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# Climate impact
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> Most human endeavours should maintain and publish an environmental cost/benefit report.
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"Cost" means some environmental impact such as resources used (energy, water, land..)
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or undesirable waste generated (carbon dioxide, toxins, heat, noise, harm..)
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<!-- --<https://ecoaccounting.org> -->
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<div class=pagetoc>
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</div>
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Here is the beginnings of one for the hledger project, with a catchier name.
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## Development
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Costs related to developing hledger come from:
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- developer machine activity
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- recompiling, linking, building docs, browsing, running IDEs etc.
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- test machine activity
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- CI workers recompiling on push, on PR updates etc.
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- source code hosting
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- VCS operations, file and artifact hosting, rich web UIs, issue tracking, forks, notifications (github etc.)
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- public websites and services
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- hledger.org doc hosting, updating
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- demo.hledger.org hosting
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- discussions (matrix, irc, reddit, hacker news..)
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- media (youtube..)
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- project analysis (libhunt..)
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Benefits:
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- providing effective accounting tools to people and organisations who would be less effective/less empowered by other tools, potentially unlocking further eco accounting activity and successes
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- potentially help advance best practices and community know-how by sharing useful techniques, tools, processes, architecture, patterns
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## Delivery
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Costs related to packaging and shipping hledger to end-users. Related to development, but broken out separately here. This includes:
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- Github artifact building / additional testing beyond standard dev tests
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- Hackage hosting/maintenance
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- Stackage hosting/maintenance
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- Hosting/maintenance in all the other packaging systems and distributions on the Install page
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- Download/install/cloning/build work done by user machines
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Benefits:
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- Roughly speaking, more work done on packaging and delivery means more users able to try out and benefit from the software, magnifying the Development benefits above
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## Your hledger usage
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Costs from your individual/organisational usage of hledger, other than Delivery costs above, may include:
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- Machine usage every time you run hledger
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- Hardware upgrade/purchase pressure to satisfy memory/disk space requirements
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- Personal and online machine usage and human time while learning, discussing, configuring and maintaining hledger and PTA
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Benefits:
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- Hopefully, more effective accounting and eco accounting, reducing waste and increasing personal/organisational solvency, success, empowerment and positive impact
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## Stats
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Some useful statistics to guestimate:
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- Yearly cost
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- Yearly cost trend
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- Cumulative cost
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- Predicted lifetime cost
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- Comparison with alternate solutions
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