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WorkShop10_VolunteerIssues
Vitalii Koshura edited this page Apr 12, 2023
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What are the volunteer issues?
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user motivation
- interested in science
- VC as a game: stats, etc
- general altrusim
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retention levels for various groups/motivations?
- esp in context of multi-project services
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treat each user category separately?
- different services/types of services for each group
- science types: need forums, techie
- or: can they be combined synergistically?
- trickle down summaries of science
- tech support
- different services/types of services for each group
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stats: mark's market research
- % of people who would take action in support of charity much larger than % of people who would take action in support of science?
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relative merits of single-app projects vs multi-app aggregators like WCG, ibercivis, etc.
- absence of science discussions in multi-app projects
- do people know what they are doing?
- retention?
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it's not all free
- volunteers are not working for free: they get paid in "results" -- scientific results, stats, social factors.
- everything is financed: distribution of financing in volunteer computing
- outreach: think of it as a grant application, submitted to tens of thousands of reviewers
what is the value to project scientists of the user community
- additional labor (distributed thinking)
- value of outreach: public education (ex malaria awareness)
what to do
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science
- more news
- more involvement, more to do (distributed thinking)
- more science info (BG info)
- scientific "translation" service
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altrusim
- get grant to do good popsci writing about projects
- proper PR
- when getting a grant, should be required to get funding to allocate resources to writing PR
- this should be a requirement of funding agencies
- poss. adt'l involvement, depending on details
- social status (badges) rather than credits (ie, different incentive system)
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stats/gaming crowd
- self organized: teams, etc.
- push info into those groups (news, etc)
- just feed them credits
- good model: communities of shared interests
- what are the causes sufficient to motivate action?
- organize communities around these
- self organized: teams, etc.
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bundle PR/outreach plan w. BOINC software
- best practices
but: insufficient resources to implement, so:
community of communicators
-- social middleware -- every BOINC project is a distributed thinking project designed to produce new users --
- writing, PR
- just ask -- there are people to do this.
- seek professionals in misc domains
social middleware
- credit for new recruitment of volunteers (rather than new credits) social status
- credit for translations badges
motivations
- financial reward
- social status
- intellectual interest / learning
- altruism