<div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br></div><div>I also thought that a panel session for discussing 'Diversity in Geospatial' is needed and it would be good to bring everyone into this discussion. Not only is it difficult to ensure diversity of a conference, but it is in general for companies and in academia too.Perhaps a suggestion here would be to invite the keynote speakers onto this panel, there is nice mix, it might be a good place to start. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, maybe we can have an ideas for diversity and inclusion initiatives wall so people can write down ideas and suggestions for what we as a community could do?</div><div><br></div><div>I also had a suggestion for running a panel for how to get more FOSS4G in Academia, but I didn't think to submit this in as a proposal as it is not really a presentation (!) but I see by this email that probably I should have done that? I hope we can still suggest it as a topic from the academic committee and add that in for voting?</div><div><br></div><div>Sarah</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 06:24, 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>Alex, yes, I'd be happy to update the diversity discussion - and
it doesn't need to be me up on the stage. <br>
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<p>I realise we are susceptible to having a stage full of rich white
educated city-dwelling males debating this topic.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The diversity and inclusion discussion is still the
one I'd like to have as the plenary panel session at the end of
the first day.
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<div>The second last keynote at FOSS4G was about this topic, and
while I was exhausted and didn't take great notes, here are my
dot points:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Maybe we should work on this, Cameron, and we can put it forward for a vote amongst our committee as the topic for that panel session?</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 02:30 John Bryant <<a href="mailto:johnwbryant@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnwbryant@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">I love it! I really like how it aims to create
a dialogue with the attendees, rather than just us setting
targets and trying to achieve them, behind the scenes. I'm
hopeful that our conference is successful in building a
strong community, this feels like it would be a step in the
right direction.
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<div>Looking forward to working on the program over the next
few weeks (joiners welcome, as Alex has already said) :)</div>
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