Hi all, This is the last email I'll send asking for people and organizations to join the current mmpdb crowdsourcing effort.
I've discussed it several times before here. In summary, I'm looking for crowdfunding for the matched molecular pair program 'mmpdb'. This is part of a test to find alternative ways to raise money for open source development in cheminformatics. See http://mmpdb.dalkescientific.com/ for details. Currently I've pleased to say the effort has raised EUR 17 500. This is enough to fully finish off Postgres support and the new 'proprulecat', and pay back for the time taken to organize this funding effort. In addition, it passed the EUR 16 000 goal, which means that next month I'll work change mmpdb so it stores the environment as a more easily interpretable fragment SMILES, rather than a hashed version of the circular environments. The next funding goal is EUR 23 000, which is EUR 5 500 away. If I reach that funding goal, I will commit make a public/no-cost release of the new code in Oct. 2020. I've extended the deadline to join to 15 February because some additional marketing will go out at the end of this month, and I want to give recipients a chance to participate. People can still purchase mmpdb after the deadline is reached. Those goals merely represent specific commitments from me to work on mmpdb. For those interested in budget, or who think that EUR 17 500 is already a large amount of money. EUR 17 500 is corporate income, not salary income. About 50% of that goes to payroll taxes. The average software developer salary here in Sweden is about EUR 50 000, so EUR 9 000 is about 2 months of time. (I would be making above average salary should I decide to go corporate.) I spent several weeks working on the web site - which is essential marketing for crowdsourcing - and paid a web designer to help. I've also spent a few weeks working on improvements already delivered to customers. Even invoicing takes time. But the goal of this effort isn't for me to be rich - though that would be nice. It's to see if an open-source project like mmpdb can be economically self-sustaining though funding by users interested in paying for specific new features and support. Best regards, Andrew da...@dalkescientific.com _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
