| 1 | Summary of BOF on User issues including Credit |
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| 4 | Deadlines: |
| 5 | * Client should abort a work unit that has already missed its deadline. |
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| 7 | Credits: |
| 8 | * Granting credits should be uniform across projects. |
| 9 | * Percentile approach to credits (i.e. top 10% more important than the actual number) is a possible way to normalize. |
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| 11 | Richer Client: |
| 12 | * Current client is rather barebone. It should be possible to add more features, such as chat, announcements, message boards, RSS feeds |
| 13 | * Additional features should be plugins which would be tied (and downloadable from) specific projects. |
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| 15 | Uniform connection projects: |
| 16 | * Should be possible to connect to any project in a uniform way with a single click. |
| 17 | * One interface to connect to a BOINC project and an account manager. |
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| 19 | Auto update: |
| 20 | * Auto update for clients should be supported, It may be in the form of an alert with instructions to update. |