From b903e2d1350c94c8335f7aa2367a82e0d2813097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Wood Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 10:06:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update sustainability.md --- content/en/blog/sustainability.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/en/blog/sustainability.md b/content/en/blog/sustainability.md index 724f120e..7f2d29dd 100644 --- a/content/en/blog/sustainability.md +++ b/content/en/blog/sustainability.md @@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ Longevity is a tricky topic in software development. We've been thinking about how we can make sure that Harmony continues to operate for a long time in the future, since Harmony is intended as a public good for researchers to use with no strings attached. +# Sustainability assessment + +In April 2023, we completed the software sustainability assessment with the [Software Sustainability Institute](http://software.ac.uk), which gave us 29 recommended improvements to make Harmony more sustainable. By September 2023, we had introduced a number of improvements to the project and now have 14 recommendations remaining. + +* Read the [April 2023 sustainability report](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harmonydata/experiments/main/Harmony - Sustainability Evaluation April 2023.pdf). + +* Read the [September 2023 sustainability report](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harmonydata/experiments/main/Harmony - Sustainability Evaluation September 2023.pdf). + # Infrastructure For the first iteration of Harmony, we developed the dashboard in [Plotly Dash](https://plotly.com/dash/), and deployed it to an .org domain running on [Microsoft Azure App Service](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/app-service). The website was running in [Wordpress](https://wordpress.com/), hosted on [Siteground](https://www.siteground.co.uk/). All of these are paid solutions which were coming out of the [project](https://fastdatascience.com/starting-a-data-science-project) budget.