template for future interviews

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

to be used for:

• interview guide with BOINC admins
  
  

questions:

• What is your BOINC project doing ?

  • research-wise: publishing papers, ... ?
  • company-wise
  • How long do you plan to run your project for?
  • Does your project have any milestone goals in terms of time, WU completed etc.

• How are you rewarding your users ? (If your project is on the whitelist: rewards come via Gridcoin)

• about your WUs/applications:

  • recommendations based on:
  • • OS type
  • • Have you noticed any apps run better on certain processors and why?
  • • research we users want to contribute to

• What were the problems when you didn't have WUs (anymore) ?

• BOINC server questions:

  • server load / user situation
  • self-install vs docker
  • experience as BOINC admin over the years: tips to fresh BOINC admins

• Do you perform regular maintenance on your BOINC project? Are you able to inherit changes from the main BOINC repo easily?

• What kind of help do you need for your BOINC project ? (from Gridcoin or other groups)

• What kind of security do you provide ?

  • SSL implementation/improvement planned for the future? (If they don't have an 'A' grade cert).
  • WU protection ? (spot-checking, replication, tracking trust/reputation of workers)
  • virtualbox apps ?
  • Have you had issues with spammers?
  • Would you consider implementing 2FA? #102

• What do you do against cheating ?

  • Do you use spot-check tasks?
  • If so, spot-checking within real tasks (unique spot-check calculations for a work unit's replicated tasks) or dedicated spot-check tasks?
  • Do you track trustworthiness/reputation of volunteers? (Based on outcome of work unit voting pools, or likelihood of collusion).
  • Do you utilize task replication?

• background of the researcher:

  • What field did they study in?
  • How did they get started with the project that they are in?
  • Were they involved with distributed computing in the past?

• What do you think of the following boinc issue: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1644 (improve password security) ?

• What are highest priority issues regarding BOINC development in your opinion?

• Are you aware of the BOINC project governance? https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectGovernance

• Do you regularly communicate with the project governance?

• What do you think of the 'monetization of BOINC computation'?

Gridcoin related:

• Before being contacted for the interview, had you heard of Gridcoin?
  • Have you had much experience with other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin?
• Are you aware of Gridcoin's leaderboard position on your BOINC project? (most projects we're number 1)
• What do you think of Gridcoin? Anything that we could be doing better?
• Do you accept Gridcoin donations ?
• The teamfounder can be transferred to a trusted person ?
• Can you add a Gridcoin donation button to your website? Preferably via coinpayments?
• What do you think of the BOINC team requirement?
  • Do you feel it helps or hinders Gridcoin as a cryptocurrency, and as a BOINC team?
• Gridcoin makes always challenges: do you have any preferences ? e.g. duration: 3 days long or 1 week ?
• Would you entertain the idea of implementing a Gridcoin field within your BOINC project's profile page, so as to improve proof of CPID ownership? #101

[ghost]

What is your BOINC project doing ?

How long do you plan to run your project for? Does your project have any milestone goals in terms of time, WU completed etc.

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

@AffectionGC thx I'll add these above

[grctest]

"Can you add a Gridcoin donation button to your website? Preferably via coinpayments?"

[grctest]

• Before being contacted for the interview, had you heard of Gridcoin?
• What do you think of Gridcoin? Anything that we could be doing better?

Regarding security:

• SSL implementation/improvement planned for the future? (If they don't have an 'A' grade cert).
• Have you had issues with spammers?.

[ghost]

If the project is brand new it would be nice to hear a little bit about the background of the researchers as well. What field did they study in? How did they get started with the project that they are in? Were they involved with distributive computing in the past?

Might be a little fluffy but it could be of interest to people outside of gridcoin for higher visability. The arguement could be made that if there are enough questions about the actual science of the project and what the creators are doing then the podcast could be posted around in areas outside of gridcoin/crypto currency fourms which in turn could bring in new users.

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

thanks @grctest @AffectionGC your suggestsions were all added above

[Peppernrino]

• What do you think of the Gridcoin BOINC team requirement? Do you feel it helps or hinders Gridcoin as a cryptocurrency, and as a BOINC team?

[grctest]

What do you think of the following boinc issue: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1644 What are highest priority issues regarding BOINC development in your opinion? Are you aware of the BOINC project governance? https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectGovernance Do you regularly communicate with the project governance? What do you think of the 'monetization of BOINC computation'?

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

thanks @grctest, added those and more questions from yesterday's session

[grctest]

We could potentially expand the following:

• What do you do against cheating? (perhaps also covers "WU protection ? (spot-checking, replication, tracking trust/reputation of workers)" ) --> we could consolodate 'cheating/wu-protection' headings.

With:

• Do you use spot-check tasks?
  • If so, spot-checking within real tasks (unique spot-check calculations for a work unit's replicated tasks) or dedicated spot-check tasks?
• Do you track trustworthiness/reputation of volunteers? (Based on outcome of work unit voting pools, or likelihood of collusion).
• Do you utilize task replication?

[grctest]

Are you aware of Gridcoin's leaderboard position on your BOINC project? (most projects we're number 1)

[grctest]

Would you entertain the idea of implementing a Gridcoin field within your BOINC project's profile page, so as to improve proof of CPID ownership? https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/101

Would you consider implementing 2FA? https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/102

Do you perform regular maintenance on your BOINC project? Are you able to inherit changes from the main BOINC repo easily?

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

added last 3 comments by @grctest into template, thx