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

[Greg Lauer]

+1 to continue community voting

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:48 PM Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I support that plan John.
>
> I do think that we should have some way of handling presentation
> submissions from our TGP applicants - they won't know they're coming until
> the end of September so I think we're missing a window of opportunity there.
>
> I'm also comfortable with accepting presentations from underrepresented
> groups as long as they are relevant to the conference.
>
> Andrew - while an anonymised community vote removes some bias by not
> mentioning anything about the presenter, the overall result still contains
> bias when the vast majority of our responses are from a small segment of
> the population. Therefore, we need to make an intentional effort to include
> speakers from underrepresetend groups until such point they are no longer
> underrepresented within the groups of respondees to the community vote,
> attendees to our conference, etc.
>
> FYI our audience via Twitter analytics is 78% male, 22% female.
>
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