Episode 118: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Florian Gilcher & Silona Bonewald

Guest Florian Gilcher | Silona Bonewald Panelists Richard Littauer
Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard
is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year.
This conference focuses on open source and sustainability. He had
the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and
talk about software sustainability, what they hope to find in FOSS
Backstage, and a bunch of other good stuff. Joining him today are
two guests, the first is Florian Gilcher, a Rustacean, CEO of
Asquera, Managing Director of Ferrous Systems, and a Founding
member of Rust Foundation. We also have Silona Bonewald, who is the
Executive Director of IEEE SA OPEN. Go ahead and download this
episode now to hear more! [00:01:00] Florian tells his background,
what he does now, and how he gets community funded. [00:03:36] We
learn that Florian is one of the Founding members of the Rust
Foundation, and how he shares how he decided to build his
for-profit company, Ferrous Systems, instead of just getting open
source to pay him for everything. [00:09:16] Richard wonders if
Florian sees more foundations working well with companies that are
service providers as a viable means of actually making open source
projects sustainable in the future. [00:12:13] Find out where you
can follow Florian on the web. [00:12:54] Silona tells us more
about the IEEE SA OPEN. [00:14:52] We hear about what it means to
have an open source standard and where are these standards being
applied. [00:18:58] Silona shares with us what her dream is for ten
years from now for the output of this governance group. [00:22:06]
We hear about Silona’s talk she did at FOSS Backstage called, It
Takes a Village, where she talked about diversity and what it means
to grow open source. [00:25:39] Silona tells us how to use the IEEE
platform and sign up if you’re interested in starting a new project
at your company, and she explains how the adoption has been.
[00:28:59] How does funding work on IEEE SA OPEN projects?
[00:30:42] Over the next year or two, Silona talks about what
collaborations are going to make it better for people who use the
platform and what she’s excited about. [00:33:06] Find out where
you can follow Silona 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) FOSS
Backstage 2022 (https://foss-backstage.de/) Florian Gilcher Twitter
(https://twitter.com/argorak?lang=en) Florian Gilcher Website
(https://yakshav.es/) Asquera (https://asquera.de/) Rust
(https://www.rust-lang.org/) Rust Foundation
(https://foundation.rust-lang.org/) Ferrous Systems
(https://ferrous-systems.com/) Ferrous Systems Twitter
(https://twitter.com/ferroussystems) FOSS Backstage 2022-Florian
Gilcher: On the importance of leaving (YouTube)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALU9f7VO-I) Silona Bonewald
Twitter
(https://twitter.com/Silona?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
IEEE SA OPEN (https://standards.ieee.org/initiatives/opensource/)
Sustain Podcast-Episode 98: Silona Bonewald and her long-term
vision for IEEE and open source (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/98)
FOSS Backstage 2022-Silona Bonewald: It Takes a Village (YouTube)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMU9Y96-Wv0) Credits Produced by
Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) and Charlotte Tiennes
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-tienes-88038a18b/) 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: Florian Gilcher
and Silona Bonewald.