[OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2023

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hi Jonathan,

I fully agree with Maria. I find your accusation very serious and I would like to ask you to provide more information to support this. Maria's answer described very well how the evaluation process goes. Please let us know what we can do to improve the transparency.

Warm regards,
Vasile


On 13.01.2022 09:35, María Arias de Reyna via Discuss wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:50 PM Jonathan Moules via Discuss
> <discuss at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>> On the surface, this is a good idea, but unfortunately it has a fundamental problem:
>> There are no "criteria for selection" of the conference beyond "the committee members voted for this proposal". There's zero transparency in the process.
> 
> I can't let this serious accusation go unanswered.
> 
> All the process is done via public mailing lists. All the criteria is
> published on the Request For Proposals. Anyone on the community can
> review the RFP and propose changes to it. Anyone on the community can
> read the proposals and interact with the candidatures.
> 
> The only two things that are not public are:
>   * Confidentiality issues with the proposals. For example sometimes
> providers give you huge discounts in exchange of not making that
> discount public. So you can't show the budget publicly, unless you are
> willing to not use the discount.
>   * What each member of the committee votes. And this is to ensure they
> can freely vote without fearing consequences.
> 
> Which are two very reasonable exceptions.
> 
> Anyone can ask questions to the candidates. If I am right, you
> yourself have been very active on this process for the past years.
> Were you not the one that asked what a GeoChica is or am I confusing
> you with some other Jonathan? If I am confusing you with some other
> Jonathan, my mistake. Maybe you are not aware of the transparency of
> the process.
> 
> The process is transparent and public except on those two exceptions
> that warrantee the process is going to be safe.
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