Episode 165: Hugi Ásgeirsson, Silona Bonewald & Marco Möller at State of Open Con 2023

Guest Hugi Ásgeirsson | Silona Bonewald | Marco Möller Panelist
Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome back to Sustain! The
podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long
haul. Richard is at the State of Open Con 2023 UK in London, and
he’s excited to have his first ever in-person podcasts. Today, he
has three guests joining him. His first guest is Hugi Ásgeirsson,
who’s the Strategy & Partnerships Director at Open Collective
Europe. He talks about the differences and benefits between Open
Collective in the US vs Europe. Richard’s next guest is a Sustain
favorite, Silona Bonewald, who’s the Executive Director for IEEE SA
Open. Silona dives into DE&I at conferences and how IEEE and SA
Open help with Sustainability. Finally, Marco Möller joins the
podcast. Marco is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at PIONIX.
We’ll learn how open source is helping sustain our environment, via
EV Charging solutions powered by Open Source. Interested in finding
out more? Hit play now and enjoy this episode. [00:01:12] Hugi
explains how Open Collective Europe fits within Open Collective.
[00:03:48] Why does tax structure matter for hosting Open Source
projects? Hugi explains the benefits of funding via OCE vs other
parts of the world. [00:07:16] If Hugi works for Open Collective
Europe...as in the EU, why is he at a conference in the UK? We
learn how 50% of all philanthropic donations in Europe happen in
the UK. [00:08:34] Hugi discusses his favorite discussions heard at
State of Open Con 2023 UK and the takeaways. One word… resilience.
[00:13:14] Find out where you can follow Hugi and Open Collective
Europe on the web. [00:16:11] Silona now joins Richard. Silona
talks about if the sustainability of the ecosystem still depends
upon individual members of large projects and corporation at these
conferences. Does it help or hurt? [00:17:42] We hear about types
of diversity and inclusion that's left out of the conferences.
[00:20:40] Silona explains what IEEE and SA Open is, the
differences, and her on-going work there. [00:26:29] Richard ask
Silona how their platform lends itself towards a more sustainable,
more diverse market or ecosystem of open source. [00:31:34] If you
want to get involved, Silona gives us two sites you can check out
(linked below). [00:32:07] Find out all the places you can follow
Silona on the web. [00:33:45] Richard has on a different and
special guest for us as the final interview of the conference,
Marco Möller. Marco gives us his background and his links to Open
Source. [00:35:35] Marco explains how EV Charging works, and how
his company PIONIX fit in. [00:36:41] We learn how PIONIX, and
their EV charging system is powered by open source and is the main
contributor to EVerest. [00:40:46] Marco goes into LF Energy’s (A
Linux Foundation Project) involvement in PIONIX. [00:43:59] Richard
is curious to find out more about PIONIX’s investors. [00:49:33]
Want to learn more about PIONIX, the repository, or Marco himself?
He tells us where to find him on the internet. Links SustainOSS
(https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter
(https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard
Littauer Twitter
(https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Open Collective Europe (https://opencollective.com/europe) Hugi
Ásgeirsson email (mailto:hugi@opencollective.com) Hugi Ásgeirsson
Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@aerugo) Hugi Ásgeirsson Twitter
(https://twitter.com/aerugix) IEEE (https://www.ieee.org/) IEEE SA
Open (http://saopen.ieee.org/) IEEE Computer Society Open Source
Software Project Governance Working Group
(http://sagroups.ieee.org/osspg) Silona Bonewald email
(mailto:silona@silona.com) Silona Bonewald LinkedIn
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/silona/) Silona Bonewald Twitter
(https://twitter.com/Silona) Silona Bonewald Mastodon
(https://mastodon.social/@Silona) The Onion - Prague's Franz Kafka
International Named World's Most Alienating Airport
(https://www.theonion.com/pragues-franz-kafka-international-named-worlds-most-ali-1819594798)
PIONIX (https://pionix.com/) PIONIX Article on TNW
(https://thenextweb.com/news/linux-foundation-backed-everest-standarizes-ev-charging-protocols)
LF Energy (https://www.lfenergy.org/) EVerest Project
(https://www.lfenergy.org/projects/EVerest/) EVerest GitHub
(https://github.com/EVerest) EVerest Mailing List
(https://lists.lfenergy.org/g/everest) Marco Möller LinkedIn
(https://de.linkedin.com/in/marco-m%C3%B6ller-049a1724) 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: Hugi Ásgeirsson,
Marco Möller, and Silona Bonewald.