Higher Education Engagement is a project to meet educators and learners where they are to become and educate Green Software practitioners by supporting them with content and engagement that is a holistic engagement with the Green Software Foundation.

This project is run through the Community Working Group in the Green Software Foundation.

The primary audience for this project is the education audience of educators and learners. We will be using a needs assessment approach to make sure we are building an offering of various services (e.g., curriculum, expertise mentors, research support) that are desired by higher learning institutions. There are a variety of ways that higher education learning institutions get access to sustainability content, but we will provide a cafeteria plan of offerings that focus on Green Software (and not “Big S” sustainability).

Currently it is difficult to find authoritative information on Green Software, not to be confused with larger sustainability topics which can focus more around building data centers, using natural energy solutions, etc. Also, the needs of learners and educators is very different than perhaps passionate sustainability enthusiasts or certain industries. Also, there is great demand for providing scalable content for Green Software to educational institutions who has a variety of ways of interacting with content.

With this project, we will be able to provide a holistic offering that is based on the needs of education institutions. It will also be focused on Green Software practitioners to guide them from awareness to education to practical application.

This is a draft document only and has not been approved or adopted by the Green Software Foundation. this draft may not be relied upon for any purpose other than review of the current state of development.

This project entered the Green Software Foundation as a Draft on 8 May 2024 [proposal].

🚀 If you are an employee of an existing GSF member organization please use this page to Register as a volunteer with the Green Software Foundation, and Subscribe to stay informed about the project. Once subscribed you will receive email updates from the mailing list ([email protected]).

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The project is led by:

• Thomas Lewis
• Tammy McClellan

This project is copyrighted under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

No Patent License.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENCE file for details.

This project is open source and welcomes public contribution via issues, discussions and pull requests.

Instructions for how to contribute to this project can be found in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.