Well, PoppaGeek, I don't know about other Ripple team members, but with or without getting XRPs as a reward, I'm staying. If my computer, together with other people's, can help make a tiny bit of good, then why would I stop that?

As a cruncher who saw an opportunity to make a small amount of money doing what I already was doing for 2 years, I guess I have to say goodbye to my free money.

On the bright side though, through a XRP to Bitcoin Exchange, I managed to make around around $28 USD (in Bitcoin -> USD prices as of 03/31/2014), for doing absolutely nothing but contributing to a grid I have learned to love.

Ripple Labs may leave from my team tag, but WCG is still going strong on my computer.

There have been previous attempts like CfG. Unfortunately, it was just a matter of time before it met the same fate. Once again, we see that true altruism cannot be bought. The scale of what CfG did accomplish has been most impressive though. It's had a huge impact on the amount of work done and exposed a large number of people to crunching and to WCG. Some number of them will understand the good of WCG and keep crunching. It's really good to read that WCG plans to reach out directly to these new folks and encourage them to stay with us. It will be a good thing no matter how many do stay but clearly the more the better! Let me add my encouragement for what it's worth. I've been crunching here since the beginning, well two days after the beginning, and I can't imagine not crunching. We've made a difference that will be measured in lives. It really is something special to be able to say that too. To those new to WCG via Ripple, please stick around. Get to know us better. You'll be glad you stayed. There are quite a few very active teams here. Join one of them. Admittedly I'd prefer you join MOT but the point is to join one of them. You'll get to know the comraderie that is unique to a team. We have our differences but we're all here for reasons that are far, far similar. Those reasons unite us irrregardless of any differences. Here, we can feel at home - a global home.

You're spot on. I'm one of those who discovered WCG by the team of Ripple Labs and definitely will continue donating computing power to some good cases. The only thing, besides the technical issue, that one could regret in the cooperation is the "one way advertising". RL did a great job to attract users for WCG, but I missed some active "thumbs up" in the other direction. Never understood why, as the RL project is also very much community orientated and may, just like WCG, help for a better world too. Just one example: Third world economies suffer a lot from Western financial control. Systems like Ripple want to, and will, give them a chance to take a bit of control to their own. Like the internet gave some communicating power back to the crowd, systems like Ripple will create a cheap and fast way to move & exchange values over the internet without control by any intermediate like banks, market makers....
So in my view there should be nothing wrong with supporting RL with some extra noise in the WCG community...

Adding to my previous comment, I sometimes had the impression that Ripple Labs team members seemed to be viewed by other teams as opportunistic money makers and donating only for the reward. Speaking for myself, and I believe for many other of our group members, this surely is not the case. I even think that my energy bill growth is above the XRP/USD reward that I earned. Is was clearly cheaper just to buy those 2500 XRP for under 25$. The combination of WCG and Ripple gave me rather the feeling that I was "Computing on 2 bodies for good". And on top of that the earned XRP/USD might have been useful for other donations.
By not accepting the XRPs, it's just the electric facility to profit yet?
Reusing the reward makes their energy less wasted too ...