<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>Hi Even,<br> I'm not averse to the notion, but given the mixed/tepid response to this email thread, it doesn't seem like something the community has any particular desire for.<br> Cheers,<br> Jonathan<br><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><br>---- On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:18:32 +0000 <b>Even Rouault<even.rouault@spatialys.com></b> wrote ---- <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px">Jonathan, <br> <br>if you feel OSGeo should have an environmental policy, you could certainly <br>propose one for consideration by the larger community, and then volunteer to <br>champion to make it adopted, and enforce it afterwards. <br> <br>Even <br> <br>> <br>> <br>> ---- On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:01:19 +0000 Daniel <br>> Morissette<<a subj="" mailid="dmorissette%40mapgears.com" href="mailto:dmorissette@mapgears.com" target="_blank">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>> wrote ---- <br>> <br>> On 2016-03-08 8:37 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote: <br>> > <br>> > Looking at the participant list, that Paris code-sprint entailed at <br>> > least 10 transatlantic flights and probably at least that many <br>> > short-haul (pan-Europe) flights too (which have higher emissions <br>> > profiles per passenger mile). I don't doubt a lot of useful work was <br>> > done, but was the quantity and quality of the work so much superior to <br>> > the normal-work-from-home/office option that it was worth the <br>> > considerable extra pollution that the sprint generated? <br>> > <br>> > This is obviously not something that can be easily quantified <br>> (although > I'm sure a few PhD's are trying), but I believe it should <br>> be considered > when these sorts of events are sponsored. Otherwise you <br>> can easily end > up with a Tragedy of the Commons situation. <br>> > A quick search doesn't find any sort of <br>> > ethical/green/social-responsibility policy on OSGeo's pages... <br>> > <br>> <br>> <br>> Um... very good point. On that note, I wonder if we should consider <br>> canceling the international FOSS4G which has an even worse impact since <br>> we're talking of hundreds of useless flights only to get people to watch <br>> a couple of conferences and share their latest project news. <br>> <br>> Conferences and meetings could be streamed and delivered using hangouts <br>> after all. Why did we not think of that before? <br> <br>-- <br>Spatialys - Geospatial professional services <br><a href="http://www.spatialys.com" target="_blank">http://www.spatialys.com</a> <br></blockquote><br></div><br></div></body></html>