<div dir="auto"><div>I'm going to have to be more diplomatic here. The whole issue of maritime boundaries is difficult because of the associated resources and sovereign rights. The sensitivities are increased in the south pacific small island developing states because of the lack of human resources to administer their jurisdiction. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The addition of foreign aid to enable activities that are related to sovereign actions as an independent state causes conflict of interest and other sensitivities.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is easy to make broad and general statements, but getting down to the details can be uncomfortable for both aid donors and aid recipients.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'll have a go at adding more details later today, but I can't promise to be specific on the why, the how or the outcomes are easier to discuss.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 28 Jun. 2018, 06:48 Cameron Shorter, <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I can help, but am hoping for some more information to help make
the story interesting. I've put the following questions in as
comments into the article:</p>
<p>Why is the Regional Maritime Boundaries Project important to
Australia? Or more, why is it so important that we think we should
sponsor people from the project to talk about it.<br>
Who built the system?<br>
What agencies sponsored it?<br>
Who maintains the system?<br>
Can we say something stronger than Open Source is used? Is it used
exclusively? Is it used predominantly?<br>
Why was Open Source selected?<br>
I assume you can say that Open Standards are being used
throughout?<br>
Is the data available under an open license? <br>
Does using Open Source aid collaboration?<br>
Can we get a quote from someone saying something positive about
the system, and how open source is better than what they had
before?<br>
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<div>Jonah's team has arranged to sponsor 2 attendees from the
Pacific Islands region to attend our conference. It seems like
a great opportunity to tell a good news story, and draw some
attention from the PI region and elsewhere. We could also use
it to draw a bit of attention to our travel grant program,
which hasn't really been developed yet but will be soon (once
Adam's back?).</div>
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<div>Jonah has pulled together some details <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mL3KnXGzkHVzzNIfb1vQRui1yLgYeiN9xmsL9IQZNNc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">in this Google Doc</a>. Would someone
in this group be willing to convert this into a post for our
News page, that we could then promote via social media? Would
be nice to get some kind of image to go along with it too,
perhaps from one of the linked sites.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>John</div>
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