COOL is an OSADL webinar series. COOL is intended to take place regularly once a month and covers current as well as recurring topics around Open Source software in industry. COOL webinars are held in English language. Participation is free of cost.

COOL event page - Registration - COOL presentations and video clips

COOL webinars in the first half of 2025:

• The COOL spring series has ended.
• COOL is taking a break from May to August 2025 and will return in September with many new and emerging legal and technical topics on Open Source in industry.

Upcoming COOL webinars in the second half of 2025

• Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 2pm to 4pm CEST - Legal COOL:
  OSADL CRA Policy Template and Typical Questions on CRA Application
• Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 2pm to 4pm CEST - Technical COOL:
  Contributing to Open Source: Background, Maintainer's Perspective and a Company's Experience
• Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 2pm to 4pm CET - Legal COOL:
  News from the OSSelot Project and Integration of Source Code Provenance Analysis
• Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 2pm to 4pm CET - Technical COOL:
  Current Status of Low-Code/No-Code Systems and Demonstration of a Practical Example

Details and more information on the COOL fall editions will be available soon.

HOT = Heidelberg OSADL Talks are an online training course where participants get an overview on the basic legal (Legal HOT) and technical (Technical HOT) aspects of using Open Source software in industry and will learn how OSADL can provide support.

The HOT material consists of a collection of videos and presentations that are provided through the OSADL website. 

HOT overview page - HOT training material - Presentations and video clips (Member or HOT participant login required to display the videos and presentations; Non-members may request individual access. Please write to infoªosadl.org)

OSADL will have a booth at the SPS smart production solutions - international exhibition for industrial automation - which will take place from November 25 to 27, 2025 in Nuremberg/Germany. Would you like to learn how Open Source software can be successfully used in industry - e.g. in a license-compliant manner, with appropriate software performance such as real-time, withstanding security attacks and under mission-critical conditions? Then visit the OSADL booth at the joint stand "Automation meets IT - Special Feature Cybersecurity" in hall 6, booth 6-350F. We are very much looking forward to meeting you there!

SPS website - OSADL at SPS in Nuremberg

The Cyber Resilience Act Summit on October 13 and 14, 2025 in Garching near Munich will provide insights on how best to proceed to ensure that products containing “digital elements” comply with the Cyber Resilience Act. OSADL will be exhibiting at the CRA Summit. If you are attending the event, we cordially invite you to stop by the OSADL desk for a chat on how Open Source software can successfully be used in industry especially with regard to the fulfillment of CRA requirements. We look forward to meeting you in Garching!

Cyber Resilience Act Summit Website 

The OSADL Networking Day 2025 will take place on June 26, 2025 in Heidelberg/Germany. The main topic of this year's Networking Day will be: Tools for Embedded Software Engineering - Compliance, Quality Testing, Security.

The conference session will feature a mix of theoretical insights and practical demonstrations:

• Morning sessions will provide a comprehensive overview of available tools for compliance, quality testing and security.

• Afternoon breakout sessions will take a closer look at selected tools and demonstrate how they actually work in practice.

Following the conference session, participants are invited to continue networking at an evening event.

OSADL Networking Day event page - Agenda - Registration - Presentations and video clips (previous member or participant login required)

The Ordinary General Assembly 2025 of the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG will take place on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in virtual form. Please save the date.

More information in English language will be available on the "General Assembly page with agenda in English" (member login required).

Die ordentliche Generalversammlung 2025 der Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG findet am Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2025 in virtueller Form statt. Bitte merken Sie sich den Termin vor.

Weitere Informationen in deutscher Sprache werden in Kürze auf der "Generalversammlungsseite mit Tagesordnung auf deutsch" verfügbar sein.

