Purpose and Progress

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		+	==Note from Gavin to Laura, Tuesday Week #28==
		+	Thanks for all you've done so far on the wiki.  I've scanned through the wiki pages and suggest the following:
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		+	#No more than one blank line between paragraphs.
		+	:I tend to find that when in 'Edit' mode, having more than one blank line between paragraphs or sections serves no constructive purpose.  There's no need to change the sections you've already created, but we should try to eliminate redundant white space in future pages.
		+	#When we talk about Fujitsu, we primarily mean Fujitsu Services.
		+	#*The key website is at http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/
		+	#*There is also a joint-venture called Fujitsu Siemens (at http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/ ) which is of lesser importance.
		+	#*I've changed the name of the page to show that Fujitsu Services is the object of our interest at this stage.
		+	#As a quick visual check on the degree of completion, I've put an α / β / γ rating on the Vendor page .
		+	#*The rating simply says whether the sections look complete, partly complete or not yet started.  It isn't a quality assessment!
		+	#*Feel free to update the ratings yourself.  (The easiest way to generate these Greek characters is to copy them from elsewhere on the page!)
		+	#*δ and ε are spare characters for which we'll find a use at a later date.
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		+	Thanks again.  It looks good.
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	==Progress 2007 Week #27==		==Progress 2007 Week #27==
	Bill		Bill

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Revision as of 06:13, 10 July 2007

Note from Gavin to Laura, Tuesday Week #28

Thanks for all you've done so far on the wiki. I've scanned through the wiki pages and suggest the following:

1. No more than one blank line between paragraphs.

I tend to find that when in 'Edit' mode, having more than one blank line between paragraphs or sections serves no constructive purpose. There's no need to change the sections you've already created, but we should try to eliminate redundant white space in future pages.

1. When we talk about Fujitsu, we primarily mean Fujitsu Services.
   • The key website is at http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/
   • There is also a joint-venture called Fujitsu Siemens (at http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/ ) which is of lesser importance.
   • I've changed the name of the page to show that Fujitsu Services is the object of our interest at this stage.
2. As a quick visual check on the degree of completion, I've put an α / β / γ rating on the Vendor page .
   • The rating simply says whether the sections look complete, partly complete or not yet started. It isn't a quality assessment!
   • Feel free to update the ratings yourself. (The easiest way to generate these Greek characters is to copy them from elsewhere on the page!)
   • δ and ε are spare characters for which we'll find a use at a later date.

Thanks again. It looks good.

Progress 2007 Week #27

Bill

Just a quick note to report on what we've done this week.

We've created a wiki on an external site at http://editthis.info/lauraibm/Main_Page to give Laura a safe environment to develop a wiki and her wiki skills from scratch. The site is secured so that no-one can view any pages without the username and password ( ukisa and bedfont respectively). Once we're confident that the organisation of the wiki is fairly stable, we'll bring it in-house and probably abandon the external site.

So far Laura has been copying across the text of the environment-related Web pages of our main competitors. Next week I'll ask her to add a few Indian vendors, as it's possible that environmental concerns may be a differentiator between western and Indian vendors.

So far, the work has been done entirely on open source / freebie software and websites, which means that Laura is acquiring skills that she can use after she leaves IBM. Specifically this week, she has learnt:

• How to create a wiki-based Website from scratch, and
• Various image-processing skills—cropping, reducing and converting to JPG.

I believe that this environmental material is worth keeping in one place, and Laura could possibly develop a niche reputation as the department's 'ecologist'. (Her A-levels in geography and biology should help.) There could be a useful paper to be written on the topic, e.g.

1. Do different types of vendors put different levels of effort into environmental issues? (e.g. hardware vs. services vendors)
2. Do the Indian vendors do comparatively little?
3. What does each vendor do in the UK? (i.e. are some trying to claim that what they do in say, Texas, gives them environmental credit which somehow benefits the UK?)
4. What do the analyst firms say?
5. What do customers and the markets want?
6. Threats: is it possible that the green credentials of the IT industry may come under the same level of attack in the media as the aviation industry has experienced? How should we prepare for this?