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

[Alex Leith]

I think we continue. We actually have a lot of submissions, I count 61. And
we have some discretion to tweak things. If we have travel grant
applications and they want to present, we can treat them as a special case,
perhaps.

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 17:37 Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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