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<p>Hi Jonathan,</p>
<p>You have brought up good points, and you can still have an impact
on future conferences, including this coming one, if you can add a
section to the FOSS4G Handbook [1]. Ideally, source an existing
purchasing best practices guide rather than write your own. It is
more creditable, will likely be better quality than you could
produce by yourself, and should save you time.<br>
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<p>[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook</a><br>
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Apologies for the late thoughts to this thread, I've
been offline for a while.<br class="">
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While the draft RfP does tentatively cover Human
Rights in relation to the host country's human-rights
activities, there doesn't seem to be any larger goal
or coverage of ethical/sustainable provisions so I
thought I'd make some suggestions.<br class="">
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To expand, I'd like to suggest on the Human Rights
front that there are more issues that can be covered
and fairly simply too. For example, the last two
FOSS4G events I went to had t-shirts - they seem to be
a common theme - assuming the next one does too, what
provision would they make to source these garments
ethically? A lot of cotton is grown in Uzbekistan by
basically slave-labour, and the then used in factories
that have almost-as-bad conditions. Similar
human-rights issues surround things like chocolate and
coffee, which is why there are a lot of "FairTrade"
and similar badges in those domains. There is actually
an "easy" (if lazy) way to fix this: simply make sure
such things are "FairTrade" or similar. Sure they
often cost more, but that's in part because you're
no-longer using child/slave/woefully-underpaid labour,
and not-exploiting-people costs money. So for the RfP:
What provision will the conference make to ethically
source its foodstuffs/clothing/etc?<br class="">
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The other obvious component is the green-credentials
(sustainability) of the proposed conference. Questions
might include: Is it in a place with good public
transport or do you need to take taxis everywhere? How
accessible is the conference via non-flying (and will
you give a discount to non-flying delegates (as an
idea))? What (if-any) green credentials does the
proposed venue have? Do you have carbon-neutral plans
for the conference? Will foodstuff be locally sourced?
Etc, etc.<br class="">
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I can probably offer more and/or flesh these out if
desired.<br class="">
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Of course, all of the above also requires that the
conference committee use them as part of the
evaluation criteria.<br class="">
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Cheers,<br class="">
Jonathan<br class="">
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On 14/09/2018 10:49, Till Adams wrote:<br class="">
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I tried to resolve all the comments in<br class="">
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and ended up with 2 remaining.<br class="">
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One is a discussion between Steven and Maria
regarding length and<br class="">
scheduling for AGM, the other one is a comment of
Cameron regarding the<br class="">
potential funding of the video recording.<br
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Can the people I named please resolve these
comments? After that we can<br class="">
export the document and ask somebody who knows how
to to load it into<br class="">
the SVN and send the link. Afterwards I will kick
the call out.<br class="">
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Many thanks to all contributions!<br class="">
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Till<br class="">
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