A 'BOINC-wide team' is one that teams that exist on all BOINC projects, present and future, with an identical name and founder email address.

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1. Create an account and a team on this site. If you already have a team on one or more BOINC projects, use the exact same team name and email address.

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The list of teams and accounts on this site is periodically imported by each BOINC project. Teams and accounts that don't already exist on that project are added. If the team exists and is owned by you (i.e. its founder has the same email address), then its URL, description etc. are updated.

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* The email address and team name you use on this site should never be changed (if you change them, you'll need to manually change them on every BOINC project in order for updates to work). Pick an email address that won't go away any time soon.

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I suspect I may be the only, or one of the few, members of my team (Catalunya) who know about this. There are multiple founders. They are mostly interested in organising group talks, meetings and dinners in sunny and elegant or historical places. When I've worked out in my own mind what would have to be done to change things, I may consider asking them about it.

The advantage of becoming a BOINC-wide team is, as you say, having the team name reserved in advance on new projects. As the number of projects grows, this aspect will become more important.

Anyone of the developers with an answer to my question?

How is this BOINC-wide teams list supposed to work with multi-founder teams?

And what is suposed to happen with customised team descriptions for each project? I fail to see a click box "Do update team profile on existing teams yes/no"
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So there is no use for this "feature" for the second bigest team in BOINC, SETI.Germany.

To keep the same founder address may be usable, even for bigger teams, if some fake account is used to which more than one member have access, but the team description has to be project individual, not some boring, nonsensical, blah-blah without specialities for this project.

We have 28 founders on the BOINC projects, and we have a different description on all projects, with a standard part and some custom part in it. This has to stay this way, diversity is better than uniformity. If this "feature" will one day mess with our teams presentation, I think we will get unpleasant.

Who led this half-baked "feature" lose on the public?
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So, on one hand it seems like a fine idea to have the name SETI.Germany kind of copyrighted in new projects from the beginning...

Who led this half-baked "feature" lose on the public?

Oh yeah, and the default founder no longer exists, as is the case for my own team. How he got set up as the default team founder is a mystery to me and my team. I am guessing the default teams were simply copied from SETI, where he is also founder.

(Aside)
I don't think the Catalans are ready for This yet, or This for the Catalans. Like Manuel in Fawlty Towers they would all say 'Qué??????'.

I've asked for a transparent team description option, or an option to check/uncheck if you want the description to propagate to other projects.

For now, BOINC-wide teams will have the same description on all projects. Changing this is possible but not right now.

-- David

Edith says:
I think I'll open a new ticket about this bug.

My ticket was closed by davea with the ridiculous remark about some dubious google group. WTF has this data mining company to do with this project? Google is no serious provider, they are just an information sucker without any sense of privacy.

Ain't this or the different mailing lists and project fora the only valid discussion places? Using google devaluates the merit of this enterprise quite considerably.

From the dubious Google-group, probably by David Anderson, as long as it's not here or in the trac I can't say for sure:

I'm preparing to add a "team admin" feature.
The current plan is as follows; please review and comment.

- A team founder can select members of that team as "admins"
(if an admin quits the team, he/she ceases to be an admin)
- An admin of a team can:
- edit its name/URL/description/type/country
- remove members
- view the member list (w/ email addrs)
- An admin cannot:
- change the founder, or accept a change-founder request
- add or remove admins

-- David

What is this dubious group about? It's not a proper place for discussions. It's now readable without surrendering your privacy to the "Datenkrake" Google, but it's definitely no proper place for discussions about BOINC.

There is this official forum to talk about such stuff or the dev-list, full stop. Everything else is just BS.

I did find this bit of official documentation:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/TeamDiscussion

Author:
davea (IP: 130.75.117.49)
Timestamp:
09/13/07 02:01:53 (2 months ago)

David Anderson was active again without using the proper means of communication but the shady back room. He has changed the team founder possibilities, and implemented this already on Seti, SetiBeta and BOINC Alpha:

Team founders can nominate Admins, who can change team description and such. They have access to the email addresses of the team members as well (something the users were not aware of while signing to the team, imho a breach of privacy).
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David Anderson was active again without using the proper means of communication but the shady back room. He has changed the team founder possibilities, and implemented this already on Seti, SetiBeta and BOINC Alpha.

Is it me, or is http://www.boincteams.com/ not available? I get an error "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.boincteams.com."

Works for me too.
Netscape and Firefox.

Is it me, or is http://www.boincteams.com/ not available? I get an error "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.boincteams.com."

So there is no use for this "feature" for the second bigest team in BOINC, SETI.Germany.

To keep the same founder address may be usable, even for bigger teams, if some fake account is used to which more than one member have access, but the team description has to be project individual, not some boring, nonsensical, blah-blah without specialities for this project.

We have 28 founders on the BOINC projects, and we have a different description on all projects, with a standard part and some custom part in it. This has to stay this way, diversity is better than uniformity. If this "feature" will one day mess with our teams presentation, I think we will get unpleasant.

Who led this half-baked "feature" lose on the public?

Idea ....

If you setup your BOINC team with a general e-mail address (different from your project team founder e-mail address), then your team (by-the-same-name) on individual projects will not get updated.

If your team doesn't exist on a project (or new project), then your team name will get created with your general e-mail address. After team created, then you should be able to change founder's e-mail address to the individual who acts as team founder for THAT project.