[OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go

[Even Rouault]

Jonathan,

if you feel OSGeo should have an environmental policy, you could certainly 
propose one for consideration by the larger community, and then volunteer to 
champion to make it adopted, and enforce it afterwards.

Even

> 
> 
> ---- On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:01:19 +0000 Daniel
> Morissette<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote ----
> 
> On 2016-03-08 8:37 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote:
> >
> > Looking at the participant list, that Paris code-sprint entailed at
> > least 10 transatlantic flights and probably at least that many
> > short-haul (pan-Europe) flights too (which have higher emissions
> > profiles per passenger mile). I don't doubt a lot of useful work was
> > done, but was the quantity and quality of the work so much superior to
> > the normal-work-from-home/office option that it was worth the
> > considerable extra pollution that the sprint generated?
> >
> > This is obviously not something that can be easily quantified
> (although > I'm sure a few PhD's are trying), but I believe it should
> be considered > when these sorts of events are sponsored. Otherwise you
> can easily end > up with a Tragedy of the Commons situation.
> > A quick search doesn't find any sort of
> > ethical/green/social-responsibility policy on OSGeo's pages...
> >
> 
> 
> Um... very good point. On that note, I wonder if we should consider
> canceling the international FOSS4G which has an even worse impact since
> we're talking of hundreds of useless flights only to get people to watch
> a couple of conferences and share their latest project news.
> 
> Conferences and meetings could be streamed and delivered using hangouts
> after all. Why did we not think of that before?

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