Live Forever: They key is advertising effectively. Posting in the Folding@Home forums would be a good place to start. A lot of the people with racks of computers post in there.
Here is how the prize is currently proposed:
-The prize money will be distributed based on the number of work units each person completes during each quarter (3 months).
Prizes each quarter are as follows:
$150 -1st
$100 - 2nd
$50 - 3rd
$25 - 4th
$10 – 5th thru 12th
The competitors will sign up as members of the Longevitymeme team and are also required to register at Imminst as a "registered user". Payments to the winners will be made through the Imminst paypal account.
We need to have a place to keep track of the competitors here at Imminst. Perhaps a team forum such as this one.
As far as promotion and publicity goes we should plan on hitting all the major techie/transhumanist/futurist websites/blogs/forums (such as the one Nate mentioned above) as well as sending a press release to major news outlets.
The press release should contain the rationale for offering the prize. It seems obvious to many of us, but the challenge is putting it eloquently and passionately into words. Some ideas:
-list the past successes of distributed computing.
-explain how it will continue to be a force for anti-aging research into the near future.
-people who don't have formal scientific training/education can help shape the future with their home computer.
Timing. I would like to have a large list of places to promote/publicize and a press release crafted by March 17th. That will give us the last 2 weeks of March to advertise the prize with a competition start date of April 2nd.
Please add comments and suggestions.