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As you may know, Team Lamb Chop is engaged in a never-ending struggle to remain the #1 producer for SETI@Home. To accomplish this,
we'd like to bring as may new members into the group as possible, and to do so we'll need volunteers to help spread the message of TLC
through newsgroups, websites and message forums. If you're interested in helping post recruitment messages, post banners and more, email
SÜN GØÐ, the TLC Publicity Director.
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Without a doubt, the 31-day long May 2002 Membership Drive has been a success. Although we
didn't beat our goal of 5,100 total members by June 1st, we did bring in 137 new members, which is nothing to sniff at.
(After factoring in departing members, we gained a net 99 new members.) First, I want to extend
a huge thank you to all Choppers that took some of their valuable time to spread the word of TLC and bring new members
into our community. Although I may be guy that updates the statistics and acts as the team cheerleader, YOU are the
people that have done all the real leg-work: posting fliers, sending recruitment emails, posting to newsgroups and message
boards, encouraging friends and co-workers to join, putting banners on your websites, and so much more! You've all done a
fantastic job - thank you!
In one short month, the situation facing TLC has improved dramatically:
one month ago we were facing the inevitable fall to the #2 spot by the aggressive onslaught of SETI.Germany. Today, thanks in
part to the new members' daily production and the one-time WU bonuses they gave us, that overtake date has disappeared. And while the daily production
gap is still there, there's no doubt that the new members have made an important contribution to narrowing that gap. In total,
the new members brought a gross 287,141 WUs with them - that would take the entire TLC membership 26 days to produce (assuming
11,000 WU/day production). After deducting departing members, our net WU gain for the month is a very respectable 168,817
(equivalent to 15.3 days of full-TLC production). The statistics below tell the full story.
Going forward: There are still some things
we can accomplish in future drives that we didn't accomplish with this one, and its obvious that SETI.Germany and SETI@Netherlands
will remain a very real threat to our #1 position for some time to come. But this drive, put together quickly and
supported by a very passionate and involved membership, shows that we can accomplish great things and can achieve whatever
it will take us to stay on top of the SETI@Home World Rankings as the #1 Team. Way to go TLC! Even though this
drive is over, you can still make a difference - check out our
promotional materials and help us continue
to spread the world of TLC!
Cheers!
SÜN GØÐ
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Total Membership
June 1 Goal: 5,100 (+135 net)
June 1 Actual: 5,062 (+99 net)
Defecit: -36 (1.16/day)
New members (gross): +137
Members lost: -38
New members (net): +99
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Average net new
members per day:
Full-month goal: +4.35
Current average: +3.19
Daily defecit: -1.16
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Work Units:
Gross WU: +287,141
WU lost: -118,324
Net WU: +168,817 (5,445/day)
What those net WUs mean:
Daily production equivalent: 5,445
TLC production equivalent: ~15.3 days
Overtake pushback: ~42.2 days
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For the May 2002 Membership Drive, I set forward a very specific set of goals to help eliminate the production gap that
existed between us and SETI.Germany. Simply, we planned to bring in new members, reactivate existing idle members, and
recruit members from other groups. Some of those goals we achieved, and some of them we didn't. Here's an item by item
breakdown, plus some ideas on how we can accomplish the goals we missed in future drives.
If you're interested in helping in future drives, drop by the Spring Membership Drive Operations thread
in the Ars Distributed Computing OpenForum, or email SÜN GØÐ.
Recap of the May 2002 Drive Goals:
Goal: Bring in 150 new members, increasing TLC's total membership to 5,100.
Result: Mostly done - achieved 66% of our goal with 137 new members (gross), 99 net. Our total membership is now 5,062.
Goal: Develop cut-and-paste messaging that can be posted to newsgroups, used in direct emails, etc.
Result: Done! View them here.
Goal: Identify websites, newsgroups and message forums we can spread the message of TLC to.
Result: Done, as can be read about in the
Spring Membership Drive Operations thread.
Goal: Develop new ideas on how to bring in new members.
Result: Lots of new ideas - check them out in the Spring Membership Drive Operations thread.
Goal: Create new vertical banners and buttons to supplement the existing horizontal banners.
Result: Not done. However, the horizontal banners have been used extensively across TLC queue pages, the top
of the Ars OpenForums and elsewhere. Future drives
will have new banner and button development as their goal.
Goal: Recruit new members that average 10 WU/day for a total production increase of about 1,500 WUs/day. This will be accomplished
by identify fading SETI@Home groups and recruiting their top producers.
Result: Some members did take the initiative to contact the
top-producers of other groups and convince them to join TLC. However, it's unknown how much average daily production increase the new members brought during May. Development of analysis
tools could help resolve this problem by tracking who joined during the month, and then tracking their daily production through the
month. Reactivating members will be the focus of a future drive.
Goal: Reactivate 5% of the inactive TLC membership - this equates to about 135 members returning to active production.
Result: Here we didn't really make any dent. We still have a very large percentage of members that are inactive, and in
future drives we need to focus on getting them active once again.
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