As December is upon us for the 2nd time in this SIG's history, we want to take a bit of time to reflect on the amazing work done over the past year, and to give a glimpse of what we will be working on in 2023.

This year, the Automotive SIG celebrated its first anniversary. We now have a robust repository housed within the CentOS domain, open to contributions by the public - and indeed we had our first contributor from outside Red Hat in October (thanks CJ!), which is a great example of the value we hope we are bringing to automotive Linux development. In addition to the repositories, we have a strong nightly build structure providing a continuous stream of images that are easy to download and get running via QEMU or on a Raspberry Pi 4. The image uses Stream 9 components with a customized (real time) kernel, a good example of CentOS Stream based development, and a fun and interesting project.

Since the anniversary, we have also implemented support for the growing SOAFEE specification, including a SOAFEE compatible image and (now? soon?) support for the Autoware Open AD Kit through its SOAFEE blueprint, released in November.

In the upcoming year, we will continue to build software as well as relationships with SOAFEE, Eclipse SDV, and many other open SDV-oriented communities. We have also fielded interest about new hardware, and in the first part of next year we will be developing guidelines around porting and support - how to get AutoSD running, and how to bring that support into our CI/CD system.

Our next meeting is set for January 4 at 7am PST / 4pm CET. We hope you will join us to talk about plans for the next year and whatever is on your mind regarding software-defined vehicles. Meanwhile we hope you have a good holiday season!

Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | jefro@redhat.com Red Hat Office of the CTO | Sr. Principal Community Architect, Automotive