# Environmental issues officer Main goal: Work on how to reduce the environmental footprint of the NIME community Tasks: * Support local chairs in how to run a more environmentally-friendly physical conference * Develop strategies for alternative conference organization * Develop guidelines for reducing the environmental footprint in NIME design Officers: * Adam Pultz Melbye * John Sullivan * Raul Masu ## Alternative conference organization * [The semi-virtual academic conference (a short documentary) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtDHidVyZE) * [Virtual socializing at academic conferences](http://www.parncutt.org/virtualsocializing.html) * [An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02057-2?s=09) * [Virtual ISMIR 2020](https://finnupham.com/2021/02/13/virtual-ismir-2020-exit-report/) Examples of Virtual conferences: * [CIM19](https://sites.google.com/view/cim19/home) * [Neuronline](https://neuronline.sfn.org/Articles/Scientific-Research/2019/Machine-Learning-in-Neuroscience-Fundamentals-and-Possibilities) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://nime.gitbook.io/conference-cookbok/officers/environmental.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.