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love struck Grid participation promotion

I like to promote the grid project to my family and friends. For this reason I like to have a good short promotional email with the proper links to forward to them. My suggestion is that the Grid support team makes this email and send it to all current members of the grid community and ask them to forward that mail to their relatives and friends By this I expect that the number of participants will grow dramatically. And that for the cost of one good email....

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cool Re: Grid participation promotion

What do you think of the 16 Nov 2004 press release at http://www.systemsbiology.net/extra/PressRelease_111604.html ?

Is it too long to use?

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The press release is too technical for an 'advertising' text. It has to be one of the references in that text. It should be more like 'lets do your PC volunteer work...' with a short explenation what WCG is and references to get started and references with additional information. The text has to be easy to understand for non technical people.

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Re: Grid participation promotion

Actually, we have been thinking about "tell a friend" functionality for WCG, and hope to enhance the site with that feature in the future.

However, I think your idea of an email is an excellent one - and I suspect some other WCG participants have already drafted some pretty compelling text. Has anyone got an email they'd be willing to share?

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Re: Grid participation promotion

Actually, we have been thinking about "tell a friend" functionality for WCG, and hope to enhance the site with that feature in the future.

However, I think your idea of an email is an excellent one - and I suspect some other WCG participants have already drafted some pretty compelling text. Has anyone got an email they'd be willing to share?

--Lilac

Hi All'
I like the idea of an email, I tried to inform my local radio station (scottish highlands) about the good work done by our community, but alas another geek bites the dust.....we need clout.
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smile Hi Koko

Check this article, it may serve your purpose

IBM to link with UN for new Grid

Reuters
November 16, 2004, 13:10 GMT

IBM's chief executive, along with diplomats and leading scientific researchers, is going to announce plans for a massive distributed computing project at a ceremony in New York

IBM and top scientific research organisations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to tap the unused power of millions of computers and help solve complex social problems.
The World Community Grid will seek to tap the vast underutilised power of computers belonging to individuals and businesses worldwide and channel it into selected medical and environmental research programmes.
Volunteers will be asked to download a program to their computers that runs when the machine is idle and reaches out to request data to contribute to ongoing research projects.
Organisers say the Grid can help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS, Alzheimer's or cancer, improve forecasting of natural disasters and aid studies to protect the world's food and water supply.
The massive volunteer project will be unveiled on Tuesday by Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM, along with United Nations officials, researchers from the Mayo Clinic, Oxford University and South Africa, and others.
"This is not just a project for techno-geeks," said Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with research firm Illuminata, who was briefed on the scope of the plan.
The project is designed to handle up to 10 million participants, or more, if demand is greater, IBM said. Details can be found on the group's Web site.
"People really do want to contribute. Not everyone can contribute with dollars," said Linda Sanford, an IBM executive vice president. "This kind of project gives people a way to do just that. They can decide how much to participate."
What amounts to one of the high-tech world's broadest efforts to reach out to individuals is not without its risks.
In particular, the voluntary undertaking could run foul of computer administrators already struggling to keep a tight rein on network security policies in order to ward off viruses.
IBM is lending its name in part to ward off such challenges by seeking to garner top-level business backing for what until now has been largely a grassroots movement among hardcore techies to harness the latent power of machines to do good.
"We are looking for the individual, not the institution, per se, to contribute," Sanford said. "[Companies] will let their employees know when they can participate."
At an event at New York City's Rockefeller University, IBM's CEO will describe the initial research push and introduce some 16 members of the World Community Grid Advisory Board, which will evaluate proposals for future research.
Board member Sibusiso Sibisi of South Africa sees potential for agricultural climate research and pollution control to protect workers in his country's mines.
Sibisi, president of the government-backed Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an organisation of 2,000 public interest science researchers, says such research might never occur if his organization needed to pay for supercomputer-scale computing capacity.
"We will be looking at the sort of projects that one can parcel out into small components," Sibisi said.
The first research will be into Human Proteome Folding, an effort to identify the genetic structure of proteins that can cause diseases. There will be three to five research projects a year, Sanford said.
A 2003 study of smallpox set the stage for the World Community Grid. It is an evolution of the work of Grid.org, which has acted as a clearing house for grid computing projects.
The project owes a debt to SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which in the 1990s first popularised the notion that PC users could donate computer time for radio telescope astronomy data analysis via the Internet, through the well-known SETI@home project.



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smile Hi Koko

Or you may want to consider this one

Donate Your PC's Spare Time to Help the World

Grid computing project seeks to harness unused PC power.
Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld - Wednesday, November 17, 2004

IBM and officials from some of the world's leading science, education, and philanthropic organizations Tuesday launched a global grid computing project aimed at harnessing unused global computing power to help solve a variety of health issues and other scientific problems.
In an announcement, IBM said the World Community Grid project calls on home and corporate PC users to install a 1.5MB software program that allows their unused computer cycles to work on critical scientific research. The software is available from the project's Web site and works on computers running Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP.
The new grid will be used for medical research to help unlock genetic codes that could help find cures for AIDS/HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, according to the group. It will also be used to conduct research to improve the forecasting of natural disasters and find new ways to protect the world's food and water supplies.

The idea is not new. It's been used in the past for other cancer research and is similar to the SETI@home project--or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which lets participants download a program that allows their PCs to look for radio signals in outer space in a quest to find intelligent life in other parts of the galaxy.

First Project
The first project to be tackled is the Human Proteome Folding Project, which aims to identify the proteins that make up the Human Proteome, which could help lead to cures for diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. The proteome project is sponsored by the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology, a nonprofit research institute dedicated to the study and application of systems biology.

Future projects to use the grid will be selected by a World Community Grid Advisory Board, which will evaluate proposals from leading research, public, and nonprofit organizations. Five to six projects a year are expected to use the grid, according to the group.
"World Community Grid will enable researchers around the globe to gather and analyze unprecedented quantities of data to help address important global issues, including public health issues," advisory board member Elaine Gallin said in a statement. Gallin, who is also the program director for medical research at the New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, said the grid project "promises to harness grid computer technology to address complex clinical research questions."
Other organizations represented on the grid's advisory board include the National Institutes of Health, the Markle Foundation, the Mayo Clinic, Oxford University, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Development Programme.

IBM's Involvement
Ken King, vice president of grid computing at IBM, said the World Community Grid will showcase IBM's grid technologies, which the company donated to the project.

The effort uses Grid MP software from Austin-based United Devices and an assortment of IBM hardware, including an IBM eServer p630 server running IBM's AIX operating system, 12 IBM x345

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Graham you are a topper, thanks for your response.
I used your first reference, I think it blew there last fuse, your second will push the message home, first Koffi then Ken King, vice president of grid computing at IBM, what a team. :-)
I may jest but I'm serious about promoting the grid, thanks again
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Thanks Graham for your very good samples for use for a promotional letter to be send out to all WGC members. Lilac, can you pck up the lead to make the promotional letter? I personally believe that the final letter has to be based more on the second sample, but shorter, with webreferences to the details and to how to get startted and with a little less IBM (although I'm IBMmer....) in it. It should promote WGC in the first place.

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You might want to use the existing "email a friend" function. It can be found on the right hand side of the home page after you log in. It will be in place of the "Login" box.

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