Hello all,

thank you for having me at the TOC meeting yesterday and for the chance as well as the discussion on our proposal.

As a result of yesterday's discussion I first would like to put a renaming into the room:

"Environmental Conservation WG"

Following the recommendation, we would start as a working group also we see that there are a lot of jobs to be done, to oversight any project is at this time not part of it/too early and therefore not suitable for a TAG. Might change in the future.

Some of the initial task I see:

• craft a team for the WG (I got already a couple of private messages and notes of interest)
• scoping the activities - as mentioned in the meeting we see many dimensions, possibilities and ways of acting. an output here can be a kind of roadmap as well as a cloud native environmental impact map (work in this direction is generally done and need some CN spicing)
• depending on the size of the team as well as the scoped activities, I would like to have the WG being active actually in to three directions
• 1. towards the CNCF projects - did they worked already on something for improving their environment footprint? what are the problems they see? what is needed to overcome potential issues? etc.
• 2. towards the enduser - as mentioned a key for this topic is awareness, and the our enduser are one/some of the strongest multiplicators. What are their current state? How OSS can help? Can we include this topic to the CNCF survey?
• 3. bridging existing foundations and project - there are many initiatives out there, how we can bring them to our community? where we have a common sense? what is difficult for them to grow adoption? Lets learn from each other and be a vehicle for existing implementations/researches etc.

Sorry for the long email. I'm looking forward to your feedback, and your guidance to get the things started :)

Best

Max

Am Fr., 25. März 2022 um 01:33 Uhr schrieb Jaime Magiera <jaimelm@...>:

I’d be interested in contributing to this TAG, whatever the name will be. 

Jaime Magiera
DevOps Engineer Senior
ICPSR

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." 
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On Mar 19, 2022, at 8:06 AM, Max Koerbaecher <max@...> wrote:

Dear TOC,

we would like to propose you a new TAG. 

Sustainability is a growing and important topic and can be done effectively only if everyone delivers their part to it. The data centers' global energy consumption, and therefore the reason for CO2 emission, is around 2%. That maybe doesn't sound a lot but is equivalent to Canada or Germany, and is also bigger than the emissions caused by airplanes. 

At the same time, open source gets relevant momentum and can be found in many system implementations or is the foundation modern systems are built on. That's why we would like to propose you the TAG Sustainability. We as a community can lay the foundation for sustainable software, sustainable open source projects and best practices to deliver our part for a positive change in the future.

Please find our proposal here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJlfkmM9L0dFnrIiyt9-V9zwDhNplUvkD50zWy5CBzM/edit?usp=sharing

We would be more than happy to discuss this with you in the next TOC about the TAG. By questions feel free to reach out to us.

Best regards

Max