<div dir="ltr"><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><div class="gmail_default" style=""><ul style=""><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></ul><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><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">MT</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Till Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p>Till<br>
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<div class="m_-6935595855552049216moz-cite-prefix">Am 24.07.2017 um 22:05 schrieb Steven
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We have to start preparing 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>On 24 Jul 2017, at 14:09, Till Adams <<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>>
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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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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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