Green Software Foundation
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Hia I'm Asim Hussain, I'm the Director of Green Software @ Intel and also the Executive Director & Chairperson @ Green Software Foundation. I've been focused on looking at sustainability through the lens of people who build software for several years now. You can find me online at asim.dev, twitter.com/jawache and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawache/ |
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Hi! I'm Chris Lloyd-Jones; I'm the head of Open Technologies at Avanade, as well as the Blueprints Officer at OpenUK, and a Steering Committee Member/Open Source WG co-chair at the Green Software Foundation. |
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Hi Everyone 👋🏽, I'm Namrata Narayan (she/her). I lead Communications, Marketing & Public Relations at GSF and, through my company, help social purpose organizations and leaders improve their communications and public engagement efforts to scale their community, authority, and impact! 🌱 I advocate for relational design and development to advance sustainability, equity and inclusion. I am amazed at the wealth of knowledge GSF shares on how to make software more energy efficient and less dependent on fossil fuel energy and the fact we can already do SO MUCH to keep our climate clean and carbon-free and reduce the negative climate calamities on vulnerable populations and frontier communities is astounding! I am committed to getting more folks on the green software wagon because software can help save our planet. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. Please mention this forum in your invitation or message! 💚 |
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Hi All! I'm Chris Skipper (he/him). I'm the producer of the Environment Variables podcast. I also run Sonic Futures - a podcast production company interested in stories for change; which is definitely the story of the Green Software Foundation. My interest in Green Software was non-existent until running this podcast so I can definitely say I am a convert! I've learned so much along this journey and definitely looking forward to promoting the message of the GSF more! Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmwskipper/ |
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@sonicfutures love everything you're doing for the podcast. Will definitely connect! |
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Hi Everyone I had some awareness of the impact that software makes on the climate change before I joined GSF. Then I thought that we're decades away from any comprehensive decisions in this area. I'm so happy I was wrong! To be a part of the project with such an important mission brings me joy and fills with optimism. |
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Hi All! I'm Kedar Deo (he/him). I'm Enterprise Architect having 27+ years of experience and founder of the Optha-IT Pvt Ltd. Currently involved as pre-sales and delivery consultant for Green Software design and development activities within the companies. I have also designed my own fullstack developer course branded as "CodeGym - Green Software Development and highly interested in taking it forward for all industries. My interest in Green Software was non-existent until I connected with ECO-IT CON (https://ecoitcon.com/community) which is the community we have built recently. I can definitely say I am a convert! I've learned so much along this journey and definitely looking forward to promoting the message of the GSF more! Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kedardeo75 |
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Nice to meet you, and welcome! I'm so interested in learning more about this course you developed. Can you share a link? |
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Hi everyone, I'm Jo Lindsay Walton, a Research Fellow at the Sussex Humanities Lab - most of my climate-related work is to do with communication and education, but I'm also involved in green software via the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit: https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/ The DHCC is a Community Interest Group of the UK-IE Digital Humanities Association, and the toolkit is a free and open source resource that always welcomes new contributors. If you have tools or resources you think should be in there, please feel free to propose them. Here's me on LinkedIn: Cheers, |
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Hi, I‘m Aydin Mir Mohammadi (he/him) from Germany, software developer, entrepreneur and managing director of bluehands. I’m a community enthusiast and run the Green Software Development Karlsruhe User Group with monthly meetups. As a developer I believe that we have the responsibility to create climate friendly application. Currently we have to smuggle green software development into our daily business - we need free tooling and data. To support this approach, I started some open-source tooling around Carbon Aware SDK and provide free forecast data for Europe with academic help. I put it all together in carbon-aware-computing.com. In Karlsruhe we have a huge IT and software entrepreneurship community organized in CyberForum. We started the Sustainability and Impact chapter. Karlsruhe is a hidden champion in the IT business (4.500 IT-Companies, 50% of business tax is from IT) and I’m trying to spread the idea that the sustainability transformation of IT-Companies starts with Green Software Development. I think the GSF is a great opportunity for networking and getting support for the local activities. Please feel free to contact me on LinkedIn |
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Hi all, I am passionate about green and sustainable software. I enjoy exploring greener tech solutions and using technology for environmental protection. I have been continuously promoting and successfully landing software carbon reduction practices in projects, dedicated to helping products develop sustainably with the power of technology. The multiple resources provided by GSF have provided me with many ideas and directions that have been very helpful. |
