Non-monetary Support

[afrodri]

This may be beyond the document scope, but another form of support to consider is non-monetary support such as regression testing and access to build / test resources. With the Structural Simulation Toolkit ( https://github.com/sstsimulator ) we provide a framework for simulation, and 'support' several other company's / group's simulation modules by integrating with our test infrastructure. Often, setting up and maintaining this infrastructure is a labor-intensive and difficult in an academic environment (i.e. you can't get a paper out saying "I got Jenkins to actually work") but is already in place and maintained in industry. This can also serve as a backdoor way to foster collaboration, since they have at least some familiarity with your code base.

[danielskatz]

Thanks - I think this is a good idea. Perhaps it should be in-kind support?

Would you want to put in a PR to add this as a model?

[danielskatz]

@afrodri - this is just a ping to see if you would be willing to add this via a pull request, since I think it's a good concept that should be captured.