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News, insights, and technical deep-dives on green software from the GSF community.
UBS Joins Green Software Foundation as a Steering Member
Green Software Foundation welcomes UBS as the latest Steering Member of the Foundation.
Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification Project
An interview with Abhishek Gupta of Microsoft and Henry Richardson of WattTime, Co-Chairs of the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification Project
Events & Experiences Project of the Green Software Foundation
Project Co-Chairs, Jenny and Tammy talked to us while deep in preparation for the GSF Global Summit scheduled for June 2022. Jenny is a Senior Event PM Team Lead and Tammy is a Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft.
Meet a Steering Committee Member: Sanjay Podder of Accenture
Sanjay, the Global Lead for Sustainable Technology at Accenture, talks about how his personal interest in sustainability and his company’s agenda merged with those of like minded others at Microsoft to pave the way for the Green Software Foundation.
Sustainable Systems: User Hardware and Sustainability
Anne Currie continues the Sustainable Systems series, talking about how user hardware impacts sustainability of systems and the responsibility that falls on developers creating new software.
Meet GSF Organizational Leads: Sarah Hsu of Goldman Sachs
Sarah Hsu is an Associate at Goldman Sachs and works on Site Reliability Engineering. She is very passionate about the Green Software Foundation's educational component, which includes raising awareness, encouraging discussions and amplifying voices.
SCI Open Ontology Project of the Green Software Foundation
In this series featuring GSF Projects, the first interview is with Naveeen Balani of Accenture who heads the SCI Open Ontology Project of the Innovation Working Group.
GSF Member Interviews: Meet Alexander Kroll of NTT DATA, Deutschland
Alexander is Competence Unit Manager, Innovation & Technology, and Senior Solution Architect with NTT DATA. Alex sees more opportunities than obstacles to green software due to the strong company focus on United Nations Sustainability goals.
Why We Are on the Cusp of a New Era of Carbon-Efficient Software
Sanjay Podder of Accenture, a founder Steering Committee member of the Green Software Foundation, looks at the journey so far and the future prospects of green software
Sustainable Systems: Architectural Choices and Sustainability
Architecting for minimal carbon is about improving how software is designed, says Anne Currie, in our Sustainable Systems series. The most efficient code is no code at all, and the best time to spot unnecessary work is as early as possible in the design process.
Meet Steering Committee Member and OrgLead: Niels Freier of BCG GAMMA
Niels, an Associate Director at BCG GAMMA, is the company’s Organizational Lead at GSF. He is based in Paris, France and says that a change of mindset is also necessary on top of technology to lead the way to a low-carbon world.
Meet GSF Org Leads: Adam Jordan of Shell
Adam is a Distinguished Software Engineer at Shell and the company’s Org Lead at GSF. He sees green software as a core element of solution delivery in the future.