Linux Foundation Europe Newsletter - September 2025

Welcome to the September 2025 edition of the LF Europe Newsletter. This issue features exclusive news and announcements from across the LF Europe community--highlighting the latest updates from our projects, training opportunities with LF Education, and a 'last chance' research survey opportunity. Explore the lineup of events--including details around a week of Open Source Events in Belgium.

Read on to stay informed, engaged, and connected with the vibrant LF Europe community.

Contents

• Exciting news + announcements from LF Europe 
• Projects: Featured news
• LF Education highlights
• LF Research: Last chance to take the Cloud Native Survey!
• LF Europe Events: Mark your calendar!
• Follow us!

Exciting News + announcements from LF Europe

• Open is Sovereign: A Vision for Europe's Digital Future
  In his keynote, "Open is Sovereign," Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe, offers a clear path forward. He explains that true technological autonomy comes from active leadership within the global open source ecosystem, not from isolation. This approach uses the world's shared technology to build a more innovative, secure, and economically strong Europe.
  • Watch the keynote to understand how global collaboration is essential for a sovereign digital future.

Projects: Featured news

Sticker swag @ LF Energy Summit Europe 2025

ELISA Project

• eLSA Symposium, Göttingen, Germany | The eLSA Symposium has been initiated 2025 to support enabling the utilization of open source software in (highly) regulated context, mainly functional safety and security. The idea is to bring together academia with peers from industry from different domains. The symposium is for everybody, who:
  • utilizes open source software in safe and secure embedded systems
  • wonders how to utilize and maintain open source software in regulated context
  • works on methods and tools used to qualify open source software
• At this symposium, ELISA Project ambassador Philipp Ahmann (ETAS GmbH) will be presenting a talk on “Code, Compliance, and Confusion: Open Source in Safety-Critical Products“. Learn more about the talk.

OpenSSF

• Successful week at Open Source Summit Europe & OpenSSF Community Day 2025. From August 25-28, 2025, the open source security community gathered in Amsterdam for Open Source Summit Europe and OpenSSF Community Day Europe. Over four days, developers, maintainers, policymakers, and security leaders explored the future of open source  security through keynotes, sessions, demos, and workshops.
  
  
  • Highlights included discussions on regulatory readiness, secure build pipelines, SBOM accuracy, and AI/ML integrations, along with live demos and Ask Me Anything sessions at the OpenSSF booth.
  • OpenSSF Community Day featured more than two dozen sessions, keynote insights, and a Tabletop Exercise simulating a real-world incident response. It also celebrated the Golden Egg Awards, honoring Ben Cotton, Kairo de Araujo, Katherine Druckman, Eddie Knight, and Georg Kunz for their leadership and dedication to securing open source.
• Looking ahead:
  • OpenSSF will continue its European engagement this fall at the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit (October 28) and the LF Europe Roadshow (October 29) in Ghent, where it will host the CRA in Practice: Secure Maintenance track.
  • On October 30, OpenSSF will co-host the European Open Source Security Forum with CEPS in Brussels, uniting open source leaders, policymakers, and security experts. Stay tuned to the OpenSSF events calendar for updates.
• Thank you to everyone who joined us in Amsterdam for a week of knowledge sharing and collaboration. OpenSSF Community Day session recordings are available on YouTube and photos on Flickr.

Rise

• October is nearly upon us! The RISE Project is gearing up for our largest RISC-V event - the RISC-V Summit North America in Santa Clara, California. This event brings over 1000 RISC-V silicon providers, software developers, verification engineers, and enthusiasts together for three memorable days.
  • The first day - this year on Tuesday, 21 October - is Member Day, often the only time of the year when many of the 80+ working groups in RISC-V International meet in person, and also host to RISC-V 101, a half day of seminars introducing people to the RISC-V community and explaining what it’s all about, including speakers from RISE Project member companies. The second and third days include the conference itself, packed with RISC-V content and featuring a tradeshow floor with dozens of booths and a Developer Zone full of hardware and software demonstrations.
  • Wednesday also features a co-located event, the RISC-V Developer Workshops - a full day of training sessions and hands-on workshops, steeply discounted and with financial aid available to enable anyone to attend. RISE Project is a proud sponsor of this event as well.
• To cap things off, make sure to visit the RISE Project website for updates on all of the working groups and RFC efforts. You can also find a video recap of our September webinar on AI/ML workloads, presented in cooperation with RISC-V International.

