Dear all, The thread about Andrew's ChemFP paper started to turn into a discussion of open-source business models and their feasibility (Thanks for starting that Francois). Since I think this is an important topic, I'd like to have that in its own thread.
Here's the thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08796.html I'm going to include a couple of complete messages from participants so that we can discuss things here. Here's part 1, part 2 will come in a separate message: On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:36 PM Geoffrey Hutchison < geoff.hutchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
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