Posts by KaizenElectra

1) Message boards : News : New governance model (Message 63132)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by KaizenElectra
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Indeed - SETI@Home is one of many apps which run on the BOINC platform.

It follows that if the BOINC platform were to suffer misadventure, this would negatively impact this $100m initiative, which is using the SETI app and therefore depends on the continued operation of the BOINC platform.

So - guy has $100m riding on a community project that was recently defunded. What to do? Ignore it and risk $100m being derailed? Or spend a few % ensuring that it isn't?

WCG should have asked IBM to send BOINC a million. I think all the projects should do this, if they have a sponsor with the money. From the sponsor's point of view, it's good business sense to invest in the technology upon which their project depends.
2) Message boards : News : New governance model (Message 63130)
Posted 20 Jul 2015 by KaizenElectra
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BOINC's funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation has ended


Meanwhile, over on the BBC:


Prof Stephen Hawking backs venture to listen for aliens

[...]

The £64m ($100m) initiative was launched by the Breakthrough Initiatives group at the Royal Society in London.

[...]

The public will be invited to participate in efforts to find a signal from another world through the SETI@home project.

[...]

Yuri Milner, a high tech US based-billionaire and founder of the initiative said ... "With Breakthrough Listen, we're committed to bringing the Silicon Valley approach to the search for intelligent life in the Universe. Our approach to data will be open and taking advantage of the problem-solving power of social networks."

[...]


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33596271

Just to repeat, that's $100m headed somewhere in the direction of BOINC. I'm not sure if any of that will end up funding BOINC development. But it's fresh money, new momentum and will certainly add weight to any proposal for sponsorship initiated by the BOINC project itself.



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