1) Message boards : News : NSF funds new model for BOINC (Message 78725) Posted 7 Jun 2017 by Qax Post: I agree with these guys. People want to choose where their resources are going.....people who boinc still. We like the current system. If there was a group "SPACE" - I mean....there are so many different projects and goals that that could be. Already within programs some already split resources (cern has multiple projects, some projects have beta testing, SETI has had astropulse and other, and the World Community Grid has many different goals). People donate money to charities specifically -- they don't just sent their money away to a consortium of all of the characterizes dealing with cancer or hunger, or human rights and let them split up our resources. This plan is completely deaf to what makes BOINCing fun for us. There do need to be some changes made -- we do need more users and to stop losing the ones we do have from attrition. This is not the solution though to that problem. I have some ideas.....but they are very different than this. I did see a problem and bought the domain boinc.org, hoping to eventually make a non-profit to try to keep people around longer. Whatever is being created, I am sure I will be out at that point.

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