[PUBLIC] SAP Open Source Webinar: Olympic Sailing on Eclipse Technology – From Closed Source to Open Source
Join us on May 20th, 2026, at 3 pm CEST for a webinar on Eclipse Azimuth Sailing Analytics, a real-time regatta tracking and analysis tool deployed at over 1,000 sailing events, including the Olympic Games. Product owner Axel will share SAP's journey open-sourcing this tool, discussing licensing strategies, internal processes, partnership with Eclipse Foundation, and community-building efforts.
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Speaker: Dr. Axel Uhl, Architect, SAP
Host: SAP Open Source Program Office
Date: May 20th, 2026, at 3 pm CEST
More about open source: SAP Podcast Series
Listen to SAP’s podcast episodes about open source trends, topics, and projects.
ABAP and Open Source – A Senior Manager’s Perspective
Episode with Sonja Lienard about her contributions to ABAP development, and the significant role open source technologies play at SAP, covering her involvement with various programming languages, the integration of Eclipse IDE and Rust into ABAP development, and the importance of bottom-up innovation.
OpenSearch | feat. Pallavi Priyadarshini
Episode with Juergen Walter and Karsten Schnitter, about SAP's current use of OpenSearch for observability on their Business Technology Platform and the project's evolution from Elasticsearch, community-driven development, and AI advancements.
OpenMCP
Episode with Johannes Ott and Maximilian Techritz, who are both software engineers at SAP, about Open Managed Control Planes – an open source project that allows you to orchestrate any aspect of a cloud landscape using one declarative API.
OpenSearch | feat. Pallavi Priyadarshini
Episode with Juergen Walter and Karsten Schnitter, about SAP's current use of OpenSearch for observability on their Business Technology Platform and the project's evolution from Elasticsearch, community-driven development, and AI advancements.
OpenMCP
Episode with Johannes Ott and Maximilian Techritz, who are both software engineers at SAP, about Open Managed Control Planes – an open source project that allows you to orchestrate any aspect of a cloud landscape using one declarative API.
QEMU
Episode with Helge Deller, SAP and Alex Bennée, Linaro. They talk about the emulator project “QEMU” and how it helps the software ecosystem. QEMU, short for “Quick Emulator”, is a virtualization software that can be used to emulate various types of hardware. They discuss the open source aspects of QEMU and how it is used in various aspects of the software development lifecycle.
Catena-X- Tractus-X
Episode with Siegfried Kiermayer about governance issues and solutions in open source projects. Projects like Catena-X and Tractus-X are used as an example. Starting with the basis of what these projects are, it will go into detail on how the projects are managed with time throughout the episode.
Asset Administration Shell
Episode with Thiago Weber Martins about the Asset Administration Shell (AAS). This is a journey about what the AAS is, what the standards are, and where AAS and digital twins are used. He and the host also talk about the original idea and goals of digital twins and how these developed over time.
InnerSource Commons
Episode with open source enthusiasts about open source trends, topics and projects. This podcast is about the difference, value or drop that open source can be. Each episode we talk with experts about open source related topics and why they do it the open source way.
SAP R3 Port to Linux
Host Karsten Hohage speaks with Christoph Roland (former SAP) and Harald Kuck (SAP) about the past – when they both ported SAP software stack to Linux back in the 90s. They share anecdotes and insides from the very beginning of Open Source and SAP.
CAP Operator
Host Karsten Hohage speaks with Sathyajith Krishnan (SAP) and Pavan Nayak (SAP) about CAP Operator – which deploys and manages the lifecycle of multi-tenant SAP Cloud Application Programming Model applications and related components, based on SAP BTP golden path, within a Kubernetes cluster.
Garden Linux
Host Karsten Hohage speaks with Florian Wilhelm (SAP) about Project Garden Linux – a lightweight, secure Linux distribution optimized for cloud-native environments and container workloads, offering minimal footprint and high performance.
Open Resource Discovery (ORD)
Host Karsten Hohage speaks with Simon Heimler (SAP) about Open Resource Discovery (ORD) – a protocol that allows applications and services to self-describe their exposed resources and capabilities. Simon explains in more detail what ORD is, how it’s used and where at SAP we already use ORD or plan to use it in the future.
abapGit
Introducing abapGit – an open source Git client. We explained and discuss what abapGit is, how it works, what it’s needed for, and how it can be used with Michael Schneider and Marc Bernard.
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
Our guests Mirko Boehm, Mike Milinkovich and Sebastian Wolf explained what the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is and why it is important to virtually everyone in the EU and anyone who wants to do business in the European market.
Open Source and Universities
In this episode, host Karsten Hohage discussed open source and InnerSource at universities with our guest Clare Dillon.
Sovereign Tech Fund - Investing in the Future Today
Learn about the Sovereign Tech Fund and how it supports the essential open source building blocks.
The Growing Importance of Software Bills of Materials (SBOM)
Learn about the importance of SBOMs as well as some challenges and unanswered questions of the state of the art.
Project "Foxhound" - Hunting Cross-Site Scripting on the Web
Learn how project “Foxhound”, an SAP maintained fork of Firefox, is used for security research and detecting vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS) on websites.
The TODO Group – Talk Openly, Develop Openly
How the TODO Group brings OSPOs together to collaborate and share knowledge.
Open Component Model (OCM) – Describe, Transport, Deploy
How OCM improves deployment and lifecycle management of software components.
Credential Digger – Detecting leaked secrets on GitHub
How Credential Digger is using Machine Learning Models to precisely identify hardcoded secrets in source code and prevent password leaks.
Do Good and Talk about it!
Learn how to promote your open-source work on the Web and at conferences.
Debunking InnerSource Myths
Why InnerSource is a benefit – not a detriment – for projects, teams, and organizations.
SUSE – Delivering automation and enterprise grade Open Source software to the SAP ecosystem
How SUSE delivers enterprise grade open source software to their customers and helps system admins with automation tools.
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - A step-by-step journey towards open source
How the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) is gradually going open source.
Project Piper - From InnerSource to Open Source
How Piper became a successful continuous integration and delivery project.
Red Hat - Distributor and Mediator in the Open-Source World
How Red Hat became a catalyst for open-source communities.
Linux Foundation - Building Trust in Software Supply Chains
How OpenChain by the Linux Foundation and other projects enable a trusted supply chain for open source software.
Cloud Foundry - A One-Size-Fits-All Solution for Application Development
How Cloud Foundry simplifies the coding process for application developers.
wdi5 – UI5’s Open-Source End-to-End Testing Framework
How the community project wdi5 functions as a quality assurance tool.
Open Source at VMware – Key Driver of Innovation
How VMware contributes to open source and about the importance of project and community health.
Open Source at Microsoft – ClearlyDefined and Open-Source Supply Chain Security
How Microsoft’s use of open source and contribution to the open-source community have evolved over the years.
Gaia-X, Catena-X, International Data Spaces – Three Initiatives, One Goal
How these open-source initiatives contribute to securely processing, sharing, and managing data across organizations.
Mercedes-Benz FOSS – Open Source in the Automotive Industry
How Mercedes-Benz contributes to and participates in the open-source world.
Eclipse Dirigible – An Open-Source Platform for End-To-End Rapid Development of Business Applications
How SAP developers and customers benefit from Eclipse Dirigible and XSK.
SapMachine – The OpenJDK for All Things SAP
How SAP became a distributor for OpenJDK.
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