Adding polls to Jarifa

February 4th, 2010

Jarifa now supports polls, allowing Jarifa users to vote for their most valuable BOINC projects. The users have to log in, and then they will be able to vote for the projects that Jarifa offers them. With this new feature, projects like Extremadurathome can leave the power of choice in the community, by enabling this feature. The software enables the two most voted projects, each day, week, month or year (it is set up by crontab, so it is possible to configure it in a wide range of time units) automatically.

Bar chart of most voted projects

Most voted projects

Extremadurathome.org on regional TV in Extremadura

January 18th, 2010

The 16th of January of 2010, the TV show Conecta-T played a report about the Extremadurathome.org project. Extremadurathome.org is a social project that tries to popularize science among citizens.

Extremadurathome.org is using Jarifa to manage volunteers, which has more than 400 volunteers and 700 computers donated to different research projects.

The full episode can be viewed in the following link.

Jarifa video at DebConf9

September 28th, 2009

debconf9logo

Now it is possible to view or download the talk that we gave at DebConf9 conference from the following link. The video can be downloaded in high or low resolution.

Jarifa on iSGTW

July 17th, 2009

Jarifa is on the cover of International Science Grid this Week (iSGTW), introducing how the International Potato Center (CIP) from Perú is using the BOINC technology for running their research and Jarifa software for managing all their BOINC resources.

Potatoes varities.

Potatoes varities.

CIP research includes protecting potato seed, studying better methods of pest management, managing mountain agro-ecosystems, and using genetic resources to improve crops, among other activities. You can find the full article here.

More than 12000 computers handled with Jarifa!!!

July 1st, 2009

The Consejería de Educación, Junta de Extremadura in collaboration with Fundecyt, Spain, is using Jarifa for harnessing the idle times of their computers to collaborate with the EDGES project.

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Jarifa web of Consejería de Educación, Junta de Extremadura, Spain.

The computers are student PCs from the high-schools that belong to the Junta de Extremadura, Spain. Extremadura is well-known in the open source community for its open source support, as all these computers use GNU/Linux: Linex. By the end of Autumn, they are planning to have more than 50000 under control with Jarifa.

Detail of Jarifa Index

Detail of Jarifa Index

W3C HTML 4.01 Transitional Compliant

June 8th, 2009

We are now W3C HTML 4.01 Transitional Compliant. With this last upgrade, Jarifa follows the W3C standards and assures that the application will be visible in any contemporary web-browser. If you want to check the HTML code of Jarifa, just click on the following image for validating the Extremadurathome.org Jarifa’s webpage:

Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional

Search box and navigation bar for data grids

June 3rd, 2009

Jarifa has new features. The user and host tables now have a navigation bar, so it is faster to see the data and easier to navigate through it.

Navigation bar

Navigation bar

The User section has been improved by adding a new search box. This search box allows super users to search for Jarifa users.

Search box

Search box

volunteer-welcome

New Volunteer's welcome page

Finally, the volunteer welcome page has been upgraded, adding the user’s rank position within Jarifa and the total obtained credit.

Get the source code while it is fresh!!!

New video about Extremadurathome.org

May 27th, 2009

Invitation codes now supported

May 18th, 2009

The last upgrade of Jarifa adds support for invitation codes. Thus, if a project requires an invitation code to create a BOINC account, now it is possible to add it to Jarifa. The patch is in the trunk of the repository. Enjoy it while it is fresh!!!

New invitation code form

New invitation code form

Micropedia.tv explains what it means Volunteer Computing

May 15th, 2009

Yesterday, we could see the video but only in Spanish. Now it is possible to view the video with English subtitles. Check it out:

You can download the subtitles file and translate it to other languages. The license of the video and subtitles is a Creative Commons.