What Next?

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• Where can I find out more about ASE?

• How can I ask for help or report problems?

• Can I contribute to ASE?

• How can I acknowledge ASE in my work?

Objectives

• Identify other online ASE resources

• Understand when and how to ask for help

• Understand how to cite ASE

There are many features of ASE we have not yet explored

• If you still have time, there is a bit of extra material on the next page
• There are some nice resources which compliment what we have covered in this tutorial:
  • ASE website tutorials
    • The ASE database is especially relevant to this workshop, providing ways to share data and manage large sets of automated calculations.
  • CAMD summer school (GPAW) tutorials
  • The main GPAW tutorials
  • Some tutorials are still accessible from the 2019 workshop at Chalmers University of Technology:
    • Crystal symmetry and spglib
    • Cluster expansions with icet
    • Force constant extration with hiphive
  • The research paper describing ASE: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/aa680e

There are ways to ask for help

• Often the quickest way to get help from ASE developers and users is the #ase channel on Matrix; this chat environment is convenient to access via the Element web client.
• There is also a traditional email mailing list.
• There is an ASE forum on the Materials Science Community Forum. The ASE forum is not very active at the moment, but with a few more users that might change…
• If you have found a problem with the code, have a detailed feature request or other development-related issue to raise, the Gitlab issue tracker is the appropriate place to raise it.

ASE is a community project

• ASE is an open source project that depends on community contribution
  • Good projects should provide information about how to contribute: here are the relevant ASE docs
• Not all contributions need to be code! Improvements to documentation and examples are useful.
• More code does also mean more bugs and more maintenance. Liberty is good Free beer is popular. Free puppies are… complicated.
• With this in mind, some of the best code contributions are unit tests!
• As you explore the ASE modules you will probably find useful tools that are in need of a good tutorial.

If you find ASE useful in your research, please cite accordingly

• A link to citation information is here.

Key Points

• There are many features of ASE that we have not yet explored

• There are ways to ask for help

• ASE welcomes contributions

• If you find ASE useful in your research, please cite accordingly