[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G

Tue Jun 19 09:52:50 PDT 2018

Perfect.

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)

University of Pretoria
Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
Africa
email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:

> Yes, I think this is a good alternative giving also more visibility to
> GeoForAll.
> Maria
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> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
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> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Da: Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com>
> Data: 19/06/18 18:39 (GMT+01:00)
> A: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> Cc: Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at gmail.com>, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>, ML osgeo discuss <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
> Rebecca Firth <rebecca.m.firth at gmail.com>
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
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> Hi All,
>
> There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the
> Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event
> whereas the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> wrote:
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> Dear Mark
>
> I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is
> doing.
>
> Best
>
> Maria
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> *Da:* Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at gmail.com>
> *Inviato:* martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17
> *A:* Mark Iliffe
> *Cc:* Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli
> *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Dear Mark and all,
>
> as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could
> use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Serena
>
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> Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
>
> University of Pretoria
> Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science
> Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
> Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South
> Africa
> email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82
> 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Suchith,
>
> Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All
> obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in
> the DLOC!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark and DLOC Team,
>
>
> Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your
> attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll  for acknowledging
> student contributions through Student awards at key events  . Distributed
> as follows
> First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD
>
> The only requirement that we have is that  LOC will need to plan and
> administer the student competition  and give them at the event with a short
> blogpost to the community after the event.
>
> We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We
> look forward to successful FOSS4G 2018.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
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> *From:* Conference_dev <conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf
> of Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 17 June 2018 20:31
> *To:* ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev
> *Subject:* [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G
>
> Hi All,
>
> Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this
> August… it’s going to be amazing!!
>
> Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on
> Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that
> span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop
> presenters and keynotes and against.
>
> I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to
> workshop presenters.
>
> When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by
> the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received
> 73 submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted
> to widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have
> the same as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones.
> Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I
> believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the
> balance right.
>
> We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use
> FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented
> groups within our community - as a global community, we need to be as
> diverse as the world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to
> widen access and participation - this means working out how to achieve
> that. Bluntly, if we want to have a conference with the same content and
> people, we shouldn’t be holding this in Dar es Salaam.
>
> As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring
> their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services
> offered by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous
> conferences not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for
> example) and no stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led
> my committee and we resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters.
>
> However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a
> volunteer(and unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting
> things wrong… but we/I want to ensure that it’s put right.
>
> In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively, this
> pays for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop days.
> The cost of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper than
> previous workshops! To offer a free ticket to workshop presenters, we would
> have charged $100 and reclaimed the cost of the workshop presenter ticket
> from there. We charged as low as we could, because we recognised that for
> some attending FOSS4G, $25 can be a very large difference… but for
> others... not at all (hence the donation button for the Travel Grant
> Programme!). But, to widen participation, we need to be as inclusive as
> possible and that means making hard choices.
>
> We’re being inclusive by raising the number of TGP attendees from 10 in
> Boston to 51 for Dar. As the DLOC, we’ve booked the YMCA for our TGP
> attendees - this means that the TGP this year can support micro-grants,
> paying $250 to support the bus travel, food, and drink of a community
> member in Uganda that ordinarily would not be able to get to the conference
> in theory on their doorstep - because of this, every little helps, saving
> $100 here, $300 there etc. This may sound like hyperbole, but it’s a direct
> and concrete way that FOSS4G is widening access, in both economically
> disadvantaged and gendered situations.
>
> Ultimately: If you are a workshop presenter at FOSS4G this year and are
> unable to get your ticket/want a free ticket, please get in touch with me - *we’ll
> sort you out and make it right.* If this has given the impression that we
> are taking advantage of our workshop presenters - *it is not the
> intention, nor the case and we’re sorry*.
>
> Going forward, I’d recommend there be a further discussion within the
> conference selection process on whether workshop presenters, keynotes etc
> are given free passes and clarify whether it should be one way or the other
> - but that is not for me or my committee to decide! It’s 70 days to go to
> the best FOSS4G yet… and we’ve got a conference to put on!
>
> Thanks to all of you who make this community great :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
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> [1] https://twitter.com/sarasomewhere/status/1006304174332661760
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