Sustainability improvements

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Improvements across three key areas for Wagtail sites’ carbon footprints: measurements, awareness, tangible reductions. To see widespread improvements across Wagtail’s ecosystem, for example in how Wagtail sites score on digital carbon ratings:

Intended outcome

Exact improvements to be determined. Current plans:

• 🔍 Measure the carbon footprint of Wagtail
  1. Create a methodology to measure the carbon footprint of Wagtail websites
  2. Measure the carbon footprint of building Wagtail: Wagtail events
  3. Establish a methodology to collect data about how many Wagtail websites there are and their characteristics
• 📣 Spread the word
  1. Create a sustainability team for Wagtail
  2. Refine Wagtail’s current sustainability statement, and make it more visible
  3. Publish case studies on tackling sustainability-related requirements on Wagtail projects
• 📉 Reduce the carbon footprint of Wagtail
  1. Scale-to-zero CMS database
  2. Scale-to-zero CMS server
  3. Light YouTube embeds
  4. Reporting of performance scores in the CMS
  5. Starter templates focused on sustainability
  6. Support for static sites with 90+% of CMS features

More information

• RFC 90: Sustainability roadmap
• Sustainability considerations for Wagtail sites #38
• sustainability roadmap #64
• Introducing our grid-aware websites project
• GSoC 2024: Low-carbon project templates

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To deliver this roadmap item, we are looking for a feature sponsorship ❤️.