Community Representatives Needed

The WCG advisory board would benefit from having a consumer representatitive/s - e.g from some of the larger PC user groups (Boston, London, Melbourne) and on-line fraternities.

Western governments learned this in the 70's and most major corporations know the importance of consumer relations - plus good media PR.

With over 55,000 member contributors donating THEIR equipment use at their own cost, it's important that at least one consumer represtatitive be on the board - preferably a representative from a large, experienced, independent & ethical group (as above).

Other professions with similar challenges have recognized the need for good communication with users and sound project management - e.g. the move to common global financial reporting, through the adoption of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) - a big challenge for companies & accountants, with myriad regional training activities worldwide, for the targeted start in 2005/06. The benefit - better information & protection for investors, easier international trade and cheaper finance.

Kym Yeoward CPA ACIS
Alice Springs NT Australia
aka Outback Mick

man you are into some serious stuff here.

all most of us crunchers are into is getting moe data for our puters to chew on.

rock on dude

Still a lot to go through yet

We really need to speed this thing up. It would be cool if you could report progress more and get the news out to different sites!

Mr Gates likes to give a lot to charities. Its probably a longshot but I wonder If Microsoft would ever consider contributing to something like this project;

Basicly what I mean is, when you install Windows, you get prompted with a msg saying "would you like to contribute to any one of these projects by having this screensaver"

There is a lot more you could be doing to get more users involved in this, you need to talk to other software companies and WHOEVER YOU CAN!

julied,
I can only speak for myself. Most people install and run WCG without any problems. But those who do have problems find the client error messages unhelpful. I do not view this as a reason to avoid expanding our membership. Still, I am very aware that we need to improve. I am really looking forward to getting our own agent that we can readily modify (Linux X86 first) to remedy this problem.

As for frying CPUs, I must admit that I mainly consider that a hardware problem. From my point of view, why would anybody buy a computer so poorly designed that it can only be run for light email tasks? If the computer fries, hold the retailer / manufacturer responsible and scream for replacement. Not that I am unsympathetic to anyone who was victimized by shoddy manufacturers.

Lawrence

Added: Second thoughts - we are letting this thread drift out of control. Discussion of what the World Community Grid needs to do should be in 'Member to Member' or 'Feedback'. Nothing in these last posts is really related to the HPF Project.