Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of 2023-8-24

Timestamp:

Aug 24, 2023, 3:40:16 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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2023-8-24

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 = Discussion Notes =
 
+* School and department cost cutting
+  - The school of pharmacy has a deficit, ~$10 million
+  - The department of pharmaceutical chemistry has to cut expenses because of the deficit.
+  - Pharm Chem layed of Matt Denny who handles many of our purchases and one other admin employee who we do not work with.
 
+* UCSF purchasing at Amazon
+  - BearBuy now supports purchasing some items from Amazon.
+  - Some lab member received email saying the have an Amazon account with a ucsf.edu email address that should be converted to a UCSF Amazon business account if it is for UCSF purchases.
+
+* chimerax-users email is bouncing
+  - Some ChimeraX mailing list email is bouncing saying "554 5.5.0 Remote protocol error (Line too long (see RFC5321 4.5.3.1.6))"
+  - Greg is looking into it and will try updating the mailing list Mailman software from PyPi.
+
+* Mikhail Kouzminov ChimeraX programming volunteer
+  - At developer meeting on Monday we Mikhail joined us.
+  - We proposed he port ViewDockX from html to Qt.
+  - He says he can work 20 hours per week on it, and will try.
+
+* ChimeraX PyPi library licensing
+  - Should we dual license the chimerax library gpl/commercial or go with lgpl?
+  - Decided LGPL was simpler and more flexible for developers and would likely not reduce ChimeraX licensing revenue.
+  - Discussed updating source code file header to reference new license.
+  - Discussed omitting toolshed and user command support from the library.
+
+* Scooter work in progress
+  - Ran out of time.  Scooter will present his work at next group meeting.
 
 = Action Items =