Welcome to the Green Software Foundation. We are a non-profit with the mission to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for green software. We define green software as software that reduces the carbon emissions software is responsible for emitting.
The pages that follow are designed to support your engagement with the foundation and provide you all the appropriate resources, links and contact information to contribute your knowledge, time and skills to support the foundation’s activities and build momentum towards green software.
Before diving into our Working Groups and projects, make sure you join us on LinkedIn, Twitter and subscribe to our weekly newsletter.
Next Steps
Visit our discussions board to introduce yourself and dive into discussions that interest you the most!
Read our Theory of Change. This describes our goal and how we believe we’ll get there.
Read our Getting Started Guide if you are a new member, to get all appropriate access set up.
Learn about our Working Groups and Projects.
Complete our Green Software Training Course. It takes 2-3 hours, and if you complete the course, you receive a certificate of completion from the Linux Foundation.
We often disagree, but we have a process for how we make decisions.
Any problems contact help@greensoftware.foundation.