[Diversity-talk] Fwd: Should OSMF adopt a policy about State of the Map conference in places that are LGBTQ*/etc unsafe?

[Amanda McCann]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 20:22 +02:00, Jorieke Vyncke <jorieke.vyncke at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do think that the conferences that will suffer most are the regional 
> conferences like State of the Map Africa, Asia, Middle East. 
> For example State of the Map Africa could not have happened in Kenya 
> and Uganda. As in Asia was the case with the conference in Sri Lanka 
> and Bangladesh. And a potential SotM Middle East, could that ever 
> happen in any country of the region?

In my proposal, a SotM (REGION) can always take place in a country in that region, even if that would require the event to not be safe for LGBTQ people in the region. I do not think it is right to put that high a restriction.