Opensource / Impact Framework
[!important] Incubation Project
This project is an incubation project being run inside the Green Software Foundation; as such, we *DON’T recommend using it in any critical use case. Incubation projects are experimental, offer no support guarantee, have minimal governance and process, and may be retired at any moment. This project may one day graduate, in which case this disclaimer will be removed.
Project Summary
IEF is a framework to Model, Measure, siMulate and Monitor the environmental impacts of software.
Modern applications are composed of many smaller pieces of software (components) running on many different environments, for example, private cloud, public cloud, bare-metal, virtualized, containerized, mobile, laptops, and desktops. Every environment requires a different way of measurement, and there is no single solution you can use to calculate the carbon emissions for all environments.
The friction to measuring software emissions isn't that we need to know how, it's that we run software on many things and each thing has several different ways to measure.
Integration with SCI Open Data
At the backend IF project is planned to be integrated with multiple datasets that can be used to provide carbon emissions values. These datasets could be public or private as well.
As per SCI specifications, carbon emissions values are required for the 4 different components of the SCI equation E, I, M and R. There are reference emission value datasets like Climatiq, Boazvita, Cloud carbon co-efficients that need to be leveraged to provide values for these SCI components. We refer to these emission value datasets as SCI open data and there is a curated list of datasets available as part of the SCI guide project
Get Involved
Our Impact Framework project team meets weekly on Thursday at 10.30 - 11.30 am GMT, via Google Meet.
Key people & links
PM: Joseph Cook (Green Software Foundation)
WGPM: Sophie Trinder (Green Software Foundation)
Project Lead - Srinivasan Rakhunathan (Microsoft)
Co-Lead - Navveen Balani (Accenture)
Co-Lead - Asim Hussain (GSF)
Email: carbon-ql@greensoftware.foundation (members only)
Discussions: GitHub (members and public)
If you work for a GSF member organisation, you also need to:
Fill out the https://grnsft.org/onboarding/register form if you are new to the GSF; or
Fill out the https://grnsft.org/onboarding/subscribe form if you are already part of the GSF but want to join this project.
After that, you will:
Be added to the open-source WG mailing list.
Receive invitations to our regular meetings.
If you don’t work for a GSF member organisation, then please encourage your employer to https://greensoftware.foundation/join-us. In the meantime, you are welcome to contribute to any of our conversations or projects on https://github.com/orgs/Green-Software-Foundation/discussions/ as an individual contributor.