Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

[Allan Day <aday gnome org>]

Hi everyone,

I've created an issue for this topic, so we don't forget about it:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/102

Allan

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 00:04, Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 18:10 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its
> > environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as
> > a whole?
>
> All the previous replies have good ideas.  We should definitely enable
> remote hackfests.  Is this "just" about gnome.org hosting a WebRTC
> service which we can already use through practically any web browser?
> I don't know!
>
> In terms of engagement, we need conferences on the scale of GUADEC or
> Gnome Asia, but in the Americas, and outside the United States, where
> travel+visas are problematic.  But in terms of environmental impact, I
> am not sure whether this would enable fewer people to fly across the
> ocean for their yearly "big GNOME conference", or if it would encourage
> *more* people to fly cross-continent to the new conference.
>
> I wonder if it is possible to get reports on power consumption from
> things like our CI runners.  Maybe even power profiles for individual
> runs?  Or does the way things run in datacenters, where *our* CI runs
> are not the only thing running on a server, make this not entirely
> trivial to do?
>
>   Federico
>
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