What are the volunteer issues?

	- user motivation
		- interested in science
		- VC as a game: stats, etc
		- general altrusim
	- retention levels for various groups/motivations?
		- esp in context of multi-project services

	- treat each user category separately?
		- different services/types of services for each group
			- science types: need forums, techie
		- or: can they be combined synergistically?
			- trickle down summaries of science
			- tech support
			
	- stats: 
	  mark's market research
		- % of people who would take action in support of charity much larger than % of people who would take action in support of science?


	- relative merits of single-app projects vs multi-app aggregators like WCG, ibercivis, etc.
		- absence of science discussions in multi-app projects
		- do people know what they are doing?
			- retention?
		
	

	- it's not all free
		- volunteers are not working for free: they get paid in "results" -- scientific results, stats, social factors.
		- everything is financed: distribution of financing in volunteer computing
		- outreach: think of it as a grant application, submitted to tens of thousands of reviewers
		
what is the value to project scientists of the user community
	- additional labor (distributed thinking)
	- value of outreach: public education (ex malaria awareness)


what to do

	science
		- more news
		- more involvement, more to do (distributed thinking)
		- more science info (BG info)
			scientific "translation" service

	altrusim
		- get grant to do good popsci writing about projects
		- proper PR 
			when getting a grant, should be required to get funding to allocate resources to writing, PR
			this should be a requirement of funding agencies
		- poss. adt'l involvement, depending on details
		- social status (badges) rather than credits (ie, different incentive system)

	stats/gaming crowd
		- self organized: teams, etc.
			- push info into those groups (news, etc)
			- just feed them credits

			…a good model: communities of shared interests
				- what are the causes sufficient to motivate action?
				- organize communities around these
		

bundle PR/outreach plan w. BOINC software
	- best practices 

but: insufficient resources to implement, so:

community of communicators
-- social middleware -- every bionic project is a distributed thinking project designed to produce new users -- 
	- writing
	- PR
  …just ask -- there are people to do this.
  …seek professionals in misc domains

social middleware
	- credit for new recruitment of volunteers (rather than new credits) [badges: social status]
	- credit for translations [badges]

motivations
	- financial reward
	- social status
	- intellectual interest / learning
	- altruism