Summary
ALPS, which stands for Applications and Libraries for Physics Simulations, is a freely available package of open-source software. This software enables important scientific research and education in various areas of advanced physics research such as quantum computing. It is used by researchers in over 50 countries and has resulted in thousands of publications. This project will transition ALPS software development and maintenance from a project largely led by a single research group into a collaborative open-source ecosystem with many participating contributors, putting it on sustainable long-
