<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We have to start preparing the call for 2019 soon. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s update the RfP doc to include an environmental section. I expect there are several changes that will need to be made, perhaps a separate thread on the mailing list to gather suggestions<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Jul 2017, at 14:09, Till Adams <<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" class="">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear ConfComm!<br class=""><br class="">There is one issue I'd like to mention and perhaps this is also a topic<br class="">on that we, as a responsible community, should adress to.<br class=""><br class="">Recently I've been to FOSS4G Europe in Paris and I recognized, that a<br class="">lot of one-way cups and non-returnable bottles were offered during<br class="">breaks. Thinking back to F4G Europe in Como in 2015 there was even<br class="">single-use tableware offered for lunch.<br class=""><br class="">To make that clear: My goal is not to ask the organizers of the named<br class="">conferences for justification !!! Both conferences have been phantastic<br class="">events!<br class=""><br class="">I'd like more to awake our environmental awareness somehow:<br class=""><br class="">We also had this issue on a FOSSGIS few years ago; a lot of single-use<br class="">stuff was used for break-caterings. Since this conference, we ask<br class="">organizers to only offer recycable tableware and bottles on<br class="">FOSSGIS-conferences.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">When on the one side one of the goals of our community is to contribute<br class="">to a better world, it makes not much sense, when we leave amounts of<br class="">waste behind us and have a raising CO2-footprint after every of our events.<br class=""><br class="">For Bonn we decided not to offer any non-recycable stuff, we also asked<br class="">attendees to balance their CO2-emmission because of flights on a<br class="">voluntary base (eg. atmosfair). To be honest, I don't know if anybody<br class="">did, but at least we tried.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe that's because I am german and although we sell fraudulent<br class="">diesel-cars, we have a favour for recycable bottles, cans and everything<br class="">(even French winemakers put a green dot on their bottles, to indicate,<br class="">that they are recycable in Germany ;-)) and I also know, that it is<br class="">often not that easy to have this offer in other countries as well - but:<br class=""><br class="">How about adding a topic "Environmental Responsibility" to our<br class="">"Conference Manual" and encourage future LOC's to have an enhanced eye<br class="">on these kind of topics? We also might request that future bids include<br class="">an abstract on how to handle this issue based on the local<br class="">possibilities. It's up to every ConfComm-member, how to include that<br class="">into his/her voting.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>