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<p>Hi Michael, @ConfCOmm,</p>
<p>many thanks for the many contributions! Didn't expect that much
response in such a short time ;-).</p>
<p>I've drafted a first text about this in the FOss4G Handbook here:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#On_Site:_Avoid_waste_and_CO2_footprint">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#On_Site:_Avoid_waste_and_CO2_footprint</a></p>
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<p>Feel free to change/add/comment!</p>
<p>Till<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 25.07.2017 um 13:50 schrieb Michael
Terner:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Just
some quick comments from the Boston team. I think it is fair
to say that we have an environmental awareness and are doing
what we can. Some things we can control, other things are
controlled by the venue. But here is some of what we're
looking at (and we do support guidance to future LOCs):</div>
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<li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We are going
+/- "paperless" for our program. Our web/phone app is
already downloadable from the website.</font></li>
<li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Our gala will
be using single-use but compostable place
settings/utensils (our Aquarium, the gala site, is
extremely eco-aware and eco-friendly)</font></li>
<li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Massachusetts
has a strong "bottle bill" and all drink cans/bottles
will be recycled as there is a $.05 return to be
collected</font></li>
<li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We are in the
process of finalizing a simple, practical, affordable
attendee gifts including a reusable water bottle (loved
the twitter chatter on the success of the GeoCat water
bottle) and and a simple, reusable shopping bag; both of
which can be used both at the conference and after</font></li>
<li style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Jeroen's point
is the most complicated. It is totally fair to observe
that a summer conference interferes with the European
vacation norm. But September interferes with the start
of the North American academic year and it is difficult
to travel during the start of the school year. And,
September costs are significantly higher than in the
summer in North America. There is no perfect time, and
there will always be difficulties for some in making it
to FOSS4G. I think it will be tricky to "bake in" that
FOSS4G adapts to one particular community's schedule
over others'. In other words, my perspective is that it
should remain up to Conference Dev to choose the best
proposal that balances timing and costs and the
creativity of the LOC. Would it be terrible if some of
the conferences are in Aug, and others in Sept, or Oct?
By moving around within a window then each community has
some conferences in the rotation that may be easier, or
harder to attend.</font></li>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">We are looking forward to
seeing many of you in Boston; and also to seeing the new
Call for Proposals for Europe 2019.</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">MT</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Till
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<p>+1</p>
<p>I can start woth this these days if okay.</p>
<p>(I already know of two teams, that are more or less
waiting for the call)</p>
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<p>Till<br>
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the call for 2019 soon.
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<div>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>
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<div>Dear ConfComm!<br>
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There is one issue I'd like to mention and
perhaps this is also a topic<br>
on that we, as a responsible community,
should adress to.<br>
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Recently I've been to FOSS4G Europe in
Paris and I recognized, that a<br>
lot of one-way cups and non-returnable
bottles were offered during<br>
breaks. Thinking back to F4G Europe in
Como in 2015 there was even<br>
single-use tableware offered for lunch.<br>
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To make that clear: My goal is not to ask
the organizers of the named<br>
conferences for justification !!! Both
conferences have been phantastic<br>
events!<br>
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I'd like more to awake our environmental
awareness somehow:<br>
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We also had this issue on a FOSSGIS few
years ago; a lot of single-use<br>
stuff was used for break-caterings. Since
this conference, we ask<br>
organizers to only offer recycable
tableware and bottles on<br>
FOSSGIS-conferences.<br>
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<br>
When on the one side one of the goals of
our community is to contribute<br>
to a better world, it makes not much
sense, when we leave amounts of<br>
waste behind us and have a raising
CO2-footprint after every of our events.<br>
<br>
For Bonn we decided not to offer any
non-recycable stuff, we also asked<br>
attendees to balance their CO2-emmission
because of flights on a<br>
voluntary base (eg. atmosfair). To be
honest, I don't know if anybody<br>
did, but at least we tried.<br>
<br>
Maybe that's because I am german and
although we sell fraudulent<br>
diesel-cars, we have a favour for
recycable bottles, cans and everything<br>
(even French winemakers put a green dot on
their bottles, to indicate,<br>
that they are recycable in Germany ;-))
and I also know, that it is<br>
often not that easy to have this offer in
other countries as well - but:<br>
<br>
How about adding a topic "Environmental
Responsibility" to our<br>
"Conference Manual" and encourage future
LOC's to have an enhanced eye<br>
on these kind of topics? We also might
request that future bids include<br>
an abstract on how to handle this issue
based on the local<br>
possibilities. It's up to every
ConfComm-member, how to include that<br>
into his/her voting.<br>
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Till<br>
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