[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: extended, targeted call for papers if needed

[Daniel Silk]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:26 PM adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Sarah has some great points. We can be brave and say ‘well, we
> didn’t get what we expect, so we have N slots available for a round 2 CFP,
> which is open only for women’
>

I don't see Sarah's email, I guess it didn't come through to the list?


> The strategy we would employ is this:
>
> - Open a second call for papers, be open about our failure to attract a
> speaker cohort that reflects the community in the first round.
>

Alyssa Wright's talk at State of the Map 2013 noted that:
 - 3% of contributions to OpenStreetMap are by women
 - 1% of participants in open source communities are women


> What do the women on this list feel about being focussed on as per a
> specific CFP and community vote?
>

>
**We could further restrict the vote to women - talks by women, for women?
> Why not? effectively we arguably right now have talks by men for men :D
>

We've taken a similar approach to
https://geekfeminism.org/2012/05/21/how-i-got-50-women-speakers-at-my-tech-conference/
and
https://2012.jsconf.eu/2012/09/17/beating-the-odds-how-we-got-25-percent-women-speakers.html
and http://conference.hopper.org.nz/#selection and
https://hbr.org/2014/01/theres-no-excuse-for-all-white-male-panels.

And a lot of these resources + about commentary on Twitter etc is pretty
explicit about this point:

if you are going around asking people to speak at your event and they are
> generally under-represented at your event (say, women at a tech
> conference), you need to avoid treating them in a special way.


I think these proposals are going waaay down this route.

There's obviously a need here to do better within this community on a daily
basis, not just a one off effort in trying to achieve a diverse speaker
line-up for a conference.
The first would make the second a lot easier.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-oceania/attachments/20180907/71ab3b23/attachment.html>