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

[Alex Leith]

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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