Since 2011 the donate button has raised $1,231 for Rosetta@home related things.

I found the Donate link by looking for it, but it is not very prominent. Without being intrusive, I think you could make it a real button and place it in on the forum pages, where most of your support will come from.

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Since 2011 the donate button has raised $1,231 for Rosetta@home related things.

1200$ in 5 years? Are you kidding? 250$/y??
I know R@H cannot access "directly" to IPD grants, but IS R@H IMPORTANT FOR IPD OR NOT? I think that foundraising (for IPD's boys) is not a great problem.

This isn't quite enough to do any major upgrades...
We have 5 webserver, 1 database and 1 filesystem server. We'd want to at minimum upgrade the database and filesystem server. I'm still talking to the system admin people to get a estimate of how much money we'd need.

A good DB server is, at least, 8k $.....


So, crowdfounding or not?

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Since 2011 the donate button has raised $1,231 for Rosetta@home related things.

1200$ in 5 years? Are you kidding? 250$/y??
I know R@H cannot access "directly" to IPD grants, but IS R@H IMPORTANT FOR IPD OR NOT? I think that foundraising (for IPD's boys) is not a great problem.

This isn't quite enough to do any major upgrades...
We have 5 webserver, 1 database and 1 filesystem server. We'd want to at minimum upgrade the database and filesystem server. I'm still talking to the system admin people to get a estimate of how much money we'd need.

A good DB server is, at least, 8k $.....


So, crowdfounding or not?

Yes R@h is important! And BOINC is important, but funding for it was cut. I'm not sure about what DB's thoughts are about crowd funding. We'll get back to you on that. I think Sergey is looking into it.

We'll get back to you on that. I think Sergey is looking into it.

While waiting, some ideas:
A list of scientific crowdfounding
A guide to scientific crowdfounding

And Dell refurbished servers if you want to save money

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We estimated that we'd need about 40K for an upgrade. We've been able to combine funding from a couple different sources and raise 10K! It's not enough for a complete upgrade, but we decided to use the money to upgrade our hard-drives/storage. We've been experiencing some slow down due to high I/O loads and lack of space. We'll be getting solid state drives!

I've asked the sys-admins to provide us with a break down of upgrades we'd need. I'll post that soon!

We'll get back to you on that. I think Sergey is looking into it.

While waiting, some ideas:
A list of scientific crowdfounding
A guide to scientific crowdfounding

And Dell refurbished servers if you want to save money

We estimated that we'd need about 40K for an upgrade. We've been able to combine funding from a couple different sources and raise 10K! It's not enough for a complete upgrade, but we decided to use the money to upgrade our hard-drives/storage. We've been experiencing some slow down due to high I/O loads and lack of space. We'll be getting solid state drives!

I've asked the sys-admins to provide us with a break down of upgrades we'd need. I'll post that soon!

If you want a crowd for remaining 30K.... :-)

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