Greening IT

We are happy to announce that we have sent the book to the printers! This represents a major milestone for us and it means we are getting very close to moving into the next and very important phase of promoting the book. The book will now go through one or more proof prints before we announce a full and final release. Taking a retrospective look at the process, I wish we could have sent more resources on promoting the book before now,

but being a small non-profit creative commons based project, resources are limited. The good news however, is that a number of our contributors are actively finding opportunities to promote the book in both traditional and creative ways. Additionally, we have found some people who like what we’re doing, agree with our message and have
volunteered to help promote the book. One such person is Tripta Prashar, Director of independent Green IT Consultancy firm Giving Time and Solutions Ltd in the UK.

We will be preparing a press kit and presentation kit too. If you believe you could help promote the book and more importantly our message of the power of IT in enabling the transformation of our societies into ones characterised by low-carbon emissions, then please either contact us or feel free to use the kits which we will release. We appreciate all promotion – from as small as a tweet, to creating imprints of the book
with co-branding. As long as our uncompromised message gets out there we are happy!

Finally we would like to congratulate Sean Whetstone (who wrote the Thin Client chapter in the book) for winning the Environmental Project of the Year at the Green IT Awards.

We are often asked, “What’s this book Greening IT about?”. Thinking about the old saying a picture can say more than a thousand words we fed the word cloud engine http://www.wordle.net/ with the text of the latest version of the book.

And here it is, a nice word cloud which we want to share with you.

Is there any other news? Yes, new contributors have arrived and for the next iteration some new chapters will be added and the size of the book will grown quite substantially.

We are progressing nicely and are nearing the end of contributors contributing to the book. The next phase of the book’s evolution is about to start and a flurry of proof reading, editing, re-arranging, typesetting, and reviewing is about to begin.

As was mentioned in an earlier post, we designed and printed some cards to hand out to people during COP15 in Copenhagen. The purpose is to both promote the book and hand-out to potential contributors. I’m happy to say after leaving the UK 7 days ago they finally got to our door (thanks for the “quick” delivery Post Danmark :)).

The cards are Moo mini cards and they really are gorgeous.

I’m happy to say that we are on track for publishing a draft book online by early December in time for the start of COP15. The book will be a rough draft – new chapters will be added after this date, and existing ones improved, but thanks to all the hard work of the contributors and editors we’re excited about what will be released.

So stay tuned for the imminent online publication of Greening IT!

Our website is up and running and we are ready to start Greening IT. First step is to get You on board, so please read the Contact Us section, to find out what to do. Enjoy!

Adrian, John and Irene