<!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;'>https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman<br><br><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><br>---- On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:01:19 +0000 <b>Daniel Morissette<dmorissette@mapgears.com></b> wrote ---- <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px">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 (although<br>> I'm sure a few PhD's are trying), but I believe it should be considered<br>> when these sorts of events are sponsored. Otherwise you can easily end<br>> 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>-- <br>Daniel Morissette<br><a href="http://www.mapgears.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mapgears.com/</a><br>T: +1 418-696-5056 #201<br><br><a href="http://evouala.com/" target="_blank">http://evouala.com/</a> - Location Intelligence Made Easy<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a subj="" mailid="Discuss%40lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a></blockquote><br></div><br></div></body></html>