Welcome to the Railways and Open Transport Devroom

Max Mehl has been dedicated to Open Source for many years, in various roles and contributing from different perspectives. He deals with all aspects of Open Source at Deutsche Bahn, Europe’s largest railway operator and infrastructure owner. In this role, he supports in both using and contributing to Open Source in a professional manner. Previously, he worked for the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), where he coordinated initiatives such as “Public Money? Public Code!” and REUSE.

Cornelius is a long-time contributor and leader in the open source community. He has worked on projects such as KDE, openSUSE, or Cloud Foundry. Originally a developer, he has moved into topics of governance and how to run open source projects well. Cornelius works as Open Source Steward at DB Systel helping teams at Deutsche Bahn to successfully use and contribute to open source.

Head of National journey planner and mobility Brede Dammen is an advocate for open standards, open data, and open source code, leading international collaboration on OpenTripPlanner (OTP). With the aim of helping travelers choose sustainable transport over private cars, Brede works actively with standardization, challenging legislation and regulations to support world-class, cross-border data quality.

He is also contributing to the development of a national infrastructure for travel information and booking—enabling seamless access to multimodal transport options. Brede promotes modern system development practices tailored for the mobility sector.