Hello Dan,
Thanks for asking and for letting us know!   Yes, this distribution method would be fine for your non-commercial workshop. 

We're excited to hear that you'll be using ChimeraX -- I've already seen several nice publications in which ORCA results are shown with our software.

Best regards,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                      
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco



> On Aug 14, 2024, at 1:28 AM, SantaLucia, Daniel via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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> Hello ChimeraX team,
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> My name is Dan SantaLucia; I'm a research scientist working under Prof. Frank Neese and Prof. Serena DeBeer at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.
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> One thing we do every year is to organize a summer school for students from all over the world, where they get to learn in-depth about many different spectroscopic techniques as well as quantum chemical calculations to help them in their interpretations of these datasets.
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> You can find more information here, if you're curious: https://summerschool.cec.mpg.de/en/home
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> One thing that would be really nice would be to offer students the ability to use ChimeraX alongside our tutorial/practical sessions. We use ORCA to do calculations (considering, of course, that Frank invented it), and we've found that ChimeraX has a lot of really nice features that would be perfect for helping the students to learn.
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> What I wanted to ask was this: do we have permission to distribute the download files at:https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html to the students? They would be distributed on flash drives that we give to the students, and we would distribute the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions so that we could cover all users. The internet connection is not the best, unfortunately, at our venue, which is why they can't just go to the link to download it themselves. To be clear: this is a non-commercial use event, where we simply have international students coming to attend the summer school, and this is an event that is for learning purposes only. Nonetheless, I want to have your explicit permission for distribution of ChimeraX to the students as well as your permission for them to use your software at our summer school?
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> Thanks so much, and looking forward to hearing back from you,
> -Dan
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> Dr. Daniel J. SantaLucia
> MPI-KoFo/CEC Joint Workspace
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