[Openchemistry-developers] MolView for GSoC 2017

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Hi Herman,

I don't see a good fit here for a few reasons, first and foremost being
that a student cannot mentor themselves. The Open Chemistry organization is
formed around a number of projects where we know and have worked with the
projects/mentors for quite a few years (in loose online forms in some
cases, but still). This enables us to build up a level of trust, and enough
overlap such that we have good confidence that we can offer the good
experience for the students and mentors.

Finally, we favor permissive, OSI-approved licenses in general that
encourage reuse in the wider context. While there are some exceptions for
historic reasons I think as a group that is the direction we (and certainly
I) would like to follow. The AGPL is very much in the opposite direction,
which is your project's choice but I don't feel it is well aligned with our
organization.

I wish you well in your endeavors to develop MolView, but as stated I don't
see a good fit. Even if there were we decided on included projects in the
organization proposal period, were selected on our proposal, and intend to
offer the projects with the mentor group originally proposed.

Yours sincerely,

Marcus
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Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
Technical Leader, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Herman Bergwerf <hermanbergwerf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Herman Bergwerf, developer of http://molview.org. I have a fairly
> simple question. Would it be possible to sign up my development on
> molview.org for GSoC under the Open Chemistry organization?
>
> I developed MolView in highschool and have been looking into improving it.
> Last year I did a failed attempt at building an architecture from scratch.
> Basically I started of a little too enthusiastic and wrote a completely
> modular, message based frontend architecture that was intended to be super
> modular. But after almost a year of working on this I decided I was going
> nuts and discarded it. However a lot is to be done. I almost get emails
> weekly about people enthusiastic about MolView or requesting new features.
> An old roadmap of ideas is here: https://github.com/
> molview/molview-1st-gen/wiki/Roadmap. I created mockups for a new, even
> more immersive user interface more than a year ago (
> http://blog.molview.org/posts/2015/07/23/material-design/). I abandoned
> development on MolView almost a year ago in favor of working on some other
> projects (also OSS). However I still retain interest in MolView. It is open
> source (AGPL) and so far developed on 0$ funding (except for my own funding
> to pay for hosting, and I hate ads so never added them). In the past 3/4
> years MolView has been visited over 400.000 times by more than 230.000
> unique users. In the past years I developed an interest in the Dart
> language. I would love to rebuild MolView from scratch in Dart,
> implementing the new user interface (as shown in the mockups), along with a
> set of new features (more embedding options, OBJ export for 3D printing,
> DNA sequence viewer, etc.), and drastically improving the code (compared to
> now I was a very bad coder back in highschool ;-D).
>
> I know MolView is not officially a open chemistry project (I'm not sure
> how the organization works), but it would be really awesome if I can work
> on MolView this summer while also making some money. If this is possible I
> can write a proposal with a list of technologies, the basic architecture,
> and an initial set of features.
>
> Thanks!
> Herman Bergwerf
>
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