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

[Daniel Silk]

I like the way you've framed this Adam, and I'd be super keen on attending
a panel on that topic.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 2:00 PM adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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