Too bad, this seems a good opportunity to put our poopprint-footprint into perspective and help stimulate consideration of ways to accomplish our need for interaction, obviously quality virtual participation being the alternative. Not to exclude the benefits of a physical meeting but allow for an expansion of that so players can join up virtually. A chart showing how much poop was prevented might help to encourage more ways to improve our efficiency. I hope I am accurately understanding what is being discussed, never quite sure. -Patrick
From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Moules Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:14 AM To: Even Rouault Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the Paris code sprint go Hi Even, I'm not averse to the notion, but given the mixed/tepid response to this email thread, it doesn't seem like something the community has any particular desire for. Cheers, Jonathan ---- On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:18:32 +0000 Even Rouault<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote ---- Jonathan, if you feel OSGeo should have an environmental policy, you could certainly propose one for consideration by the larger community, and then volunteer to champion to make it adopted, and enforce it afterwards. Even > > > ---- On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:01:19 +0000 Daniel > Morissette<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote ---- > > On 2016-03-08 8:37 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote: > > > > Looking at the participant list, that Paris code-sprint entailed at > > least 10 transatlantic flights and probably at least that many > > short-haul (pan-Europe) flights too (which have higher emissions > > profiles per passenger mile). I don't doubt a lot of useful work was > > done, but was the quantity and quality of the work so much superior to > > the normal-work-from-home/office option that it was worth the > > considerable extra pollution that the sprint generated? > > > > This is obviously not something that can be easily quantified > (although > I'm sure a few PhD's are trying), but I believe it should > be considered > when these sorts of events are sponsored. Otherwise you > can easily end > up with a Tragedy of the Commons situation. > > A quick search doesn't find any sort of > > ethical/green/social-responsibility policy on OSGeo's pages... > > > > > Um... very good point. On that note, I wonder if we should consider > canceling the international FOSS4G which has an even worse impact since > we're talking of hundreds of useless flights only to get people to watch > a couple of conferences and share their latest project news. > > Conferences and meetings could be streamed and delivered using hangouts > after all. Why did we not think of that before? -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com
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