Welcome to MOPAC Discussions!

[godotalgorithm]

👋 Welcome!

We’re using Discussions as a place for more open-ended discussions and questions about MOPAC and more generally to foster a sense of community for MOPAC users and developers. We hope that you:

• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Engage with other community members.
• Welcome others and are open-minded. Remember that this is a community we
  build together 💪.

Also, open-ended Issues may be migrated to Discussions at the discretion of the core MOPAC developers.

To get started, feel free to comment below with an introduction of yourself and tell us about what you do with this community.

[godotalgorithm]

I'm Jonathan Moussa, a software scientist at the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) who is in charge of MOPAC development, maintenance, and support. My background is in computational condensed matter physics, electronic structure theory, and density functional theory. I've chosen to work with MOPAC because I believe that semiempirical electronic structure is a massively undervalued, underutilized, and underdeveloped research topic, and I want to both support established computational tools in the area (i.e. MOPAC) to prevent them from slipping into obsolescence while also developing new semiempirical concepts, models, and software.

I'd be happy to discuss MOPAC usage and development here, in addition to semiempirical electronic structure in general.