How many of you are working on D2OL?

[Jeff]

I'm happy that everyone has a positive attitude. Would anyone want to help me run the site? Personally, Vaughan, I had you in mind. You're always on top of things.

[vaughan]

OK.

[Bionic_Redneck]

just a thought... why doesn't amdusers have a default project?

[vaughan]

Let's have a vote for Bionic Redneck's idea of having a default project. Anyone care to comment on this or build on the idea? Let's be positive about the direction we want our team to take and not degenerate into bickering.

[Jeff]

Everyone has their favorite project. I wouldn't want everyone to take their boxed off the faves. The purpose of a priority project was for each person to volunteer CPU power in a determined project. Not all boxes.

Right now I am running SOB. We can move up a lot if everyone contributed.

[NeoGen]

Team AMD Users is widely spread on a lot of projects, but most of the users are concentrated on just a few projects. In the past couple of weeks I've only been hearing about D2OL, SOB, TSC, Distributes Folding, and maybe a couple of others more. I may be wrong but it makes me think that the core of the team is focused on those few projects, and then we have very few other users that work on the rest of the projects. I guess this must be a kind of "natural selection" going on here, and eventually some projects will be abandoned. (some probably have already been "unnoficially abandoned" due to no one working on them for a long time)
Could anyone verify my theory of the abandoned projects? Maybe if someone could check on the stats of those "less-talked-about" projects, we'd have a surprise...

[Bionic_Redneck]

The idea I had was not to intice people so much into just one project so much but I think someone that some how made it to the website one way or the other might get a little overwelmed with so many project going on at once without a default one but let me stress not to abandon the other project by any means even without big numbers in stats we still could recieve new members. I was looking at the climate prediction team stats on statsman and there is lots of new members.

[jlangner]

NeoGen, I don't have the numbers, but if you look at the stats page for the different projects and see who is participating and check back here, I'll bet you find that no more than 10 - 20% of them have ever posted here. I maybe way wrong on this but I know if I look at Lifemapper, Seti, UD there are plenty of members still performing that I have never seen there name before. As far as being able to spread out on more projects, that is great, but we need more members to do successfully so we want be spread too thin. I have tried and tried to convince my friends to join, but have had no luck yet. If everyone could get someone to join it would help, but from experience I know it is hard to do.

[Jeff]

This is true. Many of our crunchers do not come here, either because they don't know it exists, or just because they were just looking for a team.

[NeoGen]

Somehow the live stats on the main page doesn't show up for me for a couple of days already. It just stays as a white rectangle there and the page never finishes loading. Don't know what happened or what did I do...

I took a quick peek at the stats pages of distributed.net and found an example of what I was saying before.
In RC5-72 the only person submitting work for over the past 3 months has been Chaz.
In OGR25 besides Chaz there's also myself, recently registered there and only reporting work one day a week. (Other projects in other days)
On Find-A-Drug, only 2 users out of 13 have the "Yellow status" behind there names, which I guess it means that they have returned work in the last couple of days.
And on the Folding@Home stats page there are no dates but it says on top that there are only 4 processors active in the last 50 days, out of 18 people registered there.

There might be more examples like this. And this is what I was talking about before as somekind of a "natural selection". Some projects have already very few people working on them, and if those few people change, it'll stop. We can't... or better saying, *shouldn't* let that happen... right people?