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

[Steven Feldman]

The RfP was finalised and published on Friday. 

These are good suggestions and I would encourage you to ask questions of the various LOC’s during the question phases. 

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Steven


> On 17 Sep 2018, at 14:04, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>> 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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