Back

...what kind of action? First and foremost, reviving the Linux For Everyone show. It was (and hopefully still is) a good platform for generating discussion and raising awareness about important stuff.

One of those important things is sustainable software. I was blown away by some very sobering statistics about how the smallest in-app activities can impact the environment.

There are so many ripple effects... it's staggering. this topic needs more awareness, more action, more discussion.

...Think about how often you're talking to people about the advantages of #Linux and #OpenSource software. Or at least HEARING about that discussion.

What advantages are mentioned? Privacy? Hell yea. Freedom? Damn right. Price? Most likely? Customization? Yup.

What about #FOSS having an advantage when it comes to energy consumption? I honestly never hear that. And we need to start screaming that from the mountaintops.

@killyourfm As someone who's got an M1 chip this is literally what I'm screaming for, efficiency. It's unfortunate that on the hardware side we don't have anything that's equivalent as an open standard, but we can still do something that would impact positively on a large scale, on the software side.
I published a paper in material science where sustainability was the core topic, investigating this aspect in open source software development would be really interesting and potentially useful

@baldpolnareffart and you’re a data scientist or striving to be, right? It might be very helpful to have someone who can intelligently crunch the numbers (what does the ecological footprint of X result look like expanded out to 1 million people?) or provide useful insights and data.

Let’s keep in touch about this.

@killyourfm absolutely! Can you DM me your business email? Or I could contact you on Discord if you prefer

@killyourfm gotcha! I'm contacting you immediately so that we can keep in touch