Silona Bonewald is the Executive Director for IEEE SA OPEN, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. Previously she was vice president of community architecture at Hyperledger, a global open source collaborative effort hosted by The Linux Foundation, where she integrated leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things (IoT), supply chains, and manufacturing. Other notable career accomplishments include, while with PayPal, pioneering the InnerSource process; for Siemens AG, creating a cutting-edge and Six Sigma-compliant e-commerce website; and for Ubisoft, creating an international content management system (CMS) architecture.
Silona Bonewald has been a guest on 3 episodes.
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Episode 165: Hugi Ásgeirsson, Silona Bonewald & Marco Möller at State of Open Con 2023
April 7th, 2023 | 50 mins 31 secs
Hugi Ásgeirsson talks about the differences and benefits between Open Collective in the US vs Europe. Then our next guest, Silona, dives into DE&I at conferences and how IEEE and SA Open help with sustainability. Finally, Marco shares how open source is helping sustain our environment, via EV Charging solutions powered by Open Source.
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Episode 118: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Florian Gilcher & Silona Bonewald
April 29th, 2022 | 34 mins 9 secs
Florian tells us about Rust Foundation & Ferrous Systems, while Silona shares more about the IEEE SA OPEN & her FOSS Backstage talk about diversity and what it means to grow open source.
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Episode 98: Silona Bonewald and her long-term vision for IEEE and open source
November 19th, 2021 | 37 mins 6 secs
Silona Bonewald, Executive Director of IEEE SA OPEN, shares how she went from writing code to working on policy, how she ended up at IEEE, and what SA OPEN does.