Hi Cornelius, that sounds like a worthy goal. Thanks for all your effort!
Best, Oliver On 12.06.21 14:40, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
Dear Okular developers, you might have heard about the Blue Angel[1]. It's an ecolabel which is awarded by the German government for environmentally friendly design. It covers a broad range of different products, from recycled paper to eco-friendly ship design. Last year a category for resource and energy efficient software products was added[2]. The award criteria for this new category include energy-efficiency as well as other factors such as influence on hardware obsolescence and user autonomy. They match quite well with values we have in the KDE community and how we develop our software. Up to now there is no product yet which has been awarded with the label in the new software category. We can change that. Okular is an ideal candidate as it is a popular application and matches the criteria quite well. I have put together a first draft for an application[3]. It includes the documentation for all the criteria and how Okular matches them, as well as measurements, which have been executed by students from the Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld[4]. The goal is to submit it for certification as soon as the data is complete. KDE e.V. will act as official applicant. While Okular itself already matches the criteria from my point of view, there are a few things which are asked in terms of documentation, which could be made more transparent on the Okular web site. I will submit a merge request with suggestions for corresponding changes shortly. This is an exciting project to give KDE more visibility in what it is doing for sustainable computing. If you are interested to learn more or to join, please feel free to get in touch with me. We also have a mailing list to talk about energy efficiency and topics around that [5]. Feel free to join there as well if you are interested and ask any questions you might have. Kind Regards, Cornelius [1]: https://www.blauer-engel.de/en [2]: https://www.blauer-engel.de/en/products/electric-devices/resources-and-energy-efficient-software-products [3]: https://invent.kde.org/cschumac/blue-angel-application/-/tree/master/applications/okular [4]: https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/ [5]: https://mail.kde.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/energy-efficiency
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