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Open Source in Environmental Sustainability

65 points by protontypes 4y ago

mistrial9 4y ago
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"
- hoppie 4y ago
  One of the co-authors here. This is a distributed, global collaboration effort, with no geopolitical affiliation.
  - mistrial9 4y ago
    that sounds good to me, thank you for the reply here
jacooper 4y ago
> 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.
- hoppie 4y ago
  Co-author here. Thanks, but I'm not aware of this line, can you point to it please?
  - jacooper 4y ago
    Lol, I think I commented on the wrong post, not sure
caniszczyk 4y ago
Check out the GSF if you care about this: https://greensoftware.foundation https://greensoftware.foundation
- skyfaller 4y ago
  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/ https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/
  - aliqot 4y ago
    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.
college_physics 4y ago
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.
- hoppie 4y ago
  Thanks for the support. We attempt to capture some of these principles embodied within the ecosystem here – https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/principles.html https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/principles.html
  - college_physics 4y ago
    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/ https://digitalpublicgoods.net/
deafpolygon 4y ago
It's wonderful to see this initiative. I've shared the site with https://www.reddit.com/r/sustainablecomputing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sustainablecomputing/ in case folks there are interested in looking.

65 points by protontypes 4y ago

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"

hoppie 4y ago
One of the co-authors here. This is a distributed, global collaboration effort, with no geopolitical affiliation.
- mistrial9 4y ago
  that sounds good to me, thank you for the reply here

jacooper 4y ago

> 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.

hoppie 4y ago
Co-author here. Thanks, but I'm not aware of this line, can you point to it please?
- jacooper 4y ago
  Lol, I think I commented on the wrong post, not sure

caniszczyk 4y ago

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

skyfaller 4y ago
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/ https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/
- aliqot 4y ago
  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.

college_physics 4y ago

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.

hoppie 4y ago
Thanks for the support. We attempt to capture some of these principles embodied within the ecosystem here – https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/principles.html https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/principles.html
- college_physics 4y ago
  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/ https://digitalpublicgoods.net/

deafpolygon 4y ago

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