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2024 02 05 #66

Closed mrchrisadams closed 5 months ago

mrchrisadams commented 5 months ago

2024 02 05

Time 0830 PST / 1630 BST - See the time in your timezone https://everytimezone.com/s/a8399b00

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Agenda

Breaking the Policy WG roadmap down

Partner Review - Decarbonising the Use-Phase of Connected Devices

AI Environmental Impact Act of 2024 Review - Chris

Round Table Proposal - Sean

Discussions with fellow foundations to understand their primary focused areas.

Any other business

Next meeting

Adjourn

Previous Meeting Action Items

mrchrisadams commented 5 months ago

Attended

mcrubellati commented 5 months ago

attended

seanmcilroy29 commented 5 months ago

Attended

lisamcnally commented 5 months ago

Attended

seanmcilroy29 commented 5 months ago

Meeting opened by Lisa @ 1630 GMT

MoM

AI policy and environmental impact. Lisa McNally facilitates a policy working group meeting, discussing updates to the Antitrust Policy and the environmental impacts of AI.

Participants review and approve previous meeting minutes with no objections.

Lisa McNally and Namrata discuss the policy working group's roadmap, with Lisa highlighting the group's three major initiatives and Narada adding colorful details.

The group plans to inform their membership and communicate with other working groups to identify potential synergies and collaborations. Lisa mentions a policy Working Group roadmap to organise activities and communicate with members. Chris proposes a subtask group to gather feedback on AI environmental legislation with a partner review period today.

Carbon footprint specs and standards. Chris reviews a 57-page spec document, which he will share with the group. He plans to discuss the feedback via a synchronous video call with the group. Chris mentions a partner opportunity for the specification draft, with partner calls coming up in the next few weeks. Lisa suggests reaching out to standards groups for potential overlap with the green rating, and Chris agrees to circulate feedback and book time for a discussion.

AI environmental impact and policy. Lisa seeks clarity on AI environmental submission. Lisa suggests documenting the SC's approval process for policy-related issues. Chris shares his recollection of the drafts shared with the group, with only one response from a member. Chris explains the process of recommending to the SC, including the approach used in other working groups.

Documenting the decision-making process for a project. Lisa and Namrata discuss the decision made during a previous meeting regarding a task, with Lisa expressing the need to document the decision before sending an email to Ollie. The two agreed to wait until Monday's discussion with Radha before emailing Ollie to ensure they have covered all necessary steps and best practices.

Documenting SC decisions and sending emails to Ollie. The SC members generally are not responding to emails, making it difficult to get approvals and move forward with decisions. Having an R&A allows SC members to have the opportunity to object/agree on new legislation within a set timeline to avoid delays. Lisa suggests documenting SC approvals on GitHub for transparency and accountability. Sean agrees and proposes bringing it up at the next SC meeting. Lisa seeks approval to email Ollie regarding the SC endorsement for the legislation.

Collaboration among groups working on sustainable energy solutions. Sean seeks to bring together four groups working on sustainability efforts at LF Energy to collaborate and avoid duplication of effort. Lisa suggests a SC to oversee the various organisations' initiatives, with co-ownership from a representative from each organisation. Sean agrees, noting that leveraging resources and citing each other's work in papers can be beneficial. Sean and Lisa discuss the Linux Foundation's five foundations, including FinOps and Fin OS, and how they are aligned with each other and the SCI standard. Sean mentions that Fin Ops is not aligned with their goals, but Fin OS is, and they plan to discuss it with the Fin Ops foundation.

Policy manual Lisa suggests creating a policy manual and seeking input from the policy working group. The group discusses the process for creating the manual and decides to table the decision until the next meeting.

Meeting closed 17:30

mrchrisadams commented 5 months ago

I've created the discussion in the standards wg for feedback. I have a call booked on Feb 23rd to talk with the Carbon Trust about the end user use phase emissions decarbonisation spec.

see below for my notification of the standards wg

https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/standards-wg/discussions/101

lisamcnally commented 5 months ago

Thanks so much, Chris!-LisaOn Feb 9, 2024, at 12:07 AM, Chris Adams @.***> wrote: I've created the discussion in the standards wg for feedback. I have a call booked on Feb 23rd to talk with the Carbon Trust about the end user use phase emissions decarbonisation spec. see below for my notification of the standards wg Green-Software-Foundation/standards-wg#101

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