KDE Eco - Building Energy-Efficient Free Software
Software has a direct affect on energy and resource consumption. KDE has the goal of providing software which does this in a way that reduces software's environmental impact.
Let’s make energy efficient software and digital sustainability part of our community. We can live up to our responsibility for this and future generations!
KDE Eco Handbook
The handbook "Applying The Blue Angel Criteria To Free Software" gives an overview of the environmental harm driven by software and how the Blue Angel ecolabel — the official environmental label of the German government — provides a benchmark for sustainable software design. Learn how Free Software's values of transparency and user autonomy foster sustainability, as well as how to set up a dedicated lab to measure your software's energy consumption! Read more
Okular Awarded Blue Angel Ecolabel
In 2022, KDE's popular multi-platform PDF reader and universal document viewer Okular became the first ever eco-certified computer program! Read More
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Friday, 12 April 2024
Ensuring KEcoLab Stability: Introducing Dedicated CI-Test
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.
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Thursday, 11 April 2024
How Selenium Helps Build Sustainable Software (And More)
Enhancing and promoting Selenium to achieve KDE's goals.
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Thursday, 28 March 2024
KEcoLab in SoK24: Incorporating Energy-Consumption Measurements In The CI/CD Pipeline
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.
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Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Introducing Support For KdeEcoTest On Windows
Extending KdeEcoTest support for Windows platform
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