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It's always fascinating to see how many negative emotions are triggered when you advocate openness in terms of climate change. It seems to me that you are also very concerned about this topic.

In fact, open source means free support, in the sense that independent and libre support can form around such a product. This may not be free of charge, if that is what is meant.

Please contact me here: tobias.augspurger@protontypes.eu

No, but I would like to start a startup / open source project in this area. I maintain the website OpenSustain.tech and through it I came in contact with various projects that are being created in this area. I think UK is a good location for a startup in this field. There are a lot of investors here and a lot of funding for sustainable projects.

Spatial Finance aka Geospatial ESG: Measuring the environmental impact of companies from space to assess how green a company is. Sustainable investors need this information to overcome the problem of greenwashing. Here is some more information on this topic:

[1] https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-01/Geospatia...

[2] https://www.cgfi.ac.uk/spatial-finance-initiative/

[3] https://www.oxfordeo.com/post/near-real-time-water-stress

This is the untruth. The German Green Party has never done this. The current Green government has clearly opposed it. The Green government in Austria also opposes it.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/taxonomieverordnung-bundes...

https://opensustain.tech/ lists several software projects to fight climate change.

A lot of work is being done to make reforestation as transparent and sustainable as possible. In itself, it is no problem to record a world coordinate when planting the tree and later see if this tree is still there. The involved organizations are already working with such and similar solutions to avoid misuse. If you want to be 100% sure, you need to do it yourself: buy land, plant trees.

It depends on how you implement the measure. In the future, we want to determine reforestation based on the carbon emissions of products. With the help of projects like https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre or https://www.electricitymap.org/map, this would be easy to do for energy consumption. In this way, digital services can be transparently and recurrently compensated for emissions in the long term.

Avoiding greenhouse gases from the outset is certainly the better alternative. However, it is unavoidable that we will continue to emit massive amounts of greenhouse gases for the next few years. Reforestation is the simplest and most cost-effective "carbon capture technology". At the same time, this restores lost habitat and thus averts another catastrophe: The loss of biodiversity.

Reforestation actually means the restoration of the natural forest. If this consists of one type of tree, it can look like a monoculture. Reforestation organizations usually try to re-establish a diverse forest, as this is sustainably resistant to parasites and other environmental influences.

I absolutely agree with you. I also think it is necessary to make renewable technologies as freely and openly available as possible worldwide so that they can be adapted quickly enough.

This is one of the best presentations I have seen in a long time.

The global scientific consensus shows that climate change is a real global problem. The many FLOSS projects on our list show that institutions around the world come to the same conclusion through a variety of open data sets and models. It is true that, as everywhere else, there are black sheep (i.e. Climategate). But these are the exception.

We think that the discussion should include everyone interested in this development, we need an improved way to create "open facts". To keep the scientific discussion and discoveries as open and transparent as possible, we propose to built an "open fact pipeline". As seen in the slides related to this list (slide 10, https://protontypes.eu/protontypes_open_sustainable_technolo...).

Proposed pipeline model: Open Models and Data -> Open Tools -> Open Execution and Server -> Open Results -> Open Discussion -> Open Science and Facts

This is the central statement of our organization. Thank you for pointing it out. I have now made our organization as the originator of this statement clear.

Find more related projects here: https://github.com/protontypes/awesome-sustainable-technolog...

You might find some interesting packages on the topic of sustainable mobility here: https://github.com/protontypes/awesome-sustainable-technolog...

We have developed a tool for projects like Debian to distribute donations over larger projects. By distributing the donations in the dependencies, Debian could even attract new developers in its own dependencies: https://github.com/protontypes/libreselery

A very good point. Solving the problem that you describe is one of the core challenges of LibreSelery. We combine multiple weights calculated based on different project data. Via the GitHub API we can even create weights based on projects activity like merging, code review, issue creation, etc...

By the accumulation of multiple weights, we try to avoid rewarding just one behavior. One of the most important metrics will be how much pull requests X have been solved based on the Y issues. We also have a minimum contribution limit that you can adjust for your project. Generally, all weights can be adjusted for each project. By making all payments transparent, everyone involved can see what the distribution looked like in the past. In principle, every company has metrics for the distribution of funds. Unfortunately, these are often very non-transparent. In contrast, we try to solve the whole thing by combining different transparent movement quantities.

You can find more information about this issue here:

https://github.com/protontypes/libreselery/issues/132 https://github.com/protontypes/libreselery/issues/159

More information here: https://www.apex.ai/autoware-course

Here some more information: https://discourse.ros.org/t/dhl-develops-ros-based-automated...

With roslibpy you can communicate with ROS stuff without being a ROS Node: https://github.com/gramaziokohler/roslibpy "Unlike the rospy library, this does not require a local ROS environment, allowing usage from platforms other than Linux."

Please also consider, that this is related mostly to ROS1.

I will add some tools that will help you work with ROS under Windows. This is definitely missing.

ROS has already a package index: https://index.ros.org/packages/

The list is more intendet to find the gems of modules, resources and tools for an professional robotic development.

The experience went into ROS2 that is much better designed for larger projects.