[FOSS4G-Oceania] Forum on Diversity

[Martin Tomko]

I would support that – actually, I did put in, a last minute flash talk with roughly this topic – more as a placeholder than anything else. We could merge these…

Anyway, we need diversity.
M.

From: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 11:07 am
To: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
Cc: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Forum on Diversity

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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