Yoshitake Kobayashi

Civil infrastructure systems, such as Power generation and distribution, industrial IoT gateways, healthcare devices, traffic control systems are essential systems to keep our society. Debian has already run on many kind of controllers for civil infrastructure systems, however there are gaps that need to be solved, for example such kind of systems has to survive for 10-50 years. To fill the gap, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project has launched to create an open source “base layer” of industrial grade software with Debian as a reference distribution. CIP has already started to contribute Debian related projects. In this talk, Yoshitake will start brief introduction of CIP. Then move to explain the latest status for CIP's activities which include collaboration with Debian. Finally, he will show CIP's technical roadmap to discuss how CIP can collaborate with Debian to make more sustainable base-layer.

Debian runs on many kind of civil infrastructure embedded systems, such as industrial IoT gateways, healthcare devices, trafic control systems or power plant turbine controllers. The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project has started the creation of an open source "base layer" of industrial grade software to enable the use and implementation of software building blocks in civil infrastructure projects. To make this "base layer", we think that Debian is one of the most important projects to collaborate with. CIP member companies have experience making products based on Debian, not only from binary packages but also source packages. In this talk, Yoshitake will explain why CIP members use Debian and how they adapt Debian for each use case: * How to create customized root file systems based on Debian source or binary packages. * How to fix Debian source code for cross-compiling. * OSS license compliance. * Long-term maintenance industrial requirements. Yoshitake would also like to discuss how to contribute and collaborate with the Debian project.