| 34 | | Include some or all of the following points in your letter or forum posting: |
| 35 | | |
| 36 | | * Volunteer computing is doing research in a wide range of areas, from medicine to climate change. It's not just SETI and prime numbers any more. |
| | 34 | To get a magazine to write about BOINC, you need to convince them |
| | 35 | that there's something new and exciting. |
| | 36 | Here are some possible "talking points": |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | * Volunteer computing is doing research in a wide range of areas, from medicine to climate change. There are new projects all the time. It's not just SETI and prime numbers any more. |
| 37 | 39 | * With BOINC, you're not locked in to one project. You can run as many as you want, and change whenever you want. Many "stats sites" are available to show your credit totals all in one place. |
| 38 | 40 | * BOINC gives you extensive control over when and how your computer is used, including CPU throttling and day-of-week preferences. |
| 39 | 41 | * Each BOINC-based project has a global community of volunteers, with whom you can communicate using message boards, profiles, and private messages. |
| 40 | 42 | * BOINC is open source, and many of the projects' applications are too. It's possible (and encouraged) for volunteers to optimize applications for specific architectures. |
