UK BOINC Team - Your Team Needs You!

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:13 pm

Ok - considering it is:
a) nearly Christmas, and is the time for good deeds, ; and
b) 100 years since WWI, and a lot of war memorabilia is around (Including Lord Kitchener's "WE NEED YOU" posters),

I think it is time we had a huge push on recruitment, and spread the good work of UBT to others - anyone have any suggestions on how?

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:24 pm

I volunteer....

for Chris to be our recruitment officer!

It's been a few years since we had this thought before, with no success.

Problem is that there are very few outlets where we can find like minded people to approach. Tim did manage to get a radio interview on Radio Shropshire a few years ago - http://forum.ukboincteam.com/viewtopic. ... ight=radio
I think someone was going to try to write an article for 'Computer Active' but nothing came of that either - that might be a goer if someone has the know how of how to do it.

Mike

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:15 pm

That's good to hear, Mikee

And to get the recruitment process kicked off, click this link: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/v ... rId=951561 to join World Community Grid (WCG) for our team! WCG is currently Fighting AIDs, Outsmarting Ebola, and Mapping Cancer Markers, to name a few. So, come along and join the party at WCG!!

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:33 pm

To help recruit, I set up this: http://ukboincteam.wordpress.com/, and if there is anything ANY UBT member wants to say on the blog, PM me and I will post it

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 5:50 pm

Nice one!

Just found the WCG recruitment thread - hasn't been updated for years, perhaps you could do an update for that?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum ... et,0#59317

Mike

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:06 pm

on the blog?

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:45 pm

UBT - Chris wrote:To help recruit, I set up this: http://ukboincteam.wordpress.com/, and if there is anything ANY UBT member wants to say on the blog, PM me and I will post it

Hi Chris,

Excellent work

Furthermore, if you want, you could visit as many BOINC project message boards and put up a posting for UBT on their "Team Recruitment" section.

I have to say though, that mostly it will fall on deaf ears - as most crunchers tend to stay with a Team for a long time...a bit like bank accounts, where people set them up and keep them for ages (I've had my personal account with the same bank over 30 years !!).

New crunchers are more likely to join up, so you need to make sure that whatever posting you make is friendly, informative and straightforward.

regards
Tim

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:59 pm

30 years?! Wow! Sure thing - ill do as many as I can tomorrow, but I am about to go out tonight...

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:59 pm

I could also put a list of projects and a small description of them on the blog

rich2000k · Post by **rich2000k** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:50 am

I'm in some certain groups focussing on the fundamentals of interstellar travel on Facebook. With Milkyway and Asteroids being a pivotal role to the navigation of an interstellar ship I decided to share Milkyway's home page and the pro's of crunching. Some of the folks on there are die hard enthusiasts and will do all the can to help the cause.

You never know we may just get one or two newbies from it.

Hopefully it helps :)

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:05 am

that's perfect, rich - that's EXACTLY what we're looking for

could you even post UBT's name, so if they joined, they would join us and help the credits??

rich2000k · Post by **rich2000k** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:13 am

I'll mention it in my next post on there. Some of the topics really spur on heavy debates so it'll be easy enough.

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:32 pm

cheers, rich

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:33 pm

Can i have a list of ALL active boinc projects, please (ideally with websites), so I can get a message about our team out to everyone about our team?!

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:41 pm

I don't know if there's a list of website, but this page lists all active projects and clicking on each takes you to their website; http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:05 pm

cheers, Keith - I'll have a look later

Post by **UBT - Chris** » Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:55 pm

Active Projects:

ABC@Home http://abcathome.com/

Albert@Home http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/

AlmereGrid Boinc Grid AlmereGrid Boinc Grid

AlmereGrid TestGrid http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/

Asteroids@Home http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/

ATLAS@Home http://atlasathome.cern.ch/

Beal@Home bealathome.com

Bitcoin Utopia http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/

BOINC@Fiit http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/

BURP http://burp.renderfarming.net/

CAS@Home http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/

Citizen Science Grid http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/csg/

Climate Prediction climateprediction.net

Climate@Home http://climateathome.com/climateathome/

Collatz Conjecture http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/

Constellation http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/

CONVECTOR http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/

Cosmology@Home http://cosmologyathome.org

Distributed Data Mining http://www.distributeddatamining.org/

DistrRTgen http://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/

EDGeS@Home http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/

Einstein@Home http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

Enigma@Home http://www.enigmaathome.net/

FightMalaria@Home http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/

Gerasim@Home http://gerasim.boinc.ru/

GPUGRID http://www.gpugrid.net/

IBERCIVIS http://registro.ibercivis.es/

iGEM@home http://igemathome.org/

Leiden Classical http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/

LHC@Home Classic http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/

Malaria Control http://www.malariacontrol.net/

MilkyWay@home http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

MindModeling@Home http://mindmodeling.org/

Moo! Wrapper http://moowrap.net/

Najmanovich Research Group http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/

NFS@Home http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/

NumberFields@home http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/

OProject@Home http://oproject.info/

OPTIMA@HOME http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/

Pirates@Home http://pirates.spy-hill.net/

POEM@HOME http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/

primaboinca http://www.primaboinca.com/

PrimeGrid http://www.primaboinca.com

QMC@Home http://qmcathome.org/

Quake Catcher Network http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/

RADIOACTIVE@HOME http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/

RALPH@Home http://ralph.bakerlab.org/

Renderfarm.fi http://www.renderfarm.fi/

Rioja Science http://boinc.riojascience.com/

RNA World http://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/

Rosetta@Home http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

SAT@home http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/

SETI@Home http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

SETI@Home Beta http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/

SIMAP http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/

SLinCA http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/

Spatiotemporal Quality of Service http://199.26.254.190/qos/

SRBase http://srbase.myfirewall.org/sr5/

SZTAKI Desktop Grid http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/

The Lattice Project http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/

theSkyNet POGS http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/

TN-Grid http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/

Universe@Home http://universeathometest.info/universe/

VGTU project@Home http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/

vLHCathome http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/

Volpex http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/

WEP-M+2 Project http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/

World Community Grid http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

WUProp@Home http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/

YAFU http://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/

yoyo@home http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/

That is (as far as I'm aware) all of BOINC's active projects at the moment - I am working on a descrition for each project to go in this message, but that will take some time (this alone took nearly 45 mins)!