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Meetup details changed: BOINC Encounters of the 3rd Kind - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://opensource.meetup.com/8 4/calendar/10886814/ When: July 20, 2009 5:00 PM Where: National Ma
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Jack Shultz | Jul 15, 2009 |
| BOINC Encounters of the 3rd kind - Hello DC BOINC members. Many of you are volunteer crunchers for SETI@HOME. In honor of SETI, I'm planning to attend screen on the Green monday at the National Mall for Close Encounters of the 3rd kind. I will bring a cooler with cold drinks and reserve | Jack Shultz | Jul 15, 2009 |
| Next Meetup - Hello Fellow Boinc Meetup Members, I am writing to express my interest in having a meeting soon. Does anyone have time this coming Saturday? The following weekend I will be out of town camping at Lake Anne. We could also try holding a meeting o | Jack Shultz | Jul 14, 2009 |
| Hey - Preview not available | Marcia | Jul 13, 2009 |
| OSF Invites Developers - | Jimmy | May 29, 2009 |
| BOINC BBQ Tomorrow - Come join us in Rock Creek Park tomorrow at the Pierce Mill Picnic grounds at 4pm. The weather should be great! By metro you from Van Ness Getting There From the Capital Beltway (I-95) Take Connecticut Avenue south for 4.6 | Jack Shultz | Apr 24, 2009 |
| Re: [opensource-84] BOINC BBQ April 25th - Looks like we will have at least 5 attendees and a black lab. Please RSVP on the DC BOINC Meetup if you are interested in attending. Otherwise there might not be enough food when you show up. Then again feel free to bring something of your own. See yo | Jack Shultz | Apr 23, 2009 |
| BOINC BBQ April 25th - Hello, This is a friendly reminder that the BOINC BBQ is planned for April 25th. All people are welcome. I especially hope we can get several people from the Open Source Meetup to attend. I'm planning to get hot dogs, burgers and some non-alcoholi | Jack Shultz | Apr 22, 2009 |
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BOINC BBQ April 25th - Hello Fellow BOINC members! I just looked at the 10-day forecast for April 25th. Mostly cloudy, high 69 F http://www.weather.com/outlook/dr
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Jack Shultz | Apr 16, 2009 |
| New Meetup: BOINC BBQ in Rockcreek Park. - Announcing a new Meetup for Washington, DC BOINC & Distributed Computing! What: BOINC BBQ in Rockcreek Park. When: April 25, 2009 4:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Meetup Description: Enjoy be | Jack Shultz | Apr 8, 2009 |
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Meetup details changed: BOINC BBQ in Rockcreek Park. - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://opensource.meetup.com/84/calendar/10137411/ When: April 18, 2009 7:00 PM Where: Pierce Mil
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Jack Shultz | Apr 7, 2009 |
| New Meetup: BOINC BBQ in Rockcreek Park. - Announcing a new Meetup for Washington, DC BOINC & Distributed Computing! What: BOINC BBQ in Rockcreek Park. When: April 21, 2009 7:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Meetup Description: Enjoy be | Jack Shultz | Apr 7, 2009 |
| BOINC BBQ in April - Hello BOINC members, My co-organizer and I are planning a BOINC BBQ sometime later in April. We don’t have the details worked out. As far as venues go, I am thinking there are many picnic areas available in Rock Creek Park. If we pick one that | Jack Shultz | Apr 7, 2009 |
| New Meetup: BOINC Eggspectations - Announcing a new Meetup for Washington, DC BOINC & Distributed Computing! What: BOINC Eggspectations When: March 29, 2009 5:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Meetup Description: People should co | Jack Shultz | Mar 23, 2009 |
| BOINC Meet & Greet - Ever wonder what computational scientists are up to? BOINC has so many projects and there is so much to talk about. Come and join us in Silver Spring Saturday night. Jack | Jack Shultz | Feb 20, 2009 |
| Inauguration - For any DC residents in DC BOINC, would you like to distribute name tags at the Inauguration? If you are interested, you could join me and earn $120 for the time. If you would like to participate, you need to participate in a training session January 19 f | Jack Shultz | Jan 12, 2009 |
| New Year - Its a new year and change is in the air here in Washington DC. 2008 has given me more perspective on grid computing and BOINC. Meeting David Anderson, the father of BOINC, organizing conferences and attending the meeting in Grenoble have been fascinating | Jack Shultz | Jan 9, 2009 |
