[Qgis-psc] Traveling to the 's-Hertogenbosch

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi PSC,

I am back home and feeling better after my surgery. Trying to catch up 
with issues and starting to work on closing 2019 financial stuff.

One thing that I would like to discuss is the travel support for the 
's-Hertogenbosch meeting.

Can we discuss and decide that we only support ecologically responsible 
traveling? I am thinking that contributors that live within the radius 
of 1'500km from 's-Hertogenbosch can easily travel by train or can 
organize car pools rather than traveling by plane. Even if it costs 
more, I think QGIS should rather reimburse a train ticket than an airfare.

Luckily, a nr of european governments (e.g. Germany, Austria) are in the 
process of improving the train system and correct the unfair taxation 
system for train tickets (train tickets have VAT, air tickets not; train 
tickets have a CO2 surcharge on electricity production, air tickets only 
just recently but not high enough (which is outraging)), so one can 
expect that the train tickets will be slightly cheaper. E.g. Germany 
reduced VAT for train tickets starting from January 1 and Austria will 
introduce an additional CO2 taxation for plane tickets. These changes 
are not enough to change people's behavior, but they are a good start. 
Austria is also discussing a new integrated ticket for the whole public 
transportation system, similar to the Swiss GA travel card that works 
across trains, buses, boats, trams, etc.

Greetings,

Andreas