This is quite unfortunate, Jonathan. Please forward my regrets to your Department Chair. Contributions like yours are hard to come by, and, for heaven's sakes, if this isn't peer reviewed, WHAT IS? I think it's just a sign that people have not caught up with the times. Very unfortunate.
Bob Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Jonathan Gutow wrote: >Dear Jmol team: > This letter is to notify you that I will not be able to continue >participating in Jmol development. I hope this situation will only >be temporary. However, my rejoining the project depends on my >institution being convinced to give me some kind of credit for these >activities. Since my contributions to the Jmol project were not >deemed a "form of off-campus, peer reviewed scholarly or artistic >product", I cannot afford to put any more time into the project. As >it stands, I have been told that my scholarly activity level has not >been adequate recently. To help me increase my scholarly output, I >will have to teach 3-6 hours more of classes each week, and will be >responsible for grading additional work from 20-60 more students. >Somehow that is supposed to increase my scholarly activity:) Put >simply, this means I will not have time to devote to Jmol or most of >my other scholarly activities. Since Jmol is the scholarly activity >that doesn't presently count, I need to drop that and use any time I >can eke out for scholarship of other kinds. If I can convince my >department to include contributions to projects like Jmol on a list >of creditable activity, I will be able to rejoin the project. This >is likely to take a semester. Thus I hope to be able to rejoin the >project next spring, about May. > > I will stay on the lists and try to stay up-to-date. I also plan to >spend some of the holiday break bringing the Wiki up-to-date on the >export to web function. I think it will help my case if export to >web is better documented and thus gets used more. > > I have found my involvement in the project intellectually >stimulating and am sorry that my situation requires that I halt my >participation. > >Sincerely, >Jonathan > Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow >Chemistry Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] >UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326 >800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 >Oshkosh, WI 54901 > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/ > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Jmol-developers mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
