BOINC and Team involvement

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BOINC and Team involvement

• This is a presentation on teams and their
  involvement in BOINC

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Who am I?

• Im John from Ireland
• I have been involved in teams and sport for many
  years
• I run a help website for BOINC teams
• WWW.BOINCTEAMS.COM

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BOINC has thousands of interconnected computers.
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There is no need for people to be involved at
all. Computers do the work
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Will BOINC or the projects involved work without
teams?.

• YES
• But it works better with teams

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Is BOINC a sport?

• Or can BOINC be a sport?

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Why is BOINC any different to any sport?
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• BOINC v SPORT

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In Soccer or American Football, Great teams
inspire others to get involved!
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You can run BOINC on your own. But it is more
fun if you join a team. Is BOINC any different
to any sport?
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• Users need to see boinc as
• Interesting
• Exciting
• Fun

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Foster the growth of small teams Give them the
tools to build great teams
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• Give team founders the tools
• Make teams Interesting for users
• Teams will promote your project
• They become a more active team
• More involved in your project
• Help retain current team members

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• Teach teams ways to recruit new team members
• Your project will gain from every new user
• Team founders will learn to advertise your
  project

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The tools that a team founder needs
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So whats wrong with BOINCprojects and team
involvement?
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Some issues that make it difficult for teams

• All projects need a team recruitment section
• Help section Ideas for how to promote BOINC and
  your project
• We must teach teams how to recruit
• Give teams the tools to bring in new users

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The current toolbox is almost empty
These are the current functions

• Edit team info
• Remove inactive members
• View team email addresses
• Change founder
• View change history (Only just introduced on
  SETI_at_home project)

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Top 30 teams discussion group

• BOINC wide team name registration
• More manageable team functions
• Team pages showing all team members
• Ability to send Mass PM" to team
• BOINC team competitions
• TEAM document to manage BOINC WIDE team
• Promote team members
• Team Assistant Manager
• Free team websites

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BOINC teams help section needed

• Full help section with clearly spelled out
  suggestions for
• Promoting BOINC
• Promoting each individual project
• How to recruit members for your team
• How to keep your team members active
• All linked to founder Management Functions

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WWW.BOINCTEAMS.COM BOINC TEAM LEADERS
ACTIVASTS FORUM

• Neutral meeting place for BOINC teams
• For anyone involved in a BOINC team, not just for
  team founders
• Help for anything to do with teams
• The goal is to help all BOINC projects
• We will develop more team tools in time

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WWW.BOINCTEAMS.COM

• BOINC TEAM MEMBER MONITORING DOCUMENT

Helps you to monitor your BOINC team on all BOINC
projects
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WWW.BOINCTEAMS.COMBOINC BATTLE of the TITANS
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WWW.BOINCTEAMS.COM
Free phpBB forum and website for any BOINC team
that wants one.Every team needs a website!
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How will helping teams help your project science?

• Help teams by giving them the tools
• Teams will learn to promote your project
• Teams will bring in new users
• More computing power to your project
• Drive the science for your project

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How can a project administrators help teams?

• Regularly visit the BOINC website
• Update your BOINC server software
• Introduce these new team functions
• Teams will have the latest tools to help promote
  your project

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More ways project administrator help teams?

• Individual projects could produce a help page
• Suggestions for advertising your project
• Clearly spell out methods for promoting your
  project
• Make letters, banners and posters for download
  from your website
• Spell out promotions methods clearly, or they
  wont happen
• Ask for suggestions on your forum

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Recap on the main points

• BOINC is a team sport, this makes it fun
• We need to improve and implement new team
  management functions
• Promote WWW.BOINCTEAMS.COM on your website
• Help teams on your project, teams will help you
  bring in new users if you teach them
• Update your server software regularly
• Create your project promotion help page with
  posters and letters for download

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Thank you for taking the time to listen to this
presentation