Socializing BOINC

Socializing BOINC

Daniel Lombrana Gonzalez

University of Extremadura

September 1, 2010

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1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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Outline

1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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Social Networks

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Flickr

40 Million of users at the end of2009.

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Twitter

75 Million of users at the end of2009.

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Facebook

More than 500Million of users.

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First Efforts

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First efforts

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Outline

1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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Harnessing the power of sociability

Publishing automatically to Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Outline

1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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Integrating social networks in BOINC

The goal:Promote updates and news in Twitter, Facebook, etc.Obtain more volunteers thanks to the “followers”.

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Outline

1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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Integrating Indenti.ca in Jarifa

Jarifa is asystem for grid computing on organizational resources, using BOINC.

Identi.ca is anopen source microblogging service similar to Twitter.

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Why Identi.ca?

Open source!!!Updates automatically:

Twitter andFacebook

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Outline

1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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A Real case

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Identi.ca

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Twitter

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http://www.twitter.com/xtremadurathome

http://identi.ca/extremadurathome

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Outline

1 Background

2 Motivation

3 Proposal

4 Jarifa and social networks

5 Experiments & Results

6 Conclusions

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Interacting with the community

It is important to keep informed your users.Internet users have usually a profile in a social network.Thus, it is important to promote the BOINC community in thosecommunities.

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Questions

daniellg@unex.esfcofdez@unex.es

Icons from Tango and Gnome Desktop projects (Creative Commons & GPL License)Twitter Followme icon by Milos Mirkovic (Creative Commons Attribution)

Opensocial icon by Google (C)

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