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Goals Sprint Recap

5 September 2024  | Cornelius Schumacher
Categories KDE Eco, Sustainable Software
Recap of what we did at the goals sprint and where we are today.

What's New In The Revised Blue Angel Criteria

26 August 2024  | Cornelius Schumacher
Categories KDE Eco, Sustainable Software, Blue Angel
The criteria for the Blue Angel for resource- and energy-efficient software have been updated. What has changed and what does that mean for KDE?

Get Started With Selenium: 4 Short Video Tutorials

2 July 2024  | Emmanuel Charruau and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Categories SoK, Selenium, Sustainability, KDE Goals, KDE Eco
In just 8 minutes you too will be ready to start using Selenium AT-SPI.

Opt Green: KDE Eco's New Sustainable Software Project

29 May 2024  | Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Categories KDE Eco, Sustainable Software, Sustainable Hardware
KDE Eco has begun a new initiative "Opt Green: Sustainable Software For Sustainable Hardware".

Ensuring KEcoLab Stability: Introducing Dedicated CI-Test

12 April 2024  | Sarthak Negi
Categories SoK, KEcoLab, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Software Goal
KEcoLab, a tool for measuring software energy consumption, needs robust testing to ensure its functionality after every code change. This blog post presents the work I did in Season of KDE 2024 implementing dedicated test builds using Kate test scripts to achieve this goal. By implementing a dedicated "test-build" and "integration" stage within the CI/CD pipeline, we can enhance KEcoLab's reliability and maintain confidence in its results. Read more

How Selenium Helps Build Sustainable Software (And More)

11 April 2024  | Pradyot Ranjan
Categories SoK, Selenium, Sustainability, KDE Goals, KDE Eco
Enhancing and promoting Selenium to achieve KDE's goals.

KEcoLab in SoK24: Incorporating Energy-Consumption Measurements In The CI/CD Pipeline

28 March 2024  | Aakarsh MJ
Categories SoK, KEcoLab, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Software Goal
KEcoLab Sustainability has been one of three goals at KDE over the past 2 years. One aspect of this goal is to measure the energy consumption of KDE software. To do this, it is necessary to access the lab in KDAB, Berlin, which can now be done remotely using KEcoLab. Read more

Introducing Support For KdeEcoTest On Windows

21 February 2024  | Amartya Chakraborty
Categories SoK, KdeEcoTest, Windows
Extending KdeEcoTest support for Windows platform

Making way for Wayland in KdeEcoTest

20 February 2024  | Athul Raj K
Categories SoK, KdeEcoTest, Wayland
Improving KdeEcoTest and making it compatible on Wayland systems

KEcoLab: Remote Energy Measurement Lab

13 June 2023  | Karanjot Singh
Categories Sustainability, Blauer Engel, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Software Goal, GSoC'23
In this post I start my journey in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with KDE Eco by describing progress made on the exciting project of making remote access to the Energy Measurement Lab a reality.