On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:36 PM Geoffrey Hutchison < geoff.hutchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > It's been pretty thoroughly hijacked. :-) It's an important topic, so I'm going to start a new thread for this. > 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 Yeah, the travel grants for the two RDKit GSoC students were handled via a different mechanism.
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