Episode 182: Wolfgang Gehring & Ana Jiménez at FOSS Backstage

Guests Wolfgang Gehring | Ana Jiménez Santamaría Panelist Richard
Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, Richard is
joined by two guests from FOSS Backstage 2023 in Berlin. His first
guest is Wolfgang Gehring, OSPO Head at Mercedes-Benz Tech
Innovation. Wolfgang discusses the importance of open source at
Mercedes-Benz. He mentions the company's recent FOSS convention,
explains his role in getting people to work together, and talks
about the challenges of de-risking and softening legal
requirements. Richard asks for advice on how other large industrial
companies can get started with OSPO. Finally, Wolfgang discusses
his involvement with the Eclipse Foundation and their efforts to
revise the Cyber Resiliency Act in the EU, and a great conversation
about how large industries use and evangelize open source.
Richard’s next guest he has another great conversation with is Ana
Jiménez Santamaría. She discusses her work with the OSPO community
and the importance of sustainability in open source ecosystems.
Richard and Anna discuss a survey done by the TODO Group. Also, Ana
talks about the importance of educating non-tech audiences on open
source, and her new YouTube channel helping teach open source in an
easy way to those not familiar with the tech stuff, particularly in
Spanish, where there is a lack of content. Download this episode to
hear more! Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS
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SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard
Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?lang=en) FOSS
Backstage 2023 (https://foss-backstage.de/) Wolfgang Gehring
LinkedIn (https://de.linkedin.com/in/dr-wolfgang-gehring-9a8723201)
Open Source Mercedes-Benz (https://opensource.mercedes-benz.com/)
Mercedes-Benz Group GitHub (https://github.com/mercedes-benz)
Eclipse Foundation (https://www.eclipse.org/) Ana Jiménez
Santamaría Twitter
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Ana Jiménez Mastodon
(https://mastodon.social/@anajsana@fosstodon.org) Ana Jiménez
Santamaría LinkedIn
(https://es.linkedin.com/in/ana-jim%C3%A9nez-santamar%C3%ADa/en)
Ana Jiménez Santamaría YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@anajsana)
TODO Group (https://todogroup.org/) Credits Produced by Richard
Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by
DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/)
Special Guests: Ana Jiménez Santamaría and Dr. Wolfgang Gehring.