A wonderful example of the "multiple community" problem has just presented itself.
David, minor broken link on the BOINC website - but I've written my comment in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=5358 to highlight this issue too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Haselgrove" <r.haselgr...@btinternet.com> To: "David Anderson" <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>; "Jeremy Cowles" <jeremy.cow...@gmail.com> Cc: "Boinc Projects" <boinc_proje...@ssl.berkeley.edu>; "BOINC Developers Mailing List" <boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [boinc_projects] [boinc_dev] results of a user survey >> Can you be more specific? >> We've spent the last several years trying to make >> the software more accessible/usable, >> and adding social/community features. >> We've made lots of progress in both areas. >> What have we missed? >> -- David > > I think you've possibly created a lot of little communities, rather than > one > big community. One can think of lots of gathering places: > > * Project message boards > * Stats fora > * Team websites > * Optimising and third-party programming groups > * Facebook > * Trac > * BOINC workshops > * these mailing lists > > but they tend to attract like-minded people into their separate cliques. > > I would love to see more interaction between project scientists, project > administrators (and I draw a distinction between those two groups), and > volunteer participants: with a view to enhancing a sense of common purpose > (scientific goals), rather than competition. > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_projects mailing list > boinc_proje...@ssl.berkeley.edu > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_projects > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
