Website funding?

Since the Team founding, back in June 2004, until November 2006, the entire cost of webhosting and website maintenance has been met by the generosity of the Team Founder as well as the kind support (in terms of time and labour) of Dazza and other Team members.

And since our humble beginning, the team has grown from nothing to now having over 1,800 members - most of whom contribute towards BOINC (and hence our Team) by providing their PC resources free of charge to each of the members chosen projects.

This is what is good about distributed computing.
And of course this is all greatly appreciated...especially by the various projects who really need our help.

BUT. There comes a time when the Team has to grow!
Our Aim is to continue to attract participation in the BOINC projects so that everyone can benefit from the research carried out following the return of the work from each members PC.

We have obviously already done this by creating this website and a Team forum so as to attract the "converted" who already know about BOINC.

But there are lots of people who now have computers and who DON'T KNOW about BOINC.
So, one of our aims is to educate the public and tell them about BOINC and how they can help using their own PC.

And to do this we need to produce some advertising, either online or by way of flyers, and other types of literature, even some BOINC and UBT-branded items.
By using these, we hope to be able to increase the public participation in all of the BOINC projects.

This requires financial resources, which are beyond the scope and affordability of single individuals - but as a group, we can easily afford the quite meagre expenses that may be incurred.

So, this is a call for donations....from individuals as well as from business and/or corporate sponsorship to help us win over more people to BOINC

And in return for your support, we will provide you with a Team keepsake as recognition of your contribution (this is still "pending" - due to a supplier issue).
We'll even provide you with a NICE SHINY STAR, to be displayed on your Team Stats logo...and that's gotta be worth something!


So, please consider making a pledge of funds towards our cause by clicking on the link here:
(link to SECURE PayPal website, with the name "timom" and "UK BOINC Team" quoted within the PayPal page)

link to current accounts

THANK YOU for your support

This is NOT a scam - all monies donated will be properly receipted and accounted for and will be used to help promote the UK BOINC Team.

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