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News, insights, and technical deep-dives on green software from the GSF community.
Reducing Software's Carbon Footprint with ChatGPT-driven DevOps Environments - Meet Rishi Yadav, Founder & CEO, Roost.ai
Roost is a ChatGPT-driven DevOps platform. Developers love to write scripts and hate to write test cases. Roost eliminates the need for both so developers can focus on writing business code and delivering customer value.
Is there a wave of green software legislation and standards coming our way?
Find out about some of the latest government policies, institutional actions, reporting and standards affecting green software.
A truly energizing year in the rear view mirror - GSF in 2022
The GSF Annual Report covers our activities and achievements throughout last year. It’s a quick and exciting read, so don’t miss out on going through the full report. Here is a short overview.
Carbon-Aware Computing Whitepaper - How UBS succeeded in measuring and reducing carbon emissions of their core risk platform
The first enterprise-scale implementation of carbon-aware computing using the software carbon intensity (SCI) specification and carbon-aware-sdk is capable of avoiding multiple metric tons of CO2eq from entering the atmosphere -- every year.
The Green Software Foundation Expands Efforts to Incentivize Decarbonization in the Software Industry
Latest tools from the Green Software Foundation provide organizations a concrete action plan to measure, learn and reduce carbon emissions of software.
That’s a wrap - CarbonHack22 a big leap in carbon aware computing
The hackathon engaged the most talented developers from around the globe in building the best carbon aware application using the GSF Carbon Aware SDK.
COP27 Book of News
The Foundation wants a future where software produces no harmful environmental effects. To make this happen, we need software to emit the least amount of carbon possible- read our Book of News to understand how the GSF intend to do this.
Our Theory of Change – Defining the strategy for the GSF
The article outlines the three main pillars of the GSF strategy: Knowledge, Tech Culture, and Tooling. Together, they build the foundation of the Theory of Change (TOC) and explain how we will reach our goals with respect to green software.
Texas State University deems GSF SCI an effective metric to evaluate the carbon impact of software
The Texas State University has just released its report on a study evaluating software carbon intensity of foundation models. Among other findings, the study confirms that the SCI is suitable for effectively measuring the carbon impact of software.
Meet organizational lead member Futurewei
We looked at sustainability from two perspectives. Global network infrastructure and data centers can have more greenhouse gas emissions than the airline industry if following the current energy consumption path.
Carbon Hack 22
A contest for developers to build the best carbon aware software application with a total prize pool of USD 80,000. Carbon aware software does less when the electricity is dirty and more when the electricity is clean.
GSF GLOBAL SUMMIT 2022 TOKYO
GSF Global Summit is a series of free events. Regional events were held in June 2022 all around the globe. This event was broadcasted from a studio in Tokyo. Microsoft Japan, Intel, Nomura Research Institute, and NTT DATA talked about green software and exchanged their ideas. The Summit attracted audiences and contributed to a growing the presence of Green Software Foundation in Japan as well as a sense of unity among the Japanese members.