Team
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[edit] General
The Participants in a Project can form Teams. Each Participant can belong to at most one Team. The Participant who created the Team is called the Team Founder.
A Team is a group of like-minded people that have formed a group that does the scientific processing as a collective instead of just individuals. The Team will have an identity, usually a Web Site, and assist other members in making their systems productive, have discussion groups, etc. One of the key features is that as a group they stand a greater chance to play a role in the creation of statistics of processing that will make them stand out from the crowd. Besides it is more fun to be part of group and socialize with your friends.
A Team is local to a Project. There is currently no provision for Teams that span Projects.
Total and Recent Average Credit is accounted for Teams, and reflects all work done by the Participants in that Team while they belong to the Team (even if they later quit the Team, the Credit the earned while a member of the Team stays with the Team).
- Note:
- This rule is used on all BOINC Powered Project's except for Climateprediction.net which uses the old SETI@Home Classic rule where the Team's Total Credit is a simple summation of the Total Credit earned by the Participants that are a member of that Team. As a consequence the Team's Total Credit may fluctuate wildly as Participants join and leave the Team.
A Team has the following attributes:
- A textual name.
- An HTML name (can include graphics).
- A textual description.
- An optional URL (e.g., of the team's web site)
- A type (business, school, club, etc.).
- The founder.
- A list of members.
A Project's Web Site lets you:
- See lists of the Teams with the most Credit.
- Search for Teams in various ways.
- Join a Team
- Quit your current Team
The founder of a Team has some additional capabilities:
- Edit the Team's attributes.
- View the email addresses of all Team members.
- Remove members from the Team.
- Change the founder (to any current member).
- Disband the Team.
[edit] Teams And Credit
Credit as it applies to a Team works on a simple rule. While you are a member of a team all the Credit that you earn is also added to the Total Credit of the Team. When you quit, your earned Credit is no longer added to the Team's Total Credit balance. The Team does not lose the Credit from their Total Credit equal to your earnings.
[edit] Team Credit Example
If you started off as a single Participant with no association to any Team and accumulated 2,000 Cobblestones, you now have 2,000 Cobblestones Total Credit.
Now you want to be part of a Team. So you join a Team, where you start to accumulate Cobblestones from zero for that Team. While a member of this Team you accumulate 2,000 Cobblestones. At this time you have 4,000 Cobblestones Total Credit, while the Team has the same 2,000 of your Cobblestones added to their Total Credit.
You then get it into your head that another Team is better, so you quit the first Team and join the other. You start with zero Cobblestones at this Team. You now accumulate another 2,000 Cobblestones. By this time you have 6,000 Cobblestones, the old team has 2,000 of your Cobblestones and your new Team has accumulated the same additional 2,000 Cobblestones.
Cobblestones will always stay with the individual. But to prevent team-hopping as happened in SETI@Home Classic, where people would take 2 million "credits" from one team to another, if only for a week, then hop back, this rule has been changed for the whole of BOINC.
- Note:
- Much of this behavior was done to coerce the Team into doing something that the, um, "big-shot" wanted even though the rest of the Team was against the change. In other words, "do it *MY* way or I will take my credits and you will lose your standing ...".
Total Credit earned by a Participant will stay with the Participant. Teams get the Credit you accumulate from the day you join to the day you quit.
[edit] Also See
[edit] UCB Source
[edit] Copyright ©
- 2005 University of California
- 2005 Paul D. Buck
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
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