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You
want to discuss issues relating to evolution@home?
Then this page will point
you to the right page. Currently evolution@home does not have the
manpower to maintain an official online forum in decent shape, mostly
because it takes considerable time to read every message and delete
nonsense, advertisements and illegal content. This means that for
the foreseeable future, evolution@home forums will either be contributed
as "unofficial" forums by people who have the capacity
to run a forum on their webspace, or there will be no forums.
Please note that nobody
at evolution@home is responsible for anything in these forums, be
it their technical implementation or their content. To maintain
some elementary order there, please observe the basic netiquette
below.
Current
unofficial forums for evolution@home
Sponsored by science@home:
- English:
- Future
Features: propose new features, discuss implementation priorities,
etc.
- Highscores:
discuss performance of your CPU or group, invite new members
to your group, performance of evolution@home in general and
similar topics
- Other:
everything directly related to evolution@home that does not
belog to the categories above.
- Deutsch
(German): Bitte grundlegende Netiquette beachten.
- Wunschliste:
Neue Features vorschlagen, Prioritäten diskutieren etc.
- Highscores:
Diskussionen über die Rechenleistung der eigenen CPU oder
Gruppe, die eigene Gruppe bekanntmachen, Rechenleistung von
evolution@home im allgemeinen und ähnliches
- Sonstiges:
alles, was direkt mit evolution@home zusammenhängt, aber
nicht zu einer der obigen Kategorien gehört.
Currently, no other languages
are supported.
Netiquette
An evolution@home forum
can be a great place to be, when you are interested in evolution@home
and want to be part of the community of those that dedicate their
computers to do evolutionary research.
You may
- read about some of
the latest news,
- discuss anything regarding
evolution@home, like e.g.
- simple how-to
questions,
- technical aspects
on operating simulators and contributing computing time,
- technical features
that you would like for future simulators,
- general things
you would like to change,
- things you would
not like to change,
- future directions
of evolution@home,
- introduce your computing
group,
- discuss progress in
high-score races,
- report computing milestones
of your computing group.
You may not
- personally attack
people or promote lies,
- promote high-score
cheating tricks, other hacks or illegal things,
- post excessively repeated
solicitations of becoming member in your team
- discuss anything that
has nothing to do with evolution@home, be it of general biological,
evolutionary, philosophical, world-view related, religious, political
or other interest.
History
of forums
The first
unofficial forum of evolution@home was operated by David
Robinson, Founder of the Team Eagles, from June 2002 - March
2005 until hackers destroyed it to the point that it could not be
rebuilt with reasonable effort. A thousand thanks for your contribution,
David!
The second
unofficial forum of evolution@home is being operated by science@home,
starting from May 2005. Thank you to get us started again, Jürgen!
What
you need to run a forum
The first such forum
was eventually hacked and could not be restored with reasonable
effort. So, to run a forum, you need to
- have webspace with
a reasonable forum software,
- know how to keep your
forum software up to date, so that the latest security problems
are fixed in a timely manner and hackers don't get too much of
a chance,
- know the legal implications
of running a forum (that can be quite complex, depending on the
country your are in),
- have enough time to
read all the messages posted to the forum and delete all obvious
nonsense and illegal stuff in a timely manner.
If you want to be listed
on this page as running another unofficial evolution@home forum,
then get in touch. Obviously,
it does not make much sense to blindly duplicate efforts. However
you may have a forum idea that has escaped us so far, so please
let us know.
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