2022-08-22 Core Developers meeting notes

Diego Nolasco (Deactivated)

• Email received from Thomas Fox:

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Dear Diego,

Perfect! This report now has everything in it I expected. It also highlights the accomplishments and also explains the two branches – industry funded and NIH/Danny funded. This will not change our decision to direct our funding to OpenFE, but hopefully it will further make other companies more willing to contribute to OpenFF.

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• At the last Advisory Board meeting it was clear that there is no interest in the release of a new version of Sage. Gary Tresadern said it wouldn't help him make the case with his managers in favor of keeping OpenFF funding and both Chris Bayly and Charles Hutchins said it wouldn't make a difference to OpenEye and AbbVie respectively either.

• In the same Advisory Board meeting, it was pointed out that the most interesting thing would be for OpenFF to be willing to address the "gaps" that may exist with regard to force fields. Because of this, last Thursday's ff-release meeting was entirely dedicated to the discussion about how would be the best format both to collect information about what these gaps would be and how to attack each one of them. The proposal is to carry out a "microworkshop" focused on gathering information about the "big failures" and "greatest desires" of our industrial partners regarding the use of force fields. I asked for suggestions on the #ff-release channel and will bring this topic to the agenda for tonight's lead team meeting.