[Bldg-sim] Revising Policy Related to Help Wanted Ads and Services Offered

Arpan Bakshi arpanbakshi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 16:32:25 PST 2011


Speaking of which, I've heard good things about Marlin Addition's upcoming
training. I hope it sees a good turnout.


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Santiago Velez <santiagogvelez at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Group,
>                  as a new user of this mailing list and
> a developing professional in building energy modelling,
> I'm extremely pleased mailing lists like this exists at all. The fact that
> is not used just for support but also for posting Job offerings
> and Training courses,  in my particular case, makes it even more appealing.
> I think adding "Job Offer" or "Training" on the subject wouldn't  harm
>  anyone and it would be quite easy to filter out for people that are not
> interested, as David very well suggested.
> Thanks,
> Santiago
>
>
>
> 2011/2/23 Chuck Khuen <chuck.khuen at wxaglobal.com>
>
>> As one that offers a service to this community (weather data) and one who
>> expects to have job openings soon, I also like the idea of a tags like
>> "Services Offered" and "Job Posting" in the subject line, as suggested by
>> David.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>> _____________________
>> Chuck Khuen
>> Principal
>> Weather Analytics Inc.
>> www.weatheranalytics.com
>> 781-856-5383
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: David Eldridge
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:39 PM
>>
>> To: bldg-sim at onebuilding.org
>> Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Revising Policy Related to Help Wanted Ads and
>> Services Offered
>>
>>
>> Maybe require that it be clear in the message subject that the post
>> discusses "Help Wanted" or "Services Offered" (I'd add "Training" as a
>> third tag)...then those of us who are inclined can filter, those who are
>> browsing can read the messages.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> David S. Eldridge, Jr., P.E., LEED AP BD+C, BEMP, HBDP
>> Grumman/Butkus Associates
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
>> [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Jason Glazer
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:00 PM
>> To: bldg-sim at onebuilding.org
>> Subject: [Bldg-sim] Revising Policy Related to Help Wanted Ads and
>> Services Offered
>>
>> Lately, it seems like we are getting many help wanted and
>> services offered postings to the BLDG-SIM and other mailing
>> lists on onebuilding.org.  It has become common enough that
>> I am wondering if it is time to revisit the policy on those
>> kinds of messages.
>>
>> Remember the core purpose of the mailing lists is to help
>> each other with the use of building energy simulation
>> programs and I don't want that messed up by becoming just a
>> job board. On the other hand, helping people in the
>> community get jobs and find help seems like a good idea too.
>>
>> The current policy is shown on
>>
>> http://onebuilding.org/guidelines.html
>>
>> and states:
>>
>> "Job announcements are welcome on the mailing lists but are
>> restricted to one posting per month on your choice of one
>> onebuilding.org mailing list."
>>
>> It seems like we have a number of choices and I would like
>> your input on revising the policy. Here are some choices
>> that I thought up:
>>
>> a) Keep as is.
>>
>> b) Add "service offered" to the policy.
>>
>> c) Require that all job announcements and services offered
>> are posted on one certain day per month (a job fair day).
>>
>> d) Create a new mailing list called SIM-JOBS that would be
>> the only location that these kind of posts would be allowed.
>>
>> e) Do not allow any help wanted or services offered posting
>> at all.
>>
>> If you have an opinion or you have other ideas, please
>> respond to the BLDG-SIM mailing list and let us know.
>>
>> Hopefully this will spur enough discussion that I will get
>> an understanding of how the people using the mailing list feel.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jason
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