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Includes info about NumFOCUS sponsorship and donation link, as well as the steering committee
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.. _sec-about:
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About Cantera
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Cantera is an open source scientific computing project, that allows users to
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quickly and efficiently incorporate and execute fundamental thermodynamic,
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chemical kinetic, and species transport calculations in their work. This can be
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achieved by standalone command-line calls to core Cantera functions,
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incorporating these calls into bespoke code or software, or by using any of the
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solvers or examples distributed with the Cantera software package.
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Cantera was originally started by Prof. David G. Goodwin at the California
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Institute of Technology. Building on Prof. Goodwin's legacy, Cantera is licensed
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under a permissive 3-Clause BSD license, ensuring that the software will remain
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available for all to use.
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Cantera is developed openly on GitHub. Contributions are welcomed from anyone in
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the community; please see the `Contributors guide
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<https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_ for
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assistance in getting started.
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All online and in-person interactions and communications related to Cantera are
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governed by the `Cantera Code of Conduct
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<https://github.com/Cantera/cantera/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>`_. This code
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of conduct sets expectations for the community to ensure that users and
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contributors are able to participate in a respectful and welcoming environment.
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Steering Committee
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==================
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The role of the steering committee is to ensure the long-term health of the
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Cantera project. This includes overseeing the development of the Cantera code
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and community in a way that most benefits the entire community of users and
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contributors. The steering committee can be contacted at `steering@cantera.org
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<mailto:steering@cantera.org>`_ The current steering committee (in alphabetical
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order) is:
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* Steven Decaluwe, Colorado School of Mines
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* \C. Franklin Goldsmith, Brown University
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* Kyle Niemeyer, Oregon State University
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* Raymond Speth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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* Bryan Weber, University of Connecticut
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* Richard West, Northeastern University
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Donations
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=========
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Cantera is a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 nonprofit
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dedicated to supporting the open source scientific computing community. If you
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have found Cantera to be useful to your research or company, please consider
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making a `donation <https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/Mjk3MjU=>`_
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to support our efforts. All donations will be used exclusively to fund the
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development of Cantera's source code, documentation, or community.
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.. image:: /_static/images/SponsoredProject.png
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:alt: Powered by NumFOCUS
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:target: https://numfocus.org
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:align: center
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:scale: 50%
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.. raw:: html
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<div style="text-align:center">
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<a href="https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/Mjk3MjU=" class="button">Donate to Cantera</a>
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</div>
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