Gridcoin and BOINC are a great combination. BOINC supports all sorts of causes and science worldwide and is completly open, anybody can set-up a project and benefit from volunteer distributed computing.

Gridcoin can only encourage more people to crunch for BOINC and give something back.

One of the main draws for me is being able to support reasearch and be rewarded by Gridcoin with the minimal overhead required to support the network.

Proof of Work is just so wasteful