A curated list of codes
There is this outside suggestion to maintain a list of community code (like we apperantly already had some times ago) on a more community friendly forum like awesome list.
Hey Markus,
it's XXXXX from EPFL - we met during the virtual Optimade workshop in June.
I'm contacting you since I know you're involved in the web infrastructure of Nomad and you were the first to come to my mind - please feel free to forward my question to the right person:
I find this list of codes [1] and their citations very useful to get an idea of the landscape of codes in electronic structure & MD and how it is changing, and I was wondering whether you would perhaps be interested in converting this into a community-maintained "awesome list" [2] hosted on github, e.g. like this one [3].
This would automatically keep track of how the list evolves over time; plus it would make it easy for others to contribute bug fixes (e.g. I see a zero is missing in the citation numbers for CP2K) or updates (like the recent license change for CASTEP, new codes, ...), while you would still maintain full control over the content.
We'll see how many people will actually contribute, but I think there is some incentive for code developers to do so, and, over time, it could make this list become more widely known and established.
Just a thought!
If you need assistance with any technicalities/choices (e.g. simple markdown table vs auto generated web page on Github pages), please let me know.
Cheers,
XXXXXX
[1] https://www.nomad-coe.eu/old-pages/externals/codes
[2] https://github.com/topics/awesome-list
[3] https://github.com/tilde-lab/awesome-materials-informatics