👋 Welcome Thread

[ribalba]

The idea of this discussion is to give everyone the space to introduce themselves. Just post a reply to this post. Through this we can all get to know each other and we can start building a community. Here is a little template you can follow if you want:

• Title: Your Name @ Your Project/ Organisation
• Your pronouns
• Where you are from, so people in your region can reach out to you
• A litte about yourself and what you think you can contribute to the project
• A link to social media or LinkedIn

[ArneTR]

Alright let's get this started!

Hey, my name is Arne (he/him) and I work at Green Coding Solutions, where I am CEO but in my day to day find myself still writing lots of code and making PRs to open source projects where I try to make software more transparent about carbon emissions and reduce them every day.

You can hit me up on LinkedIn.

Since I am party of the core team I will be overseeing much of the development and planning. I plan to contribute most of the overhead measurement and performance evaluation as well as performance engineering so we will have a very low profile plugin to get energy values directly inside the linux Kernel.

[ribalba]

👋 Arne :)

[ribalba]

I am Didi Hoffmann (he/him) and also work at Green Coding Solutions from Potsdam close to Berlin. I love coding and have been a developer for pretty much all my life. I am really excited about this project as I think making the resource impact visible for Linux will have a huge impact.

LinkedIn

[mrchrisadams]

Title: Chris Adams
Your pronouns: he, him
Where you are from, so people in your region can reach out to you: I was born in Australia, I grew up in London, but now I'm in Berlin, Germany.
A little about yourself and what you think you can contribute to the project: I work in the Green Web Foundation, and as part of that work, we also work in the Green Software Foundation's Realtime Cloud working group, which is focussed around establishing conventions for energy and carbon reporting in the cloud. This post on the green web fdn blog might shed more light. I also help host a podcast about greener software engineering, called Environment Variables. If you're reading this post, you might enjoy this episode I recorded, called Greening Kernels.
A link to social media or LinkedIn: On LinkedIn, Github and Mastodon

[davidkopp]

Title: David Kopp
Pronouns: he, him
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
About myself:
I recently finished my computer science studies and started working as a Green IT consultant at envite consulting GmbH last month. As such, I have to understand the ecological footprint of software in detail and need good tools to measure it. So I am really looking forward to see some results of this project 😊 It would be great to be able to make accurate and trustworthy energy measurements for individual processes, which is currently not really possible. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience in low-level kernel programming, so I won't be able to contribute directly to this project.

Social media: LinkedIn

[ArneTR]

Hey @davidkopp , nice to have you here! Testing the Kernel Plug-In is also greatly appreciated where we really love your feedback. We hope to have some first working draft ready in about a months time. A side question: On which machines / distributions do you plan to use it? That would also be a great help to know. I opened an Issue on that here: https://github.com/orgs/green-kernel/discussions/3