https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/aad5e82b-52d3-4b27-8bce-94e5faa3dc17 Heritage railways are often operated by volunteers who are not computer experts, but they need software and digital services to support various tasks from ticketing, support in day to tay operations to fundraising. There is a need for close contact between the open source world and the heritage railway world. Volunteer run heritage railways operate on a tight budget and with little computer expertise. They need support in ticketing, project planning, customer communication, enterprise management, networking, internal communication, archiving, ... In this talk I will briefly show some of what we are using at Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz e.V., which problems we face. I will present an initiative to connect the IT experts with museum railways. Goal of the talk is to raise awareness in the open source communicty on the needs and challenges in heritage railways, as well as starting a dialogue between the two communities. Speaker: Nils Pickert, Track: Railways and Open Transport devroom, Room: K.4.401, When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 14:10–14:25 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Slides (as shown), The discord:, The knowledge base, The wiki, The knowledge base as website, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Software needs of a volunteer operated heritage railway” by Nils Pickert, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/k4401/fosdem-2024-1772-software-needs-of-a-volunteer-operated-heritage-railway.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:16:18 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/aad5e82b-52d3-4b27-8bce-94e5faa3dc17 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.