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What is being done to promote this project?
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 Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 69 Credit: 599,151 RAC: 0 |
I am interested to know what is being done to promote this project, which has had over 90,000 users. I for one have been promoting it in my ScienceSprings blog, and in Comments to the US/LHC bloggers at Quantum Diaries. There are only 121 followers on Facebook. There is 1 follower on Twitter. There is an RSS feed, only four items. Social media is being used by CERN, all of the U.S. D.O.E. labs, BOINC, WCG, everyone. But, you know, no content does not get anywhere. An article at interactions.org did great things for LHC@home 2.0. It got out to the BBC and to MSNBC. The LHC is the largest most complex scientific experiment ever created by Modern Man. Our goal should be to scale up to rival SETI@home, at over 450 TeraFLOPS (BOINCstats). My strength is way not I/T. My strength is PR. Anything I can do to help, name it, I will do it. Please check out my blog http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/sciencesprings |
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Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
great offer. Thanks. We have some useful material now. Be in touch tomorrow. Eric. |
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Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 69 Credit: 599,151 RAC: 0 |
Here is an idea: W have over 4600 users with credit in the last 30 days (BOINCstats). That is enough to mount an old fashioned letter writing campaign. I looked around at the Physics web site of my university. I found that they had a team on CMS. So, I wrote a letter to the department asking for their help on personal computers, outlining both projects, a little bit on BOINC, etc. If 10% of our users wrote letters to their university Physics departments, that's 460 letters, maybe, yes, some duplication, but, hey, nothing ventured nothing gained. I got friendly on a Gecko browser forum with a high school sophomore in upstate New York. I did a little preaching and he started to crunch and then got up a crunching team in his high school. Then he moved. New school, new team. We need to reach out. Please check out my blog http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/sciencesprings |
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Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
Well; didn't get stuff on the WWW today. I can send yu a "Flyer" and an article by e-mail if I have your adders. Thanks. Eric. |
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Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 69 Credit: 599,151 RAC: 0 |
I sent you the email address via PM. Thanks. Please check out my blog http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/sciencesprings |
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Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 69 Credit: 599,151 RAC: 0 |
Did you see this blog post? http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/citizen-scientists-unite-around-two-lhchome-projects/ Please check out my blog http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/sciencesprings |
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Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 69 Credit: 599,151 RAC: 0 |
Today, I used Facebook to reach out to people at the WCG Clean Energy Project at Harvard; the Southern Methodist University Physics department; and Argonne Labs in Illinois. Have I no shame? Absolutely none. I asked that they visit the combined site, take a look at each project, attach however many people and computers as they can, and please spread the word to their colleagues. I have a good relationship with the CEP2 people at Harvard through Facebook. I have also adopted the expression HEPcats, a Jazz term from the Bop era,"HEP" in this case meaning High Energy Physics. This is called reaching out. Others have other relationships which they should exploit. I am keeping a list, so as not to go back to the same institution twice. (I am SURE that I am not the first person to use HEPcats in a Physics usage. I have never had an original thought in my life.) Please check out my blog http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/sciencesprings |
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Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 69 Credit: 599,151 RAC: 0 |
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, that university's Physics Department has a CMS team. If anyone connected to the project knows anyone from that university, one of the very very best in the U.S., they should be approached about Sixtrack. Please check out my blog http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/sciencesprings |
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