Thanks for the update Jhindo.

twilyth, I certainly hear what you're saying, and I'm in total agreement with you.

Last year (2013), was the first year since 2004 & 2005, when less than at least 2 new projects were launched on WCG (as can be seen from the table, below). Okay, there may have been other things happening in the background which may have prevented the very limited WCG tech staff to bring new projects to the fore, although as this information is all kept "in house", we simply don't know what's going there. What is certain, is that the lack of projects, causes less interaction on the forums, resulting in an environment where people don't have a reason to hang around - thus, the drifting away (hopefully not permanently - but it's certainly a possibility) of people willing to volunteer their time and resources towards the projects running on WCG.

When that survey was brought out, I really hoped that "things would change" and improvements would be visible - although I now wouldn't be too surprised to hear that people have totally forgotten about the survey (perhaps that's what IBM are hoping for?). Indeed, I do remember that more resources (i.e. humans) were being brought on-board WCG in the background - so as to free up the front line technical staff so that they could work on more of the items on their wish list. I certainly haven't seen any evidence of more WCG technical staff being around.

Please WCG, open yourselves up a little, and share with us, the end crunchers, what's going on...

Anyhow, here's those project start/end dates;

	Project	Start Date (23)	Project	End Date (16)

2004	HPF	(16/11/2004)

2005	FA@H	(21/11/2005)

2006	HPF2	(23/06/2006)	HPF	(18/07/2006)
	HDC	(20/07/2006)
	Beta	(01/08/2006)
	GC	(21/11/2006)
	HCMD	(19/12/2006)

2007	DDDT	(21/08/2007)	HDC	(03/04/2007)
	AC@H	(03/09/2007)	HCMD	(20/06/2007)
	HCC	(06/11/2007)	GC	(21/07/2007)

2008	NRftW	(12/05/2008)	AC@H	(27/06/2008)
	CEP	(05/12/2008)

2009	HFCC	(16/03/2009)	DDDT	(11/08/2009)
	IADS	(05/05/2009)	CEP	(12/10/2009)
	HCMD2	(12/05/2009)	IADS	(24/10/2009)

2010	DDDT2	(17/02/2010)	NRftW	(06/04/2010)
	CEP2	(28/06/2010)
	C4CW	(23/08/2010)

2011	DSFL	(31/08/2011)
	GFAM	(14/11/2011)

2012	SN2S	(22/02/2012)	CFSW	(19/10/2012)
	CFSW	(17/04/2012)

2013	MCM1	(08/11/2013)	DDDT2	(22/03/2013)
				HCC	(15/05/2013)
				HCMD2	(25/05/2013)
				GFAM	(12/06/2013)
				HPF2	(24/06/2013)
				DSFL	(05/08/2013)

2014
	????	??/??/2014

I am also fortunate to be able to run one BOINC (mainly WCG) dedicated rig and one PC 24/7 and to be able to pay electricity bills by my own (OK, by my family). But look at the most recent Global Business Cycle Status map by Moody's Analytics (here is the interactive map):



Majority of Western and Southern Europe is FUBAR'ed already for several years. Central Europe (mainly Germany) and Northern Europe are up and down almost every other quarter. The USA is slowly catching breath pulling the UK in the safest waters, but still dependant on BRIC's health, which is also quite unstable...

People have other, more closer to themselves problems than humanitarian to solve. Will that end soon? I am pessimistic, but I keep shrubbing. And I am glad I can.

Whilst I might not use the forceful language and phrasing of twilyth I have to agree with the main thrust of his and gb009761 arguments in the posts above. WCG needs to establish meaningful interaction with the community rather than the slow release of minimal information which has been characteristic todate.

Following yesterday's news release I commented that New behind-the-scenes stories from the World Community Grid team was, potentially, a step in the right direction. The news release acknowledged that World Community Grid can sometimes seem like a black hole and listed several reasons why this is the case and the steps being taken to cure them. The glaringly obvious problem of the lack of information coming out of WCG it's self was all but ignored.

thks gb009761 for that chart and all the participants for that
interesting discussion.
If as it appears IBM is so reluctant to help WCG is there another entity that can do the job? a chinese or tawainese?? may national pride be objected ?
Meanwhile i appreciate the new feature to present WCG to friends
(even in french ! waouh! ) ; i will do another try around.
But a panel of new projects wud help for sure.
Another element important is whether groups of persons concerned by the diseases, associations, students, are associated
As for me i joined when the Decrypthon was launched on the TV Telethon occurring every in early december. And you see the majority stayed after HCMD 1&2 were over
But i acknowledge that AFM-Telethon did not communicate a lot abt HCMD1&2 afterwards and even the internet site of Decrypthon.fr has been left static (or dead ?) since a long time.
As WCG projects are abt research,prevention and cure they should be more advertised.
keep on crunching , cheers