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November 19-21 2024
Napa, California
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Thursday November 21, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST
Many open source communities struggle to achieve strong community participation from Asia despite the region representing 60% of the entire world population. Although there are numerous participants from India and China, the number is disproportionately low when compared with the US and Europe. An obvious reason could be time zones, however, as a Japanese woman who grew up and worked in Japan, and as a working mother, it seems probable this could also be explained by culture and other social barriers like language. Although we appreciate the benefit of diversity, it remains challenging to have an optimally balanced community. Do we compromise by having some people in each region to convince ourselves that we’ve achieved a target? Or do we look for ways to overcome the barriers enabling real benefit? Many DEI categories are grouped together which removes our ability to identify areas needing improvement. Asia consists of 40 countries with different culture, and Asians who grew up in the US have different views. Diversity is defined by a combination of multiple factors. Let’s look at our goals more closely and see what communities can actually do to bring real value.
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avatar for Masae Shida

Masae Shida

Staff Program Manager, Broadcom
Masae is a Staff Program Manager at VMware OSPO leading open source business and community strategy alignment and consultations. Previously she led numerous telecoms and cloud computing programs including M&A at Cisco, information security/compliance process implementation and product... Read More →
Thursday November 21, 2024 10:45am - 11:15am PST
Silverado East
  Global Collaboration & Diversity
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