Outreach: tell the codes' communities and the usual lists about ECCE
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
Research direction
Read the README and the per-code first-calculation pages tracked in issue #264, then check the release readiness conditions listed here. The issue maps outreach channels and says each post should be tailored, factual, and reviewed by the maintainer; done means coordinating those posts after a stable release and tracking downloads, citations, and GitHub traffic. The plan spans many external communities and depends on release readiness, so it needs broad coordination.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Plan for making ECCE known, after the current bug-fixing round (beta.2 or 9.0), so people try a release that behaves well. Each post is drafted to suit its forum, checked by the maintainer, and factual: what ECCE is, what it does now, where to get it. No rankings or claims.
Before posting
- A release whose first start and first calculation work without surprises.
- One place to send people: the README, or a small website (GitHub Pages) with pictures, downloads and the first-calculation guide.
- The per-code first-calculation pages for the code each forum is about (#264), at least NWChem and ORCA.
Where
| Where | What |
|---|---|
| NWChem forum | announcement; ECCE was NWChem's official GUI |
| NWChem documentation (nwchemgit.github.io) and NWChem GitHub Discussions | request to update the link to the dead PNNL page |
| ORCA manual, GUI list | request inclusion (the ORCA team edits it), via the ORCA forum or their contact |
| ORCA forum | announcement |
| openmopac software list | issue or pull request on openmopac's GitHub |
| CCL, the Computational Chemistry List (ccl.net) | release announcement |
| Wikipedia | the ECCE article and the ORCA, MOPAC, molecular-graphics and molecule-editor lists (drafts in progress) |
| GitHub "awesome" lists (awesome-computational-chemistry and similar) | one pull request each |
| Matter Modeling Stack Exchange, r/comp_chem | answers where ECCE fits, not adverts |
| Teaching | a J. Chem. Educ. article (possible, with BYU); chemistry-education meetings (BCCE, ACS CHED); Swedish teacher networks |
| Package channels | Flathub, winget or Scoop, Homebrew, after 9.0 is stable, one at a time |
| Videos | #269 |
| Quantum ESPRESSO users list | later, when QE support is more than basic |
Track: downloads per release, Zenodo and DataCite citations, visitors in GitHub Insights → Traffic.
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 10
- Forks
- 8
- Avg merge
- 21m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Getting set up
This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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