In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Mauri Whalen, VP & Director of Core System Development in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel, discusses how beneficial open source software innovation like Open Stack is and how the collaborative process helps produce the highest quality code and software possible. She also discusses the importance of initiatives like the Women of OpenStack and how supporting diversity within the open source community enables an overall better end product and ensures that all populations are represented in the creation of different solutions.