RE: Should we be Taking Gridcoin & BOINC to Enterprises to Build the Science Economy
I think this is a great idea. A few initiatives are underway -- it is difficult to say that we should reach out right now at this very moment when there are still some organization tasks that need to be completed. Many institutions would like to see plans for future development (roadmaps), planned, lengthy, and thought out writings on important subjects (medium and a whitepaper), and active and productive community discussions. Without these resources, it takes a lot of convincing to prove to them that we are not your every day greedy crypto group.
I think that, in general, this is something that should be planned out and executed in the 2nd half of 2018. As always, I'm open to other opinions = ). Feel free to reach out on slack or discord.
Thanks for your feedback! I agree with all of your points regarding the Gridcoin side of things, although I at this point see no harm in pushing BOINC and then Gridcoin to businesses stating "hey, give back to science and earn some of these coins that at this point are worth 0,12USD but may one day be worth a whole lot more or nothing, the science contributions you make remain."
I just wanted to write somthing up and get the general consensus and feeling here, as pushing to businesses will ultimately hurt peoples MAGs, hopefully it can be offset by the increase in value though.
I would love to contribute further, I feel quite strongly about this and wuld be nice to see businesses give to scientific advancement, even if it has an inherently greedy motive.
Great idea. I would want to know how electricity use and equipment life is going to change if this is implemented.
Thanks for the feedback! Noted this down for future research, although plase see my short answers below
In my experience, PCs are often not replaced in the office due to broken components but more ammortisation of hardware that then renders them too slow for operation. Either that or the lease terms are up on the hardware and they are returned to the vender.
There are some great monitoring tools to ensure that hardware doesnt reach crazy high temps, T Throttle comes to mind, that maybe can be bundled to ensure that temperatures are managed.
Of course this is different for every company and depends on the IT setup.
Electricity is tough, but once again in my experience, electricity usage can be monitored and plotted in real time through building management and the utility provider. Case by Case basis though.
The only harm I see is pushing potential clients away because we are not ready with resources and presentation material. But this isn't much. It's not like there's a shortage of CPU's run by businesses out there.
Anyway, if I were a business and someone came to me, I'd evaluate:
I think overall the community would be okay with something like this. If you want help or to help with the ongoing development of these sort of initiatives, come on in to slack or discord.
And this is the information that I will look to evaluate. If the community seems open to it.
I think what we have going for us at this time is the fact that the IBM World Community Grid was marketed heavily to businesses, and it had quite the uptake rate, judging on their partner statistics. They created a great overview for installation processes across a large number of devices, management, etc.
Adding GRC to the mix obviously adds issues in regards to expensing electricity usage and potential tax implecations, al of which will have to be case by case in the jurisdiction of the businesses.
I will sign up for the slack or discord when I get home, and look forward to contributing further