[Jmol-developers] Notice of withdrawal (temporary, I hope) from the Jmol project...

[Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...>]

Dear Jmol team:
	This letter is to notify you that I will not be able to continue  
participating in Jmol development.  I hope this situation will only  
be temporary.  However, my rejoining the project depends on my  
institution being convinced to give me some kind of credit for these  
activities.  Since my contributions to the Jmol project were not  
deemed a "form of off-campus, peer reviewed scholarly or artistic  
product", I cannot afford to put any more time into the project.   As  
it stands, I have been told that my scholarly activity level has not  
been adequate recently. To help me increase my scholarly output, I  
will have to teach 3-6 hours more of classes each week, and will be  
responsible for grading additional work from 20-60 more students.   
Somehow that is supposed to increase my scholarly activity:)  Put  
simply, this means I will not have time to devote to Jmol or most of  
my other scholarly activities.  Since Jmol is the scholarly activity  
that doesn't presently count, I need to drop that and use any time I  
can eke out for scholarship of other kinds.  If I can convince my  
department to include contributions to projects like Jmol on a list  
of creditable activity, I will be able to rejoin the project.  This  
is likely to take a semester.  Thus I hope to be able to rejoin the  
project next spring, about May.

	I will stay on the lists and try to stay up-to-date.  I also plan to  
spend some of the holiday break bringing the Wiki up-to-date on the  
export to web function.  I think it will help my case if export to  
web is better documented and thus gets used more.

	I have found my involvement in the project intellectually  
stimulating and am sorry that my situation requires that I halt my  
participation.

Sincerely,
Jonathan
                          Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
Chemistry Department                                 gu...@uw...
UW-Oshkosh                                           Office:920-424-1326
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Oshkosh, WI 54901
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