I should mention that the website is in need of serious updating. On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:50 AM Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote:
> Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a chaotic > mess. I’m trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos. Both IT wise and > organization wise. I’ve never been much of a Microsoft fan, but their > transition to the cloud seems pretty impressive so far. BTW, here’s the > foundation I volunteer for. > > mindocloudforest.org > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin < > stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote: > >> Gary, >> >> I bet that Microsoft software is for the birds. :-) >> >> or is your nonprofit dealing with community broadband? >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:42 AM Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I >>> must say that at least a few software companies are fairly generous with >>> licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been >>> particularly helpful. >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> """Current in silico software is only accessible to large >>>> pharmaceutical companies willing to pay obnoxious licensing fees. Students >>>> in every country no matter their university, startup companies to Fortune >>>> 500s, and even dedicated hobbyists will all have the same opportunity to >>>> design new molecules to change the future of drug discovery," said Shkreli, >>>> co-founder of Druglike.""" >>>> >>>> FWIW, my company's software is free to academics. This article hides >>>> the fact that the majority of the economic barrier to entry is not >>>> licensing but the cost of performing the large-scale simulations necessary >>>> to do docking, md, generating conformers, or what-have-you. Drug discovery >>>> is computationally hard and if AWS or whoever is going to ultimately charge >>>> for compute then someone along the path will need to pay for that compute. >>>> Just my two cents. >>>> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >>>> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >>>> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>>> archives: 5/2017 thru present >>>> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >>>> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >>>> >>> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >>> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> archives: 5/2017 thru present >>> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >>> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >>> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >
-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
