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Improve an existing Green-IT!
Many existing Green-IT tools are still work in progress and could need some help. Give them this help!
Choose an existing Green-IT tool—like Scaphandre or PowerHog —and make it better! Whether it’s improved usability, more accurate measurements, new integrations, or enhanced visualization—your contribution can push the green software movement forward.
Select a tool from the Green-IT ecosystem (we’ll provide a list of candidates). Explore the codebase and identify areas for improvement. Think about:
- Accuracy: Are measurements reliable across platforms or hardware?
- Usability: Could the UX be more intuitive for developers or sysadmins?
- Performance: Is the tool lightweight and fast?
- Integrations: Could it work better with CI/CD, cloud platforms, or monitoring tools?
- Visualization: Can you present the data in a more accessible or actionable way? Implement, test, and document your enhancements.
If you don't know where to start, chose one ore more of these challenge variants:
- Blue Slope:
- Take a green software tool
- Learn to use it
- improve the documentation. Submit Pull/Merge-Requests
- Red Slope:
- Chose an existing tool and improve the working of the tool an a new or not well supported platform (e.g. port or improve windows support for PowerHog or Scaphandre)
- Black Slope:
- Compare energy metrics of different AI metrics tools:
- https://www.green-coding.ai/
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/genai-impact/ecologits-calculator
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/jdelavande/chat-ui-energy
For a list of great green software have a look here:
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