[FOSS4G-Oceania] Pacific funding - blog post help?

[John Bryant]

Hi all, sorry for the bombardment, I'm getting caught up after a couple of
days of R&R.

Just an FYI - I'm putting this good news story on the website blog now &
will promote via social media, with a call to action to contribute to our
Good Mojo program (GMP).

I realised we needed a page to describe our GMP, so wrote one partly based
on Adam's sponsorship prospectus. It's here
<https://foss4g-oceania.org/conference/good-mojo-program> - comments
invited. There is a link to our Tito ticketing page, where people can make
contributions. I think we should be pushing this program at this point to
get contributions so we can do more on the TGP, childcare, etc.

Cheers
John

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 at 14:46, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I agree that there shouldn't be special cases for presenters...
>
> Ask them to put in a submission. They'll need to do this anyway.
>
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 at 13:04 Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> -1 for guaranteed spot,  +1 for attendance.
>> We should not cherry pick like this.  It can happen in the deliberations
>> of the committee when we judge the contributions,  but not before.
>>
>> M.
>>
>> On 29 Jun. 2018 12:39 pm, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Cameron, sounds like reaching out to them would be a great idea. I
>> totally agree with you, we should be supportive of this relationship.
>>
>> Nice catch on the wording re: a guaranteed speaking slot, I hadn't
>> noticed that. I think we should ask them to put in an abstract, either
>> formally through our submission process, or directly. Perhaps we could
>> allocate a portion of the speaking slots to regional diversity speakers,
>> and decide whether we want to review them as they come in, or wait until
>> the submissions close.
>>
>> I'm wary of creating a precedent of offering guaranteed speaking slots to
>> sponsored attendees, without any review or process in place.
>>
>> For the purposes of putting out a blog post, can I suggest we change the
>> wording to explain they are attending the conference, rather than
>> presenting at it? Or say they are hoping to present?
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