Départ de Sentier (abbreviated DdS) is a non-profit association which supports open sustainability assessment and public engagement. DdS organizes conferences and code, supports teaching, and rewards open software development.
Transparency
DdS believes strongly in compete transparency. We use Github to organize, report, and audit our activities. You can find more about DdS in the following repos: Finances, Legal statues.
Brightcon
DdS organizes and helps fund the Brightcon annual conference, which will be held in 2025 from October 13-17 in Grenoble, France Registration and abstract submission is open at the conference website.
Teaching Brightway
DdS supports Brightway classes with material and servers. Please contact us if you would like to collaborate or use our resources.
Software prizes
DdS sponsors prizes for software development. Prizes can be sponsored by individuals and companies; you can also suggest new prizes without funding by filing a new issue.
Supporting DdS
Please contact Chris Mutel (cmutel@d-d-s.ch) if you want to support DdS activities
Awesome Initiatives
There is so much happening in open science for sustainability - here are some curated lists of software and data:
DdS Management
As an association, Départ de Sentier is owned and governed by its members. The Board of Directors is responsible for implementing the members votes and overseeing daily operations. There are currently six people in the Board:
