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

[Jonah Sullivan]

I'm going to have to be more diplomatic here. The whole issue of maritime
boundaries is difficult because of the associated resources and sovereign
rights. The sensitivities are increased in the south pacific small island
developing states because of the lack of human resources to administer
their jurisdiction.

The addition of foreign aid to enable activities that are related to
sovereign actions as an independent state causes conflict of interest and
other sensitivities.

It is easy to make broad and general statements, but getting down to the
details can be uncomfortable for both aid donors and aid recipients.

I'll have a go at adding more details later today, but I can't promise to
be specific on the why, the how or the outcomes are easier to discuss.

On Thu, 28 Jun. 2018, 06:48 Cameron Shorter, <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can help, but am hoping for some more information to help make the story
> interesting. I've put the following questions in as comments into the
> article:
>
> Why is the Regional Maritime Boundaries Project important to Australia? Or
> more, why is it so important that we think we should sponsor people from
> the project to talk about it.
> Who built the system?
> What agencies sponsored it?
> Who maintains the system?
> Can we say something stronger than Open Source is used? Is it used
> exclusively? Is it used predominantly?
> Why was Open Source selected?
> I assume you can say that Open Standards are being used throughout?
> Is the data available under an open license?
> Does using Open Source aid collaboration?
> Can we get a quote from someone saying something positive about the
> system, and how open source is better than what they had before?
>
>
> On 27/6/18 4:02 pm, John Bryant wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Jonah's team has arranged to sponsor 2 attendees from the Pacific Islands
> region to attend our conference. It seems like a great opportunity to tell
> a good news story, and draw some attention from the PI region and
> elsewhere. We could also use it to draw a bit of attention to our travel
> grant program, which hasn't really been developed yet but will be soon
> (once Adam's back?).
>
> Jonah has pulled together some details in this Google Doc
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mL3KnXGzkHVzzNIfb1vQRui1yLgYeiN9xmsL9IQZNNc>.
> Would someone in this group be willing to convert this into a post for our
> News page, that we could then promote via social media? Would be nice to
> get some kind of image to go along with it too, perhaps from one of the
> linked sites.
>
> Thanks!
> John
>
>
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