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

Till Adams till.adams at fossgis.de
Tue Sep 18 04:30:19 PDT 2018


Jonathan,

when editing the handbook, please make sure to follow the guidelines on
how to edit it:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#Editing_this_document

;-)

Thanks, Till


Am 18.09.2018 um 12:43 schrieb 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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