| | 1 | What are the volunteer issues? |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | - user motivation |
| | 4 | - interested in science |
| | 5 | - VC as a game: stats, etc |
| | 6 | - general altrusim |
| | 7 | - retention levels for various groups/motivations? |
| | 8 | - esp in context of multi-project services |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | - treat each user category separately? |
| | 11 | - different services/types of services for each group |
| | 12 | - science types: need forums, techie |
| | 13 | - or: can they be combined synergistically? |
| | 14 | - trickle down summaries of science |
| | 15 | - tech support |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | - stats: |
| | 18 | mark's market research |
| | 19 | - % of people who would take action in support of charity much larger than % of people who would take action in support of science? |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | - relative merits of single-app projects vs multi-app aggregators like WCG, ibercivis, etc. |
| | 23 | - absence of science discussions in multi-app projects |
| | 24 | - do people know what they are doing? |
| | 25 | - retention? |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | - it's not all free |
| | 30 | - volunteers are not working for free: they get paid in "results" -- scientific results, stats, social factors. |
| | 31 | - everything is financed: distribution of financing in volunteer computing |
| | 32 | - outreach: think of it as a grant application, submitted to tens of thousands of reviewers |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | what is the value to project scientists of the user community |
| | 35 | - additional labor (distributed thinking) |
| | 36 | - value of outreach: public education (ex malaria awareness) |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | what to do |
| | 40 | |
| | 41 | science |
| | 42 | - more news |
| | 43 | - more involvement, more to do (distributed thinking) |
| | 44 | - more science info (BG info) |
| | 45 | scientific "translation" service |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | altrusim |
| | 48 | - get grant to do good popsci writing about projects |
| | 49 | - proper PR |
| | 50 | when getting a grant, should be required to get funding to allocate resources to writing, PR |
| | 51 | this should be a requirement of funding agencies |
| | 52 | - poss. adt'l involvement, depending on details |
| | 53 | - social status (badges) rather than credits (ie, different incentive system) |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | stats/gaming crowd |
| | 56 | - self organized: teams, etc. |
| | 57 | - push info into those groups (news, etc) |
| | 58 | - just feed them credits |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | …a good model: communities of shared interests |
| | 61 | - what are the causes sufficient to motivate action? |
| | 62 | - organize communities around these |
| | 63 | |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | bundle PR/outreach plan w. BOINC software |
| | 66 | - best practices |
| | 67 | |
| | 68 | but: insufficient resources to implement, so: |
| | 69 | |
| | 70 | community of communicators |
| | 71 | -- social middleware -- every bionic project is a distributed thinking project designed to produce new users -- |
| | 72 | - writing |
| | 73 | - PR |
| | 74 | …just ask -- there are people to do this. |
| | 75 | …seek professionals in misc domains |
| | 76 | |
| | 77 | social middleware |
| | 78 | - credit for new recruitment of volunteers (rather than new credits) [badges: social status] |
| | 79 | - credit for translations [badges] |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | motivations |
| | 82 | - financial reward |
| | 83 | - social status |
| | 84 | - intellectual interest / learning |
| | 85 | - altruism |