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Hi @Jjing-Liang, so nice to meet you and hear about your green software work! Where in China are you? There's a GSF Meetup in Shanghai which you may be interested in joining. Also, curious to know if you've enrolled in the GSF Practitioners Course? This is also a good time to mention that the GSF welcomes practitioners to contribute their insights, observations and experience: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/writers |
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Hi Namrata, |
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Hi, We are trying to incorporate GSF principles to our sw development services. Deploying Emissions dashboard for monitoring, implementing tools as KEDA and testing the GSF patterns. Excited about the impact we can do with just some awareness and the will to develop green SW. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonburguera/ Best! Jon |
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Hi all 👋 I'm Adam Jackson [he/him]. I am the PM for Communities at the Green Software Foundation. I support our Community Working Group and several projects including meetups & speakers. I am quite new to the GSF, prior to this I was at Microsoft for over 10 years leading Developer Relations initiatives in the UK. I'm really excited about the role of community in reaching developers and sharing the importance of Green Software. These communities not only help us spread the word about the principles of Green Software, they are an important space for sharing of ideas, success stories, and a place for individuals to grow. A bit about me - I am based in the UK, about thirty miles from London. I enjoy tech, food & travel (trying to be more eco-conscious with the latter!). Please do connect with me on LinkedIn. If you have any community questions at all, just @ me on here or DM me on LinkedIn. |
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Hi, I am Keiron (He/Him/Daddy - only to my children). I am the Founder/MD of AndAnotherDay a software company based in the UK (Hampshire). We align our web projects with the UN SDGs, attempt to make our code as efficient as possible and host our projects on 100% renewable servers. Our clients are in the UK and overseas and include EV companies, environment agencies, charities and climateTech startups. I've attended a couple of GSF London events, including the last one. Currently trying to write a white-paper on the client-side aspect of green software (Scope 3) and how it could affect UX and usability. You can find me here: LinkedIn |
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Awesome - looking forward to the white-paper! |
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+1 like to learn more on your whitepaper. |
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Hey all, I'm Arne (he/him) from Berlin, Germany. Software Developer and avid open-source enthusiast and founder of Green Coding Berlin, where we do research and tool development for energy consumption of software. Our work is mostly green software open source tools for CI/CD pipelines and software lifecycle analysis, but also mini-research-articles 1 2 about comparsion of software development techniques, hardware setups etc. Happy to connect on LinkedIn |
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Hey @ArneTR, I am in Berlin for WeAreDevelopers next week. It would be great to find out more about the work you are doing. I will DM you on Linkedin. :) |
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Sounds great ! :) |
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Hi @adamj89 |
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Hello everyone! It's Dawn Geatches (she/her) here. I'm working as the Knowledge Transfer Manager for Mathematical Sciences for the Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network. Until September 2022 I worked as a computational scientist using compute-intensive software to explore the properties of materials. For many years I struggled with the thought that the simulations I ran weren't worth the compute energy, then I did a small project to explore if, in my seemingly passive position as a user of software (with no input into software development, nor HPC procurement and scheduling, nor data centre management) I could influence the amount of energy used to run the simulations. The difference I found between setting-up a simulation very carefully and setting one up in a lackadaisical way, i.e., in a 'Friday afternoon' - just-put-it-together-and-let-it-run-over-the-weekend kind of way, was startling. The slapdash set-up used over 40 times the energy of t'other. This mini-project demonstrated to me that all of us using digital technology have a role to play in reducing its negative impacts on our environment. In my current role I am building networks of communities around environmentally sustainable computing, and am very keen to raise the awareness among businesses of AI's impact on our environment. After raising awareness I want to help them gain the tools they need to reduce their impact. I'm happy to be here and connect via this forum and through https://www.linkedin.com/in/dlg483/ |
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Hello @NAMRATA-WOKE. Thank you for your welcome - it's good to be here. Although not a million miles away, getting down to London for a Meetup is expensive, unfortunately. (Manchester is much closer and cheaper to get to) As for raising awareness of AI's impact on the environment, I'm working with a teammate in the BridgeAI programme to develop a webinar series of debates, one of which will be on AI's environmental impact. Also, I'm wanting to run an event or a few (perhaps workshops or sandpit-type events) for maths and computing sciences in environmental sustainability. I want to raise awareness among 'businesses' of the environmental impact of computing including AI, and then enable them to access tools, information and contacts that will help them address the challenge of using computing and digital resources in an environmentally responsible way. Another colleague and I are developing a workshop on LLMs and have env sus on the agenda. I would be happy to hear from others who might want to work together to spread-the-word on these and other activities. I would love to be a contributor to your article! |
