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

[Martin Tomko]

Agreed with John. I like the direction of Adam’s comment, but find it hard to implement. What I would rather suggest is to clearly identify folks we would like to invite ( handpicked) to provide the counterpoint to the east coast males (me), and invite them as invited speakers.

That would identify them clearly, would avoid the confusion about the selection process, and provide a targeted counterpoint.

That said, an extension of the deadline is not a problem, I think.
M.

From: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 1:59 pm
To: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: extended, targeted call for papers if needed

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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