This wiki page is provided to help members of the low-carbon ICT benefits realisation project collaborate.

This page is being used to provide an up-to-date view of what is happening, planned and has been completed.

The project is scheduled to run between June-Dec 2009.

TableOfContents([2])

Work tasks

System administration - Robert

As we roll out the monitoring and WOL service we will need to support ITSS.

• Help with installing gateway software
• Record time using google spreadsheets
• Updating installation guides and FAQs
• Answering emails sent to greenit@oucs...
• Set up OUCS gateway using mini-ITX
• Make sure all code and VM appliances are openly available (except possibly the Windows appliance)
• See David F about updating distribution of software to make patching easier
• Update certificates on existing gateways and hand over ownership e.g. physics, OeRC, OUCE etc
• Experiment with these devices to serve as gateways:

  • http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp

  • http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit-us.aspx

• FAQ page: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/greenit/faq.xml

  • How can I access my computer remotely?
    • ask your ITSS if this is allowed

    • many tools you can use e.g. https://www.gotomypc.com/en_US/entry.tmpl?Action=rgoto&_sf=2

Run bIT campaign - Howard

To do list

1. (HN) (6th July) Update paper to PRAC with new costing model for Jenifer W
2. (HN) (7th July) Record interview about project for JISC Innovation conference
3. (All) (15th July) Decide on logo image and tag-line for the campaign
4. (All) (15th July) Decide on logo image and tag-line for the gateway, central services and website
5. (Contract web developer) (1st Sep. latest) Create web doing our bIT 'badge'
6. (HN, AP, KT, RZ) (15th July) ITSS conference
7. (HN) 15th July) Update website with all ideas below
8. (HN)(1st Sep) Give management message to JISC to disseminate
9. (HN)(1st Sep) Educause article
10. (HN) (1st Oct) Use P. James audit spreadsheet to record the total number of each device types owned by OUCS e.g. switches, servers, telephones etc

Brainstorm

• Viral email: what do to if you are a user, manager, it professional
• Posters to put on walls (please print me on green paper)
• Presentations for other eco-IT people to use (re-usable object)
• New name for gateway, central monitoring and central WOL software
• Contact JISC Comm to get message out to senior members of HE and FE community
• Name for software and service e.g.
  • WOL server = name sysdev would know they have to download
  • monitoring server = name sysdev would know they have to download
  • gateways = name both ITSS and users would learn e.g. install or "where is our...grrrbIT"
  • web pages = what's the web address for our grrbIT?
• This is a quick win in a portfolio of projects e.g. efficiency, monitoring and reporting, and replacement activities (flights, paper use)

Website

• Logo image: stream of images that relate to climate change, submitted to a pool and displayed large, medium and small
• Build tool box including commercial solutions
• Google analytics
• Have a re-direct URL to disseminate more easily (or use tinyurl)
• Make the image icon and tagline a badge. Adapt an imagine from another environmental campaign e.g. an endangered animal such as a frog, or a frog sitting on a keyboard, or a green computer mouse, or a mouse that is being painted green. The badge says we're doing our bIT, are you? - click takes people to a set of messages.
• RSS feed from twitter or delicious - ask janet to help
• Get endorsements from academics at Oxford
• Get campaign endorsed by climate savers or WWF etc
• Conditions of having badge on your website are: publish case study, have monitoring service, continuously strive to improve performance
• Get list of other University greenIT initiatives

  • http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/organization/sustainableit/

  • http://speaking.stanford.edu/Back_Issues/SOC76/highlights/Power_Management_via_Big_Fix.html

  • http://sustainablechoices.stanford.edu/actions/in_the_home/computersleepmode.html

  • http://sustainablechoices.stanford.edu/actions/in_the_home/computersleepmode.html

• Join or create an email forum
• Write summary of machine room report

Implementing monitoring and WOL services at Liverpool - Kang

To do list:

• (Kang and Howard) (10th July) Write technical design document (e.g. VM environment, Shibboleth for authentication and authorisation)

• Discuss design document with Liverpool, UKERNA, PowerMan, 1e, verdiem and IBM

• Agree hosting of monitoring service with OUCS e.g. sysdev or NSMS
• (1st Sep 2009) Build central WOL service
• Hand over service to national service provider e.g. Janet(UK)

Monitoring service - Daniel

• Enhancements to the manage interface
• Configure manage interface at OeRC, OUCS and OUCE
• New graph that shows % of total nodes found throughout the day and night
• Get support from colleges and departments
• Get agreement from OUCS to host the service
• Change permissions structure so the graph can be public
• Sort out distribution of all code and documentation as per suggestions from Dominic and David F

Computer modelling guide - Ken

The aim of this tasks is to use the modelling4all website to create library of micro-behaviours and a guide relating to IT and the environment. The purpose of the guide is to help people better understand the the impact IT has on the environment by constructing computer models.

• Define scope
• Create library of micro-behaviours
• Design on-line guide for both online-only and f2f teaching/learning
• Offer f2f course

Ideas

• Set up bIT campaign prediction market: http://markets.nitle.org/

• Write up groupware case study with Mark N
• Make switch computer on button available to mobile phones
• Make an e-learning thing that explains how people can calculate energy costs e.g. list some common faux pas and show how people can work things out for themselves
• Write up procurement advice with Maria C
• Copy security review process for green IT e.g. survey that asks for self assessment on key issues
• Strategy paper for OUCS e.g. 10 things OUCS should do next in relation to green IT: set up carbon accounting (paper, travel, electricity, gas, data centre, offices), offer workshops?, report publicly in real time, computer modelling,
• Compete with OUCE with monitoring service
• Contact JISC about getting a message to VCs
• Could do a security-like review of energy efficiency IT e.g. a checklist
• Good tool for understanding personal contribution to global effort on climate change
• National service:
  • hosted by UKERNA or IBM
  • hosted by Oxford with an annual subscription based on number of gateways, any profit for which goes into the sustainability fund

  • hosted by PowerMan, 1e or Verdiem