On viernes, 20 de septiembre de 2019 11:02:44 (CEST) Jens wrote: > So recent discussions about Climate Strike raised some very good points > about what KDE as a community can do to decrease its footprint. I want > to thank Friedrich for raising them. > > Personally I think this is a rather fun focus for design, community > work and development (and I should probably have thought about it > faster so it could have been squished into the goals voting/suggesting > - but such is life) and just want to toss some ideas around if others > are interested > > Community ideas: > Making a clear statement that carbon footprint in travel will be a > factor in travel support from the eV. Basically we know that there is > zero possibility for some to choose, say trains (train from India or > across the Atlantic is not feasible), but adding that as a part of the > application process; "choose best transport with ecology and > environment in mind" can go a long way and for larger events asking > organizers to look up alternatives and present them as part of the "how > to get to X" page (much of this is already done of course but > formalizing it would be awesome). > > Decentralized and Online community events. Now I think we all know the > value of meeting IRL, how important that is and how it can't be > replaced, but I would love to explore how we can make online or smaller > co-run events more interesting. Basically trying to time several > smaller local events with each other and do some broadcast of talks and > a way for each event to be able to ask questions of the others talks > (as if they where there). Evaluate and check how we can make social > events but online sort of. > > Improve our internal social communication. This sounds a bit guache but > I think looking at how we can make the forum/social media angle more > attractive, perhaps more formal, might help the wider community feel a > part without having to travel to large events (which beyond ecological > impact is often impossible for many, for various reasons) > > Technical Ideas: > Look at Plasma and applications energy consumption - and I know it is a > piss in the ocean but its several pisses in the ocean - and how to > either improve that further or create systems to minimize energy > consumption or creating something to more clearly and accessibly show > energy consumption and suggestions to improve it. > > Publish our own energy consumption and carbon footprint in regards to > servers etc (Ben Cooksley posted a link and perhaps a clear write up on > the subject would be cool?), and mention/formalize our own commitment > to it. > > A closer relationship with Fairphone and Postmarket OS. So, from what I > can gather have a pretty good relationship with Postmarket OS (via > Plasma Mobile), perhaps explore that with regards to Fairphone together > with them? Explore hardware vendors who try to minize their ecological > impact and see if we can either do things with them - OR do things > aimed at their hardware? > > (Please note: I am not as technically adept as most here so y'all > probably have way better ideas than me on this subject) > > What do you think? > > /Jens
This sounds like it should be put in a task, worked on a bit and formalised later in our documentation (Wiki?). It is brilliant first step and I, for one, appreciate and support it. Thanks for that, Jens. Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde
