Just got the emerald badge gor this project.

So who needs to be contacted to make new badges? When multi-core cpus get cheaper and more people have them, 2 years of time will go by fast.

About the new badges: it has been discussed on the boards before so the people who should know already do. Every now and again the topic pops up.

Anyway, and this is important to know, WCG does not like to make their planning public. They may occasionally suggest certain things to happen in the future but that is the exception and not the rule. The best is to be patient. To wait. To be patient a bit longer. And then to be surprised when, all of a sudden, you get what you ask for. Also, check out the information you get from Techs and Mods.

Of course, you can continue crunching in the meantime

One of the things that has long been on the development list and is looking likely in 1Q 2010 is the ability for members to print 'certificates'. Certificates will be awarded based on total contribution to World Community Grid. We intend to scale the certificates to much higher levels then we currently have for the badges. There is much planning to do, but we are considering having at least one certificate level be above what anyone has yet contributed (a likely certificate level would be something like 1 month, 2 months, 5 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years, 1000 years, 2000 years, 5000 years). However, that is conceptual planning only and is almost certain to change before we release. Only 3 people would currently make the 2000 year cutoff and no-one would currently make the 5000 year cutoff.

knreed I think such certificates is an excellent idea.
Make them nice in colour with all the badges at print time.
I target the 5000 year one so I am sure to devote my entire lifetime to crunching.

I have a better idea . Let's call IBM and buy a Roadrunner at full scale. Should get the 5000 years certificate in a few days.

But first I have to convince Bill Gates.