 7:00–8:00 AM Pacific (14:00–15:00 UTC / 15:00–16:00 CET). In this talk, Luigi Pellecchia, Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat and BASIL Maintainer, will explore BASIL, the open source requirements and traceability management tool under the ELISA Project. The session will cover how BASIL helps teams connect specifications, requirements, test artifacts, documentation, and source code through flexible traceability matrices, traceability-as-code, role-based permissions, and AI-driven workflow guidance, while integrating with existing test infrastructures. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/dAjEAQXR #opensource #safety #functionalsafety #linux #ELISAproject

ELISA Project was excited to engage with the open source community at FOSDEM through BoFs, talks and great conversations on advancing Linux in safety critical systems. Thanks to everyone who joined us in Brussels 🇧🇪🍻🍟See you at FOSDEM 2027. Philipp Ahmann Nicole Pappler Kate Stewart Maemalynn Nokdhes Meanor Min Yu Ramón Roche Linux Foundation Europe