China’s only female Apache member on the rise of open source in China

<p><a href="https://sphere-ex.com/">SphereEX</a> builds distributed data systems, making it easier for organizations to load balance massive data stores across multiple servers. </p><p>Now that open-source software has taken over Western software, it’s China’s turn. Even big companies like <a href="https://github.com/baidu">Baidu</a> and <a href="https://github.com/bytedance">Bytedance</a> are opening up their projects. </p><p>Trista is the <a href="https://segmentfault.com/a/1190000040352390">only female Apache member</a> in China, which is both an honor and a demonstration of how much work needs to be done to support women in STEM. </p><p>This episode’s Lifeboat badge shoutout goes to swati kiran for her answer to </p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49679808/error-eacces-permission-denied-mkdir-usr-local-lib-node-modules-node-sass-b">Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-sass/build'</a></p><p>.</p>