The Awesome Green Software Project Lead, Ben Logan, has stepped down from his appointment.

On 21st March, we commence the election process to find a suitable replacement.
The election period will close, after 2 weeks, on the 4th April 2024.

Note - This opportunity is open for volunteers from GSF Member organizations only

The Opportunity

Project Lead Responsibilities:

• The PL has overall responsibility for the management of a project.
• PLs SHALL maintain strict impartiality and act in the foundation's interest in performing their tasks.
• Ensure the technical activities of the Group are progressed promptly following the processes and procedures of GSF.
• Organize and run the meetings following the processes and practices of the GSF.
• The work and progress of the Project are appropriately communicated to the WG.
• Facilitate discussion during the meeting, encouraging all members to participate in decision-making.

Project Lead Role Considerations:

• This role requires 2-3 hours per week, including chairing meetings, preparation time, and offline communications.
• PLs must lead empathetically and create a welcoming space for technical and non-technical contributors.
• PLs represent the GSF, so they must ensure benefits are shared among all.

PL Support:

• Elected PLs will receive a wide range of support in fulfilling their duties from their Group GSF Ops team, including their own Project Manager.

The Election Process

Member nominations should be submitted to the GSF WG PM in reply to the circulated email subj: Project Lead vacancy - Election period open. GSF members can self-nominate.
Include the following information:
The candidate's name and company - identify if it is a self-nomination or the nomination of somebody else
NOTE: The use of GSF email lists shall not be permitted for any campaign purposes by candidates.
Results:
If ≤ 2 names are submitted, they are elected unopposed after the GSF WG PM has reviewed the nominations. No voting occurs.
If ≥ 3 names are submitted, it will trigger a *vote, or the project can approve to have 3 Project Leads.

I would suggest that we add some tags to enhance the discoverability of this repo as it is publicized.

Some suggestions:

• green-computing
• green-software
• sustainable-ai
• green-ai
• sustainable-software
• sustainability

From Ben Davy's blog post

On Theodo’s blog, Cyrielle Willerval recently explored how to monitor a server’s energy consumption to optimize the impact of a web application. While it’s an interesting method to use when developing or refactoring services, it does not give us the global footprint of a service.

We can also list Carbonalyser, a browser extension that estimates the global footprint associated with internet browsing. In that case, the computed value is based on really high-level estimations.

Other tools to integrate & evaluate:

• websitecarbon.com (included already)
• EcoGrader.com/
• EcoMeter.org
• clickclean.org
• EcoIndex.fr
• Greenspector (included already)
• Microsoft Sustainability Calculator
• PowerAPI

During the bootstrap phase flesh out this Google sheet instead of editing the markdown file.

That link above is public, please do not share.

Once we have a core dump of items we can decide on the major headings and grouping and then flesh out the main markdown file.

From that point on we will submit PRs directly into the markdown file.

Based on the discussion in the WG call today, it would be great to articulate the specific goal that we seek to achieve with this list vis-a-vis a more heavily vetted and smaller list that is perhaps published on the GSF website.

This is the default licence of the Innovation Working Group

Hello,

I'd like to suggest 2 new tools under the Web category.

Globemallow.io has created 2 tools to help with a more sustainable internet.

1. Globemallow is a browser extensions that provides sustainable development and design reports for each webpage that you visit. Helping developers and designs create for a more sustainable web.

2. Analytics & Ad Blocker is a powerful extension that blocks trackers and advertisements while you browser the internet. Blocking all unnecessary code from running, and in many cases making websites load in half the time.

These tools do all this without tracking any of your data :)

Disclaimer- I am the creator of both tools and the founder of Globemallow.

Hello,

I would like to make you aware of the non-profit which I'm the founder.

Roll the Cloud is dedicated to building the web back better to save our planet. Combat technology harmful to the the climate using alternative environmentally cautious software solutions. Being an active technical evangelist spearheading the greener web.

Missions:

• Reduce global energy consumption by producing energy efficient alternatives to popular apps and websites.
• Educate and inspire others to make climate conscious decisions when solving web development problems.
• Persuade community to use websites and apps that protect the environment.

Organization Page: https://github.com/rollthecloudinc
Website: https://rollthecloud.com/index (WIP)

Thanks

When contributing found some issues in the contribution guide in dev...

1. The 'title-casing' link links off to the "http://titlecapitalization.com/" website which I'm assuming is incorrect. I'm not sure where this is meant to link to.

Image below.

