We are out of work for SSS. Kick that server!

:-)

Work flow has stopped.
A new batch coming?

Conan
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Out of work again.

No more work.
Is the project finished?

Looks like Pentathlon people (like me!) have drained the queue dry. Can you add more?

Looks like Pentathlon people (like me!) have drained the queue dry. Can you add more?

Looks like Pentathlon people (like me!) have drained the queue dry. Can you add more?

With the pentathlon postponed for a month and school out for the summer might not be easy to generate new work. Terrible pick for the longest part of the pentathlon IMHO. No reflection on all the hard work done here. What was SG thinking?

Terrible pick for the longest part of the pentathlon IMHO. What was SG thinking?

I picked up 4 subsetsum wu`s today, looks like Travis has managed to sort something out, pheww

I picked up 4 subsetsum wu`s today, looks like Travis has managed to sort something out, pheww

I picked up 4 subsetsum wu`s today, looks like Travis has managed to sort something out, pheww

I guess this are resend WU`s wich exeeded the deadline...

Still an Pentathlon Marathon without work.
Very, very bad.

Terrible pick for the longest part of the pentathlon IMHO. What was SG thinking?

Is Travis aware of the pentathlon, and the project being out of work? Has anyone asked him directly?
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According to a blurb in the Seti-Germany shoutbox, the Pentathlon organizers were in contact and assured that attention would be shown to the project PRIOR to the start. Obviously nothing was done and worse yet absolutely no contact whatsoever. A simple "I am honored to be chosen as the main project in the 2016 Pentathlon, but am far too busy to devote the time needed on short notice. Thank you and I hope you will consider Citizen Science Grid next year" would have been far preferable.
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I contacted Travis in advance as well to confirm and he said that he was notified.
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I just can not understand why any Project Administrator runs a project and tells all their volunteers that he has no time to maintain it. This has been a problem with the three sub projects that is supposed to be Active for quite some time. Why is it running and called ACTIVE. A Month ago Assistant Professor Travis Desell said this among other things like "things are hectic", busy etc:
Qoute:
Please let me know if there are any other things you'd like moved up to the top of my to-do list so once the summer starts I can make sure things are working nicely here!

Travis Desell on Monday, May 9th
Unquote.

I can not say that the Pentathlon Administrators been in touch with Travis and gave him the honor of making this project a Marathon in the challenge. What I can say is this. Summer has started a week ago and it appears to me that Travis is not aware of that and he is so busy that he has no time to say a word of thank you for wasting our time and money on a project that even the the top Scientist, project Administrator does not seem to care. Does saying a few words in the News to update us so time consuming that you have no time even for that?

I am disappointed and this is just one reason more and more volunteers are moving away fro Distributed Computing. It cost us Money with no thank you.

I don't think Travis fully comprehends that he could've had 18 months worth of work completed over the 19 days of the Pentathlon (including the 5 days prior to the start when the Marathon was announced). He'll come back later and wonder why the work isn't being completed faster.