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Linux Foundation Europe | 30 July 2025
Welcome to the July 2025 LF Europe Newsletter. Get the latest LF Europe announcements, project and community updates, LF Education highlights, member CTAs, new research, and must-attend events. Dive in and stay connected.
Contents
- Exciting announcements from LF Europe
- Projects: Featured news
- LF Education highlights
- Member communications/CTA
- LF Research: Takeaways from the 2025 GOSIM Open Source AI Strategy Forum
- LF Europe Events: Mark your calendar!
- Follow us!
Exciting announcements from LF Europe
Reflections from the APELL Conference and OFE Capital Series – Warsaw
- Poland is embracing open source as a strategic pillar of its digital transformation. At the APELL Conference and OpenForum Europe’s event in Warsaw, national leaders and local communities explored the country’s new Digital Strategy 2035—marking the first time open source is officially on the national agenda.
- LF Europe's Paula Grzegorzewska, a native of Poland, shared insights on the country's untapped potential for open innovation, and the role open source can play in strengthening digital resilience and sovereignty.
- Read more and access the slides.
Projects: Featured news
Lights, camera, ready for action at Open Source in Finance Forum London, 2025
Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project
- Are you working on a safety-critical project or exploring how Linux can support safety-focused systems?
- The ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project will be at Open Source Summit Europe 2025, taking place August 25-27 in Amsterdam.
- As a Bronze Sponsor and key participant in the Safety-Critical Software Summit, ELISA will connect with developers, architects, and functional safety professionals building solutions across automotive, industrial, medical, and other regulated domains.
- Stop by Booth #29 to learn about ELISA’s mission, see live demos, explore tools and working group initiatives, and meet members of the project community. Read the blog to learn more.
OpenSSF
- OpenSSF Community Day Europe: 28 August, 2025
- Join the global security and open source community this August in Amsterdam for OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2025, a full day dedicated to driving innovation in open source security.
- Key topics this year include:
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- The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) – Learn what it means to be a "good CRA citizen" and how to manage open source dependencies under CRA.
- Supply Chain Security – From SLSA and Sigstore to real-world case studies on GitHub Actions, CI/CD vulnerabilities, and runtime security in Kubernetes.
- AI and Software Security – Explore cutting-edge insights from AIxCC and new open source AI tools helping secure software.
- Panels and Hands-On Discussions – Connect with maintainers, implementers, and industry leaders from Red Hat, Google, Ericsson, Datadog, Eclipse Foundation, and more.
- Don’t miss this chance to shape the future of secure open source software development. Register today.
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Project Sylva
- Sylva Summit Europe – 28 August 2025 | Amsterdam.
- Join the Sylva project for the Sylva Summit Europe, taking place alongside Open Source Summit Europe. This in-person gathering is your chance to connect with others driving the future of Telco Cloud & Edge.
- Simply add the Sylva Summit when registering for OSS EU.
- Register now!
Zephyr
- Zephyr Developer Summit 2025 is coming up soon. Taking place alongside Open Source Summit Europe from August 25-27 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre.
- The Zephyr Project Community including maintainers, developers, contributors, and users, will be there in person at Booth B23 with live demos, real-world Zephyr-powered products, and exclusive swags.
- The Zephyr track will feature sessions on security, tooling, real-world applications, and updates from across the ecosystem.
- Whether you are an experienced contributor or just getting started with Zephyr RTOS, there’s something for everyone.
- If you are working on a Zephyr-based product and want to showcase it, join the conversation in the #zds-2025-eu channel on Zephyr’s Discord. Read the full blog for all the event details and how to get involved.
LF Education highlights
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Member communications/CTA
Call for proposals now open: LF Europe Roadshow
- Join the conversation at the Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow as we bring together the open source community and policymakers to explore the impact of EU digital regulations. We’re inviting proposals on topics such as:
- Maintenance & Cybersecurity under the CRA
- AI Innovation & the EU AI Act
- Digital Sovereignty & Global Collaboration
- European Open Source Initiatives
- Submit your proposal by 11 August!
LF Research: Takeaways from the 2025 GOSIM Open Source AI Strategy Forum
The 2025 GOSIM Open Source AI Strategy Forum took place on May 5, 2025 in Paris, bringing together experts from industry, academia, civil society, and open source communities from around the world. LF Research, in partnership with Futurewei, is excited to share the findings and recommendations that came out of the Forum on the critical challenges facing global collaboration in open source AI.
LF Europe Events: Mark your calendar!
A summary of events we are organizing, partnering for, or are attending:
- Open Source Summit Europe
Aug 25–27 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe
Aug 28–29 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - OpenSSF Community Day Europe
Aug 28 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - Keyspace
Aug 28, 2025 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - Linux Security Summit Europe
Aug 28–29, 2025 / Amsterdam, Netherlands - OpenSSF Community Day Europe
Aug 28–29, 2025 / Amsterdam, Netherlands
To register for in-person attendance or virtual LF Europe events, please view our full calendar of events here, and be sure to subscribe to our events newsletter. Check out our Flickr stream for photos of past events!
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