[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: extended, targeted call for papers if needed

[John Bryant]

I'm also keen to have a program that is inclusive & diverse, so I'm
somewhat supportive of this idea in principle, but looking for a bit more
info.

What would be an measure of acceptable diversity of speakers, and what
specifically would trigger this kind of contingency plan?

For a bit of context, Cholena has been tracking presentation submissions
(including her best guess at gender, based on name) as they come in here
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g7i7mllvF0yEjhy21gNWgx6YCRsZV-XgwLK1P4wImFE/edit#gid=0>,
and we've had a few women submitting today, so it's looking a little bit
better than it was 24 hours ago. Right now we've got 6 full length presos
submitted by women. As for regional/ethnic representation, we haven't been
collecting info on where speakers are from, or their ethnicity, so that's a
bit of a complicating factor.

If we were to do an extended submission period, would we cancel our
community vote? Or just run it with what we have?

Perhaps an alternative would be to act as planned (close submissions, do
community vote), but also work over the next 2 weeks on looking to add more
speakers from underrepresented groups through a process of direct
approaches & hand picking? (we've already been doing this to some degree,
but we can always do more)
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