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Meetup details changed: Dinner @ McGinty's in Silver Spring - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://opensource.meetup.com/84/calendar/9179199/ When: November 22, 2008 6:00 PM Where: McGinty&#
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Jack Shultz | Nov 17, 2008 |
| New Meetup: Dinner @ McGinty's in Silver Spring - Announcing a new Meetup for Washington, DC BOINC & Distributed Computing! What: Dinner @ McGinty's in Silver Spring When: November 22, 2008 6:00 PM Where: (A location has not been chosen yet.) Learn more her | Jack Shultz | Nov 17, 2008 |
| OpenSQLCamp Nov. 14-16th, in Charlottesville, VA - Hello BOINC Meetup members, Sheeri announced a free weekend conference in November on open Database technology. Details bellow. http://opensqlcamp.org/inde | Jack Shultz | Oct 21, 2008 |
| Proceedings of the 4th BOINC Workshop - Dear Washington, DC BOINC Members, Over the past few months both Andrew and I have been busy with several conferences. In September we attended the annual BOINC meeting in France. This was an excellent opportunity to meet scientists involved wi | Jack Shultz | Oct 20, 2008 |
| BOINC Merchandise - Greetings BOINCers, Recently I have developed a marketing strategy for BOINC and Hydrogen@Home. I have taken BOINC logos and put them on merchandise which I sell with no personal markup using Spreadshirt and Cafepress. UC Berkeley gave a green | Jack Shultz | Aug 1, 2008 |
| First East Coast BOINC Meeting August 29, 2008 - I would like to announce the First East Coast BOINC Meeting August 29, 2008 at the University of Delaware. Please register with Dr. Taufer, see the official meeting page http://gcl. | Jack Shultz | Jul 12, 2008 |
| Canceling BOINC 101 - Hello BOINCers, I know several of you replied that you cannot attend tonight's meeting. Andrew and I are canceling tonights meeting. We hope to have an intro seminar sometime in September. Maybe we can connect with students at a local Universit | Jack Shultz | Jun 19, 2008 |
| BOINC 101 Meeting - Please RSVP if you are planning to attend tomorrows meeting. Andrew and I will plan on having this meeting regardless to the number of RSVPs. If you confirm, the security guard will check you in. Otherwise give me a call on my cell 202-494-1707 so I can l | Jack Shultz | Jun 18, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] Meeting Proposal Thursday Evenings in June - I think Thursday evenings are a great idea. I think sometime between 6-730 would be a good start time. Is wireless internet available at the National Academies so that we can all sync up our data? I'm looking forward to seeing this move forward! Andy | andrew gillette | Jun 5, 2008 |
| Meeting Proposal Thursday Evenings in June - I propose we meet on a Thursday evening in June. I can book a conference room at my office at the National Academies near Chinatown/Gallery Place. We can have a formal discussion and/or demo on a video projector. Afterwards we shall reconvene in a local b | Jack Shultz | Jun 4, 2008 |
| Next Meeting June - Long time, no speak. We added Andrew as an assistant organizer for our meetup group. We would like to have a meeting sometime in June. If people can provide suggestions for venues and dates, that would be great! Look forward to seeing you. Jack | Jack Shultz | Jun 2, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] BOINC BBQ BASH - Where will it be? On May 2, 2008, at 12:01 PM, jackygrahamez wrote: | Doug Baggett | May 2, 2008 |
| BOINC BBQ BASH - We are planning a summer-time meeting in August on the East Coast. David Anderson the head of BOINC will be attending. I would like to know if anyone in our group is interested in attending. | Jack Shultz | May 2, 2008 |
| International Forum on Renewable Energy - Preview not available | Jack Shultz | Feb 28, 2008 |
| Dinner at McGinty's Public House - Hope to see you tonight. We have a dinner reservations for 5 at McGinty's. Only 3 of us coming that I know of. I'll bring a flip chart and some markers for us to write on. Jack | Jack Shultz | Feb 20, 2008 |
| Fwd: [boinc_dev] BOINC on JXTA? - I'm afraid JXTA is a little beyond my comprehension right now. This proposal triggered many responses on the BOINC lists. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Anderson & | Jack Shultz | Feb 14, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] UDel Computer Science Research Day - Should be fine, my Prius gets good mileage ;-) On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:50 PM, andrew gillette < [address removed] > wrote: | Jack Shultz | Feb 14, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] UDel Computer Science Research Day - I might be interested in going. I can split gas costs with you. Let me confirm my schedule. Please update us with any further specifics about this trip. Best, Andy | andrew gillette | Feb 14, 2008 |
