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[DukeNukem]

Ok, did you even take a look at the banner? When advertising the F@H prize people said keep it simple. So I made the banner that says "Join the team, cure disease, win money". (see here)

Got a better idea. Let me here it.

Ok, from this point all it takes is one click. Is that too much work. One click. If you know how to magically allow people to do anything with their computer or on the internet without clicking their mouse let me know.

When they click on the banner. Remember just one click. One click. The first paragraph is:

The Longevity Meme has teamed up with the Immortality Institute and the Life Extension Foundation to offer a quarterly prize to people who contribute to the Stanford Folding@home distributing computing project – aimed at curing disease through understanding the basics of protein folding.

No big science terms. Simple and to the point. All the basic details in ONE SENTENCE. If you can make it more simple, well then write it down.

Following that sentence are the details on downloading and running the folding@home program. in a 1, 2, 3, step process. Stanford is helping out with this by trying to get the program pre-installed on GPUs, PS3s, and other computing platforms. That way all the folders have to do is click yes when prompted "Do you want to run folding at home and help cure disease?". We aren't there yet, so there will be some need for people at the present to actually complete a few steps. It is a barrier, but folding@home is still the biggest supercomputer in the world, and the TLM team (ours) has increased its production by 1,300% in the last 9 months.

Every quarter of the competition, a new front page article goes up with all the pertinent info (these things used to be more long and detailed, but everyone kept saying keep it simple, keep it simple, now apparently we need big long explanations of molecular dynamics, AGEs, protein folding, distributed computing, before anyone will sign up). This one has a New's Years spin because the 4th quarter of the competition began on Jan 1.

Well, I never knew anything about this except in the last two days, so my first exposure was this link, which is very low on information:
http://imminst.org/a...4th-quarter-fah

The sentence you quoted above I've not seen anywhere. In any case, it still doesn't answer the basic journalistic questions. I'll need to research this more before I can take a stab at trying to come up with something I think is better.

[Mind]

Thanks for offering to help. The F@H prize effort could always use improvement. It has been evolving through the last few months and we would like there to be as little impediment to joining the TLM team as possible. Many volunteers have worked a lot of hours getting this team to where it is and the F@H prize, by the numbers, has been a huge success, so we must have been doing something right.

[Mind]

At one point many topics, blogs, and articles linked to the splash page http://www.imminst.org/fah. As the months progressed more links drifted to the quarterly articles or new forums topics, which contained most of the same information, but perhaps drew people away from the splash page. We could redo links so that they point in one direction, or synchronize them so that that every page and forum has the same links and same wording. I know DNAmechanic has been very good at posting links everytime he updates the stats.

[Mind]

kismet: Two issues: the page we are talking about is down (I hope it will be up soon and stay at the same URL) and did it always say "– aimed at curing disease through understanding the basics of protein folding." or did you just add that?
If it did then I missed it somehow, my bad.

The terminology has always been there. I edited the page to say "fourth quarter" instead of "1st quarter" in one of the sentences. When I edited the page the Drupal software generated a dynamic link. I had to go back and change it to /fah.

[ksbalaji]

Long live!
I am new to imminst. On a message from dnamechanic, I tried and think I have installed FaH. It automatically chose me as an anonymous user. I think it is running. Since I have linux (Ubuntu Hardy OS), I do not know how FaH is faring. Any Help? Now, kismet, your name sounds Indian. How to join any team?

[dnamechanic]

Long live!

Long live, ksbalaji,

Sounds like you are folding! Thank you for your efforts.

To help the Longevity Meme team you must use team number 32461.

You may wish to see credits to your name, you can change from "anonymous" to "ksbalaji" if you wish.

.. I tried and think I have installed FaH. It automatically chose me as an anonymous user. I think it is running. Since I have linux (Ubuntu Hardy OS), I do not know how FaH is faring. Any Help?... How to join any team?

If you have a graphical interface to the client, please see this post: Changing Username and Team number

You may have the "console-only" or "command-line" version of the Linux client.

If so, please see some tips: Changing User name and Team number in Linux console client.

Edit: The referenced response was originally posted here but was moved to the How to Install F@H thread.

Edited by dnamechanic, 15 February 2009 - 04:41 AM.