Green Software Foundation’s Post

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Isso �� s��? About the beginning of wisdom starts with the definition of terms. And one of the things that I found is that in such a multidisciplinary field in which you have people coming only from environmental sciences, people who are only take, there's a little bit of an impedance mismatch sometimes in the dialogue. So even simple things like saying, for example, sustainable something versus something for sustainability. Right. Do we have sustainable AI, meaning AI systems that. Are sustainable in themselves and, and, and we call that the footprint or AI system that are AI for sustainability, meaning the output of the system can actually help you with sustainable outcomes. And we call that the handprint, right. So the concept of footprint and handprint are not necessarily well understood within the networking and software spaces in my experience and I feel there are. Fundamentally, you want to reduce the footprint, you wanna improve or in cans or or, you know, grow the handprint. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I agree. It's it's not a well known, known phraseology. We use this in in building green software. It is a bit counterintuitive in that kind of like footprint bat handprint good, but it's like, why is the foot so bad? If you're in, if you, if you're judging by your, you're the reverse of the football analogy web. And this bad which is good but in green software we took what footprints foot being bad and handprints hand being good. That's right. In, in, in football, you would get a red card and and in green software, you're gonna get a green card.