2023.01.12

[seanmcilroy29]

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2023.01.12 Agenda/Minutes

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• 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

• Convene & Roll Call

Sean reviewed the agenda - Sarah motioned to approve - no objections agenda agreed

• Approve agenda

Sean agreed the previous meeting minutes - Gadhu motioned to approve - No objections minutes approved

• Approve previous Meeting Minutes

Introduction from new members

No new members

Discussions

• 1. Revisiting the Definition of the SCI and the use of marginal over average emission factors sci#337

Comments added to discussion

• 2. Intensity should be measured at a specified and recorded time and place sci#330

Comments added to discussion

• 3. Energy use measured by Utilization or by Provisioned Capacity sci#328

Comments added to discussion

• 4. Terminology: "Carbon emission" or "greenhouse gas (GHG) emission"? sci#339

Comments added to discussion

• 5. Define Letter (A to G) Based Energy Ratings for a Given Software Application sci#340

Comments added to discussion

Case Study Update Review

• Reference material sci#20

Comments added to Issue

• Use Case: Measuring the total carbon emissions for Windows sci#21

Comments added to Issue

• Goals/criteria for a case study to validate the SCI standard sci#23

Comments added to Issue

• [Microsoft] GreenAI sci-guide#33

Comments added to Issue

Completed Case studies - Submitted questions to reivew?

• [Microsoft] Ecommerce web application using eShoponWeb sci-guide#32
• [Dow/MSFT] Graph DB Use Case sci-guide#31
• Standardize Units For SCI sci#36
• Operational Emissions - edit to re-architecting software sentence sci#18

WG Projects

SCI open data - Navveen/Srini

• Navveen provides an update on the progress of the SCI open data project

AI: Sean to move over CS's to SCI Guidelines

Project proposals

• Carbon Data Interchange sci#334

Comments added to Issue

PRs

Nothing to review

AOB, Q&A

• Add standing Agenda Item - First meeting of each month - Member Introductions
• Add standing Agenda Item - First meeting of each month - 5 - 10 min round up of what is happening across the other WG
• Create article template for Use Case submitters to use. Articles will we published and circulated across the GSF networks

AI: Sean to action all submissions

Next Meeting

• 19 Jan

Agreed

Adjourn

• Motion to adjourn

Gadhu motions to adjourn - no objections - meeting closed

No objections - meeting adjourned

Meeting Action Items

• move over CS's to SCI Guidelines
• Standing Agenda Item - First meeting of each month - Member Introductions
• Standing Agenda Item - First meeting of each month - 5 - 10 min round up of what is happening across the other WG
• Create article template for Use Case submitters to use. Articles will we published and circulated across the GSF networks

[SaraEmilyBergman]

Attended

[llhardy1A]

attended

[ciril-emaps]

Attended

[Henry-WattTime]

Attended

[GadhuNTTDATA]

Attended

[seanmcilroy29]

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[kapokasa]

attended

[srini1978]

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[ikolaxis]

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[PindyBhullar]

attended

[benlogan]

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[seanmcilroy29]

Action Items

• Standing Agenda Item - First meeting of each month - Member Introductions
• Standing Agenda Item - First meeting of each month - 5 - 10 min round up of what is happening across the other WG
• Create article template for Use Case submitters to use. Articles will we published and circulated across the GSF networks

[navveenb]

attended