Re: Press Release: Okular, world's first eco-certified software product!
Hello Joseph, The repo with applications that you linked is impressive. I enjoyed seeing the structured xml information and the application pdf with tables and graphs. I will take more time to read them later. It's exciting that this effort will learn us how much energy must be converted to achieve certain results. Best regards, Jos Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss schreef op 2022-03-16 11:43: yes, it is very exciting news for Okular and KDE! :) Thank you for your questions. The Blue Angel award criteria for desktop software can be found here: https://www.blauer-engel.de/en/productworld/resources-and-energy-efficient-software-products You can find all of KDE's Blue Angel applications at the following link, including for Okular. Unfortunately, we received no specific feedback from RAL, the awarding body, beyond successful fulfillment of the criteria. https://invent.kde.org/teams/eco/blue-angel-application KDE Eco and allied organizations like SDIA's SoftAWARE project are working on tools for measuring energy consumption and integration into CI pipelines. KDE Eco is currently planning to set up a community lab at KDAB Berlin in the very near future (April?). We will document the process so others can follow our lead, and of course the lab will be available for KDE and the FOSS community. The first step to driving down the energy consumption will be measuring how much energy a program already consumes. For CI integration check out the SoftAWARE project: https://sdialliance.org/steering-groups/softawere By the way these are the kinds of conversations we are pushing in the KDE Eco project. All are welcome to join through one of our many channels or at our monthly community meetup on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 19 CET. https://eco.kde.org/get-involved/ All the best, Joseph On 3/16/22 11:26, Jos van den Oever wrote: Congratulations Okular! Is the actual certificate available? I'd like to know what criteria are part of Blauer Engel and how Okular scores on them. If this is easy to find, other projects could know how to improve their software too. Did certification lead to additions the the CI? Best regards, Jos Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss schreef op 2022-03-16 10:23: Apologies for cross-posting! [Deutsch unten] Today KDE is excited to announce that Okular, the multi-platform universal document viewer, is the first ever eco-certified computer program! *First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular* The multi-platform Free and Open-Source Software product is now officially recognized for sustainable software design https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Summary/: Okular, KDE's popular multi-platform PDF reader and universal document viewer, has officially been recognized for sustainable software design. In February 2022 Okular was awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official environmental label awarded by the German government. Introduced in 1978, Blue Angel is the world's earliest-established environmental label, and Okular is the first software product ever to be certified with its seal. What is more, Okular is the first ️ever eco-certified computer program within the 30 organizations of the Global Ecolabelling Network! Released under the GPLv2+ license, Okular is Free and Open-Source Software, and so it was also already fulfilling many of the user autonomy criteria necessary to obtain the Blue Angel seal of approval. Further work was carried out to make Okular fully compliant with all of the Blue Angel criteria, and become officially recognized as providing transparency in energy and resource consumption, extending the potential hardware operating life of devices, and enabling user autonomy. Today we are celebrating the achievement together with the wider Free Software community [1], as well as with the computer science department at Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld [2], where researchers measured the resource and energy-consumption of Okular and other KDE software. KDE and the Free Software community would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the Okular developers for making environmentally-friendly software for all of us! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 Best wishes, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html [2] https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software == Deutsche Version == KDE freut sich, heute ankündigen zu können, dass Okular, der plattformübergreifende universelle Dokumenten-Viewer, das erste öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm überhaupt ist! Pressemitteilung: 16. März 2022 *Erstes öko-zertifiziertes Computerprogramm überhaupt: KDEs beliebter PDF-Reader Okular* Das plattformübergreifende Freie- und Open-Source-Software-Produkt ist nun offiziell für nachhaltiges Software-Design anerkannt
Re: Press Release: Okular, world's first eco-certified software product!
