I think this is great. Perhaps it would make sense to update this wiki page with some information. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Boinc
Or perhaps create a page more generic to this type of CPU sharing use and have homefolding and boinc as sub-pages. Anyway, will join in the homefolding work with one of the machines here at the house. Best wishes, Drew On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:56 PM William Gathoye (LibreOffice) < [email protected]> wrote: > On 18/04/2020 02:58, Spyros wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I found recently that a Folding@home [0] team under the LibreOffice name > > exists. I started contributing to it but did not create it (I assume > > credits for that should go to wget). > > Hi there :) > > Indeed, I'm "wget" :) > > I wanted to do the introduction of the Folding@home idea to the > community yesterday, but it appears you were faster than me at doing > this. I initially thought that the LibreOffice team would be unnoticed, > but it went noticed after all. And that's great! :) > > > > # The story behind the creation of the LibreOffice team > > For the record, as I'm preparing slowly but surly a server farm at home > (fully resilient network, power supply, etc.) for virtual hackathons[1] > for the LibreOfficeFR[2] community, I needed to test some servers and > instead of putting some load on the machine for basically nothing, I > thought to Folding@Home. :) > > As folding under no-name would have been a waste, I thought it could be > nice to leverage this for LibreOffice =) > > I saw there was no LibreOffice team :( and the team name was free for > anyone to take :/. Seeing the LibreOffice team name being taken by > someone not from the community would have been more annoying to recover > afterwards, I decided to register it :) > > > > # What LibreOffice can do to fight COVID-19? > > "@libreoffice has been very helpful for @openlung and the #openlung > project. #engineers #researchers and #doctors can share their ideas > more fluidly using this freely available, open source office suite > software." > > From a marketing POV, this nice tweet we get is interesting for a big > reason: momentum[3]. > > As plenty of companies are publishing "what we do to fight COVID-19" > banners everywhere, let's leverage on this and say: what could > LibreOffice do to help them (the researchers) and fight COVID-19? > > Even if I don't want to be cliché, we are devs and contributors, we are > already staying at home most of the time =D. How can we bring this even > further? > > So the idea is to publish a campaign on social media and on our blog and > ask our users to fold under the name of LibreOffice to help research. (I > can provide beautiful eye-catching social media images, since > LibreOfficeFR has now a license with icons8.com.) > > We should also provide a video explaining how to use the Folding@home > software to fold under the name of LibreOffice. My new graphic card is > arriving on April 27th though, so I'll have a hard time doing this in a > short period of time :/. > > > > # Ask the infra team > > Also, but we need to see this with the infra team, maybe we could > leverage the build servers we have to help with folding as I imagine > these are not always being used 100% of the time? The app of > Folding@home is detecting when the machine is being used. IIRC, we can > also define specific time periods. > > > > Having the LibreOffice team trending will be great. Arch Linux is > participating, why not LibreOffice? > > Regards, > > > [1] Will do a dedicate announcement on that later when ready. I'm > operating the hardware, software but also the network as my own network > operator. All of this is taking time but is educational and built on the > skills I acquired when I had my dev company. :) > [2] Maybe the wider community? > [3] https://mobile.twitter.com/simplyacreative/status/1248404853535080448 > -- > William Gathoye > Hyper<hack>tive volunteer for LibreOffice > Proud member of The Document Foundation > Member of LaMouette - French based association promoting ODF and > LibreOffice > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
