Morning All!

A nasty gout attack has kept me off my bike for the last couple of days, so I've been unable to do my bit for the environment (and my fitness plan) and have been driving my less than economical motor into the office... fortunately, it's only about 8 miles from home - don't tell Sek!

I don't foresee a specific gout-related project coming any time soon, but if there is any way of tackling arthritis in general then I would be keen to support that. My 2-pence on this is basically in a couple of areas:

1. A "has contributed" badge, for those who have had a valid WU on a project but not got enough for bronze... it could be white or transparent, but would be particularly beneficial to those who are contributing to the BETA project to show that they are contributing in the early days (or in my case, early years).
2. Add additional badges for the "super-crunchers", continuing the natural doubling requirement for the next achievement - implement 4, 8 and 16 year badges (a personal motivation for me again is that I have 4+ years on FAAH and HPF1).

Thanks for the update jonnieb. Can I ask what the groups represent in the No. Of Members Active Yesterday are please?

Great, thanks jonnieb!

Getting closer to Results #5000. Unfortunately missed it again this morning as PV que (as yesterday afternoon) rose much more than were validated (only 56 results validated this morning Shortfall this morning prior to midday update was 82 (34,019 (#5,015) against 34,101 (#5000)). Now shortfall 35 (34,075 (#5,010) against 34,110(#5000)). Hopefully tomorrow

Hmm!

It's a step in the right direction though I'll reserve unqualified approval until I see the form that the survey takes. Will it be a full-on solicitation of the views of members, allowing free-form responses or will it be a series of preset development options to be ranked in order of preference?

From a personal standpoint one improvement I'd like to see is an upgraded/updated Forum software! There are other internet forums which are light years ahead of the mvnForum 2008 build. The Excel Help forum for example has a feature to allow problem spreadsheets to be uploaded as an attachment. How useful would that be translated to a feature allowing upload of an Event Log or Result Log??

WCG also needs to look at how it communicates with members. To receive the survey, you need to have selected to receive informational emails from World Community Grid should be amended to a default "opt-in" for a start. Important messages need to be highly visible to (active forum) members. The announcement of the survey at least has its own thread. But it's in Official Messages. I suspect the I'm not the only one who logs in straight to the Recent Threads and hardly ever look at the Forum Index. Hence I misssed the original post (thanks to TMC for reposting). Previously important WCG generated information has been buried in innocuous threads.

I'll stop there, put the soapbox away and await the arrival of the survey.