I read it over before and now again. It doesn't say who are the personnel behind this. Ok, they're IBM people, but who does what? What are their titles? What do they do for WCG? Even if it is all part-time volunteer work by IBM personnel, I cannot imagine there's not a hierarchy / corporate structure to this.

Scott --

I am sure that there is some structure to the IBM team that work on this, but they have not really shared this with us. You will find several of the team in the forums indicating their functions such as bbover3 as World Community Grid Admin. Others are Techs and Developers. Another group behind the World Community Grid are the Community Admins, of which I am a member. We are all just regular members like yourself who have been asked to provide technical assistance to other members through the forums. The Community Admins are volunteers and are not employed by IBM or the World Community Grid. You can see a list of our "names" at the bottom of the page at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=forum#17

And you don't find that to be rather odd? They're asking us to volunteer our time and computers and they're not willing to let us know who runs the show? And telling one to hunt for the information is rather sad. One shouldn't have to do that ... ESPECIALLY when there's a section titled "About Us".

Scott --

I do not find it odd. Most corporations do not identify individual employee work assignments for many reasons. The project team members are not the sponsors of the WCG. Their employer, IBM, is the sponsor and the focus should be on IBM as the sponsor, not on individual employees. I think that not identifying the team members also prevents them from being buried in e-mails and telephone calls. I can't imagine how many e-mails and phone calls a membership of 67,164 might generate.

Grid.org is another grid computing project (they actually are participants in the Human Proteome Folding project as well). On their web site at http://grid.org/home.htm, you will find less information than is available here on the World Community Grid.

I recently read that there are about 200 employees involved in running the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Their web site is at http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default. If you look at the "About Us" on their web site, you will see that only their founders, co-chairmen and executives are identified. Do you also find it odd that the foundation employees are not identified?