[OSGeo-Conf] TGP's in 2019

[Jonathan Moules]

An excellent point, but I'd like to highlight that everyone has a "good 
reason" for why *they* should be flying. Unfortunately the end result is 
a Tragedy of the Commons[1] where everyone has exempted themselves 
because they're "special" and their reason is "just". Consequence: 
Global air travel persists in rising [2].

In less diplomatic terms, and simplified down, which is more important: 
Forcing more women into FOSS GIS (although again, diversity is about 
more than gender), or a planet where those women's grandchildren will 
have less climate change consequences to contend with?

Personally I don't think the value of attending any conference is worth 
a flight. Especially as FOSS4G gets video'd these days (which is great 
and something more conferences should do!). That just leaves 
"networking", and if you're throwing several tons of CO2 into the upper 
atmosphere just to network...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
[2] 
https://www.statista.com/statistics/193533/growth-of-global-air-traffic-passenger-demand/

On 2019-02-11 16:06, Mark Iliffe wrote:
> I would counsel that we prioritise grants to those where we are 
> underrepresented in both economic and gender terms - see the OECD 
> Development Assistance Countries list [1]. While trains can be useful 
> in the short term, we need to really consider the balance between 
> being environmentally conscious and bringing those from the frontier 
> of where we need to be and have the most impact. This will be achieved 
> through empowering those through the TGP.  In less diplomatic terms, 
> if we're not going to hold conferences with more regularity in SSE 
> Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean, and Africa, we need to 
> facilitate their travel to Europe and North America - that will mean 
> flights 99% of the time.
>
> Just my $0.02...
>
> [1] 
> http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC_List_ODA_Recipients2018to2020_flows_En.pdf 
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 10:13, Jonathan Moules 
> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com <mailto:jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>      > Any comments on this or ideas on how to define a decision process?
>
>     I'd suggest one criterion for the decision is to prioritise
>     sustainable
>     forms of transport. I.e. flying would be last, trains first.
>     For official EU numbers:
>     https://www.eea.europa.eu/media/infographics/co2-emissions-from-passenger-transport/view
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jonathan
>
>     On 2019-02-08 14:07, Till Adams wrote:
>     > Dear CC!
>     >
>     > We just got the confirmation from the board, that we have 25k US
>     $ in
>     > 2019 for our Travel Grant Programmes.
>     >
>     > The idea is, that we want to dedicate 50-60% of this to the TGP
>     of the
>     > global event (so this year for Bucharest - in case they apply
>     for a TGP
>     > ;-)).
>     >
>     > The idea for the rest of the money is to give out a call to the
>     > community, that regional events can apply also for some TGP funding,
>     > given that they accept the application criteria (as defined in [1]).
>     >
>     > I'd like to push out that call quite fast and give a 3 or 4 week
>     > timeframe for organizers to apply. This gives every event owner
>     the same
>     > chance and we do not have a "first comes, first serves" - which
>     > definetely would prefer events, that takeplace earlier in the
>     year... .
>     >
>     > In case we have more requests than money, we need a clear and
>     > transparent decision process, which is the main task I fear.
>     >
>     > Any comments on this or ideas on how to define a decision process?
>     >
>     >
>     > So far, I wish you all a nice weekend!
>     >
>     > Till
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > [1] Steven and John Bryant workd hard on a draft of the application
>     > criteria
>     > (here
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kzu9z_4BRMzCc5y9SsE7--GnShL30kPGnh7gXlqJspQ/edit?usp=sharing)
>     > It will go live on the OSGeo wiki over the weekend.
>     >
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