This is our implementation of KTHs brilliant Innovation Readiness Level framework.

The intention is to have a web tool that is both easily accessible and easy to use in meetings and workshops to assess and agreee where your project currently sits on the various IRL levels. It is also possible to use it as a light weight project managament tool, as you can define targets and action points for each IRL level.

You can define project teams and access across organisations, faculties and departments as you see fit.

We recommend that you deploy this on an internal server. A tutorial on how to do this with a custom domain in Apache2 can be found here: https://q-viper.github.io/2022/07/17/deploying-streamlit-app-with-custom-domain-in-apache2/

I've made a quick guide and some helpers for getting this up and running on Linux server below. Note that this is only tested on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, so if you're running something else YMMW.

RN IRL Setup Guide

Make sure Ubuntu is up to date.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

One-click install:

sudo su
bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NTNU-TTO/rn_irl/refs/heads/main/ubuntu_helpers/install_rn_irl.sh)

Manual install:

This does the same as the script above.

Install some basics.

sudo apt install sqlite3
sudo apt install python3-venv
sudo apt install python-is-python3

Create a group for users that need access to rn_irl folders without root access (this is optional, but probably good practice if you want to restrict root access):

sudo groupadd --gid 99 rn_irl

Get the source code - doesn't matter where you place it at this time.

git clone https://github.com/NTNU-TTO/rn_irl
sudo chown root:rn_irl -R rn_irl

Set up a persistent python environment to run in.

cd /etc
sudo python -m venv rn_irl
sudo chown root:rn_irl -R rn_irl

Activate the virtual python environment.

sudo su root source /etc/rn_irl/bin/activate

Install required python modules.

pip install streamlit
pip install bcrypt
pip install numpy
pip install scipy
pip install matplotlib
pip install sqlalchemy

Move the source code inside the virtual python environment.

mv /path/to/your/local/github/clone/rn_irl /etc/rn_irl/bin

Make the database persistent outside of the rn_irl environment

mkdir /var/lib/rn_irl
mv /etc/rn_irl/bin/rn_irl/irl.sdb /var/lib/rn_irl

Edit /etc/rn_irl/bin/rn_irl/.streamlit/secrets.toml and update the path to the database:

[db_details]
db_path = 'sqlite:////var//lib//rn_irl//irl.sdb

Create symlink bash script:

ln -s /etc/rn_irl/bin/rn_irl/ubuntu_helpers/rn_irl.sh /bin/rn_irl

Copy service

cp /etc/rn_irl/bin/rn_irl/ubuntu_helpers/rn_irl.service /lib/systemd/system/

Reload, enable and run service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable rn_irl
service rn_irl start

Enjoy.

You are free to implement any changes you like to the source code to tailor it to your own and/or your organisations need. The source code is provided as is with absolutely no guarantees that it is useful or fit for purpose.