2023 08 16 - Green Software Community Working Group Agenda

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Date

2023 08 16 (16th Aug 2023) - 3pm UTC - See the time in your timezone https://everytimezone.com/s/005304de

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Roll Call

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Agenda

• [x] Convene & Roll Call (5mins)
• [x] Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• [x] Approve Past Meeting Minutes https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/community-wg/issues/74
• [x] 1️⃣ Cover OKR Update
• [x] 2️⃣ Proposal to close Slack channels https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/community-wg/issues/75
• [x] 3️⃣ Featured Member - Avanade
• [x] 4️⃣ Mastodon request from @Sealjay https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/community-wg/issues/73
• [x] 5️⃣ Discussions Below
• [x] 6️⃣ Newsletter Call for Content
• [x] AOB
• [x] Close meeting

Discussions

• [ ] Green Software Verified Facts

Project updates

• [ ] #30
• [ ] #31
• [ ] #32 OKRs to be discussed.
• [ ] #33

GSF Newsletter

• [ ] Submissions for the GSF newsletter

  Submissions to Namrata

Upcoming moments in time

• [ ] Q4 - Decarbonize Software
• [ ] Q4 - COP
• [ ] Q4 - Launch Contributors Programme, Initial Experts announced
• [ ] 2024 Q1 - Formal launch of Experts Programme
• [ ] 2024 Q1 - Impact Engine Hackathon

Existing Action Items

New Action Items

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Meeting notes

Avanade

• Chris Lloyd-Jones, Head of Open Technologies spoke about how they drove adoption of green software at Avanade
• Started as a grass-roots movement with a core team of 20-30 back in 2021. It has expanded significantly and there is now a dedicated sustainability hub
• They have been actively promoted the Green Software Practitioner program and now have over 900 people certified
• Developed their own internal training programs including around SCI
• Q: How do you use the SCI?
  • Only approved metric for estimating carbon output
  • Built into a tool called Isotope
• Q: How did you you answer the “so what?” question?
  • Talked about linking it to company more widely - "Avande is a responsible business"
• Q: What should the GSF be learning from this?
  • Start with things that have a low barrier to entry
  • They started by throwing content out, later established lean coffees
  • Create a sense of belonging
• Q: Are people seeing the value of the efforts? How are the senior leadership responding to this?
  • Initially a large disconnect
  • We demonstrated the value between sustainability and other understand business drivers
  • We spoke about the dollar value
  • More clients now care about sustainability - People initially weren’t thinking about carbon emissions of IT
  • Found simple language is very important. Compare to emissions of flights or kettles
  • Starting with measurement and monitoring to demonstrate how we are reducing
  • Find a killer facts - e.g. “Taking 230k vehicles off the road”
• Q: How did you engage with the broader regional teams?
  • Target an individual and provide practical support. Find someone who wants to be a local champion
  • Give them recognition for individual contributions

Mastadon

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
• Fosstodon full of open source engineers - People talking about sustainability
• Even republishing of content would be more useful than not doing anything at all
• Requires further discussion

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Next meeting [Decision]

30-Aug-2023

AOB

• [ ] Member questions or topic submissions?
• [ ] @aecurrie Is there a GSF content review planned?

Adjourn

• [ ] Motion to adjourn

[Sealjay]

Attended!

[tholewis]

Attended.

[yuxin1234]

Attended.

[alex-kroll]

Attended

[PindyBhullar]

Attended

[trisha-03]

Attended

[kapokasa]

Attended