Digital Sustainability Hackathon

The best way to verify and test our approach to measuring the environmental impact of software applications is to implement it in real-life applications together with like-minded developers. Hence we are hosting the digital sustainability hacks.

• Every second Friday: 14:00 - 20:00
• Short introduction: The challenges, how we approach measuring the environmental impact, recap where we are at today
• Maybe start 15-30 min earlier for an introduction for ‘first timers’
• Fixed program: 45 min lightning talks (e.g. 2-3x 15-20 min) - knowledge sharing on either specific problems that we need to tackle next, solved problems (e.g. from last time) or success stories

• Who: Developers, DevOps, CloudOps - no selling, no marketing, no companies - just solving the challenge and learning together

• Build teams that solve a specific challenge from the challenge map or lightning talks at each hackathon, e.g. 2-3 people work together on solving a specific problem (also has the benefit of meeting new people)
• Max/Inky helps each team along, until we get some more champions who have as deep of an understanding as the SDIA and can be spread across all teams
• The outcome from each team is either a new open-source project or a contribution to an existing one
• It might be that one team is developing a new Open API spec that another team is implementing at the next event

• Maybe bring Academia and leading researchers in the field to provide mentorship

• Location: Sponsored by SDIA or members, e.g. Edge Next building, inside a data center (to give perspective)

• Food & drinks: Sponsored by SDIA or members

• Sponsorships do not buy speaking slots or other privileges - if you want to advertise, send your best hackers in a t-shirt and let them contribute

• Dependencies:
• Architecture diagram (all the open source components already build, projects, tooling used, databases, APIs, et al)
• Challenge Map, e.g. a big Miro board that can be used every time with a list of problems that still need to solved, e.g. like EPICs
• Potentially a test system for which we have ‘all data’, e.g. embodied carbon for the servers, physical power meters on the outside to verify any software-measurements we are making

• 30 min - Knowledge Building, sharing the formula’s

• 3 x 10 min - cases & examples

• And then overview of remaining issues that we need to solve
• List of questions

This is the Miro board on which we manage the challenges that are to be tackled by the teams at the hackathons, each bringing us a step closer towards digital sustainability.

• Annual, global: 4 hackathons w/ annual commitment

• Local sponsor: 1 local hackathon for 3 month, 6 or 12

• Location Sponsorship

• Catering Sponsorship

• Platform Sponsorships: Hosting, Knowledge Base, Repositories, Chat