<div dir="auto">Hi Andreas, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Glad to hear that you are doing well!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I totally agree with your proposal, just yesterday I booked my train tickets!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 11:16 Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi PSC,<br>
<br>
I am back home and feeling better after my surgery. Trying to catch up <br>
with issues and starting to work on closing 2019 financial stuff.<br>
<br>
One thing that I would like to discuss is the travel support for the <br>
's-Hertogenbosch meeting.<br>
<br>
Can we discuss and decide that we only support ecologically responsible <br>
traveling? I am thinking that contributors that live within the radius <br>
of 1'500km from 's-Hertogenbosch can easily travel by train or can <br>
organize car pools rather than traveling by plane. Even if it costs <br>
more, I think QGIS should rather reimburse a train ticket than an airfare.<br>
<br>
Luckily, a nr of european governments (e.g. Germany, Austria) are in the <br>
process of improving the train system and correct the unfair taxation <br>
system for train tickets (train tickets have VAT, air tickets not; train <br>
tickets have a CO2 surcharge on electricity production, air tickets only <br>
just recently but not high enough (which is outraging)), so one can <br>
expect that the train tickets will be slightly cheaper. E.g. Germany <br>
reduced VAT for train tickets starting from January 1 and Austria will <br>
introduce an additional CO2 taxation for plane tickets. These changes <br>
are not enough to change people's behavior, but they are a good start. <br>
Austria is also discussing a new integrated ticket for the whole public <br>
transportation system, similar to the Swiss GA travel card that works <br>
across trains, buses, boats, trams, etc.<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
<br>
Andreas<br>
<br>
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