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. Download this episode now! Links
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Backstage 2023 (https://foss-backstage.de/) Nick Vidal Twitter
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(https://clearlydefined.io/about) Open Source Initiative
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(https://mastodon.social/@osi@opensource.org) Masae Shida LinkedIn
(https://uk.linkedin.com/in/masae-shida) VMware
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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:
Masae Shida and Nick Vidal.