Dear Jos, yes, it is very exciting news for Okular and KDE! :) Thank you for your questions. The Blue Angel award criteria for desktop software can be found here: https://www.blauer-engel.de/en/productworld/resources-and-energy-efficient-software-products You can find all of KDE's Blue Angel applications at the following link, including for Okular. Unfortunately, we received no specific feedback from RAL, the awarding body, beyond successful fulfillment of the criteria. https://invent.kde.org/teams/eco/blue-angel-application KDE Eco and allied organizations like SDIA's SoftAWARE project are working on tools for measuring energy consumption and integration into CI pipelines. KDE Eco is currently planning to set up a community lab at KDAB Berlin in the very near future (April?). We will document the process so others can follow our lead, and of course the lab will be available for KDE and the FOSS community. The first step to driving down the energy consumption will be measuring how much energy a program already consumes. For CI integration check out the SoftAWARE project: https://sdialliance.org/steering-groups/softawere By the way these are the kinds of conversations we are pushing in the KDE Eco project. All are welcome to join through one of our many channels or at our monthly community meetup on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 19 CET. https://eco.kde.org/get-involved/ All the best, Joseph On 3/16/22 11:26, Jos van den Oever wrote: Congratulations Okular! Is the actual certificate available? I'd like to know what criteria are part of Blauer Engel and how Okular scores on them. If this is easy to find, other projects could know how to improve their software too. Did certification lead to additions the the CI? Best regards, Jos Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss schreef op 2022-03-16 10:23: Apologies for cross-posting! [Deutsch unten] Today KDE is excited to announce that Okular, the multi-platform universal document viewer, is the first ever eco-certified computer program! *First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular* The multi-platform Free and Open-Source Software product is now officially recognized for sustainable software design https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Summary/: Okular, KDE's popular multi-platform PDF reader and universal document viewer, has officially been recognized for sustainable software design. In February 2022 Okular was awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official environmental label awarded by the German government. Introduced in 1978, Blue Angel is the world's earliest-established environmental label, and Okular is the first software product ever to be certified with its seal. What is more, Okular is the first ️ever eco-certified computer program within the 30 organizations of the Global Ecolabelling Network! Released under the GPLv2+ license, Okular is Free and Open-Source Software, and so it was also already fulfilling many of the user autonomy criteria necessary to obtain the Blue Angel seal of approval. Further work was carried out to make Okular fully compliant with all of the Blue Angel criteria, and become officially recognized as providing transparency in energy and resource consumption, extending the potential hardware operating life of devices, and enabling user autonomy. Today we are celebrating the achievement together with the wider Free Software community [1], as well as with the computer science department at Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld [2], where researchers measured the resource and energy-consumption of Okular and other KDE software. KDE and the Free Software community would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the Okular developers for making environmentally-friendly software for all of us! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 Best wishes, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html [2] https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software == Deutsche Version == KDE freut sich, heute ankündigen zu können, dass Okular, der plattformübergreifende universelle Dokumenten-Viewer, das erste öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm überhaupt ist! Pressemitteilung: 16. März 2022 *Erstes öko-zertifiziertes Computerprogramm überhaupt: KDEs beliebter PDF-Reader Okular* Das plattformübergreifende Freie- und Open-Source-Software-Produkt ist nun offiziell für nachhaltiges Software-Design anerkannt https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Zusammenfassung/: Okular, KDEs beliebter plattformübergreifender PDF-Reader und universeller Dokumenten-Viewer, ist offiziell für nachhaltiges Softwaredesign ausgezeichnet worden. Im Februar 2022 wurde Okular mit dem Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel ausgezeichnet, dem offiziellen Umweltzeichen der deutschen
Re: Press Release: Okular, world's first eco-certified software product!
