Guest Article Requirements & Submission Guidelines

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

What: A set of instructions to assist contributing writers in preparing and submitting a use case, whitepaper, research paper, or an assessment/ analysis of a standard or tool.
Why: The Green Software Foundation invites software developers, designers, and sustainability leaders in ICT to share their insights on our website. We want to ensure the content shared is educational and informative and abides to data transparency.

WIP - Outline of Guidelines

ORDER OF OPERATIONS

• Draft Outline of Guidelines of what this document must contain
• Share Outline of Guidelines with Asim for feedback
• Share Outline of Guidelines with the team for their input
• Proceed with building out approved sections and categories
• Share first draft with team for their input and review
• Share second draft with Communications Committee for their feedback
• Share third draft with Asim for final approval
• Publish on the GSF website and Wiki

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

@jawache I initially built the outline on Notion but realized its very hard to workshop on Notion. For now, I'm sharing a Google Doc to make it easier for you to edit and share your feedback. My recommendation is to migrate it on Notion once its ready to share.

[russelltrow]

Hey @NAMRATA-WOKE how does this work align with the development of the Deliverables Playbooks? From the description it sounds like this is a supporting resource for some of the Deliverables

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

@russelltrow how are we thinking about Playbooks? We might be able to mimic part of the process. In terms of supporting resource, this entire initiative and protocol is meant to aid project teams, observers and others engaging in green software practices outside the GSF to share stories, use cases and perspectives on what's needed (and scalable), what's working, what's not working/needs a different approach, etc.

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

@russelltrow @bryaki02 @ash-ara @seanmcilroy29 @jmcook1186

We're in the process of drafting Guest Article Requirements & Submission Guidelines to offer clear instructions to assist practitioners in preparing and submitting articles. The expectations we set for those who seek to contribute articles to the GSF website need to reflect how we manage projects and engage with our members.

I'd love your input to help define the perimeters and scope of these guidelines.
Below are a few questions to support you in this process. If you can share your feedback by August 20th, that would be great. You can add your input directly into the working doc.

1. Are there specific aspects or angles related to our projects that contributors should always highlight/surface?

2. What are the must-have elements for each type of submission?
   Keep in mind these can differ from the deliverables the GSF produces.

3. Do you have views on how these submissions should be structured?

4. Can we ask for disclosure, transparency, openness across the board?

5. What criteria should be used to evaluate whether a contributed article is educational, as it relates to:

   • Green software patterns
   • Software measurement
   • Environmental sustainability of AI
   • Open source sustainable software development
   • Emissions reporting

   Any other themes/categories we want to explore?

6. Do we have examples or templates of high-quality articles to guide potential authors? What's something you read from another organization or media source that was well-written, educational and took the conversation forward?

7. How can we ensure feedback from project teams is incorporated into the guidelines?

Feel free to share your input beyond this list of questions!

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

@russelltrow @bryaki02 @ash-ara @seanmcilroy29 @jmcook1186 any feedback? Your perspective is important. I'd love to have your questions/ideas noted for when Asim is back. Thanks!

[seanmcilroy29]

@NAMRATA-WOKE - LGTM

[russelltrow]

Nothing to add at this time

[bryaki02]

Looks great to me, nothing to add at this time!