Summer 2015 (6/25/2015)

• ChemIT charged the $1,800 department license to the ChemIT account.

Details and context

Michael Lenetsky approved this process of having the department cover the cost.

An alternative is get research groups to pay the cost proportional to their use. Here's what happened when this was tried summer 2015: ChemIT was only able to get pledges for $1,300 from research groups for the use of LabView LabVIEW for the 2015-2016 year (26 seats at $50 each). That left out groups who had chosen not to respond.

We guessed there would be about 36 seats, hence the $50 amount to collect the $1,800 needed. And if more than 36 seats were pledged, then we could lower the price per seat.

To hedge against " free riders", we could then submit a "research group charge-back" spreadsheet to Kevin and then somehow hold the software back from users in non-payment groups.

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• Zax (who just worked with Roger us on labviewLabVIEW )
• Abruna (used extensively around the group)
• Disalvo (used on a machine or two)
• Others?

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