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#27 Ayahuasca, consensus, and standards to green software with Asim Hussain

Meeting Asim Hussain, the Green Software Foundation’s Director, is always an uplifting experience and this episode makes no exception. A patchwork episode where we talked about: 
When we finally have the chance to meet with Asim Hussain the Director of the GSF, the episode becomes a crazy mailbag one where we talked about: 

  • 🙌 How trust and consensus can work in an organization gathering small and agile NGO with Tech multinationals, 
  • 🔧 Which tools shall we pick to report about carbon and which ones to build more carbon-efficient software, 
  • 📈 How a simple yaml file could boost comparisons and operability of green software, 
  • 🌿 And yes … a bit about psychedelic medicine also 🙂

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