Retention, Publicity, Teams, Help Publicise BOINC. Discussion 2.

This discussion was along similar lines to the earlier discussion with a similar heading.

• Retaining users is as important as recruitment of new users.
• Gathering info about why users stop.
• Skype contacts to help.
• Research reasons why users leave projects.
• Ask new users how things are going?
• Tooting horn v Buzz Marketing.
• Old news Results/New? angles, making it hard to get in.
• BOINC logos and slogan might help with publicity; “Do you BOINC?”
• Possible selective marketing to top users.
• More tools to publicise BOINC.

• Frequent news posts, revise project pages for this.
• Separate Technical news. Science news/ Project news.
• Problems with sharing news. Update RSS feed.
• Get better data and stats on retention. Analyse it, deduce best practice, and experiment with best approaches.
• Get companies to join BOINC (Very challenging, security!).
• Monthly BOINC newsletter, Default ticked to “Opt in”. Example ISGTW.
• Do publicity, list as many ways as possible on one page with links to more detailed ways for each method.
• New opportunities, Myspace, Facebook, Web buttons.
• Enthusiastic users will help if they have easy access to lots of ideas.
• Learn from other grid computing; Folding@home.