Hi Florian,
Florian Effenberger wrote (17-12-09 09:32)
I just don't think it makes much sense to give up or to limit our so
successful and even more important conference for environmental
purposes. If we start that way, we'd have to change a lot of things: How
many mirrors do we need, how many buildbots do we run? Does CollabNet
use green IT? Do we really need so many hosts and services? Shall we
attend trade shows at all, as that also is bad for the environment?
Shall we still offer OpenOffice.org on DVD, this is also bad for the
environment?
Well, I see sings that you are going to start to understand it :-)
There are indeed a lot of areas in which we can contribute a bit.
Now don't think that I am a person that is sitting in the cold and dark
at home .. I even do have a car ;-) But if it is possible, I take the
bike and/or train. The electricity we buy, is from sun, wind water for
about ten years already. And my family has a pretty environmental
friendly diet.
And with our OOo group, on a large fair few years ago, we did not spread
10.000 CD's, with a version that would be old in a few weeks by then,
but we spread 10.000 interesting, catchy folders, that still are valid.
Saying the environment is important, but not starting to change, is old
age. There are numerous movies and tv-productions pointing out rather
sharp (and painful), what we are acting not so smart, and how that
affects the environment, other people, other livings and ourself and our
children.
Did anyone say that we have to skip all OOoCons? That we should stop
running a lot of tests on our dev-builds? No.
But probably there are some council members interested in the kind of
energy used by the servers ;-)
Again, please don't think I'm ignorant - I really see your point. I just
don't share your view that we should limit down the conference. It would
be a massive negative aspect for our community if we did so, IMHO.
It is a change. Show that we are really people of this age. Won't that
attract people?
And as written: we can prove that we can do a very good job on the one
hand and improve for the world around us on the other hand. Don't forget
that in the end all is one ...
Kindest regards,
Cor
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