Welcome to the SDAF community

[Raymond-du-Toit]

Welcome to the public community for the Sustainable Digital Architecture Framework (SDAF).

SDAF is an open, evidence-based framework for integrating sustainability into the design, evaluation, governance and assurance of digital systems. It provides a common architecture for turning environmental evidence into defensible architectural decisions across a five-phase lifecycle: Orient, Baseline, Evaluate, Architect and Assure.

SDAF Version 1.0 is now published and permanently available through Zenodo:

• Version 1.0: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22899663
• All published versions: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22899662

The Zenodo record is the authoritative source for the fixed v1.0 framework. This GitHub repository is the living public workspace for discussion, implementation guidance, pilots, templates, mappings, worked examples and proposals for future versions.

How to participate

Use Discussions for:

• introductions and general questions;
• implementation conversation;
• pilot planning and shared experience;
• standards and methodology interoperability;
• exploratory ideas; and
• collaboration opportunities.

Use structured GitHub Issues for:

• editorial or accessibility corrections;
• normative ambiguities or inconsistencies;
• focused implementation questions requiring a recorded disposition;
• standards-alignment proposals;
• pilot evidence;
• future-version proposals; and
• documented conformance concerns.

Before opening an issue, please read the contribution guidance:

https://github.com/Raymond-du-Toit/SDAF/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

A few important principles

SDAF is shared openly under CC BY 4.0 so that it can be used, tested, adapted and improved.

Repository activity does not silently amend the published v1.0 release. Material changes will be reviewed transparently, recorded in the change log and incorporated through an explicitly identified future release where appropriate.

Permission to reuse or adapt SDAF does not by itself establish conformity. Public conformance claims should identify their scope, the SDAF version used, applicable requirements, exclusions or conditions, and the documented basis for the claim.

Participation in this community does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, certification or official status for any participant or organization.

Introduce yourself

If you would like, reply in General and share:

• your field or role;
• which part of SDAF interests you;
• the decisions or sustainability challenges you work with;
• relevant standards or methodologies you use; and
• what would make SDAF useful in practice.

SDAF is intended to become useful through application, scrutiny and collaboration. Constructive questions, evidence and respectful disagreement are welcome.