7 March 2008

I Believe in Seti!

At this point $106002.91 has been raised. This is short of the goal and I see no way that we can reach the goal unless a second drive is started or people start to look at what is happening. The problem is that people dismiss it or figure that someone else will pick up the slack. No one is telling everyone else that the funding issue is real. Well it is REAL!

It becomes time, If you Believe that You find a way to support Seti. Sorry, I see people asking about upgrading to another Seti Cruncher and have not thought about "now I have a new Seti Cruncher and Nothing to Crunch."

Seti has been running "only" on public funding for the last two years. It is those that have found something in their "Heart" that is keeping Seti Alive!

I understand that some feel that the cost of my computers and electricity is one thing. I understand those that are barely making ends meet.

Beyond that, we are getting to where things may not be there tomorrow or next week. I Hope this gets everyone to start thinking of how we can insure that Seti is here for the next two years. That is what is needed.

Right now, "we" are in danger of falling short of what is needed. Waht is needed is more people that can share the word.

Thank You for your time and consideration. Ideas are Welcome!

Regards

Al

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Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project.

Bump!
I hope people don't let this sink to the bottom without a trace, otherwise that might be what happens to SETI :(

I have sent you a PM Pappa.

I have managed 2 small donations myself in the last 2 months and will continue to give my support. I agree with you, if the data runs out I will have a lot of spare computing power all at once!

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Last year, February was the slowest month of donations, and this year appears to be the same. Record unemployment claims were filed last month as corporations laid-off a huge number of workers. In fact, I am in the same boat. I tried to raise some money for a new download/upload server, but only a few hundred dollars was raised before the thread became buried on page 3.

However, without staff and electric bill paid, there will be no need for any more servers. Speaking of which, is there any OLD hardware that could be sold at auction? If so, that may be of help financially.

Perhaps when the much vaunted "rebate" reaches the crunchers mail boxes later this year some small percentage might be designated for SETI. And how about a small percentage from your tax return (should you be so lucky)? Please keep it in mind. I plan to do both.

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Confidence: Remember that feeling you had just before you truely understood the situation?

I understand that some feel that the cost of my computers and electricity is one thing. I understand those that are barely making ends meet.

Remember too that SETI is designed to work off of "waste" CPU power. Buying computers and spending money to power them is going well beyond what SETI asks.

As you point out Pappa, without some financial help, there are going to be a lot of purpose-built Q6600 crunchers with no work. Anyone building a new rig would be wise to send some "insurance money" to the project, just to be sure.

If you're powering off and/or selling older crunchers, think seriously about sending part of the proceeds to keep our favorite project working.

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Donation system is working very well. Just donated yesterday and already it shows up in 'My Account'.

Keep SETI going folks and the US Navy team and U.S.Air Force team will be able to continue our competition. By the way the US Navy team is leading by over 39,300 RAC.


DONATE TO THE SETI PROJECT.

Thank you.

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http://boinc.mundayweb.com/teamStats.php?userID=14824

Is the paypal donation system working now?

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It's not too many computers, it's a lack of circuit breakers for this room. But we can fix it :)

Is the paypal donation system working now?

I have not seen any notice that it is back up and running again. Maybe Blurf or Pappa can chime in and advise further, since they are the 2 that have really focused on the donation side for the project.

Jeremy

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Keep SETI going folks and the US Navy team and U.S.Air Force team will be able to continue our competition. By the way the US Navy team is leading by over 39,300 RAC.


DONATE TO THE SETI PROJECT.

Thank you.

You just mentioned two of the Teams participating in SETI.

How about 'suggesting' All Teams to arrange a SETI Fundraising?

If every team collected just $10 from each member, the SETI Cash Shortage would be History, and we could even expand the search..


The reason is serious enough:

Actual Donations in Feb. 2008: 83 ea totalling $5085

that is only $60,000 per Year, more than $400,000 shy of what is needed.


ChrisD

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Maybe the Admin staff could send out an email to all registered users asking for donations? Could encourage a flurry of small donations and you never know, it might catch the eye of someone very well off.

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@ Al (Papa) - there's a 'Problem' as seen in this Mail from Eric Korpela:

7 Mar 2008 0:50:36 UTC

Hi Richard,

Matt's out sick and the donation processing script is offline with problems until he gets back. Sorry, and thanks for the donation.

Eric

. . . maybe Matt'll be in Today - Prayer for his getting better soon

richard

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

Maybe the Admin staff could send out an email to all registered users asking for donations? Could encourage a flurry of small donations and you never know, it might catch the eye of someone very well off.

... and they've done this (and will likely do it again).

There are two problems:

1) There are a lot of E-Mail messages to send, and sending "bulk" makes you look like a spammer, even when you aren't.

2) There are a lot of stale addresses in the database, and probably no good way to filter those out.

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Maybe the Admin staff could send out an email to all registered users asking for donations? Could encourage a flurry of small donations and you never know, it might catch the eye of someone very well off.

... and they've done this (and will likely do it again).

There are two problems:

1) There are a lot of E-Mail messages to send, and sending "bulk" makes you look like a spammer, even when you aren't.

2) There are a lot of stale addresses in the database, and probably no good way to filter those out.

A small price to pay for keeping SETI alive?

The way I see it, is do nothing and die - do something and stand a fighting chance.

I'll be making another donation before the month is out, making 3 in less than 2 months.

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Maybe the Admin staff could send out an email to all registered users asking for donations? Could encourage a flurry of small donations and you never know, it might catch the eye of someone very well off.

... and they've done this (and will likely do it again).

There are two problems:

1) There are a lot of E-Mail messages to send, and sending "bulk" makes you look like a spammer, even when you aren't.

2) There are a lot of stale addresses in the database, and probably no good way to filter those out.

A small price to pay for keeping SETI alive?

The way I see it, is do nothing and die - do something and stand a fighting chance.

I'll be making another donation before the month is out, making 3 in less than 2 months.

As I've said, they've done it, and they'll likely do it again.

It'd be more effective if the contact database was cleaner.

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Thought I'd give this a bump.

Pappa, taking what you said into consideration I have put $125 in the pot today to try and pay my way - and to help ensure that the new PCs I have put online today have some work today.

More to follow next month :)

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Thought I'd give this a bump.

Pappa, taking what you said into consideration I have put $125 in the pot today to try and pay my way - and to help ensure that the new PCs I have put online today have some work today.

More to follow next month :)

Andy.........You have a wonderful attitude on this issue, one I wish more people would understand.

Unless you fund both sides of the project, financially, the computer you bring online today will likely not have work to do tomorrow.

Thanks for your donation!

Allright then, 500$ on the way...

Simple reason :

Distributed Science in all its glory, producing Results for Physics, Biology, Mathematics and many other fields... awesome.
But Distributed Science without SETI.... that's ridiculous

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Allright then, 500$ on the way...

Simple reason :

Distributed Science in all its glory, producing Results for Physics, Biology, Mathematics and many other fields... awesome.
But Distributed Science without SETI.... that's ridiculous

Nice one :)

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Thank You all for Your Donations. :)

I hope a lot more participants get the point, and donate whatever they can afford.

We have a saying, 'a lot of small streams make a big river'.

So let's see some more 'little green stars', also from some of the High Powered High RAC participants. I count only 8 green stars amongst the top 100. Com'n Folks :)

Best of luck to SETI.

ChrisD

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Allright then, 500$ on the way...

Simple reason :

Distributed Science in all its glory, producing Results for Physics, Biology, Mathematics and many other fields... awesome.
But Distributed Science without SETI.... that's ridiculous

Excellent!!