The New Course Brings Environmental Consciousness
to Software Development
Yokohama, Japan (March 18, 2024) — Linux Foundation Training and Certification has announced the launch of a new, free online course グリーンソフトウェア 実践 (LFC131-JP) in Japanese, which enables software practitioners to learn the fundamentals of building, maintaining, and running green applications.
The need to address climate change is urgent and every industry today should be feeling a growing social responsibility to address energy conservation. Software development is no exception and the interest in green software is increasing. But in order for software developers to build, maintain and run greener applications, they need additional knowledge that is usually not taught in traditional software curriculums. Furthermore, the lack of shared language and standardized terms complicates the process. This has made collective progress in developing green software slow and cumbersome.
In addition, as organizations look to hire green software talent, they need a method of ensuring that development teams have a solid grasp of green software principles. We also need a way to evaluate their knowledge to ensure they meet a minimum and consistent level of understanding environmentally friendly principles on which to design and develop software applications.
To this end, Linux Foundation Training and Certification, in the partnership with the Green Software Foundation, created a new online course, Green Software for Practitioners (LFC131) / グリーンソフトウェア 実践 (LFC131-JP), to assist software practitioners and their leadership in understanding the principles of green software. This course is suitable for any software practitioner regardless of their skill level and background and provides a basic understanding of how to build, maintain, and run greener applications. The vendor-neutral curriculum contains content that will help evolve software development culture in a greener direction.
The two-hour, online, self-paced course is free and open to everyone. Those who successfully complete the course earn a digital badge that can be added to their resume and social media profiles.
グリーンソフトウェア 実践 was translated by NTT DATA Group Corporation. The company is an early member of the Green Software Foundation, joining as a steering member in 2021, the year the organization was founded.
Toru Shimogaki, Head of Green Innovation Office, NTT DATA Group Corporation said, “The key to achieving a greener software industry lies in enhancing the fundamental green knowledge of all stakeholders in the IT sector. I firmly believe that this Japanese-translated course will serve as a catalyst for this transformation, particularly in Japan. NTT DATA remains committed to collaborating closely with the Green Software Foundation to drive IT industry decarbonization forward.”
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About the Green Software Foundation
The Green Software Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization under the Linux Foundation. It aims to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software. Members of the GSF represent a balanced mix of for-profits, nonprofits, and academia from around the globe and include several Fortune Global 500 firms. The Foundation operates by consensus. Four Working Groups — Standards, Policy, Opensource, and Community — currently oversee the Foundation’s ongoing projects.
