[OSGeo-Conf] Finalisation of RfP-Document for RfP FOSS4G 2020

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi List,

Apologies for the late thoughts to this thread, I've been offline for a 
while.

While the draft RfP does tentatively cover Human Rights in relation to 
the host country's human-rights activities, there doesn't seem to be any 
larger goal or coverage of ethical/sustainable provisions so I thought 
I'd make some suggestions.

To expand, I'd like to suggest on the Human Rights front that there are 
more issues that can be covered and fairly simply too. For example, the 
last two FOSS4G events I went to had t-shirts - they seem to be a common 
theme - assuming the next one does too, what provision would they make 
to source these garments ethically? A lot of cotton is grown in 
Uzbekistan by basically slave-labour, and the then used in factories 
that have almost-as-bad conditions. Similar human-rights issues surround 
things like chocolate and coffee, which is why there are a lot of 
"FairTrade" and similar badges in those domains. There is actually an 
"easy" (if lazy) way to fix this: simply make sure such things are 
"FairTrade" or similar. Sure they often cost more, but that's in part 
because you're no-longer using child/slave/woefully-underpaid labour, 
and not-exploiting-people costs money. So for the RfP: What provision 
will the conference make to ethically source its foodstuffs/clothing/etc?

The other obvious component is the green-credentials (sustainability) of 
the proposed conference. Questions might include: Is it in a place with 
good public transport or do you need to take taxis everywhere? How 
accessible is the conference via non-flying (and will you give a 
discount to non-flying delegates (as an idea))? What (if-any) green 
credentials does the proposed venue have? Do you have carbon-neutral 
plans for the conference? Will foodstuff be locally sourced? Etc, etc.

I can probably offer more and/or flesh these out if desired.

Of course, all of the above also requires that the conference committee 
use them as part of the evaluation criteria.

Cheers,
Jonathan


On 14/09/2018 10:49, Till Adams wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I tried to resolve all the comments in
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ltOnAoiFSTl7ERdlFKUvx-Jh9eDpVQgEn4AoCIp4SE/edit?ts=5b9a347f#
>
>
> and ended up with 2 remaining.
>
> One is a discussion between Steven and Maria regarding length and
> scheduling for AGM, the other one is a comment of Cameron regarding the
> potential funding of the video recording.
>
> Can the people I named please resolve these comments? After that we can
> export the document and ask somebody who knows how to to load it into
> the SVN and send the link. Afterwards I will kick the call out.
>
> Many thanks to all contributions!
>
> Till
>
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