Hi Sylwester,

A small note of caution. If you post email addresses like you do, the whole world of spammers and other grit can read it and will use it. If you put the address in My Grid > My Profile and allow members to see it, only members can see it [a little icon appears at bottom of your posts which is clickable too]

cheers

Sylwester-

Hi, I will not "throw mud" on anyone with any idea as to how to spread The Word and The Work. We have too much of a sort of inbred culture here. We need more visions of a wider world with more people who are not of necessity technical getting interested.

Well, so much for my train of thought. I had another pithy thing to say, but my wife called me away to help her, and so I lost it.

So, maybe more later when it comes back to me.

Oh yes!! Here it is:

There is not enough being done with social media, Facebook, RSS feeds, blogging and the like.

WCG is getting better with Facebook. For quite a while it sat there, no one writing anything. Now it appears that someone or some people are actually putting up content. So far, there are as I write 2642 "fans". This is probably not bad; but there are today as I write 320,671 total active crunchers in BOINC Stats on all projects. WCG claims current 259475. I personally think that is an optimistic figure, but, O.K., I am not going to argue numbers with anything related to IBM. So, 2642 "fans" out of 259475 active crunchers. You know what that is? 1%. 0.01. Frankly, that sucks. WCG needs to do a better stronger job promoting itself on Facebook. What ever the promotion writers produce is being seen by 1% of the possible base.

RSS feeds. I have every conceivable feed from WCG have news feeds and forum feeds. Here is the current state of news feeds: HFCC last feed item Nov 21, 2009; FAAH Mar 2, 2010; HCMD2 Apr 8, 2010, but before that Jan 8, 2010. This just does not get it done, the project must stay in the public eye, even if right now the public is us. There must be interesting things or people to write about. Cannot find the writer or the time? Remain stuck with diminishing numbers.

Over at LHC@home, there are a number of blogs, available via RSS, and people write in those blogs almost every day.

Blogs: Projects nered to find people who can write and get them to write blogs. I have two blogs at Wordpress. Both are on Music and Public radio in the USA. But I did a big post on crunching, http://richardmitnick.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/are-you-a-cruncher/. This post got more views than any of my posts before or since. So someone from I think All Project Stats asked me to do a blog on crunching. I demurred. I said that this is not my area of expertise, I had pretty much shot my load in that one post.

The projects need to realize that most of the people who have ever crunched have gone away, for one reason or another. We need to advertise, and blogs are a good way of doing that.

So, just more stuff for people to ponder.

Facebook,blogging - This and more I call usless. Imagine that instend of watching soccer match (only example) you spend your time on reading Seneka letters (only example).
Facebook and many others are like soccer match. It is easier to watch soccer than to do something more useful. For instanc I started software project School Parents Relations System in SVN on google.
My Idea abowe is crazy idea to take small company in to sometchig else than making money.
@JmBoullier , thanks but.... ;)