Jmol developers:

At the Blue Obelisk meeting in Chicago, we had quite a lively discussion 
relating to business plans. Of course, my answer to the question, "What 
is the Jmol business plan?" I answered: "None -- this is totally not a 
business."

But upon refection, I was wondering if there should be a sort of 
"business plan" for Jmol. Here is what I am thinking: I'm a professor; 
my currency is publications. Say someone comes to me and asks me if Jmol 
could be improved in some way in order to make some sort of research 
possible. So I spend some significant amount of time doing that.

Would it be reasonable to ask to be a coauthor on the first publication 
that stems from this added capability? My reasoning is that you would 
certainly put a graduate student or post-doc's name on a paper if they 
contributed by writing code that made some aspect of that work possible. 
What do you think? At what point does such activity merit an 
acknowledgment? coauthor?

Bob



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