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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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First it's a
---------------------------------------- you know why!!! (Tuesday again Sek) Secondly that's the 3rd or 4th mention of a fact sheet/flyer in as many days. bbover3 (The IBM project Manager) promised us he was looking in to it I hope it turns up soon. Must dash train to catch  Dave  |
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Hey!
Well, having had some experience in non-profit fundraising, at both the individual and corporate levels, I'd say hit em up! But most corporate givers donate in the last fiscal quarter of a year, not the first. So, you've got to tell them why it's so important to there bottom line to give early. now, getting them them to make an " Alliance for a Cure ", or some kind of group hug fest for them, well.... They love that kind of stuff. Good press, free advertising!!! Uh..... I'm getting bored again... I'm going back to the I'm bored thread... |
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Sekerob
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The top ten and ALL OVER 55,000 CPU days
----------------------------------------WeekDay Date Time CPU Days All but one from January 2007..... unleashed. 
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Hi Y'all...
Hey Sekerob, I liked that link you left on the Aids@ at Home forum. It is humbling. Made me think. Check out my reply... |
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cio_redulla
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I'd love to see you succeed Movieman. One question though - who would they donate this equipment to? I know there's plenty of us here that would be more than willing to accept it  but they'll be looking for some tax-exempt group. If you have connections to one, let them be the target. But here's a second angle - convince your contacts to start crunching for WCG. Sell them on it and then work with them as they work within their companies to sell becoming a partner with WCG. Donating equipment would be great. Getting every machine in Intel, etc. crunching for WCG would be amazing. Imagine them adding something like "Intel Inside - Crunching for Cures" to their ads! There's a donation they'd be making every day that cost them virtually nothing! Hello, :-), I don't think Intel will donate any equipment to WCG. WCG is sponsored by IBM already and the two (Intel and IBM) are not very friendly at this time. Intel announced a breakthrough in the 45-nm fabrication technique. IBM (in cooperation with AMD) also announced their development in this technology. So, if we are to expect a sponsor from the processor 'department', then it would be AMD, not Intel. cio_redulla  |
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Yea, but fact sheets will mean nothing to folks like that. They know enough to keep things running nicely for the town but not enough about security to know that they won't get hacked. Fact sheets will only deal with facts, not fear. Not that I can blame them. It's tough enough keeping everything running nicely as it is. With the way hackers are these days, the "stock the moat with piranha, get the oil hot and raise the drawbridge" mentality is more a matter of self-preservation. After all, if something did go wrong, it would be their rear end on the line regardless of the facts - that is, for those that still have cheeks to begin with. Looking at it from their side, can you blame them? If you have the expertise, I'm sure it has to be tempting to ask them why they allow access to the internet at all, even for the townsfolk to get to the city's website. After all, that alone has to expose them to most of the same dangers as running WCG (if not more). Your only real hope is to get the higher ups to make the decision that they are doing to do it and it's up to the IT folks to see to it that it's done and still secure. Recruiting for WCG seems to be like selling insurance. You have to make a lot of cold calls to get one good lead. But one good lead is worth it if you can take all the rejection. You are absolutely right about fact sheets and CIOs. We have CIO geared fact sheets about World Community Grid and there isn't a week that goes by where we don't talk to a CIO of some large company about joining World Community Grid. It always comes down to security first (aka fear of the unknown) and second, they always ask about other companies in their industry who are on the grid. They all seem to be waiting for some other company to join first. We've even had the IBM CIO (who is a big fan of World Community Grid) on phone calls with peers at other mega orgs and still no luck. But we will keep trying and one of these days the first one will join and then others will follow. |
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Diana G.
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Gotta keep believing that the breakthrough is coming!! It will happen just don't stop pushing forward
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David Autumns
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Hi bbover3
----------------------------------------If you have CIO geared fact sheets about World Community Grid could you make them generally available on the WCG site just in case we bump into, or maybe we actually are CIO's, along the the way. A nice colo Dave |
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Movieman
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Hi bbover3 If you have CIO geared fact sheets about World Community Grid could you make them generally available on the WCG site just in case we bump into, or maybe we actually are CIO's, along the the way. A nice colourful PDF would be just the ticket Dave Seconded !!!!!!!!!  |
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Sekerob
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Will It, Will It break thru the 150 CPU years or 55,000 CPU days this Friday? Thursday was better than all previous Thursday at 56656 (155 yrs) and the last 7 days have all been the best ever.... it's the TGV blazing from Paris to Lyon (not steam Dave ;>)
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