It’s been a while since we put out our newsletter, but that’s because we’ve been working on lots of other awesome projects.
Bounties
As of the next BOINC release, BOINC will have working deb and rpm installers, solving a long-time issue for users who were unable to install BOINC on Linux. We recently paid out over $1,000 in bounties for BOINC development. This includes a new Linux and Windows packaging pipeline which automates the production of installers for the BOINC developers.
We have also upgraded our bounty infrastructure, you can now donate directly to specific bounties with several cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, and GRC).
We also started a bounty for a GUI installer for Petals which is an open-source tool anybody can use to run AI models in a distributed fashion. A Windows installer will make Petals much more accessible to scientists working in this area.
As always, you can see our latest bounties here.
Boinc Promotional Materials
We have published some awesome designs to help promote BOINC and its many projects including a flyer/poster design and business cards promoting each specific projects. These designs are openly licensed for you to use, translate, and put out into the world as you see fit.
Gridcoin Alert Feeds + SCI <3 Mastodon
The SCI is now on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@the_sci. We’ll be using mastodon to publish more day-to-day updates so you can keep updated on our work without needing to wait for a newsletter.
If you are a Gridcoin user, you know it can be difficult to keep up-to-date about all the latest polls and changes to the greylist especially if you run a headless wallet. We’ve created two mastodon feeds to help you stay up to date:
Greylist Changes: https://mastodon.social/@gridcoin_greylist
Polls: https://mastodon.social/@gridcoin_polls
You can also access them as RSS feeds:
https://mastodon.social/@gridcoin_greylist.rss
https://mastodon.social/@gridcoin_polls.rss
Because these are accessible as RSS feeds you can use a free service like https://blogtrottr.com/ to get e-mailed every time we make a new post!
Coming up:
BOINC Census
Overhaul of BOINC server documentation
PS Don’t forget, you can support the SCI every time you shop on eBay and Amazon. Just click our magic link before shopping. You pay the same price and we get a portion of your purchase.
THANK YOU as always for your donations and support. We can’t do this without your help!