Congratulations Okular! Is the actual certificate available? I'd like to know what criteria are part of Blauer Engel and how Okular scores on them. If this is easy to find, other projects could know how to improve their software too. Did certification lead to additions the the CI? Best regards, Jos Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss schreef op 2022-03-16 10:23: Apologies for cross-posting! [Deutsch unten] Today KDE is excited to announce that Okular, the multi-platform universal document viewer, is the first ever eco-certified computer program! *First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular* The multi-platform Free and Open-Source Software product is now officially recognized for sustainable software design https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Summary/: Okular, KDE's popular multi-platform PDF reader and universal document viewer, has officially been recognized for sustainable software design. In February 2022 Okular was awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official environmental label awarded by the German government. Introduced in 1978, Blue Angel is the world's earliest-established environmental label, and Okular is the first software product ever to be certified with its seal. What is more, Okular is the first ️ever eco-certified computer program within the 30 organizations of the Global Ecolabelling Network! Released under the GPLv2+ license, Okular is Free and Open-Source Software, and so it was also already fulfilling many of the user autonomy criteria necessary to obtain the Blue Angel seal of approval. Further work was carried out to make Okular fully compliant with all of the Blue Angel criteria, and become officially recognized as providing transparency in energy and resource consumption, extending the potential hardware operating life of devices, and enabling user autonomy. Today we are celebrating the achievement together with the wider Free Software community [1], as well as with the computer science department at Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld [2], where researchers measured the resource and energy-consumption of Okular and other KDE software. KDE and the Free Software community would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the Okular developers for making environmentally-friendly software for all of us! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 Best wishes, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html [2] https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software == Deutsche Version == KDE freut sich, heute ankündigen zu können, dass Okular, der plattformübergreifende universelle Dokumenten-Viewer, das erste öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm überhaupt ist! Pressemitteilung: 16. März 2022 *Erstes öko-zertifiziertes Computerprogramm überhaupt: KDEs beliebter PDF-Reader Okular* Das plattformübergreifende Freie- und Open-Source-Software-Produkt ist nun offiziell für nachhaltiges Software-Design anerkannt https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Zusammenfassung/: Okular, KDEs beliebter plattformübergreifender PDF-Reader und universeller Dokumenten-Viewer, ist offiziell für nachhaltiges Softwaredesign ausgezeichnet worden. Im Februar 2022 wurde Okular mit dem Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel ausgezeichnet, dem offiziellen Umweltzeichen der deutschen Bundesregierung. Der Blaue Engel wurde 1978 eingeführt und ist das älteste Umweltzeichen der Welt. Okular ist das erste Softwareprodukt, das mit diesem Siegel zertifiziert wurde. Darüber hinaus ist Okular das erste jemals öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm innerhalb der 30 Organisationen des Global Ecolabelling Network! Okular wurde unter der GPLv2+-Lizenz veröffentlicht, ist also eine freie und quelloffene Software und erfüllte somit bereits viele der Kriterien der Benutzerautonomie, die für die Verleihung des Blauen Engels erforderlich sind. Es wurde weiter daran gearbeitet, dass Okular alle Kriterien des Blauen Engels erfüllt und offiziell anerkannt wird, da es Transparenz beim Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauch bietet, die potenzielle Hardware-Lebensdauer von Geräten verlängert und die Autonomie der Nutzer*innen ermöglicht. Heute feiern wir diese Erfolge gemeinsam mit der Free Software Foundation Europe [1] sowie mit der Informatikabteilung des Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld [2], wo Forscher*innen den Ressourcen- und Energieverbrauch von Okular und anderer KDE-Software gemessen haben. KDE und die Freie-Software-Community möchten den Okular-Entwicklern ein herzliches Dankeschön dafür aussprechen, dass sie umweltfreundliche Software für uns alle entwickelt haben! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html [2]
Re: Press Release: Okular, world's first eco-certified software product!
