A few weeks ago, I posted a very informal survey about community financial support for Avogadro.
The results were very positive, particularly considering that I didn't really "push" the survey very hard (e.g., on the Avogadro webpage, other community forums). I have talked a bit with the University of Pittsburgh about handling recurring weekly or monthly donations and crowd-sourced funding for Avogadro. I'm cautiously optimistic. It can provide accountability for the spending and in the US, it's giving to a designated non-profit organization. The downside is that Pitt can't do this now. I see two main services right now: * Gratipay (e.g., add a shield to the README and website) https://gratipay.com * Bounty Source https://www.bountysource.com I think the both have some benefits. Gratipay doesn't take a cut. Bounty Source allows people to target particular features as well as just general contributions. Thoughts? Has anyone worked with either? Are there other alternatives? My hope is that we can get some bounties going soon to encourage small but useful contributions, e.g., - Travis & AppVeyor builds and GitHub integration (e.g., ensuring working builds at all times) - Eigen3 support for Avogadro v1.x as a stop-gap until Avo2 is released - Integrating msym point group symmetry library (https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/pull/55) - etc. -Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Avogadro-Discuss mailing list Avogadro-Discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-discuss