General Assembly page with agenda in English - Generalversammlungsseite mit Tagesordnung auf deutsch - Presentations OSADL General Assembly/Präsentationen OSADL Generalversammlung (Member login required/Mitgliederlogin erforderlich)

OSADL is cooperation partner of the Open Chain and Friends event in Stuttgart from April 7 to April 9, 2025. In case you will be attending the event, we would like to cordially invite you to pass by the OSADL desk and/or OSSelot desk for a chat on the ways Open Source software can successfully be used in industry in a license-compliant way and with adequate software performance. We would be pleased to meet you in Stuttgart!

Open Chain and Friends event page

This year's Hannover Messe will once again include the topic of embedded systems & solutions into the field of interest of the exhibition. Since embedded systems are also the DNA of OSADL, OSADL decided to be part of this year's Hannover Messe from March 31 to April 4, 2025 and become exhibitor at the Embedded Systems & Solutions special event. The so-called "Embedded Park" at Hannover Messe is located in hall 009 and OSADL can be found at booth F76/3.

The Hannover Messe is another opportunity to meet OSADL and better understand how OSADL can help companies that use Open Source software in products and how Open Source software can successfully be used in industry – for example in a license-compliant way, with adequate software performance such as real-time, withstanding security attacks and under mission-critical conditions, etc.

In addition, we would like to invite you to attend the free OSADL talks on Open Source at the Speakers Corner of Embedded Park:

• Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 14:20 - 14:40: Open Source meets Industry: A receipe for success?! Jan Altenberg, OSADL
• Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 13:55 - 14:15: A FOSS and CRA compliance policy: Exploiting the overlap, Caren Kresse, OSADL

Interested? Then we would be delighted to welcome you at OSADL's booth F76/3 in hall 009 at this year's Hannover Messe. You may register for a free ticket using the following link: Hannover Messe Free eTicket Registration

Would you like to learn about the ways Open Source software can successfully be used in industry - for example in a license-compliant way, with adequate software performance such as real-time, withstanding security attacks and under mission-critical conditions? Then do not miss the OSADL booth in hall 4, booth 4-168 at the embedded world Exhibition 2025 from March 11 to 13, 2025 in Nuremberg/Germany. We are looking forward to meeting you in person there again!

In addition, we would like to invite you to attend the free OSADL talk on Open Source at the Exhibitor's Forum Hall 3 (3-611):

• Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 12:00 to 12:30: A FOSS and CRA compliance policy: Exploiting the overlap, Caren Kresse OSADL

For free admission to the embedded world Exhibition you may register online at embedded-world.de/voucher (English) or embedded-world.de/gutschein (German) using the voucher code ew25543064.

embedded world Exhibition 2025 website

The embedded world Conference will take place from March 11 to March 13, 2025 in Nuremberg/Germany.

Here is an overview of OSADL's activities at the embedded world Conference 2025:

11.03.2025 Class 2.2 - Embedded GNU/Linux for safety-related systems

• 09:30 - 13:00: Embedded GNU/Linux for Safety-related Systems - Options and Pitfalls, Nicholas Mc Guire, OSADL

12.03.2025 Expert Panels 2025 - Implementing the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

• 11:30 - 12:30: Participants: Dr. Julien Bernet, Witekio – Mark Hermeling, CodeSecure – Caren Kresse, OSADL

12.03.2025 Session 2.4 Embedded OS - Developing with Embedded Linux

• 11:00 - 11:30: Running Sandboxed Programs in the Linux Kernel - Practical Use cases for eBPF, Jan Altenberg, OSADL

12.03.2025 Session 5.13 Software and Systems Engineering - Test Processes and Strategies

• 10:00 - 10:30: 20 Years of Embedded Linux Quality Testing - Lessons Learned, Alexander Bähr, OSADL

For more details and the complete embedded world Conference program, please visit complete program of embedded world Conference 2025

Please note that the embedded world conference is a paid event and attendees have to register separately from the embedded world Exhibition. However, the Expert Panel - Implementing the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) takes place in the exhibition hall (Exhibitor's Forum Hall 5 | Booth 5-210) and may therefore be attended by any visitor of the exhibition without extra charge.

embedded world Conference 2025 website, program and registration details