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

[Jason Glazer]

Thank you all for the great feedback. I went through all the 
comments and tried to figure out the best way to revise some 
of the guidelines that are at:

http://onebuilding.org/guidelines.html

Here is a draft of the revised guideline on job announcements:

OLD:   * 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.

NEW:    * Job announcements are welcome on the mailing lists 
but are restricted to one posting per month. The subject 
line must start with the words HELP WANTED. Announcements 
must be for a specific jobs available at time of posting.

And here are some new bullet on services offered:

NEW:  * Specific training classes may be announced but are 
restricted to two postings per class  on your choice of one 
onebuilding.org mailing list. The subject line must start 
with the word TRAINING.

NEW:  * New sources of weather data may be announced but are 
restricted to two postings per year on your choice of one 
onebuilding.org mailing list. The subject line must start 
with the word WEATHER.

NEW:  * If you are fully answering a question but also 
provide fee based support for future questions, you may 
include a single line in your signature block explaining 
services offered.

NEW:  * No other services may be offered on the mailing lists.

NEW:  * No resumes or help available postings are allowed on 
the mailing lists.

Changing the bullet about cross posting:

OLD:  * Cross posting the same message on multiple mailing 
lists is discouraged.

NEW:  * Do not post the same message on multiple mailing 
lists within 24 hours.

These are just draft changes. If you have suggestions for 
any further changes, please let me know.

Jason

On 2/23/2011 4:00 PM, Jason Glazer wrote:
> 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