[Osmf-talk] Sustainable Travel Expenses Resolution – Request for Support

[Craig Allan]

Hi Members,

I am strongly supportive of reducing the impact of fossil fuels. And I 
much prefer trains to planes. I thank Michael for this proposed resolution.

To make a more effective resolution I would suggest that the resolution 
in its current form is too specific. Highly specific resolutions invite 
people to explore the flaws in the the parameters and to gloss over the 
principle.

It may be better to create a more generally applicable enabling 
framework requiring the OSMF to balance the parameters of physical 
presence, carbon dioxide generation, cost and travel times in the choice 
of whether to meet physically and the choice of transport to the 
meeting.   I would then leave the complex specifics of balancing 
multiple parameters and setting rules for the selection of alternative 
travel modes to be worked out by the Board or by a Special Committee.

I believe any travel request should motivate first for physical presence 
and then for travel mode.  We have recently learned that remote working 
is effective in many more cases than we previously believed, and it 
produces a very low level of fossil CO2.

Craig Allan
OSM:cRaIgalLAn




On 2020/10/26 12:13, Michael Reichert wrote:
> ...
> The annual general meeting on XX December 2020 should vote on the
> following resolution:
>
> Sustainable Travel Expenses Resolution
> --------------------------------------
>
> The Foundation will not pay travel expenses for travel that includes a
> flight if there is an option for that person to travel without flying that
>
> * departs or arrives within 4 hours of the flying option's departure or
>    arrival, and
> * does not take more than 6 hours longer than the flying option.
>
> ...
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