[cjakeman]

Open Rails has been invited to FOSDEM 2023 - Sat 4 & Sun 5 February 2023



FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

For 2023, the event has been extended to provide a topic on "Railways and Open Transport" which is described as:

"We are interested in presentations on any topic related to Free and Open Source Software in the context of railways and public transport. Possible topics include:

* Dealing with schedules, time tables, live information about trains
* Geo software, mapping tracks, stations, routing
* Accessibility assistants for travellers
* Information systems for trains, stations, infrastructure
* Simulation of network behavior, running trains, dispatching, schedules
* Implementation of railway-related standards
* Railway games
* Research topics, AI applications, AR, conversational UI
* Booking, tickets, travel planning"

Although Open Rails received an invitation to present a paper on "Railways and Open Transport", it was received with apologies just yesterday and the deadline for submitting an abstract of the paper is today ! Much too short to find a topic and a speaker. Perhaps for 2024?

I wonder if any of our members would like to attend (it's free) and perhaps tell us a bit about it?

[Aldarion]

wow.
that is very nice. It's a good recognition mark!
But I wonder if the 2024 edition will have that topic on railways...

[Weter]

I'd offer the report about using ORTS for physicaly-accurate reconstruction of heritage rolling stock, as well, as historically-accurate reconstruction of railway-line's scenery, thanking to wide opportunities to pick existent, or to create original models.
So, it helps to keep railroad and more wide history, giving to users an immersive way to touch that history.

Good example would be Chiltern route project.

• An ongoing, perspective project;
  
• Using GitHub for handling end-user's content up to date
  
• Using ORTS physics and TSRE5 route building capability
  
• Showing lines in their historical condition with appropriate scenery, static&rolling stock models.
  
• Being a tribute to British steam era on it's after-War peak.

[zhungaosu]

good