Blue Obelisk

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Formation 2005 Membership 23+ Budget zero		Founder Peter Murray-Rust Official language English

Website http://www.blueobelisk.org/

Blue Obelisk is an informal group of chemists who promote open data, open source, and open standards; it was initiated by Peter Murray-Rust and others in 2005. Multiple open source cheminformatics projects associate themselves with the Blue Obelisk, among which, in alphabetical order, Avogadro, Bioclipse, cclib, Chemistry Development Kit, GaussSum, JChemPaint, JOELib, Kalzium, Openbabel, OpenSMILES, and UsefulChem.

The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received a Blue Obelisk Award are:

Christoph Steinbeck (2006)

Geoff Hutchinson (2006)

Bob Hanson (2006), Egon Willighagen (2007)

Jean-Claude Bradley (2007)

Ola Spjuth (2007)

Noel O'Boyle (2010)

Rajarshi Guha (2010)

Cameron Neylon (2010)

Alex Wade (2010)

Nina Jeliazkova (2010)

Henry Rzepa (2011)

Dan Zaharevitz (2011)