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Season Of KDE 2023: Wrapping Up My Work With KDE Eco

Wednesday, 19 April 2023 | Rudraksh Karpe
Categories: SOK23, Blauer Engel, KdeEcoTest, GCompris, Kate
This post wraps up my journey as a mentee in Season of KDE 2023. Here I discuss resolving various issues as well as my work expanding the tool set for energy consumption measurements of KDE applications.

Season Of KDE 2023 With KDE Eco: Improvements To KdeEcoTest

Friday, 14 April 2023 | Mohamed Ibrahim
Categories: SOK23, KdeEcoTest, xdotool, pynput, Kate, GCompris, KDE Eco
My experience improving the KdeEcoTest tool, an automation tool that simulates computer actions when measuring the energy consumption of software.

Season Of KDE 2023 With KDE Eco: Writing Scripts In Selenium To Reproduce KdeEcoTest Script

Wednesday, 5 April 2023 | Nitin Tejuja
Categories: SOK23, Selenium, KdeEcoTest, GCompris, AT-SPI
My experience writing scripts in Selenium for GCompris activities and reproducing the GCompris KdeEcoTest script.

Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee

Wednesday, 15 March 2023 | Rudraksh Karpe
Categories: SOK23, Blauer Engel, KdeEcoTest, GCompris, Kate
I am working on the Blue Angel Certification Preparation project, specifically adapting the usage scenario scripts for Kate and GCompris. Here I share my experience and progress in the project.

Season of KDE 2023 With KDE Eco: Setting Up Selenium For Energy Consumption Measurements

Monday, 6 March 2023 | Nitin Tejuja
Categories: SOK23, Selenium, KdeEcoTest, GCompris, AT-SPI
My experience setting up Selenium using 'Selenium-AT-SPI" to measure GCompris's energy consumption.

KDE Eco Handbook: "Applying The Blue Angel Criteria To Free Software"

Tuesday, 14 February 2023 | Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Categories: Sustainability, Blauer Engel, Eco-Certification, Okular, KDE Eco, Community Lab
KDE Eco is proud to announce the publication of the first edition of the measurement handbook "Applying The Blue Angel Criteria To Free Software: A Handbook To Certify Software As Sustainable".

Guest Post: OpenUK Awards 2022 Sustainability

Monday, 5 December 2022 | Jonathan Esk-Riddell
Categories: Sustainability
OpenUK Awards 2022 Sustainability Award

Blue Angel Award Ceremony At EnviroInfo Conference: Okular Officially Receives Eco-Label, First Ever For Software Product

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 | Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Categories: Okular, Blauer Engel, Award Ceremony, EnviroInfo Conference, Sustainability
On Wednesday 28 September Okular celebrated becoming the first Blue Angel eco-certified software product together with the German Environment Agency ('Umweltbundesamt'), the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld ('Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld'), and the EnviroInfo conference researchers and attendees. [Updated on Friday, 7 October 2022 for Okular's celebration at Akademy 2022 with KDE Eco cake.]

Measurement Lab Follow-Up: Sprint Achievements And To-dos

Monday, 25 July 2022 | Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Categories: Sprint, KDE Eco, Blauer Engel, Community Lab
On Saturday 16 July 2022 KDE Eco held the second in-person Sprint for the community measurement lab. This is what we achieved... and what we still have to do! [Updated on Friday, 2 September 2022 after second follow-up Sprint.]

Energy Consumption Lab Is Ready For FOSS Community! Dispatch From The Sprint

Monday, 30 May 2022 | Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Categories: Sprint, KDE Eco, Blauer Engel, Community Lab
On Saturday 21 May 2022 KDE Eco held the first of several in-person Sprints for the community lab to measure the energy consumption of Free Software.