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:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectGovernance and described in detail here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...27oM8YpvsnR-gg
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
boinc_admin@googlegroups.com, a new email list for discussions about the BOINC project as a whole.
-- David
