*arcane gesturing and mumbling* 10 - Print "Hello world!";, 20 - Goto 10 - RUN! *dashes away as screen fills with text*

I got my start as a Commodore 64 hooligan

sajinor
Finally, with sign-ups closings being just a week away, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas to try to push awareness and get some more people involved. The more signed up generally means the more work that gets done. With the contest section being gone, some people may not even think to look for any events. 

If we can dig up the list of entries from the last TZC, maybe we can get some volunteers from each time zone to PM the people from their respective teams.

I cannot seem to get anyone within my IT group to even look at BOINC for Crunching, really not sure why.
I have setup at work my Crunching Coffee Cups and Badges and do get a lot of comments but no new memberships.
I had the same problem last year when I was pushing Folding@home now called the "The Fold."
I will see what I can do this week at work as we have till the 19th.

Boy!!! that is a pretty short contestant list - mountains never had it that good 
 
and i got a glimpse of the stats - even tho drougnor has the server updates down for servicing
It's like Im in the twilight zone and mountain is in first place - ok test run - but like I said small team big numbers -
like we got about 1/2 of mountain in contest - I doubt even 10% of east is signed up
 
Im all for stretching out sign up another week before contest - to let the other teams have a chance
 
 
PS: 64K memory PC's - try 4k iron core and PDP8 and paper tape/punchcards
 

I've got a merged list of 200+ contestants from previous TZC's and CC's.  If anyone has a few minutes to send 10 PMs today, let me know, and I'll send you a list of 50 names grouped in sets of 5 so you can just copy and paste.

I am sending a very short message.  These folks have all participated in contests before so they know the drill.  I use the subject line "2014 Time Zone Challenge (folding + crunching) starts in 7 days" and the message 
 
"Please join us for the 2014 Time Zone Challenge. This year we are including both folding and crunching divisions in the competition.
See the thread at http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2143564 for more info. Join in and help represent your time zone!"
 
Feel free to embellish as you wish.
 
Unfortunately the new forum software has some sort of bug or limit in the PM page so you can't actually paste a list of 5 names into the recipient list, because it cuts the list off; you'll have to type them or paste only 1 or 2 at a time.  You can still paste the full subject and message no problem.

Thanks Big D!
edit: and planetclown!
edit2: and Orange_1050!
edit3: and mflanaga!
 
We are all set!  Thanks for all the help!!!
 
It's great to be part of a group where people will step up to volunteer and help at a moment's notice!  

Punchy
I've got a merged list of 200+ contestants from previous TZC's and CC's.  If anyone has a few minutes to send 10 PMs today, let me know, and I'll send you a list of 50 names grouped in sets of 5 so you can just copy and paste.

Happy to help you Punchy. Send me a batch of 50 also. Won't be able to do it until i get home from work in about 5 hours but it will get done this evening.

signed up

Got the message from planetclown and am now signed up. Only folding on weekends these days, but I guess anything will help push EST forward.

nine3o
 
CRAP!  Just noticed that I have signed up twice, sorry guys can you update the sign up sheet to reflect only 1 signup? 
Sorry for the extra work.

I removed the duplicate entry from the form. Thanks for letting us know.
 
Getting the word out sure helped the Eastern and Central zones, at least for folding. Good to see the turn out ramp up!

Got Punchy's PM, signed up.  Thanks!

Here's the mug design... it'll be on a black mug that's 11 oz.. the beer stein is 20 oz.  Those who prefer latte mugs... well we can do that too...
 
 

Finally got all my rigs configured correctly and folding away.  Weather's not entirely ideal though, we'll be pushing close to 90s, but at least it doesn't look like there should be that many tornadoes during the challenge...

Sign ups are now closed! I will work out the international member's balancing soon and update the OP. Get ready for tomorrow!
 
Edit: Heh, drougnor beat me to it.