Episode 162: Colin Eberhardt & Eriol Fox at State of Open Con 2023

Guest Colin Eberhardt | Eriol Fox Panelist Richard Littauer Show
Notes Hello and welcome 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 two guests joining him. His
first guest is Colin Eberhardt, who’s Technology Director at Scott
Logic, and a Board Member of FINOS. Colin tells us about some of
his favorite talks at this event, what he learned about
Confidential Computing, and his thoughts on open source being
described as public good. His next guest is Eriol Fox, who’s
Richard’s co-host on the Sustain Open Source Design Podcast. Eriol
works at Superbloom, previously Simply Secure, which we’ll hear
more about that branding change, what Superbloom does, and some
cool things they’ve been working on there. We’ll also find out
about the sessions they did at this event on financial topics
around open source and succession planning. Download this episode
now to hear much more! [00:02:03] Colin tells us what he’s doing at
State of Open Con and how it’s going. [00:03:51] We hear about
Colin’s talk, other talks he enjoyed, and what Confidential
Computing is. [00:09:18] There was a fantastic talk about Wikipedia
by the Founder, Jimmy Wales, and Colin shares some great takeaways
from that talk. [00:14:15] We’re going a little off topic, but no
worries. Colin talks about being annoyed when he sees people siting
a claim that ChatGPT is going to be the end of software engineering
in the future, and Richard and Colin share their thoughts.
[00:15:21] Why does Colin disagree with open source being described
as public good? [00:19:44] Find out where you can follow Colin on
the web. [00:21:02] His next guest is Eriol Fox, and they tell us
about the sessions they did on financial related topics around open
source, which apparently was a busy session. They mention several
projects said that they were investing in usability improvements,
which was great to hear. [00:23:04] The second session was on
succession planning, what that talk was about, and how many people
attended. [00:24:50] Eriol explains what Superbloom does, what they
do at Superbloom, the rebranding from Simply Secure, as well as
some cool things they worked on there. [00:33:52] Find out where
you can follow Eriol and Superbloom on the web. 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)
Colin Eberhardt Twitter
(https://twitter.com/colineberhardt?lang=en) Colin Eberhardt Blog
(https://blog.scottlogic.com/ceberhardt/) Colin Eberhardt GitHub
(https://github.com/ColinEberhardt) Scott Logic
(https://www.scottlogic.com/) FINOS (https://www.finos.org/) Eriol
Fox Twitter
(https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Eriol Fox Website (https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/) Eriol Fox
hachyderm (https://hachyderm.io/@erioldoesdesign) Eriol Fox GitHub
(https://github.com/Erioldoesdesign) Superbloom
(https://superbloom.design/) 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:
Colin Eberhardt and Eriol Fox.