Project Updates - Year 2022

We have documented every significant step on our way towards the goal during 2022 down below.

December

the project has joined the Incubation Lab by the Adora Foundation to receive pro bono mentorship, expert advice, access to global impact networks, promotion and dissemination, match-making and other in-kind support

Sustainable UI has won The Most Innovative award at Carbon Hack 22
- this got announced during Decarbonize Software event by the Green Software Foundation
- thanks goes to the project mentor Ismael Velasco (Mexico) who has helped with shaping the final text pitch

registered for the first global hackathon regarding carbon aware software called Carbon Hack 22 by the Green Software Foundation
- the solution needed to leverage Carbon Aware API/SDK in order to participate successfully
- at this point, Sustainable UI was an idea to make client-based JavaScript-heavy applications based on React carbon aware
- specifically, I wanted to implement UI with "edit mode" that would allow users to switch components based on grid carbon intensity

learned about the Green Mode Design principles graceful degradation and user control from Ismael Velasco's blog page through ClimateAction.Tech community

theoretical idea coined for the first time
- at this point a very generic one without any specific actionable steps, knowing just that it has to be at intersection between web UIs and sustainability, hence the name Sustainable UI
- further action and involvement in the area inspired by the Principles of Green Software Engineering, Wholegrain Digital's Sustainable Web Manifesto and membership in ClimateAction.Tech community