So amazing! Congratulations and big thanks to everyone involved :) On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:23 AM Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > > Apologies for cross-posting! > > [Deutsch unten] > > Today KDE is excited to announce that Okular, the multi-platform > universal document viewer, is the first ever eco-certified computer program! > > *First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular* > > > The multi-platform Free and Open-Source Software product is now > officially recognized for sustainable software design > >https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ > > /Summary/: Okular, KDE's popular multi-platform PDF reader and universal > document viewer, has officially been recognized for sustainable software > design. In February 2022 Okular was awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel, the > official environmental label awarded by the German government. > Introduced in 1978, Blue Angel is the world's earliest-established > environmental label, and Okular is the first software product ever to be > certified with its seal. What is more, Okular is the first ️ever > eco-certified computer program within the 30 organizations of the Global > Ecolabelling Network! > > Released under the GPLv2+ license, Okular is Free and Open-Source > Software, and so it was also already fulfilling many of the user > autonomy criteria necessary to obtain the Blue Angel seal of approval. > Further work was carried out to make Okular fully compliant with all of > the Blue Angel criteria, and become officially recognized as providing > transparency in energy and resource consumption, extending the potential > hardware operating life of devices, and enabling user autonomy. > > Today we are celebrating the achievement together with the wider Free > Software community [1], as well as with the computer science department > at Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld [2], where researchers measured the resource > and energy-consumption of Okular and other KDE software. > > KDE and the Free Software community would like to send a heartfelt thank > you to the Okular developers for making environmentally-friendly > software for all of us! > > Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 > > Best wishes, > Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss > > [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html > [2] > https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software > > > == Deutsche Version == > > KDE freut sich, heute ankündigen zu können, dass Okular, der > plattformübergreifende universelle Dokumenten-Viewer, das erste > öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm überhaupt ist! > > Pressemitteilung: 16. März 2022 > > *Erstes öko-zertifiziertes Computerprogramm überhaupt: KDEs beliebter > PDF-Reader Okular* > > > Das plattformübergreifende Freie- und Open-Source-Software-Produkt > ist nun offiziell für nachhaltiges Software-Design anerkannt > >https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ > > /Zusammenfassung/: Okular, KDEs beliebter plattformübergreifender > PDF-Reader und universeller Dokumenten-Viewer, ist offiziell für > nachhaltiges Softwaredesign ausgezeichnet worden. Im Februar 2022 wurde > Okular mit dem Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel ausgezeichnet, dem offiziellen > Umweltzeichen der deutschen Bundesregierung. Der Blaue Engel wurde 1978 > eingeführt und ist das älteste Umweltzeichen der Welt. Okular ist das > erste Softwareprodukt, das mit diesem Siegel zertifiziert wurde. Darüber > hinaus ist Okular das erste jemals öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm > innerhalb der 30 Organisationen des Global Ecolabelling Network! > > Okular wurde unter der GPLv2+-Lizenz veröffentlicht, ist also eine freie > und quelloffene Software und erfüllte somit bereits viele der Kriterien > der Benutzerautonomie, die für die Verleihung des Blauen Engels > erforderlich sind. Es wurde weiter daran gearbeitet, dass Okular alle > Kriterien des Blauen Engels erfüllt und offiziell anerkannt wird, da es > Transparenz beim Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauch bietet, die > potenzielle Hardware-Lebensdauer von Geräten verlängert und die > Autonomie der Nutzer*innen ermöglicht. > > Heute feiern wir diese Erfolge gemeinsam mit der Free Software > Foundation Europe [1] sowie mit der Informatikabteilung des > Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld [2], wo Forscher*innen den Ressourcen- und > Energieverbrauch von Okular und anderer KDE-Software gemessen haben. > > KDE und die Freie-Software-Community möchten den Okular-Entwicklern ein > herzliches Dankeschön dafür aussprechen, dass sie umweltfreundliche > Software für uns alle entwickelt haben! > > Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 > > [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html > [2] > https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software > > > -- > Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss > BE4FOSS Project and
Press Release: Okular, world's first eco-certified software product!
