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1. kde@mastodon.technology's status on Wednesday, 02-Mar-2022 19:26:16 JST kde

   Software may be immaterial, but it runs on hardware and determines its energy consumption. Making software energy efficient is crucial. Let's build energy-efficient Free Software together!

   https://eco.kde.org/

   • kde@mastodon.technology's status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 17:13:46 JST kde

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     • Devil in the details ????
     • PINE64

     @DiabolusAlbus @PINE64 No one is forcing anyone to do anything. KDE Eco aims to provide project managers and developers a clear series of guidelines and tools that help figure out how to make their code more energy-efficient, is all.

     Whether they then decide to submit their work for certification or not is entirely up to them.

   • Devil in the details ???? (diabolusalbus@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 17:13:48 JST Devil in the details ????

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     • PINE64

     @kde @PINE64 „1. Measure 2. Analyze 3. Certify“ - Really? Are you aware that no problem ever has been resolved by transforming it into a Compliance problem? In my experience turning to Compliance usually means giving up to try solving the problem. This can be observed from InfoSec to CoVid-19 and many more. If you really care to make code energy efficient, you have to find a way to make it attractive to write efficient code.

     BTW Congratulations for your video, it has a real “enterprise” vibe!

   • kde@mastodon.technology's status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 04:30:27 JST kde

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     • Peter

     You are right @pet84rik .

     KDE Eco will hopefully start a trend that would ideally reach all kinds of software: apps, frameworks, servers, and, yes, web platforms and applications.

     The project is just starting, though, so we are concentrating on what we know about best first, and that is our own software.

   • Peter (pet84rik@osna.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 04:30:28 JST Peter

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     @kde But not only "desktop software". We are all using web services today, so it is also very important to make those less energy hungry. I saw a list of internet services with their impact on CO2 emmisions and it was terrible. A single PC is literally nothing compared to that.

     kde repeated this.
   • BE4FOSS (be4foss@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 22:06:33 JST BE4FOSS

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     • Peter

     @pet84rik @kde

     These are exactly the conversations KDE Eco wants to push! For instance, at our last community meetup the Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld lead a discussion on measuring the energy consumption of distributed systems (client-server, P2P). You can learn more about this work at their website:

     https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/green-software-engineering/refoplan-20

     All are invited to join the KDE Eco conversation through multiple channels:

     https://eco.kde.org/get-involved/

     We'd love to have you join!