2022.11.10

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2022.11.10 Agenda/Minutes

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Time 1600 (GMT) - See the time in your timezone

• Co-Chair – Abhishek Gupta (BCG)
• Co-Chair - Henry Richards (WattTime)
• Convener – Sean Mcilroy (Linux Foundation)

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Recordings

WG agreed to record all Meetings. This meeting recording will be available until the next scheduled meeting

Roll Call

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Agenda

• [x] Convene & Roll Call
• [x] Approve agenda

  Sean reviews the agenda - Tammy motions to approve - no objections - Agenda agreed

• [x] Approve previous Meeting Minutes

  Tammy motions to approve - no objections - Mintues agreed

Case Study Demo

• [x] Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity#22

  Tammy to lead

Collaborative use case with Dow and Microsoft performed by Tammy McClellan and Srinivasan Rakhunathan from Microsoft. Eric Friedeberg, Brandon Smith, and Samantha Beauchamp from Dow.

Solution chosen: is a current solution in development and is the measurement of carbon in both Neo4J and TigerGraph graph databases. Information was collected via load tests by calling an API deployed in an app service.

• [x] see https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/sci-data/issues/31

Case Study Update Review

• [x] Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity#18

  Navveen informs the WG that Accenture intends to conduct a demo at the next meeting

• [x] Green-Software-Foundation/dictionary#5

  Notes added to issue

• [x] Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity#20 Pindy provides an update on the UBS use case submission

• [x] Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity#21

  No updates

• [x] Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity#23

  No updates

  Discussions [Deferred]

• [ ] 1. https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity/discussions/334

• Discussion regarding Carbon Data Interchange to determine if there's scope for a project, prior to submitting a PRFAQ

• [ ] 2. https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity/discussions/326

• Could this be something that is explored as a project under the aegis of the SWG?

• [ ] 3. https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity/discussions/330

• roadmap for discussion post 1.0

• [ ] 4. https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity/discussions/328

Next SCI Version [Deferred]

• [ ] Outline of what should be included in the next version

WG Projects

SCI open data - Navveen/Srini

Continue discussion from last week

• [x] Outline of scope for project and the Guidance pages

SCI Guidance page

• SCI Guidance submissions for the standard, explain the standard and answer recurring questions.
  • [x] SCI Guidance.md page
  • [x] Issues - All submitted FAQ's from the SCI repo have been moved across

Onboarding Guide

• [x] https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/standards-wg/pull/25/files

Note: All webpage submissions must be against this branch `webpage_dev_for_submissions`
An onboarding guide for folks joining the Standards WG, what they should know/read/understand about the process and the spec.

Henry reviews the onboarding PR and agrees to apply updates in preparation for the next meeting.

AI: WG members to review submitted PR

Standards WG Webpage

• [x] Outline of content to be added

Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)

Nothing to report

PRs

Nothing to review

Decarbonize Software event

• [x] Event details

  Sean reminds the members of the upcoming Decarbonize software event

AOB, Q&A

• [x] Member request to move the meeting to an earlier time Nothing added

Next Meeting

• [x] 17 Nov

  Agreed

Adjourn

Tammy motions to adjourn - no objections - meeting adjourned

Meeting Action Items

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[SaraEmilyBergman]

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[seanmcilroy29]

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[Henry-WattTime]

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[navveenb]

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[PindyBhullar]

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[llhardy1A]

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