About GreeNTUG

GreeNTUG is the virtual user group to share all things Green and Sustainable around software and technology

Mission: To reduce the energy and resource footprint of technology.

What it is: Virtual and Semi-Virtual User group to tap into the power of the .Net Developer Community to power global Green and Sustainability efforts.

Everyone Has a Role:

Architects: Architecting out cross-application and cross-enterprise inefficiencies

Developers: Reducing resources required by aps; green and sustainability metrics/patterns & practies

IT Pros: Virtualization; server consolidation

SQL Pros/DBA's: Best practices

Entrepreneurs: Perhaps the best time to start and run a technology company since the start of the Internet

Everyone: Home energy and green/sustainability aps

How it was started

Started in 2008 after the TechEd Online Sustainability Panel.

When we meet

Monthly or topical meetings once per month via LiveMeeting

Be It, Build It, Live It:

Be It, incorporating Green and Sustainability principles and metrics into how you run your solutions and technology;

Build It, Entrepreneurial Activities around the Green/Sustainability space,

Live It, changes you can make as a consumer to reduce your energy and resource footprint with respect to how you use software and technology.

Join: http://greentug.groups.live.com

Discussion: http://Facebook.com, GreeNTUG

Longer Version of the Mission Statement: To enlist the power of the Software (.Net) and Technology Community to reduce the energy and resource footprint of the software and technology they use and develop and that their clients and users use; to support using software and technology to improve Green efforts on all fronts; and to share tips for users about how to reduce the personal footprint of the software and technology hardware they use.

Welcome to GreeNTUG/SustaiNTUG, Your Green and Sustainability .Net/Technology User Group

Green and Sustainability for Developers, Architects, SQL Pros, DBA's, IT Pros