I think CP2K community is already very active. The developers and some experts tried to help a lot. But CP2K really covers quite a lot of methods. I think there are very little people can provide answers to all kinds of questions, especially some methods that were developed long time ago. Indeed hoping to enhance the tutorials of CP2K a little bit (or developing a latest and <b>user-friendly</b> code that can generate *.inp files for different applications; e.g., GEO_OPT, CELL_OPT, MD, STM, Band structure, DOS, etc...). Maybe something like vaspkit or Multiwfn. Avogadro is so hard to use... <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">在2022年5月13日星期五 UTC+10 01:53:09<eric.ledi...@gmail.com> 写道:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">PS: to be entirely clear, I very much appreciate all the experts of the community doing as much as they do already. I am just struck by how much I do not know and asking one off questions hoping for an answer (especially since the question has likely been asked before) seems like a waste of their time, and a centralized tutorial like the HowTo but for variable selection seems more efficient.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 10:49:10 AM UTC-5 Eric Ledieu wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello both of you!<br></div><div><br></div><div>As a newbie, I definitely would rather get told off in the general direction of an answer than receive no answer. I think I understand a lot of the how now (as in how to do task X in CP2K by following a tutorial) but the things like why each parameter is selected is a bit trickier. I know these are not trivial topics that can be answered quickly, but when picking up the software as the first person in the lab to do so with limited local resources, alternatives are not plentiful. as it stands, the best option I have found is to look up a random ab initio paper and go to their method section, hoping to see what parameters they used for a few variable and why. While the CP2K community is not responsible for any of this, there has to be a better way.</div><div><br></div><div>With best wishes,</div><div>-Eric <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 6:41:48 AM UTC-5 <a rel="nofollow">anton.s.l...@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Mozhdeh,
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<br>12.05.2022 12:47, Mozhdeh Mohammadpour пише:
<br>> But no comment at all is a dead-end, especially for the newbies.
<br>
<br>Indeed, it's infamous.
<br>
<br>The problem is that everybody tries to answer within her or his
<br>expertise and ability, it is not a paid work (unfortunately). The scope
<br>of CP2K methods and applications is extremely broad, and a single person
<br>could not even try to be an expert in all of them. Answering any
<br>question implies the person(s) in charge, who is obligued to deal with
<br>the questions.
<br>
<br>Regarding the newbies questions, I think that solid introductory courses
<br>in at least some aspects of CP2K usage will be more beneficial. Again,
<br>it's a question of time and efforts, and of the broad scope of CP2K.
<br>Let's do more of them?
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<br>Yours,
<br>
<br>Anton
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