2025-07-24 - Green Software Principles & Patterns agenda

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Date

2025-07-24 - 09:30 BST - See the time in your timezone https://everytimezone.com/

Roll Call

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Agenda

• Convene & Roll Call
• Review the agenda and suggest new agenda points
• Notes from the previous meeting
• Green Software Patterns
• AOB, Q&A & Adjourn

Green Software Patterns

• 61 patterns live (v1.2.1)

• Patterns 2.0
  • Card Sort
  • Patterns creation strategy
    • Recategorisation of existing patterns
    • Creation vs Curation and avoiding duplication
    • Human vs AI
      • Tagging
      • Guidelines / Prompts per personas to
      • Figure out the connection to the SCI equation - Create a prompt - Speak with GAIC
  • Personas
    • AI Engineer
      • Engaging with the Green AI Committee
      • Integrate Energy Efficient Machine Learning patterns from academia into AI section #127
    • DevOps / SRE
      • Green DevOps: Sustainable CI/CD #225
    • Enterprise Architect
      • Sustainable Enterprise Architecture principles and patterns #353
    • Product Manager
      • https://climateproductleaders.org/playbook/
    • Solution Architect
      • Green Software Architecture Patterns #254
    • UX Designer
      • https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/
    • End-user
      • AI Prompt Engineering

Any Other Business

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Meeting Minutes

Summary

The meeting focused on advancing the Patterns & Principles project through launching a card sort exercise and establishing a strategy for patterns catalog v2.0. Key topics included finalizing new personas, recategorizing existing patterns, integrating AI for pattern creation, and exploring collaboration with the Green AI Committee. The team confirmed readiness to launch the card sort and established a clear path forward for pattern recategorization and creation.

Key Discussions

Card Sort Launch Readiness

• Paula has completed the final card sort with link ready for distribution to the community
• Card sort will provide guidance on new catalog architecture and validate proposed structure
• Ready to launch tomorrow via mailing list to gather community feedback

New Personas for Patterns Catalog v2.0

• Confirmed primary personas: UI/UX, DevOps, AI, Product, and Enterprise Architecture
• Personas selected based on existing content availability and clear pathways for gathering new patterns
• Decision to prioritize UI/UX as starting point since web patterns already exist in current catalog

Pattern Recategorization Strategy

• Plan to reallocate all existing patterns into new persona-based buckets in shared spreadsheet
• Strategy to do initial allocation first, then gather subject matter expert feedback rather than seeking consensus upfront
• Need to update current SME list as some contributors no longer engaged with foundation

AI Integration for Pattern Creation

• Agreement to use AI to accelerate pattern creation while maintaining human oversight and transparency
• All AI-generated or AI-assisted patterns must be clearly labeled as such
• Discussion of AI potential for connecting patterns to SCI standards and creating useful prompts for each persona

External Collaboration and Curation Strategy

• W3C memorandum of understanding finalizing, enabling strategic partnership for web sustainability patterns
• Strategy to reference and group external patterns rather than duplicate existing high-quality resources
• Plan to create master patterns that group related external resources and link back to relevant SCI standards

Key Decisions

• Confirmed five primary personas for patterns catalog v2.0: UI/UX, DevOps, AI, Product, and Enterprise Architecture
• Agreed to launch card sort to community mailing list tomorrow to validate new structure
• Decided to recategorize existing patterns using reductionist approach with specific persona allocation to avoid duplication
• Established requirement for all AI-assisted pattern creation to be clearly labeled for transparency
• Chose curation strategy over duplication for external resources like W3C web sustainability guidelines
• Approved exploration of collaboration with Green AI Committee for AI-specific patterns and prompt engineering

Next Meeting

• Detailed discussion of specific personas and their requirements (pending Francesca's return from vacation)
• Review and validation of initial pattern allocation with subject matter experts
• Green AI Committee collaboration planning and potential joint meeting participation
• Decision on next week's meeting dependent on Francesca's availability

Action Items

Task	Person Responsible	Due Date
Send card sort to mailing list	Russ	July 26, 2024
Add all existing patterns to shared spreadsheet for categorization	Russ	Before next meeting
Begin first pass allocation of existing patterns to new personas	Team	Before next meeting
Identify and update subject matter experts for each persona area	Team	Ongoing
Check internally regarding participation in Green AI Committee meeting (August 4, 3 PM UK)	Liya	August 2, 2024
Coordinate with Green AI Committee on patterns catalog collaboration	Russ	Before August 4, 2024
Confirm next week's meeting based on Francesca's availability	Russ	This week