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Volunteer recruitment and retention
David Anderson edited this page Mar 10, 2026
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Much of this is based on the results of the BOINC user survey; study this yourself.
Most of these suggestions involve writing prose to be read by the general public. Find a good writer. This could be one of your students, a friend, or a professional writer.
English is the most widely-spoken language among BOINC participants; you should probably use it as the main language for web materials and email. BOINC provides mechanisms for Web site translation; it's generally easy to get volunteers to do this.
- Goals
- Web configuration file
- Customize web site appearance with CSS
- Web site translation
- Server status page
- Caching
- Simplified registration/download
- Project-specific preferences
- User app selection
- Badges
- Accepting donations through PayPal
- Controlling account creation
- Profile screening
- Mass emails
- Creating and managing message boards
- Project news
- GUI URLs
- Notices
- Requiring that volunteers accept Terms of Use
- Dealing with spam
- Adding graphics to the manager's simple view
- Blacklisting hosts
- Export credit data as XML
- Importing BOINC-wide teams
- LDAP authentication
- How to be compliant with GDPR
- Proof of account ownership: Lets users prove they are the account owner to external sites)