[BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?

Chip Barnaby cbarnaby at wrightsoft.com
Wed Sep 26 06:50:00 PDT 2007


I like the forum idea also.  A good forum package is sold by 
http://communityserver.org.  This is a commercial package and costs 
$400 - $2000.  There must be open source (free) 
alternatives?  Possibly IBPSA-USA and/or some vendors could kick in 
some $ if there is not a good free choice.

There is the additional question of who would host the forum.  Jason 
probably doesn't want to make a career out of public service for the 
simulation community.

Chip Barnaby

At 09:32 AM 9/26/2007, Alan Jackson wrote:
>I completely agree with you on the idea of a forum.  It would be the
>best suited environment to document and categorize various topics while
>maintain e-mail alerts and search features. If those maintaining
>gard.com require funding or assistance for such an upgrade I imagine
>many companies would be willing to make a contribution and possibly even
>government and environmental groups if we got the word out. For such a
>technologically advanced group of people (forgive me for making a
>generalization) we should look into such a platform for this group.
>
>If there is any assistance I could provide, please contact feel free to
>contact me.
>
>Alan Jackson, LEED(r) A.P.
>Mechanical Engineer
>Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC
>100 Broadway
>New York, NY 10005
>USA
>
>Tel: (+1) 212 334 2025
>Direct: (+1) 212 616 0267
>Fax: (+1) 212 334 5528
>Email: alan.jackson at burohappold.com
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BLDG-SIM at gard.com [mailto:BLDG-SIM at gard.com] On Behalf Of Ellis,
>Peter
>Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:55 PM
>To: BLDG-SIM at gard.com
>Subject: [BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?
>
>
>I've been listening to both sides of this thread, and I have to say I
>kind of agree with both!  Yeah, it does get a little burdensome to get
>all of the eQUEST/DOE2-related questions in my mail box because I'm not
>a user of those programs.  But sometimes it IS hard to separate the
>general modeling questions from the program specific ones.  And it can
>be informative to see what the other programs are up to as well.
>
>My proposal is to move BLDG-SIM to a forum format.  There's some
>powerful--and widely used--software out there these days for managing
>web-based forums.  I think most forum programs offer standard features
>like dedicated topics, searching of threads, customizable interface,
>etc.  I'm sure most of us have run across this type of web-based forum
>before.
>
>To address our specific problems, it seems like it would make sense to
>have a dedicated topic for eQUEST on there, as well as topics for
>"General Simulation Questions", "LEED", "ASHRAE 90.1", and I'm sure
>several others would be appropriate too..."Simulation Interfaces"...who
>knows...  Usually the forum software will let you put in hyperlinks to
>posts in other threads as well.  So if one post in the "eQUEST" topic is
>also relevant in a "General Simulation Questions" thread, someone can
>post a hyperlink cross-reference.
>
>Otherwise, if BLDG-SIM were to not go the forum route, I would vote for
>an eQUEST-only mailing list.
>
>P
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BLDG-SIM at gard.com [mailto:BLDG-SIM at gard.com] On Behalf Of Jason
>Glazer
>Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 11:49 AM
>To: BLDG-SIM at gard.com
>Subject: [BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?
>
>Enough people are using the BLDG-SIM mailing list for user-to-user
>support for eQUEST that I have been wondering if it is time to create an
>
>eQUEST only mailing list. Please let me know what you think whether you
>support or oppose the idea?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jason
>
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