The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been interested in crowdsourcing and citizen science for a while, and they're organizing an online webcast/forum on Sept. 30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/09/open-science-and-innovation-people-people-people
They mention only hands-on projects (like making weather measurements); there's no mention of volunteer computing. I'm not sure they're aware of it. Let's make sure they are; this could help with getting funding for BOINC. You can help by "sharing your story" about volunteer computing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/citizen-science-and-crowdsourcing-share-your-stories Projects: please tell them about your project, what it's accomplished, and how it benefits from volunteer computing. Volunteers: please tell them about when and why you've contributed computing power, and to what projects. If you've participated in other ways (testing, customer support, translation, etc.) please tell them about that too. Thanks -- David _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
