What do you think our goal should be?

[Sephis]

I think we should try a donations thread like the folding team has. This will help people with spare parts and little other resources get more credit flowing. This has kinda been a personal goal of mine. I tried once some time ago, but it wasn't well received. Also, I agree with trying to get the team rank higher.

 

[SunRedRX7]

For getting users to switch to BOINC, it looks like Berkely is getting close to make that real easy.

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=11632#80044

Matt Lebofsky Project developer

There are several ducks we need to get in a row, but basically any day now we'll embark on the first step, which is to tell all new users to sign up for BOINC instead of the classic SETI@home.

Some of the aforementioned ducks include another database server transfer, a whole server closet reorganization, some web site updating, last minute bug fixing (and an ensuing new client release), a mass e-mail to all the old SETI@home users, etc.
This can (and is) actually all happening in parallel.

The main objective (a new database server) has already been completed and it is handling 25% of the expected full load without breaking a sweat.

When originally planning load on our system, we determined that we needed to at least be able to send out one million results a day. This was our goal. Right now we are generating and sending out 250,000 results a day without taxing our database server.

 

[zexmarquies01]

Our goal Is THE WORLD!!!

We shall not settle for anything less.

I remember when boinc came out. I also was leary about dumping Seti and starting boinc. i mean, i had all those WU's in Seti done...it felt wrong to just leave them, and switch. then the though of the possible hassle of switching....was kinda pushing me away from changing to boinc...

but now, i wish i had joined up with it earlier. At the moment, i only have 3 computers crunching ( The sites say i have had 10, which is actually less than that. i can think of only 6 off the top of my head. and one was an upgrade in processors. and such..). But i have only 3 computers crunching, Mine, And two of my friends. I'm in the top 50. i'm in 38th spot at the moment. trying to get higher.

So for any of the people out there, reading this that is thinking about going to boinc, listen. It is well worth it. The software is so easy to navigate, use, install an everything.
The only problems we ever see is the boinc servers go down. but for that reason, most of us have our preferences set up to keep like 6 days worth of WU's stocked up ( for me its 6, but my computer goes through all those in like 3 or 4 days. But thats because boinc THINKS my comptuer will do a WU in 3 hours and 23 min. when really my computer does it in 2 hours and 10 min. )

But if you have WU's stocked up, like i do. you never even really notice when the servers go down.

like a week ago, when boinc changed server stuff, they were down for a few days. i came close to using up all my WU's. but i had 6 left to do, when boinc went back up.

But trust me, other than there servers ( which as i said, you can get around by stocking up on WU's ), There is no disadvantage to switching to boinc. So if your thinking about it....DO IT. we need all the crunching power we can get! we are in the top 10 people!!! And we want to climb higher and higher. And when Seti closes, alot more teams will form in boinc. and other teams will start producing more Credits. so we need to add some NOS to our fuel, and get this sucker rolling at full throtle!!!


ok...i said enough. i get off topic easily too....i type to much....blah.

 

[FloridaBear]

Geez, I swear I don't have ESP. My earlier post was BEFORE the server went down today...but it certainly demonstrates my point well!

 

[Steven4563]

i think ill goal should be to get as high as possible

trying to force seti classic members is hard i think we will just have to wait for seti classi to shut down for good

 

[rajausa]

I think alot of those old seti classic users that say they are most definitly not going to convert ,some of those will .When classic goes down what are they going to do with all those Crunching Machines .Im sure most are already addicted to this . Some of them will be hard to convince ;but I think a whole lot of them will convert on their own with no problem .For some its just talk that they won't . There is only one spot for this team i feal ;and that is nothing ;but # 1 When seti classic converts ; we should get swamped . Those in the top ten probably wont be for long after . I feel with some exra effort and some good ideas from some of you that have been with the team awhile can come up with some good ideas to help this team to the top and some of you already have some good ideas Crunch on everyone

 

[ewl2]

I agree that alot won't switch till after classic shuts down. But if we are thinking strategy the earlier we get them moved over, the more we can move up before the teams above us get flooded with their classic users

 

[GMINI03]

okay instead of finding new people, or converting classic users, how about contacting those who are part of the team but not active? Especially the big guns near the top. I saw someone had 29 machines but is no longer producing credits. A person with 29 machines would be a valuable asset.

 

[FloridaBear]

i think ill goal should be to get as high as possible

That was my goal in college too, but that's another story

 

[Enkidu]

That was my goal in college too, but that's another story

LOL - oi vey

okay instead of finding new people, or converting classic users, how about contacting those who are part of the team but not active? Especially the big guns near the top. I saw someone had 29 machines but is no longer producing credits. A person with 29 machines would be a valuable asset.

That is a good idea - but again I ask how do we contact these people We don't have addresses - if they are still active and using the forums they probably won't be convinced just by our asking them to join - and if they are inactive they aren't surfing forums either

Not sure what the solution is unless we can get ahold of a membership list. Barring that I think we should focus on recruiting 'new' memebers. This does not need to be some high-tech initiative - getting a friend or coworker involved.

Just a thought.
Enk

 

[GMINI03]

I seem to remember the team founder having access to email addresses ... or at least I think that was in the privacy statement/TOS when I joined.

 

[zulfy26]

Is the founder active? Or... do we have any way of contacting him?

 

[Dk Jedi Allianc]

Actually I think it is Tim (TC) who got the passwords etc from the founder. So try him.