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 SustainOSS SustainOSS Twitter SustainOSS Discourse [email protected] 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.