Apologies for cross-posting! [Deutsch unten] Today KDE is excited to announce that Okular, the multi-platform universal document viewer, is the first ever eco-certified computer program! *First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular* > The multi-platform Free and Open-Source Software product is now officially recognized for sustainable software design https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Summary/: Okular, KDE's popular multi-platform PDF reader and universal document viewer, has officially been recognized for sustainable software design. In February 2022 Okular was awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official environmental label awarded by the German government. Introduced in 1978, Blue Angel is the world's earliest-established environmental label, and Okular is the first software product ever to be certified with its seal. What is more, Okular is the first ️ever eco-certified computer program within the 30 organizations of the Global Ecolabelling Network! Released under the GPLv2+ license, Okular is Free and Open-Source Software, and so it was also already fulfilling many of the user autonomy criteria necessary to obtain the Blue Angel seal of approval. Further work was carried out to make Okular fully compliant with all of the Blue Angel criteria, and become officially recognized as providing transparency in energy and resource consumption, extending the potential hardware operating life of devices, and enabling user autonomy. Today we are celebrating the achievement together with the wider Free Software community [1], as well as with the computer science department at Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld [2], where researchers measured the resource and energy-consumption of Okular and other KDE software. KDE and the Free Software community would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the Okular developers for making environmentally-friendly software for all of us! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 Best wishes, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html [2] https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software == Deutsche Version == KDE freut sich, heute ankündigen zu können, dass Okular, der plattformübergreifende universelle Dokumenten-Viewer, das erste öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm überhaupt ist! Pressemitteilung: 16. März 2022 *Erstes öko-zertifiziertes Computerprogramm überhaupt: KDEs beliebter PDF-Reader Okular* > Das plattformübergreifende Freie- und Open-Source-Software-Produkt ist nun offiziell für nachhaltiges Software-Design anerkannt https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/ /Zusammenfassung/: Okular, KDEs beliebter plattformübergreifender PDF-Reader und universeller Dokumenten-Viewer, ist offiziell für nachhaltiges Softwaredesign ausgezeichnet worden. Im Februar 2022 wurde Okular mit dem Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel ausgezeichnet, dem offiziellen Umweltzeichen der deutschen Bundesregierung. Der Blaue Engel wurde 1978 eingeführt und ist das älteste Umweltzeichen der Welt. Okular ist das erste Softwareprodukt, das mit diesem Siegel zertifiziert wurde. Darüber hinaus ist Okular das erste jemals öko-zertifizierte Computerprogramm innerhalb der 30 Organisationen des Global Ecolabelling Network! Okular wurde unter der GPLv2+-Lizenz veröffentlicht, ist also eine freie und quelloffene Software und erfüllte somit bereits viele der Kriterien der Benutzerautonomie, die für die Verleihung des Blauen Engels erforderlich sind. Es wurde weiter daran gearbeitet, dass Okular alle Kriterien des Blauen Engels erfüllt und offiziell anerkannt wird, da es Transparenz beim Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauch bietet, die potenzielle Hardware-Lebensdauer von Geräten verlängert und die Autonomie der Nutzer*innen ermöglicht. Heute feiern wir diese Erfolge gemeinsam mit der Free Software Foundation Europe [1] sowie mit der Informatikabteilung des Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld [2], wo Forscher*innen den Ressourcen- und Energieverbrauch von Okular und anderer KDE-Software gemessen haben. KDE und die Freie-Software-Community möchten den Okular-Entwicklern ein herzliches Dankeschön dafür aussprechen, dass sie umweltfreundliche Software für uns alle entwickelt haben! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.social/web/@BE4FOSS/107965444323062309 [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220316-01.en.html [2] https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/forschung/projekte/green-software-engineering/news-details/first-blue-angel-for-software -- Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss BE4FOSS Project and Community Manager (KDE Eco) OpenPGP: 8FC5 4178 DC44 AD55 08E7 DF57 453E 5746 59A6 C06F --- KDE Eco: Building Energy-Efficient Free Software! Website: https://eco.kde.org Mastodon: @BE4FOSS@mastodon.social Mailing list:
