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    <p>Jonathan,</p>
    <p>when editing the handbook, please make sure to follow the
      guidelines on how to edit it:</p>
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    <p>;-) <br>
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    <p>Thanks, Till<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 18.09.2018 um 12:43 schrieb Cameron
      Shorter:<br>
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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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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/9/18 11:48 pm, Steven Feldman
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        The RfP was finalised and published on Friday. 
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                <div class="">On 17 Sep 2018, at 14:04, Jonathan Moules
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                  <div class="">Hi List,<br class="">
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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
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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
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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="">
                    <blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear all,<br
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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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