Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and "digital sustainability"

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

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