From: David Anderson
Subject: [boinc_projects] declining volunteer population
Date: February 16, 2013 4:27:46 PM PST
To: Boinc Projects <boinc_projects@ssl.berkeley.edu>
The BOINC volunteer population began to decrease in early January,
and is now down by about 8,000:
http://boincstats.com/en/charts/-1/p...tive/chart.png
Let's try to reverse this trend.
There are a number of things you - BOINC-based projects - can do:
- Try to get in the media (as GIMPS did recently).
Ask your institution's publicity office for help doing this.
- Use BOINC's mechanisms for automatically emailing lapsed and failed users:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/...Reminderemails
- Send periodic email newsletters:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/...asedmechanisms
- Post news items on your web site, and export some of them as Notices
(so that they appear in your users' BOINC Managers).
If you have questions or problems doing any of these things,
please post to this email list.
And let us know if you have other ideas or experiences in this area.
-- David