Hi,
I am also adding my personal preferences down here, but I fear this
whole discussion will be a bit difficult to summarize.
Am 16.01.20 um 12:21 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
Hi all,
following the interesting proposal by Andreas, I'm here starting a
discussion about QGIS.ORG environmental policy:
* do we need an explicit environmental policy?
not sure we really need one. But maybe add a section somewhere on the
website, just 1-2 paragraphs/sentences should be enough.
* probably our greatest impact is travel for Developers Meetings
yes - and the downloads of QGIS and our server infrastructure. But
Hetzner already uses green energy (no fossil, no nuclear).
* do we need in person general meetings, or we can promote more
extensive and structured use of remote connections?
I think the in person meetings are still useful.
* if we need it, do we need two meetings per year?
Not sure - but something to discuss. Maybe we could have one
international meeting per year and then another local one organized by
country user groups or several user groups together.
* do we want to plan our meetings in an optimal location, to minimize
total travel?
That would be ideal - but maybe not so easy to achieve. We need
volunteers. Often we do not have a choice but have to be lucky to find a
volunteer to organize a meeting.
* do we want a combination between the two: smaller local meetings
that reduce travel, coordinated across the globe?
maybe, or one international meeting per year, and one more local one to
complement that - see above?
* do we want to suggest|gently push|require participants to use low
impact transportation?
How about: gently push. And have the policy that we only reimburse train
tickets for short distances (to be defined what a short distance means).
But this only for travels that are reimbursed by QGIS.ORG. If the
participant pay everything by himself, then we can only suggest a travel
mode.
* do we want a cap on cost and time difference between transportation
method? e.g. train is to be used when cost or duration are no more than
x times flight cost or duration
We don't want a lot of bureaucracy or a "travel police" ;-) we should
trust on common sense and the good will of our participants. I think
most QGIS people are environmentally sensitive anyway.
* do we want to engage in proactive environmental actions? e.g. donating
to the environmental agencies|NGOs|etc. specific tools to evaluate and
reduce impact? e.g. a QGIS ad hoc grant with a specific budget for it
No. Definitely no donations from our donations. That's not the purpose
of QGIS.ORG.
* do we want additional actions? e.g. low impact (vegan) diet on Dev
Meetings?
Only recommend local meeting organizers to also have a focus on our
environmental impacts. What that means is often best known by the locals.
Thanks for picking up this discussion,
Andreas
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