Posts by Jack

21) Message boards : API : GROMACS (Message 20860) Posted 17 Oct 2008 by Jack Post: Any projects using GROMACS? I'm thinking about using this molecular dynamics application on Hydrogen@Home since it is GNU.
22) Message boards : BOINC client : NVIDIA CUDA (Message 20859) Posted 17 Oct 2008 by Jack Post: I could not get a CUDA version of VMD or NAMD for Windows. Any idea if that is in the works?
23) Message boards : Promotion : Creating a unified marketing effort. for whatever final "brand" BOINC unifies under (Message 20855) Posted 17 Oct 2008 by Jack Post: I began a seperate thread dedicated to organizing topics for our discussion. Feel free to add or suggest we remove items from our discussion. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3238#20854
24) Message boards : Promotion : Unification Agenda Topics (Message 20854) Posted 17 Oct 2008 by Jack Post: In response to this thread http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3230 I think we should take initiative in developing discussion topics for a future conference. I will try to outline the topics and subtopics in logical manner so we can be methodical in our discussions. Please share your thoughts on whether certain items are appropriate for this discussion or we have ignored important issues. 1) Define BOINC Unification BOINC Unification is BOINC Unification is not 2) Promoting BOINC Promoting the BOINC middleware Promoting individual projects Defining the audience Defining promotional methods Market research & interpreting results 3) Public Policy Define future goals in government policies towards BOINC Tax incentives Intellectual property discussions Marketing technologies originating from BOINC & BOINC projects 4) Finance Tax Exempt Research Endowments Startup grants for projects Long term funding for BOINC Middleware development & maintenance
25) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC in the News (Message 20611) Posted 1 Oct 2008 by Jack Post: QCN: Shake it all about Good call, I was about to post this one.
26) Message boards : Promotion : Analyse of the user survey and improvments (Message 19772) Posted 26 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Hi Saenger, Who has access to the private data asked on the very first page (and probably more to follow)? How is the trustworthiness of this possible private data harvesting tool proven? I'll have to discuss this question with Andrew, I don't know how to research this question. In the pivacy policy it's differentiated between the user (that's if I understand it correct the originator of the survey, Jack, not us participants) and a company called "MarketTools, Inc.". I suspect private companies of not treating my private data confidential as a first guess, they have to prove their trustworthiness somehow. Is it absolute guaranteed that my private data will never be used for other purposes but this survey, and definitely not in some unwanted marketing lists? "MarketTools, Inc." provides a service for our Non-profit corporation. Our non-profit corporation is called "The Foundation for Computer Science & Learning" which is a newly formed organization established to advocate and promote BOINC projects. The purpose for these questions is for our presentation and paper we intend to publish. We don't ask any contact information, so I don't see how it could be used in a marketing list. Furthermore, that is not our intention. We do have a revised survey now, http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2286WHPXQ8K
27) Message boards : Promotion : BOINC Merchandise based on Participation Levels? (Message 19769) Posted 26 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Hi, Any chance the EU store could have polo shirts similar to those in the US store? Or would they not be profitable enough? I'd certainly prefer a BOINC polo over a T-shirt, but that's just me. I'll be buying a t-shirt anyway if it's not possible. Edit: Perhaps I should have said 'popular enough' instead of popular. I don't know how these things work and I would obviously not want the store to loose money. Which polo do you like? The white or black? You should ask Rytis since he established the EU store. As far as being popular, that's not an issue with Spreadshirt. The store will host the site despite popularity, and I don't profit from the sales anyway.
28) Message boards : Promotion : Analyse of the user survey and improvments (Message 19547) Posted 17 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Please post comments on this survey http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB2285WCCC3R6
29) Message boards : Promotion : Analyse of the user survey and improvments (Message 19492) Posted 15 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Its an interesting thought Jack! 1. How would you plan to distribute the survey? This is a delicate question. We are planning to send a message to project administrators and ask them to distribute to their users. I don't know what the best strategy would be. 1) Certainly if Admins send an email to all their users asking them to fill it out, we would get lots of responses. Some of this would be negative because many people do not want to be bothered. That might turn people off. 2) Or they can post it on their forums where a tiny fraction of the users visit regularly. 3) Then there is RSS feeds. So I think I can provide suggestions to the Admins. Obviously it is up to them if they want to participate. 2. Would you expect a good response from both project admins and users? We will have to see how this turns out. 3. Is it likely to be much different to the current BOINC user survey? Or why do a different one instead of full analysis of the current survey? Yes, this will be different and specifically address demographic questions. Our intention is to support arguments for our paper 4. Who would you present the results to and what do you think might happen as a result of the survey? We will present preliminary results to project admins at Delaware and Grenoble. Then perform more comprehensive analysis on a larger sample. We intend to submit variations on this paper to different audiences. Ultimitately, we want to figure out how to improve our marketing on BOINC, figure out who uses BOINC, how we can get more people involved and maintain retention. We have some ideas on achieving these goals, we want to find evidence that to support our arguements. I can foresee great difficulty in this, but the concept is good! John.
