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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I have the feeling that BOINC isn't known to well in the world, so i was thinking maybe it should put a "post o facebook" button on the homepage
and maybe some other popular networking sites like twitter or ... and i was thinking maybe someone talented could make a epic youtube clip as somewhat commercial what do you guys think? |
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nasher
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 1423 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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i have been trying to spread the word for over 10 years about distributed computing ... it is hard to get people convinced to do it for some strange reason
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Your thought is very good, but BOINC is already all over Facebook.
----------------------------------------Try http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/apps/appl...d=455648675003&ref=ts |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
One way of letting friends know about WCG is using the "Tell A Friend" feature. It gives you 3 pre-formated e-mails so you just put your name and your friend's address and you're ready to "spread the word".
But, be careful though, some of those texts are a bit outdated. For example: "World Community Grid is being used to develop more nutritious strains of rice. The project will be completed in less than two years, compared to the 200 years required by conventional computer systems." Option B) has an updated list of active projects. That's what I'd choose. P.S.: I think it's time to check all three messages. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello,
I use the folloing methods to make WCG more known: - leaving comments about WCG on topic related internet forums, i.e. forums about cancer - making comments on video sites like youtube, especially comments on topic related videos, i.e. videos about science. You can do this more efficiently by using the method copy and paste,. This means that you have the comment text about WCG as an e-mail text, you mark the text and paste it. You can use CTRL+C and then CTRL+P. This means that you make the same comment informing about WCG all the time. But use this carefully, please, politely, and not too much Greetings Martin Schnellinger |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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it is hard to get people convinced to do it for some strange reason I will try here a tentative list, you can add stuff: 1) It is an excuse to take control of our machines and use to them for some dark military plan. (Political conspiracy) 2) Safety. The machine runs continuously over the internet. We do not know what really happens, viruses etc.. (Fear) 3) Reliability. Will not my machine wear fast by running continuosly. It is outside my control anyway, it may crash, conflict with what I do etc. etc. (Fear) 4) It is a way to use our money and our machines for free to develop products that will then be used by others to make a fortune. (Economical conspiracy) 5) These local running software are spying all what we do over the computer and internet for marketing, profiling etc.... (Economical conspiracy) 6) Aliens are everywhere. All these computer grids are interconnected and our lives are under control from aliens. (ET conspiracy) nasher I hope it made you smile, bot none of the above is absurd even the 6th point. After all what do we really know   [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hypernova at Aug 31, 2010 9:25:07 AM] |
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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to infinity and beyond
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sk..
Master Cruncher http://s17.rimg.info/ccb5d62bd3e856cc0d1df9b0ee2f7f6a.gif Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Post Count: 2324 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Let's hope the imminent announcement of the C4CW in China will significantly increase that countries contribution; 4000 odd crunchers from 1.3Billion people is not great. The ratio of crunchers in France per capita is very high.
----------------------------------------- Members 4,074 Devices 14,790 Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 2063:200:15:24:53 Points Generated 1,355,852,959 Results Returned 2,797,421 [Edit 1 times, last edit by skgiven at Sep 20, 2010 4:57:31 PM] |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
mitrichr,
----------------------------------------~4,100 is what you see on the stats by geographic location for enrolled members that have entered the country in their My Profile page. Over half of the WCG member have not... 268,000 of 520,000 members.
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