<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The RfP was finalised and published on Friday. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These are good suggestions and I would encourage you to ask questions of the various LOC’s during the question phases. <div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;" class="">______</span><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;">Steven<br class=""><br class=""></span>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Sep 2018, at 14:04, Jonathan Moules <<a href="mailto:jonathan-lists@lightpear.com" class="">jonathan-lists@lightpear.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi List,<br class=""><br class="">Apologies for the late thoughts to this thread, I've been offline for a while.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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?<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">I can probably offer more and/or flesh these out if desired.<br class=""><br class="">Of course, all of the above also requires that the conference committee use them as part of the evaluation criteria.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">Jonathan<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 14/09/2018 10:49, Till Adams wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">I tried to resolve all the comments in<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ltOnAoiFSTl7ERdlFKUvx-Jh9eDpVQgEn4AoCIp4SE/edit?ts=5b9a347f#" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ltOnAoiFSTl7ERdlFKUvx-Jh9eDpVQgEn4AoCIp4SE/edit?ts=5b9a347f#</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">and ended up with 2 remaining.<br class=""><br class="">One is a discussion between Steven and Maria regarding length and<br class="">scheduling for AGM, the other one is a comment of Cameron regarding the<br class="">potential funding of the video recording.<br class=""><br class="">Can the people I named please resolve these comments? After that we can<br class="">export the document and ask somebody who knows how to to load it into<br class="">the SVN and send the link. Afterwards I will kick the call out.<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks to all contributions!<br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>