This is the big one guys, this is our über-hardcore, semi-undercover, and
long term drive to recruit other forums that aren't folding and get them to join the effort.
The basic idea is outlined
here, but I'll summarize...
FADD stands for
forums against debilitating diseases and its goal is to get forums without folding teams either to form their own team or join ours as a sub team or otherwise. This will be accomplished by identifying potential forums and designating a volunteer to establish themselves as an upstanding member of the community before asking about folding.
Now I want to make a clear distinction here, this is
not folding@home spaming. We're not talking about popping the question after your 10th post, the expectation is that the volunteer will join a forum that they will enjoy being a part of (or intentionally become more active in a forum where they are already a member) so it will be a fun and hopefully enriching experience. Whether or not the forum joins the fold the idea is that the person enjoys their time there and others do as well. I would estimate a
minimum of 6 months before anyone could truly feel comfortable enough in the community to ask about folding.
If folding gets shot down then hopefully you'll be inclined to stay anyway, and if people get into it then you'll become something of a mentor to them.
I think there's great potential here, we have 3DGPU and SereneScreen showing us that it can be done (even though what I'm proposing isn't quite how they came to be), between the two of them they're nearly producing 10,000 points a day (mostly 3DGPU's) and total nearly 700,000 points (mostly SereneScreen's).
Start posting your suggestions for forums to invite and also post here if you want to volunteer for this crazy plan...
I will keep this post updated.
Potential Forums:
http://www.cichlid-forum.com
http://www.duboisi.com
http://www.firingsquad.com
http://www.houseangeles.com
http://forum.thinkpads.com
http://cpu-museum.de/forum
Volunteers:
bhtooefr
Tarx
druidcent
Usacomp2k3
drfish
Progress:
drfish -
http://www.duboisi.com/ - posted for the first time in a long while, just an intro to becoming more active
drfish -
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/ - registered, planning on showing off my aquariums once my new camera arrives and going from there
Tarx -
http://www.firingsquad.com/ - 100+
quality posts, making good progress
druidcent -
http://www.houseangeles.com/ - druidcent - already well involved in the community, posted a thread about folding
here.
bhtooefr -
http://cpu-museum.de/forum - had already been extremely well established in the community. Attempted recruiting, only one was interested (the site admin) who wasn't already folding for another team
bhtooefr -
http://forum.thinkpads.com - was established somewhat, attempted recruiting, one former folder was interested, but was concerned about fan noise
bhtooefr -
http://epiacenter.com - have been in community since August 2004, beginning further involvement to position for folding poll
You get the idea...
Edit 2: Please post your updates in the format I have used above, then I can simply copy and paste, thanks!
Edit: Keep in mind that those that join the team as a result of this thread will probably ultimately read it, I don't think I need to say more.