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

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi Andreas,

Glad to hear that you are doing well!

I totally agree with your proposal, just yesterday I booked my train
tickets!


On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 11:16 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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