hangout_2016_08_27.MD

These are the minutes for the 4th Gridcoin hangout on August 27, 2016:

• listen, youtube
• RSVP & suggest topics
• invited guest: none

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0:00:12

• changes to the Gridcoin Community hangouts:
  • switched to: 'Creative Commons License'
  • improving distribution by submitting hangout RSS feeds to various places
  • stats/views
  • compression

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0:04:10

• splash screen contest including prizes

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0:05:58 - 0:20:50

• poll (enforce SSL encryption as a mandatory requirement for BOINC projects to be on the whitelist ?) + status on projects:
  • see poll info
  • talked about creating polls for each individual projects (Erkan in 2017: this was not done, the poll result was to not enforce SSL)
  • drive up voting participation
  • advantages/perception by SSL

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0:21:31

• create a Gridcoin market value team to raise GRC's value
• Coinomi status:
  • they are not reporting feedback, seems like not working at all
• OpenLedger status
• organizations that might accept Gridcoin:
  • SETI
  • charities
• bad reputation about cryptocurrencies (Bitfinex, drugs, ...)

0:33:38

• intro music to the hangout:
  • song contest with prizes

0:34:45

• subforum for each BOINC project from now on: see here

0:35:41

• discussing 'BARK - The BOINC volunteer cluster manager for Apache Spark'
  • students created this platform, not opensource at the moment, released 2015/2016
  • poster
  • fits good to make commercial projects to use in Gridcoin/BOINC
  • emailed them, see task: followup

0:42:34

• 'Project-Rain' updates:
  • 15 cryptocurrencies added
  • front end work
  • captcha
  • no whitelist status, since no WUs
  • continues at 0:56:10
• SSL (Gridcoin website, project rain)

0:48:00

• talking about superblock glitch (see also: 1:10:00)

0:50:34

• problems with implementing BlockStack, see task

0:53:25

• beacon validity for 6 months, perhaps better to send it to a BURN address ?
  • would be permanent, no need to send every 6 months
  • see Brainstorming potential improvements: Beacon/Registration transactions

0:57:00

• ways to run BOINC server: docker experiences
  • Atomic/CoreOS
  • see also hub.docker.com

1:01:20

• splash image
  • privacy screen: while its loading not show sensible data, see task
  • contest prize doubled
• thoughts on current UI of Gridcoin wallet + other coins' wallets
  • see task

1:06:50

• update on new developper

1:08:12

• neural network + XML files:
  • current situation inefficient: scale down to just get team Gridcoin info, not whole BOINC-wide
  • see: Scaling back the neural network's data gathering phase?

1:13:45

• SSL poll status, thoughts, risks:
  • unattentive Gridcoin users losing magnitude
  • see important info to be displayed in the wallet (message of the day, ...)
  • emailing users from non-SSL projects via BOINC emails ?
• team founder role (tasks, importance):
  • see also task + this task
  • team creation BOINC-wide

1:30:47

• challenge updates:
  • SETI
• SETI:
  • how do they validate ? wing-man validation
  • competition with GRC rewards ? see poll: funding via foundation, see "Project rain", see task
• summary of TODOs
• team requirement status, thoughts on removal or not ?
• combine trading card game on blockchain with BOINC/Gridcoin

1:44:30

• updates from Rob about:
  • new developper: porting status to linux
• thoughts on Gridcoin/informal polls:
  • drive up vote participation
  • discussing possible vote weight changes + dangers of current system
• status on creating snapshots (1:57:47)

2:01:30

• contact new BOINC projects for potential whitelist add:
  • SRBase