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News, updates, and announcements from the Open Transit Software Foundation.

· Aaron Brethorst

Our Policy on AI-Generated Contributions

We've been noticing a trend across open source: an uptick in pull requests that are clearly generated by AI tools with minimal human oversight. This post establishes an official policy for how OTSF pr...

· Aaron Brethorst

Google Summer of Code 2025 Project Ideas

Caution: Please do not consider this list to be definitive: we have lots of ideas for projects we want to see pursued as part of GSoC 2025, but will certainly not receive as many slots as we want. The...

· Aaron Brethorst

Tips and Tricks for Google Summer of Code 2025

The Open Transit Software Foundation (OneBusAway) was a participant in last year's Google Summer of Code. Both the mentors and the student participants found it to be a valuable experience, and we're ...

· Aaron Brethorst

OneBusAway Adds Transit Rider Surveys

Surveys play a key role in helping transit agencies understand the needs of their riders and ultimately to make transit easier to use. As part of our Google Summer of Code initiative, our talented int...

· Aaron Brethorst

Exciting News: New Maintainers for OneBusAway Projects

We've got some fantastic news to share about the OneBusAway (OBA) project. Two key components of our ecosystem are welcoming new maintainers, each bringing a wealth of experience and passion to their ...

· Aaron Brethorst

OneBusAway Launches Official Python and JavaScript SDKs!

OneBusAway is an open-source platform that provides real-time transit information to riders across North America and the world. Our user-friendly mobile apps and web interfaces offer accurate arrival ...