| UDel Computer Science Research Day - Just to let you know. Dr Taufer invited me to her department's Research Day in York Deleware, Friday Febrauary 22nd. I'm going to drive up there if anyone is interested in joining me. | Jack Shultz | Feb 14, 2008 |
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Re: [opensource-84] API for Communication between Workunits - Here is a shortcut for you if you can download a 1GB image. Get a VM with all the BOINC software pre-configured http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VirtualMachines#compatibilit
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Jack Shultz | Feb 13, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] API for Communication between Workunits - I think people generally learn BOINC on a local network first. For learning purposes, you could use a low end computer as a BOINC server on a home network running a flavor of Linux. Or maybe even run a VM on a windows machine. The server does not require | Jack Shultz | Feb 13, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] API for Communication between Workunits - Jack, This is cool. Thanks for sending it forward. Is it possible to get the server side BOINC and run it locally, or must we all run clients? I'm interested in BOINC because of the obvious philanthropic implications, but moreover because it co | andrew gillette | Feb 13, 2008 |
| API for Communication between Workunits - Here is a little follow up from Nagarajan regarding parallelized BOINC API. Handling frequent communication between workunits will be problematic as he sees it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: | Jack Shultz | Feb 13, 2008 |
| Dinner at McGinty's Public House - I am thrilled to have our next meeting Wednesday the 20th at McGinty's. I am planning to bring a small flip chart. Andrew would like to talk a little about Algorithms. I got to do my homework so I can follow him better. I think we are on our w | Jack Shultz | Feb 13, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] Next BOINC Meetup - I can do February 20th. As for meeting alternatives, I like the idea of Bethesda or dupont circle. Although, I was also thinking it might be great if we could find a place that could facilitate food/drinks and that also has a dry-erase board handy. It mig | andrew gillette | Jan 31, 2008 |
| Next BOINC Meetup - I am about to plan the next meeting. How do Wednesdays work? I was thinking February 20th. Have not picked a venue. Someone wanted to have a meeting in NOVA. Does anyone second that request? | Jack Shultz | Jan 31, 2008 |
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Science Cafe Event: Biodiversity Under Threat - http://science.meetup.com/62/?gj=sj2 Science Cafés Biodiversity Under Threat: Implications for Pharmaceuticals January 29
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Jack Shultz | Jan 24, 2008 |
| Fwd: [boinc_projects] A Model and API for Communication between BOINC Workunits - Thought I would share this with people not on BOINC-PROJECTS List. There were several follow ups to this message describing the difficulty of running parrallel applications. I don't have a clear enough understanding of multi-threading to comprehe | Jack Shultz | Jan 24, 2008 |
| January 23 2008 Minutes - Hello BOINCers, We had a nice meeting Wednesday night, with three attendees. In our casual conversation we talked off the cuff about BOINC and our various interests related to science, technology and computing. Friendly | Jack Shultz | Jan 24, 2008 |
| BOINC Dinner Wednesday - I hope you are having an excellent weekend. Just a friendly reminder that our first meeting is Wednesday. If you will attend, please be sure to RSVP so I have sufficient space reserved. Bringing a friend, let me know. Feel free to invite someone who | Jack Shultz | Jan 20, 2008 |
| Re: [opensource-84] Hmmmmm - Haven't figured this out yet. - On Jan 12, 2008 12:51 AM, Tom < [address removed] > wrote: | Jack Shultz | Jan 12, 2008 |
| Hmmmmm - Haven't figured this out yet. - Preview not available | Tom | Jan 12, 2008 |
| Economist Article on BOINC! - A recent article describing BOINC in the Economist! | Jack Shultz | Dec 12, 2007 |
| BOINC Dinner at Clyde's - You are invited to attend our inaugural meeting at Clyde's in Washington, DC Gallery Place. Conveniently located in the Verizon Center a few doors away from Gallery Place Metro Stop. Two stops from Washington's Union Station. Come chat with ot | Jack Shultz | Dec 4, 2007 |
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