30) Message boards : The Lounge : LHC Rap (Message 19448) Posted 12 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Gotta love the creativity. LHC Rap (via SciAm online). I love it! I was about to post it but I see you beat me to it!
31) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC in the News (Message 19403) Posted 10 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: I know its not BOINC, but NPR ran a story on a Dutch School teacher who discovered a new type of object using Galaxy Zoo. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93456780
32) Message boards : Promotion : BOINC Wristbands (Message 19348) Posted 8 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Stephen Colbert has given me a promotional idea for BOINC. We can make wristbands and give them to people more famous than ourselves. http://www.wristbandconnection.com
33) Message boards : Promotion : Promotional Pens (Message 19210) Posted 5 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: I am thinking about getting a bunch of promotional items to give away at some meetings this summer. Any opinions on promotional pens? This company does custom pens and other merchandise as a service. http://marcopromotionalproducts.com
34) Message boards : Promotion : You can't teach an old dog new tricks... (Message 19166) Posted 4 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Hello everyone, I have been putting together a BOINC project for the last 6 months or so and I've realized that a prime demographic is going almost completely unnoticed -- College Kids! First of all, the vast majority are computer-literate enough to start BOINC and keep it running. Second, their computers are primarily text-editing and music playing machines, both of which leave plenty of time and cpu cycles for BOINC. Third, they are easily susceptible to the bandwagon effect (I don't feel bad saying that, as I am a college kid, and I know full well how persuasive the effect can be). I believe the only thing preventing this demographic from participating is lack of awareness. To battle this, I will hopefully be interviewed by my University's Student Newspaper, and I will try to give a lot of good reasons why people should donate their extra computing time, if not to my project , then to any of the others. So if any of you have the ability to spread awareness on a college campus, I really feel that it would be time well spent. Nick Peterson ramseyathome.com I'm going about this myself I like John's suggestion about poster, but how about giving people free stuff? I understand you probably have a budget issue. But if you can afford something cheap with your logo and url. Pens, Pencils, buttons, stickers, hand them out on a campus and use that interaction to start a conversation. Maybe you have a way to make t-shirts really cheap. Bad Penguin is making me some postcards. He did that for Folding@Home.
35) Message boards : Promotion : Screen Savers (Message 19165) Posted 4 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Hello, I got a recomendation for Hydrogen@Home. Someone told me I should really get a screensaver going. Any recomendations on how to make one? I've never done this. Jack
36) Message boards : Promotion : BOINC Merchandise based on Participation Levels? (Message 19144) Posted 4 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: In addition to the spreadshirt store for US. I recently created a BOINC store in Cafepress. Here I stick to the standard BOINC logo. Again, I am not receiving any financial return from these purchases, though the company charges for its service. BOINC Merchandise http://www.cafepress.com/BOINC See what you think about this Hydrogen@Home logo. I have taken a comic book style for it. Maybe you despise it? In that case, give me an idea to run with. Better yet, exercise some of your own artistic talent! Hydrogen@Home Merchandise http://www.cafepress.com/Hydrogenathome
37) Message boards : Promotion : Analyse of the user survey and improvments (Message 19143) Posted 4 Aug 2008 by Jack Post: Andrew Gillette and I would like to distribute a set of surveys on the demographics of the BOINC Community. We would like to tailor our questions specific groups within the Community such as Volunteers and Admins. We intend to submit the results through a publication and present some of these findings in a presentation. Thoughts? Jack
38) Message boards : The Lounge : Arthur C. Clarke dies, aged 90. (Message 16983) Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Jack Post: For some time I've been fascinated by the idea of a space elevator as described in 3001. Arthur C. Clarke proposed using carbon dienes which form strong molecular chains. Much of the focus in space elevators looks at improving the tensile strength so the materials can support the weight of these massive structures. But another outside the box idea I've toyed with, using materials lighter than air. In this manner, you are not worried about the weight of objects pushing down; instead, containing gases. Imagine a sturdy cylinder, linked to a series of sturdy cylinders. Surround each segment with a balloon containing a mixture of helium and hydrogen that makes the gas flame retardant.
39) Message boards : Promotion : Complete "BOINC Unification" in one website (Message 16978) Posted 30 Apr 2008 by Jack Post: At first glance, this sounds like what Grid Republic is doing. How is this different?
40) Message boards : Server programs : New Project Management (Message 15231) Posted 4 Feb 2008 by Jack Post: I really like the new interface. A little disorienting at first but looks nicer.

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