Proposal: Fedora at Home Project

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 16:52:41 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>  What if we could have some sort of carbon counter that interacted with
>  gnome-power-manager and some heuristics about a person's location and
>  the carbon cost of power in that person's area, so that you could track
>  over time what your computer usage is doing to your carbon cost?  Then
>  couldn't we set a carbon limit and only participate on the grid if you
>  have enough carbon cost to spare the cycles?

As long as we could extend it so that it could also track the carbon
cost of each email I send out, and then would forcibly prevent me from
sending too many mailinglist posts in a day.

-jef




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