[QGIS-Developer] Environmental policy

[Falk Huettmann]

Dear Colleagues,

thanks;

three things, if I may add them here. I think they do matter:

-train-location events sound great, but have no good global meaning. Most
continents cannot be reached by or from trains (think planes, ships or
others).
 One way or another, you need to think global, and where most users sit
(outside of the EU ?). I would think without U.S., China, Africa, Latin
America or India QGIS has no good future. And how about Aussi and New
Zealand ?
 So I propose cyber sessions instead.

-same applies to the definition and use of GIS: it's global now and must
include all aspects, warfare and environmental atmospheric issues (that
includes IPCC for instance).
 Feel free to think about 'space NASA' issues too.

-Overall, QGIS now grew big, but it then faces truly global issues. It's
better to tackle them and be aware.
Otherwise, QGIS will go down and be replaced (see what happened to SPANS,
SAGA or GRASS earlier, and watch GIS in R for that matter, or python)

One way forward here would be to acknowledge those issues and start with a
holistic and effective vision statement including those things above.
Then you can try to tackle them on more individual sections, but not losing
the wider context.

Those would be my 3 cents on the issue; hope it helps.

Very best

      Falk Huettmann


On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:07 AM Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would just like to say I am totally in favor of having an environmental
> policy which would just state that we are acting and considering
> environmental issues in our work.
>
> I am totally supporting the idea of promoting the train for reachable
> places and try to avoid too disconnected places.
> It might be very difficult to come up with a strict formula, and I would
> say it makes more sense to evaluate this per meeting?
> Also, the idea of 1 longer meeting makes sense, since that's the easiest
> way to reduce the moves. Promoting secondary and/or simultaneous events in
> other places (by sponsoring them too) would be nice too.
>
> I also believe that personal meetups are essential to our community, maybe
> because the beer or any non-alcoholic beverage doesn't go through fiber
> channels.
>
> That makes me jump to my last point: I don't see that bringing an
> environmental policy is an open door to ethical or political matters.
> Mainly because they are totally different things: environmental issues are
> scientific facts while ethics or politics are tight to human cultures and
> beliefs.
>
> Things are moving fast lately, and we'll be / we are being judged by our
> children, and....promoting the train is the very least we can do.
> People are still free to to do whatever they prefer. I guess for now (half
> kidding, half serious).
>
> Anyway, thanks Andreas for raising this discussion and shaking us. And PSC
> for making the discussion continue.
>
> Best wishes,
> Denis
>
> Le ven. 17 janv. 2020 à 11:44, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>> this is turning out a very interesting discussion, that shows the
>> variety and richness of the approaches within our community.
>> Please keep on voicing your opinions, so we can have a broader
>> perspective before reaching a decision, hopefully shared by everyone.
>> I'm sure many others have interesting things to say.
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Il 17/01/20 00:33, Jorge Gustavo Rocha ha scritto:
>> > Hi,
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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