2024 03 18

[seanmcilroy29]

2024 03 18

Time 0930 PST / 1630 BST - See the time in your timezone https://everytimezone.com/s/a8399b00

• Chair – Chris Adams (The Green Web Foundation)
• Chair - Lisa.McNally (Thoughtworks)
• Chair - Michael Mueller (Re-cinq)
• Convener – Sean Mcilroy (Linux Foundation)

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Agenda

• Approve Agenda / previous minutes 2024 03 04 #71

Breaking the Policy WG roadmap down

• Review spreadsheet
• Creating a policy manual for software sustainability.
  • Tracking policies and member engagement.
  • Providing feedback in the policymaking process.

Partner Review - Decarbonising the Use-Phase of Connected Devices

• Delegate the review to a sub-group to share feedback with the Carbon Trust
  See the thread in the policy wg mailing list
• Link to Google Drive folder

Open Issues

• Partner Review - Decarbonising the Use-Phase of Connected Devices #67
• [PRESS RELEASE] SustainableIT.org Partnership #68
• Policy Manual #69
• Proposal to host a quarterly meeting with all WG Chairs #64

Sustainable Foundation LF Foundation Round Table Proposal - Sean

Discussions with fellow foundations to understand their primary focused areas.

• LF Energy ED meeting update
• Finos
• Finops
• CNCF
• Kubernetes

All groups are now on board, except for Kubernetes, to host a virtual joint meeting at the start of April.

GSF Roundtables

• April meeting to focus on Industry Issues
  • Draft agenda of Industry topics and problems that should be table for discussion.
  • Looking to schedule a call at the end of Apr, after the Easter holiday period.

Policy

Open Sustainability Policy Summit, May 2-3,

LF Energy has partnered with Johns Hopkins University to launch the Open Sustainability Policy Summit at the JHU Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. This brand-new event will gather lawmakers, policymakers, electric utilities, automakers, technology vendors, researchers, and end users of energy to discuss the challenges and opportunities for an open-source model of building both technology and standards to accelerate the energy transition. The summit will focus on how policy and regulation can support this collaborative approach while ensuring communities are diverse and inclusive and that the benefits of this transition are shared equitably.

MOU Proposal

• British Computer Society - Sean

Alex Bardell (BCS) hasn't confirmed his confirmation to join the meeting. We hope to have him join us on the 15th Apr.

Any other business

• To be added

Next meeting

• 01st Apr - Note this is a European bank holiday
• 15th Apr

Note: 31st Mar - Europe moves to daylight saving time.

Adjourn

• Motion to adjourn

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Previous Meeting Action Items

• Create a project for the Policy Manual and invite interested members to subscribe
• Add FCC climate mandates and SEC climate disclosure info to the policy manual
• Share draft blog post on US legislation endorsement by the end of the week
• Add cross-foundation sustainability roundtable to events calendar when date set
• Reach out to BCS to invite them to the next meeting for an MOU discussion
• Bring up partner review info at the next Standards Working Group meeting

Due to time constraints for submitted use-cases, this topic will be discussed at the next meeting.

• Start discussions with org leaders on internal GSF roundtable

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

@mrchrisadams @seanmcilroy29 @lisamcnally what was the outcome of this meeting?

[lisamcnally]

@mrchrisadams @seanmcilroy29 @lisamcnally what was the outcome of this meeting?

HI Namrata - Apologies for not being able to make the PWG meeting yesterday. Getting caught up on reviewing the recording now. What meeting is your question referring to here WRT to "outcome"?