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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Agreed with John. I like the direction of Adam’s comment, but find it hard to implement. What I would rather suggest is to clearly identify folks we would like to invite ( handpicked) to provide the counterpoint to the
east coast males (me), and invite them as invited speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">That would identify them clearly, would avoid the confusion about the selection process, and provide a targeted counterpoint.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">That said, an extension of the deadline is not a problem, I think.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">M.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of John Bryant <johnwbryant@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 1:59 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>"foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: extended, targeted call for papers if needed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm also keen to have a program that is inclusive & diverse, so I'm somewhat supportive of this idea in principle, but looking for a bit more info.
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<p class="MsoNormal">What would be an measure of acceptable diversity of speakers, and what specifically would trigger this kind of contingency plan?
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<p class="MsoNormal">For a bit of context, Cholena has been tracking presentation submissions (including her best guess at gender, based on name) as they come in
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here</a>, and we've had a few women submitting today, so it's looking a little bit better than it was 24 hours ago. Right now we've got 6 full length presos submitted by women. As for regional/ethnic representation, we haven't been collecting info on where
speakers are from, or their ethnicity, so that's a bit of a complicating factor.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If we were to do an extended submission period, would we cancel our community vote? Or just run it with what we have?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps an alternative would be to act as planned (close submissions, do community vote), but also work over the next 2 weeks on looking to add more speakers from underrepresented groups through a process of direct approaches & hand picking?
(we've already been doing this to some degree, but we can always do more)<o:p></o:p></p>
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