[FOSS4G-Oceania] The Panel Session - It's Time...

[adam steer]

Hi all

Thanks for digging that up, John - I’d forgotten.

To expand a little on Cameron’s post, heres my thinking behind proposing a
topic around ’human evolution, ethics and open source mapping’.

After pondering Ed’s question (what do we want from the panel discussion?)
for a while, I realised *I* want the panel to engage in a bold exploration
of how an open geospatial community can become the foundation for an
equitable, sustainable, ethical world which we are happy to hand to the
future with a bow on top and a card saying ‘here’s your planet and society
which is in better social and ecological state that when we turned up on
it’; and ending with a resolve to commit to doing just that.

This by necessity includes a deep embrace of diversity and inclusion. It
also must consider the sustainability of racing to technical solutions (the
fallacy of tech inevitability?); and ethical questions (geoprivacy,
geo-ethics, data ethics).

The basis for this line of thinking comes from the idea that mapping and
navigation are evolutionary necessities for humans (and many other
creatures - consider the Arctic Tern! ).

Fundamentally, the community we’re representing does more than help out
cash strapped departments; or make us feel nice. It (re)creates a system
where our naturally altruistic instincts [1] can thrive. It helps us
communicate ideas across sociopolitical and geopolitical constructs which
can act as barriers. It helps us become better humans. I want a discussion
of how this community can carry that torch and help it burn brighter.

Everyone else may want something different out of the discussion, that’s
OK. If we can extract a common thread around what we want out of the panel,
perhaps a topic will become self evident.

In considering a topic, perhaps say *why* it is the most valuable thing we
could highlight in the conference for you. I realise not everyone wants
cosmic revelations; that’s OK too. We can be as pragmatic or as exploratory
as the community sees fit; it’s not the last time we’ll do this :D

Cheers

Adam

[1] eg:
https://phys.org/news/2011-09-humans-naturally-cooperative-altruistic-social.html


On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 08:14, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recalled that we've done some previous work on panel topics before, and
> just found this doc
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wz8tJyVhmThjEvpwQ2htt8n1NwmTBJ5bnu827DO0GfU/edit#>
> that captures some of that work, with a few topic names & descriptions that
> haven't been raised yet in this thread. Will add the topic names from that
> previous work here:
>
> 8. Fostering the next generation of spatial professionals
> 9. Emerging applications of spatial
> 10. The history of OpenStreetMap in Australia
> 11. Sustainability of open source projects and communities - what's
> required?
>
> All of these could incorporate diversity & inclusion.
>
> So far, topics 6, 7, and 11 are the ones that are jumping out at me. Each
> could possibly take a little wordsmithing to get *just right*, but I think
> they address my concerns about audience engagement.
>
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