There are still 3½ months to go until the end of the 2024 season, so this topic is to start clarifying how the 2025 season will take shape.
1) It needs to be decided whether FB is a suitable range of Challenges that can continue supporting BOINC projects and how best to generate more interest and participation in both the FB Marathon and FB Sprints
2) A decision will then need to be made about who should be the Admin for the FB Forum, for the FB Sprints and the general administration. I will stand for election in this role, but others might wish to take over. And, of course, Sebastien will need to approve this.
3) A decision will need to be made about whether to continue with the 3 different Leagues for both Teams and Members. Currently, there is good support for the Team Leagues but I am disappointed with the number of members who signed up to take part, who are actually "active" during the Sprints.
4) If the League structure is retained, then once the 2024 Season is over, the plan is for there to be another round of Promotions and Demotions from both the Team and Member Leagues, based on the 2024 performances of all participants and rewarding those who have made a good effort and maybe deleting/demoting members (from the stats) who have made ZERO effort.
5) A decision will need to be made as to which projects will be featured in the Marathon and which of these will feature in the Sprints.
Added 20th September 2024:
6) I think it is reasonable to require that Teams and Members participate in a minimum number of Sprints each year. After all, what is the point of registering a Team or an Individual (for an FB Sprint) and to then not take part? Maybe the minimum should be say 12? Or perhaps even 15 or even 18? There are (currently) 24 FB Sprints this year and there will be 24 F1 races in 2025 (and therefore 24 FB Sprints) so, is it reasonable to expect participation in at least 50% of the Sprints, or even 75% ?
Added 29th November 2024:
7) I have now started the process of setting up the 2025 Marathons and Sprints and I have now created a 4th League for both Teams and Members. A Qualifying Sprint will take place early in 2025, and those taking part will then be promoted to either Legue 1, 2 or 3, depending on their 2024 performances.
See here for some details:
viewtopic.php?p=3882#p3882
I might think of other issues which I will include when I think of them!
Until then, this topic is LOCKED but it will be re-opened for forum member comments in due course.
List of possible Sprint Projects - but note that selection is not automatic, if any project has few or zero tasks available on the specific dates of the Sprint and hence cannot satisfy the expected much higher demand for tasks from FB members. This list is NOT updated regularly and hence may include projects that are subsequently excluded for various reasons
Not suitable for a Sprint such as project admin request, or project now limiting tasks, or is now closed etcAmicable Numbers
Asteroids@home
Einstein@Home
Gerasim@home
GPUGRID
LHC@home
MilkyWay@home
Moo! Wrapper
NFS@Home
NumberFields@home
ODLK2025
PrimeGrid
PRIVATE GFN SERVER
RakeSearch
Rosetta@home
SiDock@home
SRBase
The Ramanujan Machine
TN-Grid
Universe@Home
World Community Grid
yoyo@home
regardsDENIS@home
iThena.Computational
Minecraft@Home
ODLK
ODLK1
QuChemPedIA@home
WUProp@Home
YAFU
Tim
16th Sept: minor edits
20th Sept: Added item 6)
29th Nov: Added item 7)