The broad remit of this project is to run the 'do you bIT' campaign at Oxford, and provide support for other organisations to run similar initiatives. The campaign will see to encourage as many people as possible to take IT-related energy efficiency seriously e.g. switch desktop computer to low-power states, safely and reliably when they are not in use.
Main objectives:
- Try to persuade Janet(UK) to host a monitoring and wake on LAN service for Liverpool University to evaluate whether it can be offered more broadly.
- Explore the use of agent-based modelling in persuading people that 'doing their bit' matters
- Promote the 5 steps to reducing IT-related energy efficiency across the University of Oxford
June
- Daniel, Kang and Howard to agree design of monitoring service and agree completion date
- Kate to submit bIT campaign plan
- Kang, Howard and Lisa to discuss WOL at Liverpool
- Kang, Howard and Henry to discuss WOL at Janet(UK)
- Kang, Howard and Adrian to present at ITSS conference
- Robert to set up OUCS gateway using mini-ITX hardware
July
- Kang, Howard, Adrian and Robert to finish all tasks relating to distribution of WOL code (see suggestions from Dominic and Oxcert)
- Kang to sort out issues with central WOL and large volumes of stack traces e.g. performance issues when gateway servers not found
- Howard to re-design project website to encompass ideas from bIT campaign plan
- Howard to write up case studies for different commercial tools e.g. description of how they work in a specific setting and anything vendors want to say about costs.
- Howard to create a toolbox of tools that can be used for power management e.g. decide criteria for shortlist
August
September
October
November
December
Ideas
- Oxford-only poll
Howard to set up bIT 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