Talk Intermediate

Sustainable Software Developement with KEcoLab

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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)

References

https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kecolab

https://eco.kde.org/

https://endof10.org

https://www.blauer-engel.de/en

https://oscar.umwelt-campus.de/

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project

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Speakers

Aakarsh MJ Contributor | KDE

Aakarsh has been a KDE contributor since Dec 2022. He was introduced to KDE through Google Summer of Code 23 and continues to contribute to KDE since then. He has also contributed to VLC Media Player 4.0 release in the past and has been a Season of KDE mentor previously. He is currently mentoring the Merkuro project in Google Summer of Code 25. He is passionate about F/LOSS communities and In his free time he enjoys following football and reading the works of Haruki Murakami.