Work tasks
Run bIT campaign
The 'do your bIT' campaign is aimed at three groups of users in Further and Higher education organisations:
- Academic staff and students: the users, we want them to do two things (a) switch their desktop and laptop computers safely and reliably to a low-power state. If they are told they should not do this then they should ask why
IT support staff (ITSS): the enablers, we want this group of people to go through the 5 steps: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/greenit/desktop.xml
- Senior decision-makers: the decision-makers, we want this group of people to ask IT groups to report on IT related energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, and to put in place tools and practices that reduce across the whole life-cycle.
The campaign will develop:
- Advice for academic staff and students
- A toolbox of implementation options for ITSS
- Advice for senior decision makers
The campaign will be run at Oxford and Liverpool, and all resources will be made available for other organisations to use. We will help other organisations run their campaigns where possible. * Develop model library and guide
- Get more sites using the service, especially colleges
- ITSS conference
- Tool box including commercial solutions
- Do your bIT logo
- 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
Build monitoring and WOL service at Liverpool
- Write technical design document (e.g. VM environment, Shibboleth for authentication and authorisation)
- Build central WOL service
- Install and maintain central WOL, monitoring and gateway software
Enhancements to monitoring service
- 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
To-do list (Oxford)
This section outlines all the tasks that each member of the project is working on. This will help individuals know what they need to be working on, and help others in the team know what is happening generally. Please keep your to-do list: (a) up-to-date (b) detailed (c) specific e.g. include planned completion dates
Daniel
(Middle of July) Monitoring service design document (developed with stakeholders from across collegiate University). This will be used to update the monitoring service web page: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/greenit/wol.xml.ID=monitoring
- (1st October) Publish energy monitoring software e.g. make code publicly available with documentation
- (Before end of project) Publish paper in an environmental sciences journalon the project
- (1st October) Short paper with research questions/funding ideas for more work on monitoring in general
- (Throughout project) Provide advice relating to bIT campaign
Howard
- (Throughout project) Run the bIT campaign
- (finished by September) Develop the computer model library and guide with Ken
- Find organisation to offer national monitoring and WOL service
- Agree hosting of monitoring service with OUCS
Kang
- Develop monitoring service e.g. according to the design document
- WOL at Liverpool design document that uses Shibboleth
- Work with Liverpool to set up WOL service
- Work with Robert to improve distribution of code and the documentation
- (Throughout project) Provide advice relating to bIT campaign
Ken
- Develop the computer model library and guide
- Offer class to collegiate University that steps through the guide and helps people learn about the do your bIT campaign
- (Throughout project) Provide advice relating to bIT campaign
Robert
- Install gateway software around the University
- Be main person answering queries on greenit RT queue
- Keep improving the documentation about installation of gateway software
- Set up and hand over OUCS WOL gateway to NSMS (agree date of handover with Zahra and Adrian who will agree with Bruce)
- Update FAQ web page
- Work with Kang to improve distribution of software
- (Throughout project) Provide advice relating to bIT campaign
Staff at Liverpool
John and Pete
- Develop UI, authentication and authorisation side of WOL service
- Install and manage WOL gateway software
Lisa
- Manage development work at Liverpool
- (Throughout project) Provide advice relating to bIT campaign
Ideas
Set up bIT campaign prediction market: http://markets.nitle.org/
- Write up groupware case study with Mark N
- 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