7 and 11 most important ones currently IMHO. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Anderson" <[email protected]> To: "Boinc Projects" <[email protected]>; "BOINC Developers Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 3:36 AM Subject: [boinc_dev] results of a user survey
7. Raising awareness Get new users: Contact universities/schools and ask them to contribute to scientific research by running BOINC as a background task when their lab computers are idle and unused for any other purpose. That alone would give BOINC thousands more cores. Raise awareness about the system: Show people that volunteer computing does not compromise security of Local Area Networks in professional/business environment. Marketing: Better marketing, projects that can have a more immediate impact on society, especially in third world economies. 11. Promotion Publicity: Advertise much more about. Provide more information to a broader public. Word to Mouth: Get governments, schools, universities, NGOs and other organizations etc. to promote volunteer computing. Even private businesses could run it on their office computers and maybe advertise their involvement on their products. Untapped computer power lies in universities and schools: A vast amount of untapped computer power lies in universities and high schools. ‘My high school alone has over 300 computers, and I believe it is a fair assumption that universities have even more. However, when browsing through profiles and groups, you rarely see schools.’ Link to UC Berkeley: Advertise that the project is based at UC Berkeley. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
