<div dir="ltr">Hey Mark, good on you for voicing publicly. Our ability to discuss openly is a strength of our community, and one we are learning to use responsibly. I saw your tweet yesterday, but find the discussion list more useful for internal discussion such as this.<div><div><br></div><div>It is a hard balance between requesting or encouraging changes we want to see vs expressing dissapointment in the activities of others. This is especially important in a volunteer organization such as ours where disappointment however kindly expressed can hit really moral hard (especially as volunteers are pulling an event together).</div><div><br></div><div>I have been on both sides of this balance and it is never comfortable, as you express in your struggle above. Ideally, I seek to offer my time if I am in position to be of assistance and if the assistance is welcome. If not in a position to help I seek to learn or look for an opportunity for feedback.</div><div><br></div><div>I learned a lot as your foss4g event planning has unfolded and your challenges, priorities and direction became clear.</div><div><br></div><div>It is my hope that we will learn what challenges the foss4g-asia event is facing and what we as an organization can do to assist.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have been following the board meetings the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> chapter is just being officially recognized (and the membership shows some diversity). OSGeo has also set aside funding for our president to attend the foss4g-asia event.</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 14:53, Mark Iliffe <<a href="mailto:markiliffe@gmail.com">markiliffe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div>Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I’ve really agonised over whether to send this email. First of which, being the imminent final preparations for FOSS4G taking up a lot of time, but also whether it’s appropriate for me in my role of chair of FOOS4G to offer public critique of regional events. It is in this vein that I’d like to really stress that I’m writing this as an OSSGeo charter member.</div><div><br></div><div>When I first saw this, my heart sank: <a href="http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2018/keynotes/" target="_blank">http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2018/keynotes/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Where is the gender diversity in the line up? I know that organising a FOSS4G is really difficult, but we need to be reaching far and wide and that starts with our keynotes. Potentially I’m missing something here - and I probably am, if so I am sorry if this is the case! - but can we have a rethink of the line up to really represent our community?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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