> Sometimes, I wish there was a rdkit consortium/NPO (so that donations are tax > deductible), so that rdkit could be massively funded by all its commercial > users, and even accepting individual donations.
I don't want to hijack the thread, so please feel free to take this off-list with anyone interested. I think it's an interesting idea in general in open chemistry. We have set up an Open Chemistry collective - this receives $$ from Google Summer of Code. The "host" is the Open Source Collective, a 501c6 non-profit in the United States (https://docs.opencollective.com/help/hosts/open-source-collective) The collective isn't perfect, it skims 5% for transaction fees and overhead, but it's: - completely transparent for donations - completely transparent for expenses - allows both one-time and recurring donations Greg can correct me - I think we handled the $$ to RDKit from Google Summer of Code 2018 before we set this up, but it's certainly there to use. You can create your own RDKit collective pretty easily too: https://opencollective.com/open-chemistry One big benefit is that OpenCollective handles all the legal paperwork and accounting. -Geoff PS One regret is that I haven't had need of chemfp in house, or I would have pushed some $$ towards Andrew. _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
