Name: OpenUK London #29: Greener Software [In-London + Online]
Start: 2025-11-10T18:30:00Z
End: 2025-11-10T20:45:00Z

This month we will talk about the open source tools, frameworks and more that are helping us reduce our carbon footprints!

6:30 pm: IRL start arriving at Avanade for pizza, networking and swag swap. Online, feel free to login early and chat on Teams
6:50 pm: Welcome, codes of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: [Peter Gallagher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjgcreations/), Microsoft MVP, talking about his open source project [Notts IoT adapting a Raspberry Pi as a pollinator detector](https://events.raspberrypi.com/community/82736ca5-fb8c-428f-bfe2-7dbf03aa3c6d)
7:25 pm: Break
7:40pm: [Hannah Clutton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-clutton/), of Accenture Sustainability, and [Ruby Dickinson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruby-dickinson/), of Manuka AI, talking about an [intelligent garden](https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/avanade-intelligent-garden-at-the-chelsea-flower-show/) with embedded tree sensors at the Chelsea Flower Show.
During break times, [Sarah Hsu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/greenhsu123/) will be signing copies of [Building Greener Software](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-green-software/9781098150617/), by Sarah, Anne Currie and Sara Bergman. 10 copies will be provided courtesy of O'Reilly, so come early or bring your own!
8:45 pm: Wrap up

This will be [Fergus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fergus-kidd-1a222667/) and [Jen](https://linkedin.com/in/jkriggins)'s last meetup.

Join the [OpenUK Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/openuk/shared_invite/zt-2dj3znbqc-CAQoYM4mklMzwIBvHAG2uw) to continue the conversation about open software, hardware and data and to support each other.

ICYMI: During our September meetup, [Tia Nguyen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thuyet-ng-03/) shared a great green software project that we wanted to promote again here: a [VS Code extension that shows live electricity grid's carbon intensity](https://github.com/liti-dev/vscarbon) and encourages low-carbon coding

**Please only sign up for in person if you can attend in person, so we don't waste food etc. But feel free to save the date by signing up online now**
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.

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