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Hi @dgeat, I'm our Community PM here at GSF. It's great to hear about your work in more detail. We do have an inactive meetup group in Manchester. I would be open to broadening that to a "North West England" group if we have enough interested folks across the cities of the region to get the group up and running again. Drop me a line if you think there's a critical mass of people I can work with on this. |
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@dgeat just reached out to you on LinkedIn to discuss an opportunity! |
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I would be interested in a Manchester meet up. I’d be even more interested if the Manchester meet up also happened in Leeds 🤣🤣 - but Manchester much easier to get to than London. |
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Hello @jonnymoo, great! Let's see who else might be keen to meet up in Manchester? In my day job I'm trying to connect with people in the North West around sustainable computing and data, perhaps there'll be some interest for a Mancunian Meet-up. |
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Hi all, I'm Daniel Vaughan [he/him] in London & Cambridge, UK. My background is main in software development and consultancy. I still enjoy writing code and got into Green Software after seeing just how easy it is to use huge amounts of resources and so carbon especially on cloud. I currently work on cloud strategy and architecture at Mastercard especially around how to take Real Time Payments systems and the teams that build them to cloud. I am also one of the leads of the Sustainability Special Interest Group in our Engineering Guild and work in the education workstream. I am keen to collaborate with anyone else who is looking to build software sustainability awareness and capabilities in a large organization. Generally my technical interests are Google Cloud (as a reference), Cloud Native Development and Green Software and the more interaction between the three the better. If you would like to know more my Linkedin is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpvaughan/ |
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Hi, My name is Huamin Chen. I work for Red Hat, based in Boston, USA. I am a maintainer of Kepler. Looking forward to high impact collaboration opportunities! |
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Hi everyone, I’m Kirsty (she/her), and I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new Senior Project Manager! With my background in international and community development, as well as monitoring and evaluation, I’ve had the privilege of managing projects deeply rooted in community empowerment and advocacy for marginalized groups. Now, as a Senior Project Manager, I’m eager to channel my passion for sustainability and facilitating a community process into our work here at GSF. Originally from America, I now call Cape Town, South Africa, home, where I live with my husband. I’m excited to connect with all of you and contribute to our collective efforts towards green software. Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn—I look forward to connecting! |
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Hi everyone, My name is Sarvsav (he/him) and I am working as a software engineer. I enjoy writing maintainable code using Go, and interested to learn more about I am also maintaining a repo with the software that I learn during green development journey with examples, as it will be easy for others to implement it. All the credits given to original authors. GitHub Repo: Awesome Go Green I am looking forward to learn and contribute to the green community 🌲. |
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@sarvsav Nice man! I I add you to my social networks. I am a front end developer. Currently exploring backend with Golang. Would love to share about green focus software. |
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Thank you @maxiim3, I am glad to meet you. :) Let me know, if you are working on something fun related to green tech, I would be happy to contribute. 👍 |
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Hi all 👋, I'm Ronald Dehuysser (he/his), the creator and maintainer of JobRunr, an open-source library to do distributed processing in Java. JobRunr started out as a hobby project but I now working full-time on it. You can find me online on @[email protected], twitter.com/rdehuyss and https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronalddehuysser/. As JobRunr is now running up to 0.5 billion jobs per day (and growing), I think there is an opportunity to have real impact by adding carbonaware job processing. We're currently working on this via the ENTSO-e api's. |
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Nice to meet you and thank you for sharing about jobrunr. It looks an interesting project. :) |
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Hi Roland, |
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That's so cool! I just looked at the website, I love the fact that you have a Hangfire extension! I will definitely check it out more in detail! |
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Hi! My name is Adam Wirth (he/him) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwirth). I am a software developer in Philadelphia, PA, USA. I am currently trying to learn more about carbon tracking for software emissions, to see how I can apply that to the next role I'm in (currently looking for work). I also want to learn at a high-level about the different ways energy is being thought about. I'm reading about carbon capture. Yesterday I was reading through my ACM + IEEE publications. They have a lot of articles this year relating computers to climate. The article I read yesterday (here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-based-solar-power-2667878868) was kind of crazy, doesn't seem viable, but I didn't even know the field existed, so it's all very exciting for me currently. Happy to chat with people and learn more if anyone wants to chat, hit me up :) |
