Sustainable Software Developement with KEcoLab
Session Description
Looking to optimize your software's energy footprint? The KEcoLab project addresses this by offering a streamlined solution to remotely measure energy consumed by your software using a CI/CD pipeline. It integrates the OSCAR tool (oscar.umwelt-campus.de/) and provides developers with a detailed report to make informed decisions to improve code efficiency and obtain software eco certification with the Blue Angel (www.blauer-engel.de/en). Further details about measuring the energy consumption of software and goals of kde eco can be found in the kde eco handbook (eco.kde.org/handbook)
Key Takeaways
The talk will cover the following:-
1) Why Sustainability in Software?
2) KDE Eco initiative
3) Blauer Angel Criteria and why its important
4) Where KEcoLab fits in
5) Brief Introduction of recently Launched Endof10 campaign (endof10.org)
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Speakers
Aakarsh MJ
Reviews
The talk seems more like an awareness thing?
The takeaways of this talk are unclear. Anybody who wants to "optimize" first needs to know a ballpark improvement that is possible. I'd expect a talk proposal that begins saying "software's energy footprint" to have some detail about what improvements to expect.
It's also not clear how the EndOf10 campaign is related to this - and how it ties to the rest of the talk.
I like the premise of the proposal. It has FOSS relevance more from ethics PoV than the practicality that is most often discussed. Having said that, I'd prefer if this is a lightning talk so that it remains crisp, as audience would be more interested in development related talks.
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