Focused communities driving SDV forward

Special Interest Groups

SIGs are focused communities within SDV that advance domain-specific goals.
Participation is open to contributors, maintainers, and domain experts.

What are SIGs?

The idea behind a SIG is to provide a flexible collaborative space for relevant topics and technologies within the scope of an existing Working Group. The primary aim of SIGs is to enable members to exchange expertise, discoveries, and best practices around a particular topic or technology. Within the context of the SDV Working Group, the SIGs will focus on emerging innovations and concepts in the automotive realm.

Explore emerging tech

Stay on top of breakthrough concepts in mobility.

Collaborate & share

Exchange best practices and real-world insights.

Drive innovation

Rapidly test and adapt ideas that keep businesses future-ready.

Agile by design

Think of SIGs as speedboats, swift, flexible, and always ahead, helping
the wider SDV community navigate and harness the latest advancements.

How are these SIGs related to the SDV working group?

Any member of the SDV Working Group can propose a new Special Interest Group (SIG) to
explore a focused area of innovation and participate to support specific open source projects and
specifications. Proposals are submitted via the mailing list and require Steering
Committee approval. Each SIG must include participation from at least three member
organizations.

Working group operations guide

Want the full details? Explore the working group operations guide for
everything on SIG formation, goals, and governance.

Identify emerging trends

Surface new technologies and topics for SDV.

Guide priorities

Help align members’ goals with group activities.

Collaborative spaces

Encourage innovation without altering projects.

Intersection of technology and nature

Our Special Interest Groups

⬤ Adopt Rust

Rust SIG

This SIG promotes the adoption of Rust for automotive and safety-critical systems, building on its fast-growing use in embedded development and within Eclipse SDV projects. It brings together experts to advance Rust’s role in creating secure, high-performance open source software for the automotive sector.

⬤ Safety-certified open source RTOS

Eclipse ThreadX SIG

This SIG supports the first safety-certified open source RTOS by maintaining ThreadX safety certifications, improving engineering practices for safety-critical use and promoting ThreadX as a high-performance, automotive-ready foundation for embedded systems.

⬤ SDV software stack meets functional safety requirements

Automotive Processes SIG

The Automotive Processes for Open Source Software SIG advances automotive-grade open source by aligning SDV software with functional safety, enterprise readiness and sustained lifecycle support.

How to join​