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Hello Adam! Nice to meet you. I have added you on LinkedIn and looking forward to talk with you. |
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Hi Everyone, Fell free to connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffaelebini/ Thank you very much! |
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Hi everyone, I am Claudio. A platform engineer doing some exploratory digging into how this framework works and checking if it's possible to generate a configuration file automatically by connecting with an azure project and retrieve resources. This is a group effort in the company I am currently working. Is there a way to connect with others of the community and exchange ideas/ask for clarifications? Topic about it: https://github.com/orgs/Green-Software-Foundation/discussions/169#discussion-7021113 |
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Hi all, Project and operations manager with a huge interest in development and sustainability. Cheers, |
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Hey all! I'm Bradford Roarr (they/them). I'm a research software engineer at the Center for Computation and Visualization at Brown University in Rhode Island USA. I've recently stepped into a role trying to understand the carbon impacts of our on-prem high-performance computing cluster, OSCAR. Currently, I'm working on an HPC job scheduler that takes into account the SCI scores of jobs before scheduling them, and some other less well formulated projects. It's great to meet all of you! |
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@broarr sounds interesting! How many jobs have an SCI score? |
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@syyong - I need to reactivate my linkedin, when I do I'll add you! |
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@broarr good to know! Let us know if there are any unanswered questions from the [SCI Guide](https://sci-guide.greensoftware.foundation//. Also tagging @seanmcilroy29 for any questions you might want to ask our Standards Working Group. |
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hey @broarr - can I ask what scheduler you're using? I ask as I've worked on some of this for Kubernetes and Nomad before with colleagues, and I found out recently about SLURM, a common scheduler for HPC. I was thinking through how you might instrument it to expose carbon/environment figures once I realised how compute time is allocated by orgs on institutionally owned infrastructure like you describe, and I'm glad to find someone else using it too. You can see one piece below we wrote when looking into how to provide numbers to inform scheduling decisions This image below is from a blog post I recently wrote about different approaches people are using, that is technology agnostic, to allow for practioners to implement using their chosen stack. It's from a paper from UMass explaining how reduce the impact once you understand the kinds of workloads you might have to schedule, but before you do that, you kinda need to know the expected impact you want to reduce! If you have any experience with using SLURM, and how scheduling works, I'd be very happy to chat as I thiink I have a working understanding of Kubernetes and Nomad now, and how they fit jobs onto a pool of compute resources, but I'd really appreciate doing the same with HPC. The easiest way to reach me is probably LinkedIn: |
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@mrchrisadams - Thanks so much for this information. I'm excited to go through it all. I've reached out to you over LinkedIn (I had to make an account so it looks pretty empty). Looking forward to connecting! |
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Hi everyone! I’m I’m excited to share one of our upcoming projects, We’re also launching an initiative called Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn—I’d love to keep the conversation going! |
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👋 Hi all, I'm Ryan Sholin at Overt Impact in North America. (he/him/his) ♻️ After 7 years in the Enterprise WordPress community at Automattic, I'm pivoting to working on Sustainable Web technology, starting with a consultancy to help big companies understand the carbon emissions impact of their websites, applications, integrations, and data centers. ☎️ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansholin/ |
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Hi Ryan, that is so cool and I'll be interested in doing the same. Thank you for saying hi :) |
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Hi everyone, My name is Lisa (she/her) and I am working as a DevOps engineer. My main skills are platform technologies such as Linux/Container/Kubernetes/Ansible. I'm also familiar with Cisco technologies. Since I received an award with my project GreenOps Tracker at the contest called Build For Better Code Challenge: AI & Sustainability sponsored by Cisco, I eager to learn and contribute to Green IT Development. I am coming from Japan. Feel free to connect with me on GitHub or LinkedIn. Thanks!🌴 🌲 ✨ |
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👋 Hi all, I'm Jasdeep Khalsa, based in London, United Kingdom 💼 I'm the CTO of the social good agency Akal Software, specialising in enhancing digital compliance for websites and apps with a focus on accessibility, sustainability, and performance ♻️ Currently, I'm working on AI tools designed to evaluate the performance and sustainability costs of AI systems and agents ☎️ You can connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasdeepkhalsa, via my website: https://jasdeepkhalsa.com, or learn more about Akal Software at https://akalsoftware.com |
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