<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br><div>thanks;</div><div><br></div><div>three things, if I may add them here. I think they do matter:</div><div><br></div><div>-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).</div><div> 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 ?</div><div> So I propose cyber sessions instead.</div><div><br></div><div>-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).</div><div> Feel free to think about 'space NASA' issues too.</div><div><br></div><div>-Overall, QGIS now grew big, but it then faces truly global issues. It's better to tackle them and be aware.</div><div>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)</div><div><br></div><div>One way forward here would be to acknowledge those issues and start with a holistic and effective vision statement including those things above.</div><div>Then you can try to tackle them on more individual sections, but not losing the wider context.</div><div><br></div><div>Those would be my 3 cents on the issue; hope it helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Very best</div><div><br></div><div> Falk Huettmann</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:07 AM Denis Rouzaud <<a href="mailto:denis.rouzaud@gmail.com">denis.rouzaud@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I am totally supporting the idea of promoting the train for reachable places and try to avoid too disconnected places.</div><div>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?<br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>People are still free to to do whatever they prefer. I guess for now (half kidding, half serious).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, thanks Andreas for raising this discussion and shaking us. And PSC for making the discussion continue.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Denis</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 17 janv. 2020 à 11:44, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
this is turning out a very interesting discussion, that shows the<br>
variety and richness of the approaches within our community.<br>
Please keep on voicing your opinions, so we can have a broader<br>
perspective before reaching a decision, hopefully shared by everyone.<br>
I'm sure many others have interesting things to say.<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
Il 17/01/20 00:33, Jorge Gustavo Rocha ha scritto:<br>
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