Hi All, There will be an awards evening for Travel Grand Programme Awardees on the Thursday as sundowner cocktails. Potentially could be an awards event whereas the Friday meeting could be a substantive discussion?
Best, Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Jun 2018, at 12:16, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brove...@polimi.it> > wrote: > > Dear Mark > I agree. It is a good opportunity to show practically what GeoForAll is doing. > Best > Maria > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli > Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping > Politecnico di Milano > > P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy) > Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867, maria.brove...@polimi.it > > > > > > Da: Serena Coetzee <serenacoet...@gmail.com> > Inviato: martedì 19 giugno 2018 18:07:17 > A: Mark Iliffe > Cc: Suchith Anand; ML osgeo discuss; Maria Antonia Brovelli > Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G > > Dear Mark and all, > > as you know, there will be a GeoForAll meeting on Friday morning. We could > use the meeting to present the prizes to the students? What do you think? > > Regards, > Serena > > > Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245) > > University of Pretoria > Director: Centre for Geoinformation Science > Associate professor: Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology > Geography Building 3-5, Main Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083, South > Africa > email: serena.coet...@up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis · Mobile: +27 82 464 > 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Mark Iliffe <markili...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Suchith, > > Yes - this is awesome. We're happy to provide a platform for Geo4All > obviously, please contact me off-list for me to intro the right people in the > DLOC! > > Cheers, > > Mark > > On 18 June 2018 at 05:30, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> > wrote: > Hi Mark and DLOC Team, > > Great work you all are doing for FOSS4G 2018 . May I also bring to your > attention , that we have a small budget in GeoForAll for acknowledging > student contributions through Student awards at key events . Distributed as > follows > First prize -250 USD ;Second prize - 150 USD; Third prize -100 USD > > The only requirement that we have is that LOC will need to plan and > administer the student competition and give them at the event with a short > blogpost to the community after the event. > > We are hoping the Dar es Salaam Team will take up this opportunity. We look > forward to successful FOSS4G 2018. > > Best wishes, > > Suchith > > From: Conference_dev <conference_dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of > Mark Iliffe <markili...@gmail.com> > Sent: 17 June 2018 20:31 > To: ML osgeo discuss; Conference Dev > Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Free Workshop Tickets @ FOSS4G > > Hi All, > > Firstly… we’re super excited to be welcoming you all to Dar es Salaam this > August… it’s going to be amazing!! > > Secondly, at the end of last week, there was a very good discussion on > Twitter about free tickets at FOSS4G [1] - there are numerous threads that > span from here with good comments for offering free tickets to workshop > presenters and keynotes and against. > > I’d like to explain why we made the choice not to offer free tickets to > workshop presenters. > > When we were putting together the workshop program, we were overwhelmed by > the quality and quantity of submissions received by the call. We received 73 > submissions and accepted 27. This was incredibly difficult as we wanted to > widen the scope of content within the workshop program (aka… not have the > same as last year) and balance new presenters with established ones. > Everything was a compromise to establish this program, but on balance I > believe (and I hope you as the community will agree), that we got the balance > right. > > We have the stated aim in our proposal and since that we want to use FOSS4G > in Dar es Salaam to widen participation of many under-represented groups > within our community - as a global community, we need to be as diverse as the > world. Part of the economic impetus within the DLOC is to widen access and > participation - this means working out how to achieve that. Bluntly, if we > want to have a conference with the same content and people, we shouldn’t be > holding this in Dar es Salaam. > > As many, (but not all), workshop presenters are from companies sponsoring > their travel to FOSS4G (offering workshops that directly relate to services > offered by their employer), the drive to widen participation, with previous > conferences not offering free workshop tickets (Nottingham in 2013 for > example) and no stated promise to offer free tickets for presenters, I led my > committee and we resolved to not provide free tickets to presenters. > > However, potentially this is wrong - and I’d like to stress as a > volunteer(and unpaid!) conference chair/organiser, we’re capable of getting > things wrong… but we/I want to ensure that it’s put right. > > In effect, there is no profit from the workshop tickets, effectively, this > pays for the conference venue and the food and drink for the workshop days. > The cost of this is roughly $75. We’re charging $75 - this is cheaper than > previous workshops! To offer a free ticket to workshop presenters, we would > have charged $100 and reclaimed the cost of the workshop presenter ticket > from there. We charged as low as we could, because we recognised that for > some attending FOSS4G, $25 can be a very large difference… but for others... > not at all (hence the donation button for the Travel Grant Programme!). But, > to widen participation, we need to be as inclusive as possible and that means > making hard choices. > > We’re being inclusive by raising the number of TGP attendees from 10 in > Boston to 51 for Dar. As the DLOC, we’ve booked the YMCA for our TGP > attendees - this means that the TGP this year can support micro-grants, > paying $250 to support the bus travel, food, and drink of a community member > in Uganda that ordinarily would not be able to get to the conference in > theory on their doorstep - because of this, every little helps, saving $100 > here, $300 there etc. This may sound like hyperbole, but it’s a direct and > concrete way that FOSS4G is widening access, in both economically > disadvantaged and gendered situations. > > Ultimately: If you are a workshop presenter at FOSS4G this year and are > unable to get your ticket/want a free ticket, please get in touch with me - > we’ll sort you out and make it right. If this has given the impression that > we are taking advantage of our workshop presenters - it is not the intention, > nor the case and we’re sorry. > > Going forward, I’d recommend there be a further discussion within the > conference selection process on whether workshop presenters, keynotes etc are > given free passes and clarify whether it should be one way or the other - but > that is not for me or my committee to decide! It’s 70 days to go to the best > FOSS4G yet… and we’ve got a conference to put on! > > Thanks to all of you who make this community great :-) > > Best, > > Mark > > > > > > > [1] https://twitter.com/sarasomewhere/status/1006304174332661760 > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. 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