[BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?

[David S Eldridge]

I think you lose a little bit in the forum as under the listserv format
everyone gets your question.  I occasionally will offer a suggestion if
I see something on the listserv.  I don't know that I'd do it as often
with the forum -- I'd be going there more often to ask my own questions.

I could see maybe listserv as-is, and separate eQuest forum.  (Or heck,
most bulletin board software that I've seen could accommodate multiple
software groups and topics for each.)

Certainly wouldn't want to see the bldg-sim go away.

David


> -----Original Message-----
> From: BLDG-SIM at gard.com [mailto:BLDG-SIM at gard.com] On Behalf Of Kevin
Kyte
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:09 AM
> To: BLDG-SIM at gard.com
> Subject: [BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?
> 
> Completely not interested in a forum, I can just see everyone with
their
> avatars and stars and number of posts and forum ranking just
emoticoning
> away.  Good Grieve Charlie Brown.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BLDG-SIM at gard.com [mailto:BLDG-SIM at gard.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Casella
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:26 AM
> To: BLDG-SIM at gard.com
> Subject: [BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?
> 
> You know, it doesn't have to be anything elaborate.  It can be as
simple
> as a phpbb based message board which is hosted online by whatever
> company you sign up with.  I have experience as an administrator on a
> few different forums and I can tell you that they are very simple to
> maintain and moderate.
> I would be very interested in helping with this idea.
> 
> Mike Casella
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BLDG-SIM at gard.com [mailto:BLDG-SIM at gard.com] On Behalf Of Chip
> Barnaby
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: BLDG-SIM at gard.com
> Subject: [BLDG-SIM] An eQUEST mailing list?
> 
> 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
> >www.burohappold.com
> >
> >-----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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