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Thread: Any rewards to the Grid members for their contribution ? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi all,
Does the WCG group plan for any rewards program to the Grid members for their contribution ? I guess this will be the carrot for the horse.. What say ... ? regards, Ravisankar |
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Nick-MMX
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 24, 2006 Post Count: 108 Status: Offline |
its meant to be a donation. You already get one reward: the knowledge that you have done something to help the world.
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This topic is one of several entry points to the 9 circles of forum heck WCG can't afford to give any inducements (1) because they don't make any money (2) from the work we do and because they don't engage in any fundraising (3).
----------------------------------------IBM seems to favor organic growth (4) over rapid expansion. These decisions relate to their philosophy (5) of how such a project should be run. These are the only related topics I could think of off the top of my head but I'm sure there are more. Personally, I think it would be a good idea if the project were a little more glitzy and at least took donations, but it just isn't going to happen. And to be fair, there are good arguments on both sides of all these issues. They're just not our call to make. edited for inappropriate language...cih note: replaced **** with heck to fix problem with inappropriate language.   [Edit 2 times, last edit by twilyth at Feb 13, 2009 6:40:29 PM] |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2984 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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To my own mind, we already do get rewarded - by the knowledge that we're contributing to progress science via donating our spare computer cycles. The main evidence of this for the vast majority of people, are the badges that they're proud to display - saying that they've contributed (or rather, their computer has contributed - we get the easy part of the equation), x hours of spare CPU towards y project.
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Nick-MMX
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 24, 2006 Post Count: 108 Status: Offline |
We already get rewarded. Just an Idea I had, Maybe you guys could make a WCG calender? make it cost a bit more than it does to produce (hint hint).
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
We get badges made form 99.999% pure Internet gold!!! What more can we ask for?
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2984 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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We get badges made form 99.999% pure Internet gold!!! What more can we ask for? the other 0.001% of Internet gold ? |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1453 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I guess there might be some link to print the certificate of computation
----------------------------------------If not on this site - you can get a cross-project certificate on your account page of another project |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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the money cannot be given, but the users can be rewarded!
----------------------------------------IBM is a global company...as a global company it has offices in most of the countries in the world...so it could give "discount" for their products to the members which use WCG! it is on IBM to decide which products (hardware, software or both) are for eligible for discount! that would also boost the sales for the IBM...and the "crunchers" would be rewarded for their contribution! |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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WCG I think (will let someone else confirm) is a separate entity that happens to be funded by IBM. But for some that may be a distinction without a difference.
----------------------------------------Anyway, you can be rewarded for your contribution with downloading bandwidth from Easynews. If you join their team, they give you a certain amount of bandwidth depending on how much work you do. There's a little more info here. It seems you get 1 gig of bandwidth for every 15 days of cpu time. [Edit 1 times, last edit by twilyth at Feb 20, 2009 2:59:25 PM] |
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