[FOSS4G-Oceania] Forum on Diversity

[Sarah Goodwin]

Hi,

I also thought that a panel session for discussing 'Diversity in
Geospatial' is needed and it would be good to bring everyone into this
discussion. Not only is it difficult to ensure diversity of a conference,
but it is in general for companies and in academia too.Perhaps a suggestion
here would be to invite the keynote speakers onto this panel, there is nice
mix, it might be a good place to start.

Also, maybe we can have an ideas for diversity and inclusion initiatives
wall so people can write down ideas and suggestions for what we as a
community could do?

I also had a suggestion for running a panel for how to get more FOSS4G in
Academia, but I didn't think to submit this in as a proposal as it is not
really a presentation (!) but I see by this email that probably I should
have done that? I hope we can still suggest it as a topic from the academic
committee and add that in for voting?

Sarah


On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 06:24, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alex, yes, I'd be happy to update the diversity discussion - and it
> doesn't need to be me up on the stage.
>
> I realise we are susceptible to having a stage full of rich white educated
> city-dwelling males debating this topic.
>
> On 5/9/18 3:43 am, Alex Leith wrote:
>
> The diversity and inclusion discussion is still the one I'd like to have
> as the plenary panel session at the end of the first day.
>
> The second last keynote at FOSS4G was about this topic, and while I was
> exhausted and didn't take great notes, here are my dot points:
>
>    -
>
>    Be mindful of diversity and inclusion and unconscious bias
>    -
>
>    Negative interactions are infrequent but highly visible, with
>    consequences for project activity.
>
> Maybe we should work on this, Cameron, and we can put it forward for a
> vote amongst our committee as the topic for that panel session?
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 02:30 John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I love it! I really like how it aims to create a dialogue with the
>> attendees, rather than just us setting targets and trying to achieve them,
>> behind the scenes. I'm hopeful that our conference is successful in
>> building a strong community, this feels like it would be a step in the
>> right direction.
>>
>> Looking forward to working on the program over the next few weeks
>> (joiners welcome, as Alex has already said) :)
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