Exciting Opportunity for the VUE & PlantFactory Community ! - Open Source

[Carlosan]

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A few years ago, Bentley Systems made VUE and PlantFactory freely available to our user community. Today, we’re exploring an even bigger step: making the source code of these products available under a free software license, sponsored by the Academy Software Foundation.

Before we move forward, we want to hear from you—the creators who have kept these tools alive and thriving.

• Would you support this initiative?
• Would you or your organization be interested in contributing to maintain and evolve these tools as part of an open-source project?

Your feedback is critical. This decision will shape the future of VUE and PlantFactory, and we want to ensure it reflects the needs and enthusiasm of this community.

[Carlosan]

Daniel Seebacher

Just an intermediate update, since I’ve been receiving some questions about the current status:

There is nothing new to report officially right now, but we are working on several topics internally. Among those are the ongoing code cleanup and preparations, setting up necessary deployment pipelines and repositories, preparing future documentation for contributors and so on.

So, work is well under way behind the scenes, but until the preparatory work is finished, it might still take a few months. And only then will the code be eventually open sourced.

I’ll keep everyone updated on news pieces which are worth to be reported.

Since by now this thread has gone kind of viral across several news outlets and through videos, I would like to point out that I am posting here as a former Bentley employee, now private person. This has been misreported across several websites.

I was still at Bentley when I replied to this thread in 2024, but I left the company a year ago. Nowadays, I am involved as a core community contributor in getting the open source project off the ground together with other former colleagues, but I am not a spokesperson for the company.

Also, there have have been campaigns where people were asked to tag Bentley on Social Media.
Please refrain from doing this.

It is actually detrimental, because Bentley is such a large company with so many projects that neither the social media team nor many other departments at Bentley are involved in or even aware of this open-sourcing project helmed by a specific department. Thus, if anything, it causes internal confusion and prolongs the process. For this reason, there is the specific contact e-mail eon-questions@bentley.com which forwards all requests and communication to the correct place.

Thanks guys! I love the interest and excitement which you have expressed so far and your support for this endeavour