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

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Jonathan,

You have brought up good points, and you can still have an impact on 
future conferences, including this coming one, if you can add a section 
to the FOSS4G Handbook [1]. Ideally, source an existing purchasing best 
practices guide rather than write your own. It is more creditable, will 
likely be better quality than you could produce by yourself, and should 
save you time.

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook


On 17/9/18 11:48 pm, Steven Feldman wrote:
> 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.
>
> ______
> Steven
>
>
>> On 17 Sep 2018, at 14:04, Jonathan Moules 
>> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com <mailto: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
>>>
>>> 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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