Hi Mike, Am 25.06.21 um 15:12 schrieb Mike Saunders: > Hi everyone, > > A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting discussion with someone > doing research in the field of "digital sustainability". This is quite a > broad topic and there are many aspects to it, but it made me think about > how LibreOffice fits into all this. > > Here are some things he mentioned that make up "digital sustainability", > and my thoughts about LibreOffice: > > 1) Environmental -- Obviously, we don't ship physical products (apart > from merchandise) so we don't have a direct CO2 impact. But our software > uses electricity, of course, and with an estimated 200M+ users around > the world, more efficient software is better for power consumption.
not only the consumption of power / CO2 pollution by using the software is key, but also the ones that are used to work on / create the software. TDF is using a lot of power (server farms or local) to work and improve the software. Maybe TDF is also shipping hardware around to developers. But the LibreOffice users has always to download a complete build of LibreOffice, once a new main or minor version was published (for security or improvement reasons). This consume a lot of resources and had an impact on the environment. Thus there are this first steps of action, which came to my mind: * contract only services, which run on green power (e.g. photovoltaic or wind) * try to calculate the consumption of non-green-power by the contributors to the project and compensate * build incremental updates for LibreOffice * pay attention to the minimal requirements to run LibreOffice on a machine (thus there is not the need to buy regularly new machines for this purpose) Regards, Andreas -- ## Free Software Advocate ## Plone add-on developer ## My blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