2. The link also has a clarification (AP Style) but with an assumed definition of the acronym. I'm not sure what this means.

@dtoakley - was the bit you added 22 days ago so you might be able to help out :)

What: Create awesome.greensoftware.foundation
Why: The Awesome Green Software team would like to host their new database and form for contributors at this domain
SoW:

• Create awesome.greensoftware.foundation
• Ensure the PM / PLs have access to the repo where the website will be hosted.

Some books I've read

• Designing for Sustainability by Tim Frick
• Sustainable Web Design Book by Tom Greenwood

Some books I've heard about:

• 101 Green Software - A Practical Guide for Developers & Architects

The link to the Carbonalyser - TheShiftProject returns a 404 Error page.
This is the broken link.

Maybe you should refer to this link.

@dtoakley-tw I just saw that one of the links below 'Articles' in Readme.md is leading to a 404 Error page.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Readme.md.
2. Scroll down to Articles and click on the first Link 'Assessing the suitability of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for calculation of emissions from public cloud computing workloads'.
   Expected result: User gets access to the article of David Mytton.
   Actual result: A 404 Error is displayed.

I found the article (from 2020) alternatively here for Download:
https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13677-020-00185-8

Can I fix this?

Hello, the Adora Foundation has been curating an awesome green extensions list. Each of the entries is relevant to this list, and as far as I can see not included here. There doesn't seem to be a category for collections of resources. I thought of maybe just copying our list and creating a section and pushing, but the data format in our repo is much more detailed and doesn't fit with this repo. We might have time to add our work to the repo one by one at some point (should we add a browser extensions category, or just add each extension under #web?), but can't guarantee consistency as we keep updating our repo, so linking to the repo itself would make more sense to have access to the latest version. Any suggestions?

• Twice mentioned under topic AI->Energy: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/awesome-green-software#energy

1. carbontracker
2. Tool for tracking and predicting the energy consumption and carbon footprint of training deep learning models as described in Anthony et al. (2020)

• Once mentioned under topic Codebased: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/awesome-green-software#code-based

3. carbontracker

Q: Was it intentionally been mentioned for 3 times? I found it a bit confusing when reviewing the tools.

Next steps for @russelltrow

• Introduce yourself
• See if we can create a Notion teamspace for DE to access a few Notion pages
• Show DE how they can set up DB and Noteform themselves for their usecase
• Connect them to Jenya for design assets for their website
• Connect them to Osama once they have a website URL to reroute it to awesome.greensoftware.foundation

This is a common practice that helps avoid any assumptions by consumers of the list that any items on it are better or "recommended" by the creators.

The link to the Azure Microsoft Sustainability Calculator returns a 404 Error page.
This is the broken link.

Maybe you should refer to this link.

As reported on the official github page, the python package energyusage is no longer actively maintaining because it has merged into CodeCarbon project.

Hi, the "awesome list" link in the introduction is pointing to another unrelated list.
Specifically, it is linking to https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#readme.

This repo is already tagged with the awesome-list topic, but the awesome topic seems pretty relevant too.

Hello guys and @dtoakley,

I am currently working on 2 open source projects that may interest you:

• ecoCode : a sonarQube plugin dedicated to green code analysis of android projects
• powDroid: a lightweight tool for measuring the energy footprint of any android application

Both are still in the prototype stage but development is progressing well. I've already done demos.

Regards,

@navveenb can you add items in Android/iOS/macOS sections.

We want to facilitate access to strong research output, while avoiding promotion of false claims. This is a relatively new list and as the list of research papers grows we need to be mindful of their quality. It is entirely possible that the community will curate it organically. Despite the disclaimer poor texts should not be included, and the pull request review process has the potential to work against this. However, the list grows relatively fast, and the pull request review process does not have enough scope for detailed review. In particular if texts that are not academically peer-reviewed are included in this section.

Additionally, some quality control process has the potential to curate a 'endorsed list' of papers, that are in certain ways fundamental to the GSF.

Hi everyone,

I'm usually involved in the standards WG, but today I have a suggestion / request for this project:

The list of organizations does currently not include the Green Software Design Community , https://www.GreenSoftwareDesign.com .
The community has started in Germany, but is meant to grow to Europe (and yes, I know, that requires an english version of the website ...)
The focus is to bring companies together to work on green software, its application in the corporate context, and the inclusion of "digital green", meaning the impact of using the software.

I suggest adding this community to the list.

https://digitalbeacon.co/