Team discussion

Web feature requests

• Membership change tracking: a mechanism for finding changes in team membership (join/leave) over time. One approach: add new DB table. Or maybe automated email to team founder on join/leave.

• Membership management: include email addresses in sortable team list, instead of having a separate page

• ability to send "mass PM" to team members.

• ability to send mass email to team members. Problem: what about bounces? Could this be exploited by spammers?

Client feature requests

• Ability to show an RSS feed (maybe in the Messages tab).

Team challenges

• One team can challenge another to see who can increase total credit the most over a given time period. Note: this is a little tricky because of the delay in credit granting. You'd have to do some of your computing a little before the time period.
• Natural rivalries: Army vs. Navy; Michigan vs. Ohio State; France vs. Germany, etc.
• Maybe a BOINC Olympiad, based on computation per capita.
• Some notion of "weight classes" (like wrestling), with a "virtual championship belt" for each class. Winners/losers move up/down in class.

Consistency of team names between projects

It would be nice if teams were actually BOINC-wide. How do we deal with the situation where the same team name exists on different projects with different owners?

• Should teams be BOINC-wide rather than project specific?
• If so, how to resolve current inconsistencies?
• Should people be able to belong to different teams on different projects?