On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:52 PM Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2019, 18:01:18 CEST schrieb [email protected]: > > Hello to all members of the KDE community, > > > > this friday (september the 20th) will be a big day in climate protests and > > hopefully also in human history: People in more than 3500 places worldwide > > are joining the Global Climate Strike to draw attention to the rising > > climate crisis. > > > > The question I want to ask you is: Should KDE join this protests and show > > solidarity with the people engaging for this very important topic? > > If KDE (as organization) found this topic important, it should rather have it > on its agenda every day, instead of just signaling one day the year "oh yes, > so important topic, we also agree someone(tm) should fix this!!1!" , and the > rest of the year continue using flights also for KDE activities ("it's quicker > & less expensive, sorry") or buy that new device because it is more powerful > ("I could not stand the old one, sorry"). > > I would find it ridiculous and would be embarrassed to see someone doing this > in my name (as active contributor to KDE software projects), when it's not > backed by official applied policies. You are actually harming the strike, and > shadowing those people who are not just signaling, but serious by what they > do. > > Act first, then demand acts from others, please. And yes, I am aware there are > individuals here who privately act with environment in mind (he, I would > consider myself one). But as organisation KDE does not really care currently. > So it should not pretend it does. > > Like, are KDE's products evaluated in hindsight of their impact on > environment, other than side-effect of economically importance to be short on > need of device resources? > Is e.V. travel support making sure people tried hard to pick the most > environment-neutral traffic way (where possible to tell), instead of just > looking at money? > And do KDE make sure its servers are run on environment-neutral resources? > If not, shutting them down on strike would be an act indeed, there I agree ;)
The vast majority of our systems are hosted by Hetzner, who detail their resource utilisation at https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/umweltschutz/ > > Cheers > Friedrich > > Cheers, Ben
