Open Source in Environmental Sustainability

[protontypes]

https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/index.html

[college_physics]

A fantastic initiative. Sustainability and open source are a natural match. Transparency, broad based availability, the multiplicative effect of interoperability... Open source empowers people, generates trust that is essential in this highly contentious transition and helps everybody rise to the challenge.

Godspeed.

[joshhopkins → college_physics]

Thanks for the support. We attempt to capture some of these principles embodied within the ecosystem here – https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/principles.html

[college_physics → joshhopkins]

You might want to consider what synergies there might be with the digital public goods alliance [0] (broader scope and they have a type a certification process)

[0] https://digitalpublicgoods.net/

[deafpolygon]

It's wonderful to see this initiative. I've shared the site with https://www.reddit.com/r/sustainablecomputing/ in case folks there are interested in looking.

[caniszczyk]

Check out the GSF if you care about this: https://greensoftware.foundation

[skyfaller → caniszczyk]

Is the fact that Shell is a member of the Green Software Foundation a bad sign?

I also see the Green Web Foundation is a member of the GSF, and I do trust that organization, so this is a genuine question. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

[aliqot → skyfaller]

A desire to do better is a possibility.

edit: I don't understand how being optimistic is drawing the ire of HN right now considering it's how we've been asked to behave here.

[jacooper]

> Countries like Germany are even pledging to open source have their own software development.

Typo?, the sentence doesn't make sense, otherwise a great article.

[joshhopkins → jacooper]

Co-author here. Thanks, but I'm not aware of this line, can you point to it please?

[jacooper → joshhopkins]

Lol, I think I commented on the wrong post, not sure

[mistrial9]

these are distinctly Western USA authors.. one of the profound impacts of OSS is transfer to all intelligent users, regardless of geopolitical affiliation or human language group.

Is this report aligned with a US-West security point of view, where individuals will be denied access to central systems (Github,AWS) based on geopolitical affiliation? or ...

The declaration of "a database" smells fishy from this USA California desk. Climate has no partisan affiliation - keywords "existential threat"

[joshhopkins → mistrial9]

One of the co-authors here. This is a distributed, global collaboration effort, with no geopolitical affiliation.

[mistrial9 → joshhopkins]

that sounds good to me, thank you for the reply here