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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
BOINC's funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation has ended, at least for the time being. This funding supported me, Rom Walton, and Charlie Fenton. We're now working on other things, although we'll stay involved in BOINC at some level. The BOINC project will continue, and will be run according to a community-based model rather than centrally. In essence, the people who contribute to BOINC now make the decisions about it. This model is summarized here: [url]http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectGovernance[/url] and described in detail here: [url]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...27oM8YpvsnR-gg[/url] There will probably be little visible change. The BOINC software will continue to work. The translation system, Alpha testing project, BOINC web site,message boards, and email lists will continue to operate. However, any new development and major bug fixes to BOINC will need to be done by volunteer programmers. I'm confident that the BOINC community will meet the challenge. I welcome your feedback. Please post it to [email]boinc_admin@googlegroups.com[/email], a new email list for discussions about the BOINC project as a whole. -- David [url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77650[/url] |
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Former Member
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If not mistaken, there is already a discussion, to include a comment by the admin.
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
But I agree with Coleslaw, this is the right forum
----------------------------------------Cheers Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006 |
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4835 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
It's good to read that WCG/IBM is picking up Rom Walton, a Programmer/Analyst at UC Berkeley and member of the Boinc Project Management Committee. That is showing a leadership commitment to Boinc and the Distributed Computing community in general. Welcome Rom, in whatever your capacity is at WCG.
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2291 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Having seen the forum (seti/berkeley/edu....) link above
----------------------------------------all of this seem very technical for me. Is BOINC just an engine that allows a community as WCG to contribute to scientific research? The contribution of the Grid is for me essential relating to cancer,orphan diseases,tropical diseases (neglected and menacing the occidental world now). More valuable than searching life in outer space. Its better and more enduring and rewarding to donate through crunching than donate one time a year to a charity. Long live to WCG! Whatever the engine. |
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