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Former Member
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Points/Rankings will keep growing and will not be reset when we start a new project. NOOOOOOO!!!!! We got in late, and want a realistic shot at getting to #1 :) Even with the way we've been putting up numbers, we'll never get /. :( On another note, wish my Crohn's docs knew about all this. Those of us with this wonderful disease would like a cure :) |
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Former Member
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For those who are interested, this is an example of a letter I am currently sending out to research organizations, institutes, foundations, etc. You can use use this as a template or even make suggestions on improving it!
Dear Glaucoma Research Foundation (Insert your favorite Research Foundation Here), I am attempting to raise awareness of the availability of powerful no cost grid technology from the World Community Grid Initiative. Please accept this invitation to apply to use World Community Grids powerful grid technology at no cost for projects that benefit humanity. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/submit_a_proposal.html Sincerely, Dan Replogle dreplogle1@cox.net Participant, World Community Grid This message was NOT generated automatically by a computer. Please feel free to reply and your inquiry will be answered as best possible by a human being. |
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Former Member
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 Hi UKSCS....Please ask your doctor if he has any contacts in the Crohn's research community and try and point them to the RFP section of the World Community Grid website. I have friends with this disease and IBS and would like to see a cure also! As dreplogle states, anything the members can do to increase awareness will help get the word out to researchers and hopefully speed up the timeline for cures! |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Since WCG started out with the same software as grid.org, I would say that points just pile up as usual, regardless of which project you may be working on. Points is points. Parts is parts. There will be global statistics split out by project, but I don't think the split is captured for members and teams, unless WCG would be doing something new. retsof, We actually do have the stats by project in the database at the level of device, user, team_user, team and country. This means that it is possible to create pages in the stats section of the website that could show a teams contribution to HPF, project A, Project B and Project C. After our big rollout of changes coming up (new project, linux client, french, etc) we might be able to take a look at the statistics pages and come up with some new pages to show this or other things that the users might like to see. If you would like can you start a new thread to start a user discussion of changes you would like to see on the stats pages? I cannot promise changes but input from the users is definitely read and considered when we do our planning. I like that this would be a good way for new teams to be able to compete against established teams and so encourage new teams to recruit heavily. knreed |
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Former Member
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Hi UKSCS....Please ask your doctor if he has any contacts in the Crohn's research community and try and point them to the RFP section of the World Community Grid website. Actually my doc is one of the big researchers for Crohn's. My wife, purely by accident, started doing genetic research for him one day and is still doing it. He went to her PI needing someone in molecular genetics to run samples for him. Just so happens I was newly diagnosed, which my wife's PI knew, but didn't realize the doc requesting was my doc. I'll send the link to my doc and let him run with it. Paul |
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Former Member
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Great!
You never know, that may just be the note that starts an action/reaction to find the cure!  |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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...The best way we can all help the Advisory Board, in addition to donating our PCs, is to contact non-profit research organizations, make them aware of World Community Grid, and urge them to send in RFPs. With everyone’s help, we may just be able to provide the compute power to eradicate some terrible disease... Can anyone from WCG contact some of the groups listed below. Protein Folding Research: http://www.tulane.edu/~NOProFIG/ They are probably closed for awhile.
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TKH
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Aug 13, 2005 Post Count: 775 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thank you for this impressive list thom217!
We have already contacted many of these organizations but will be sending out additional letters as soon as we have the HPF database ready for researchers and scientists around the world. The database will help illustrate the power that World Community Grid, through it's members, brings to the research communities efforts to find answers and cures. |
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Former Member
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I'll add one to the list you can contact.
www.ccfa.org paul |
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