2026-09-02 –, Room4
The first hard requirements of the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) comes into effect in September of this year. Attend this talk to learn more about what this means for you, your employer, and our open source community.
This presentation provides a catch-up on what the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is, and what it looks to accomplish, and where we are in the roll out and effect of this new regulation.
Focus is on a critical September 2026 "Reporting" Deadline which we are all preparing for.
We will also look ahead to 2027 when cyber resiliency act requirements will start to affect the release process.
Understanding and meeting these changes is something to plan for:
- We will look at a "sensible response" established by several Open Source Geospatial Foundation projects.
- One positive development has been the formalization of software foundation - allowing OSGeo to act as a "Software Steward" providing our software teams a lot more breathing room.
- We will also look at recommendations for individuals and companies that contribute to free and open source software.
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
I make my conference contribution available under the CC BY 4.0 license. The conference contribution comprises the abstract, the text contribution for the conference proceedings, the presentation materials as well as the video recording and live transmission of the presentation:
Jody Garnett is an open source developer and advocate working with GeoCat Canada. He has over 20 years experience consulting, training, building solutions, and guiding technology development. Jody is on the steering committee for the GeoServer, GeoTools, and JTS Topology Suite projects, and volunteers as chair of the OSGeo Incubation Committee.
CEO/Owner of GeoCat – Chair and founder of the GeoNetwork opensource – OSGeo President of the Board of Directors.
Jeroen established the GeoNetwork opensource project while working at the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). A widely used geospatial catalogue application used for example as national and international level catalogs including National Geospatial & Open Data Registries and the INSPIRE GeoPortal in the EU.
Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board, and did so in 2007 & 2008.