Zephyr Project

• Markt&Technik’s Cyber Resilience Act Summit: Munich, Germany
  The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) sets new cybersecurity requirements for all connected products, with full implementation due by 2027. At the Markt&Technik CRA Summit, experts will share strategies to make embedded systems “CRA-safe.” 
  
  • Don’t miss Nicole Pappler, Zephyr Project’s functional safety expert, presenting how open source projects like Zephyr address CRA requirements through SBOMs, long-term security support, CVE processes, and vendor-neutral governance. Learn more.
• Zephyr Developer Forum: Munich, Germany
  The Zephyr Developer Forum, hosted by Elektronik on October 14, 2025 in Munich, will explore Zephyr’s growing role in IoT and embedded systems. The event addresses key questions on hardware support, performance, safety, and security, with talks from Zephyr Project community developers highlighting its technical strengths and long-term benefits. Learn more.
• Zephyr Project Meetup: Copenhagen, Denmark
  Join the Zephyr Project community at Microsoft Offices in Copenhagen, hosted by Mjølner Informatics on October 28, 2025. This gathering is for anyone who’s curious about open source, embedded systems programming, and software development. CFPs are now closed, thank you for the many great submissions! Learn more.

LF Education highlights

🍂 Bundle Up with Savings 🍂

Save up to 75% on training and certification bundles from Linux Foundation Education. Whether you’re leveling up your skills or preparing for your next certification, now’s the perfect time to lock in big savings. Hurry—offer ends September 26!

LF Research: Last chance to take the Cloud Native Survey!

Since their inception, the CNCF’s annual cloud native surveys have defined the trends and priorities in the cloud community. What will this year’s cloud native narrative be? Help us shape it today, before the survey closes on Friday, September 26!

LF Europe Events: Mark your calendar!

From Strategy to Policy: A Week of Open Source Events in Belgium.

This October, we are hosting three distinct events in Belgium, each designed for a specific part of the open source ecosystem. The week is structured to move from high-level strategy to hands-on practice and finally to direct policy engagement, offering a complete overview of the state of open source in Europe.

• Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit!

  
  • Focus: This summit is for executives and senior leaders to set the strategy for Europe's digital future. The agenda focuses on digital sovereignty and large-scale industry collaboration in a hands-on, working session format.

• Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow

  • Focus: A public event headlined by a keynote from Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament. As a digital expert and leading advocate for digital sovereignty, MEP Geese was a key negotiator of the Digital Services Act and is a co-founder of the Eurostack initiative. Following her keynote, the day will feature two tracks for developers, SMEs, and compliance professionals: a practical deep-dive on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and a showcase of key LF Europe projects, with discussions on AI and funding the digital commons. 

• European Open Source Security Forum!

  • Focus: Co-hosted with the OpenSSF and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), this forum brings the open source community together with European policymakers. The goal is to advance the conversation on technology security and regulation.

• OSPOlogyLive Europe

  • Join Linux Foundation Europe, alongside hosts Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) and LF Energy, for the sixth edition of OSPOlogyLive Europe in Lyon. This gathering is your opportunity to connect with peers and help shape the future of open source management, strategy, and Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) within Europe.
  • This year’s discussion will focus on three critical areas:

• • • Energy, Academia, and Industry Collaboration: Explore use cases for building resilient bridges between public, industrial, and academic players through open source.
    • Security, Sovereignty, and Investment: Learn how open source contributes to a digitally sovereign Europe and shapes national technology strategies.
    • Long-Term Software Strategy and Regulations: Understand the impact of evolving legislation and SBOM adoption on open source risk management.
  • This is an intimate, in-person event, and attendance is free but strictly limited to 50 people to ensure valuable discussions and networking. Spots are filling up quickly. Learn More →

Additional upcoming events:

• Cloud Foundry Day Europe 
  Oct 7, 2025 / Frankfurt, Germany
• OpenInfra Summit Europe
  Oct 17–19, 2025 / Paris, France
• PromCon Europe
  Oct 21–22, 2025 / Munich, Germany

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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