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<p>Hi Sarah,</p>
<p>Some great ideas of yours here. As it appears you have an
interest in this, maybe you'd be the right person to lead this
forum? Would have the added benefit of increasing the number of
female presenters by one.</p>
<p>Adam,</p>
<p>A word of caution on excessively overriding the community vote
(to increase our goals of diversity). When I chaired the 2009
conference we selected a few lower voted presentations - mainly to
increase local representation, as we noticed that most attendees
were local. During the conference I looked in on some of these low
voted talks and found they were very poorly attended. Lets be
mindful of that situation for our conference.<br>
</p>
There is research which suggests that lack of women in STEM is not
only due to lower opportunity and role models, but possibly due to
other reasons, such as while women appear to be just as capable in
STEM subjects (possibly more capable), they are maybe less
interested. <br>
<br>
There was an email thread "Diversity in FOSS4G" discussing some of
these points:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-August/thread.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-August/thread.html</a><br>
Highlights from the thread:<br>
<br>
Reference to this research:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617741719">http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617741719</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://researchtheheadlines.org/2018/04/20/the-stem-gender-equality-paradox-from-fallacies-to-facts/">https://researchtheheadlines.org/2018/04/20/the-stem-gender-equality-paradox-from-fallacies-to-facts/</a><br>
<i>In recent years, STEM has become a huge buzzword among teachers,
researchers and policy makers. Promoting STEM education in girls
has been a national priority for many western nations including
the UK, USA, Australia, Finland, Switzerland and Norway. Yet, with
international women’s day not too far behind us, these nations
have found themselves ambushed by rather discouraging headlines
like: “Fewer women want to be scientists in wealthy, equal,
countries”, “The West is way behind Iran and Saudi Arabia when it
comes to women in science”, and “More gender equality leads to
less women in STEM”.</i><br>
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And counter arguments presented by Maria:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5S7QD9dryI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5S7QD9dryI</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYx7HaUlMY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYx7HaUlMY</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/9/18 11:06 am, Sarah Goodwin
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Sarah</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 06:24, Cameron Shorter
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moz-do-not-send="true">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
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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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5/9/18 3:43 am, Alex Leith wrote:<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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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Negative interactions are infrequent but highly visible, with consequences for project activity.</span></p></li>
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</span></font></div>
<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
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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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