Sustain Episode 173: Nick Vidal & Masae Shida at FOSS Backstage 2023
Guests
Nick Vidal | Masae Shida
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is roaming the halls at FOSS Backstage 2023 this week, and you just never know who you’re going to bump into. He grabs Nick Vidal, the new Community Manager for ClearlyDefined, which is an open-source project that aims to bring clarity to licensing information for open-source projects. Nick is trying to reach out to different communities to work together, such as OpenSSF and Open Research Toolkit. Nick and Richard discuss the licensing issues related to AI, particularly regarding chatbot models like ChatGPT. They talk about copyright issues related to gathering data, images, and texts from the internet and feeding them into proprietary models.
His next guest is Masae Shida, a Senior Program Manager at VMware. Masae is in Berlin to talk about why Asian participation in open source is not as significant as it should be. She talks about how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are important for companies as they lead to higher productivity and innovation. However, in open source, she has noticed that the number of Asian participants is much lower than expected, even though there are large populations in Asian countries like India and China. Masae aims to identify the barriers preventing Asian participation in open source and find ways to overcome them.
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Links
- SustainOSS
- SustainOSS Twitter
- SustainOSS Discourse
- podcast@sustainoss.org
- Richard Littauer Twitter
- FOSS Backstage 2023
- Nick Vidal Twitter
- ClearlyDefined
- Open Source Initiative
- Open Source Initiative Mastodon
- Masae Shida LinkedIn
- VMware
- VMware Twitter
Credits
- Produced by Richard Littauer
- Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
- Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound
Special Guests: Masae Shida and Nick Vidal.