Hey Mark, good on you for voicing publicly. Our ability to discuss openly is a strength of our community, and one we are learning to use responsibly. I saw your tweet yesterday, but find the discussion list more useful for internal discussion such as this.
It is a hard balance between requesting or encouraging changes we want to see vs expressing dissapointment in the activities of others. This is especially important in a volunteer organization such as ours where disappointment however kindly expressed can hit really moral hard (especially as volunteers are pulling an event together). I have been on both sides of this balance and it is never comfortable, as you express in your struggle above. Ideally, I seek to offer my time if I am in position to be of assistance and if the assistance is welcome. If not in a position to help I seek to learn or look for an opportunity for feedback. I learned a lot as your foss4g event planning has unfolded and your challenges, priorities and direction became clear. It is my hope that we will learn what challenges the foss4g-asia event is facing and what we as an organization can do to assist. If you have been following the board meetings the Sri Lanka <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka> chapter is just being officially recognized (and the membership shows some diversity). OSGeo has also set aside funding for our president to attend the foss4g-asia event. -- Jody Garnett On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 14:53, Mark Iliffe <markili...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve really agonised over whether to send this email. First of which, > being the imminent final preparations for FOSS4G taking up a lot of time, > but also whether it’s appropriate for me in my role of chair of FOOS4G to > offer public critique of regional events. It is in this vein that I’d like > to really stress that I’m writing this as an OSSGeo charter member. > > When I first saw this, my heart sank: > http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2018/keynotes/ > > Where is the gender diversity in the line up? I know that organising a > FOSS4G is really difficult, but we need to be reaching far and wide and > that starts with our keynotes. Potentially I’m missing something here - and > I probably am, if so I am sorry if this is the case! - but can we have a > rethink of the line up to really represent our community? > > Thank you, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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