[QGIS-Developer] Environmental policy

[Werner Macho]

Hi all,

>From a unfortunately long time not attending to hackfests participant I am
also in favour to reduce to once a year - and the idea of combining it with
user meetings is nice as well.
The Licence "issue" - to be honest they would use it anyway .. but as a
message it would be ok (but that would reduce "opensource" to just "source"
too for me).

Personally I see train tickets a lot more expensive than flight tickets and
I think that should change - otherwise I would prefer a train journey
anyway.

Hope to see you all again sometime.

regards
Werner

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:56 PM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 16 Jan 2020, at 11:52, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Paolo,
>
> thank you for bringing this on.
>
> Here is my very personal opinion:
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:20 PM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> following the interesting proposal by Andreas, I'm here starting a
>> discussion about QGIS.ORG <http://qgis.org/> environmental policy:
>>
>> * do we need an explicit environmental policy?
>>
>
> yes
>
> * probably our greatest impact is travel for Developers Meetings
>>   * do we need in person general meetings, or we can promote more
>> extensive and structured use of remote connections?
>>
>
> we do need in person meetings
>
>   * if we need it, do we need two meetings per year?
>>
>
> ideally, yes
>
>   * do we want to plan our meetings in an optimal location, to minimize
>> total travel?
>>
>
> yes
>
>   * do we want a combination between the two: smaller local meetings
>> that reduce travel, coordinated across the globe?
>>
>
> no
>
>   * do we want to suggest|gently push|require participants to use low
>> impact transportation?
>>
>
> gently push
>
>   * do we want a cap on cost and time difference between transportation
>> method? e.g. train is to be used when cost or duration are no more than
>> x times flight cost or duration
>>
>
> no
>
>
>> * do we want to engage in proactive environmental actions? e.g. donating
>> to the environmental agencies|NGOs|etc. specific tools to evaluate and
>> reduce impact? e.g. a QGIS ad hoc grant with a specific budget for it
>>
>
> not sure
>
> * do we want additional actions? e.g. low impact (vegan) diet on Dev
>> Meetings?
>>
>
> maybe vegetarian
>
>
> +1 from me for everything above (besides wondering if we could meet once a
> year).
>
>
>
> I know it's just a dream and it won't go anywhere but I would add an item
> to the list: prohibit the use of QGIS to the fossil-fuels industry.
> It would be a strong message btw.
>
>
> Interesting idea! Also opens the whole ’should we control our own license’
> debate again…..
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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