<div dir="ltr"><p class="">Hi everyone,</p>
<p class=""><br></p><p class="">As many of you already know, the Proposal for a Stack
Exchange site on Building Performance and Simulation made it to the Commitment
phase. Thanks to all that made it happen.<br></p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">What is Stack Exchange?</p><p class="">According
to Wikipedia, "The Stack Exchange Network (also called StackExchange)
is a group of question-and-answer Web sites on topics in many different
fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers,
and users are subject to a reputation award process. The reputation
system is designed to allow the sites to be self-moderating"</p><p class="">This
would be beneficial to our community for several reasons including
having better usability, search capabilities, and probably more activity
due to the gamification induced by the reputation system.<br></p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">What is the commitment phase?</p><p class="">
Well, this is the second phase of a three step process in which people
'commit' to using the site if it makes it to the next step: the beta
phase.<br></p>
<p class="">As I am writing this, we already have 121 out of 200
committers. But that's not the only criteria: 100 committers need to
have more than 200 reputation on any other stack exchange site. This
aims to ensure there is a solid base, a core of avid users. Right now we
only have 6 out of 100!</p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">How can you help?<br></p><p class="">First,
Commit here:
<a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/45232/building-performance-simulation-analysis?referrer=RlRcJHs5Cn5GNOQAQVJC6g2">http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/45232/building-performance-simulation-analysis?referrer=RlRcJHs5Cn5GNOQAQVJC6g2</a></p>
<p class="">But
more importantly, build your reputation, if need be, on another stack
exchange website! There are 104 of them out there, ranging from science
to art to home improvement, gardening, etc. You can see the full list
here: <span class=""><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstackexchange%2Ecom%2Fsites%23&urlhash=6eTZ&_t=tracking_disc" target="_blank">http://stackexchange.com/sites#</a> . I am sure one will fit you.<br>
</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Building
your reputation to 200 is really easy. Each vote on a question you post
or an answer you provide bumps you up 10 points. You usually get 3 or 4
votes each time.<br></span></p><p class="">I joined Stackoverflow, the
programming site, about two weeks ago for that same exact goal. In 3 or 4
hours of my time, spread over a week, I had reached the 200 reputation
threshold. And along the way I had helped people that needed it. It's a
win-win situation!</p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">I really hope to see this small 6 turn into a big 100 in no time so we can all start to benefit from a good Q&A website!</p><p class=""><br></p><p class="">Thanks for your help,</p>
<p class="">Julien</p><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br>Julien Marrec, EBCP, BPI MFBA<br>Senior Energy Engineer</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div>LinkedIn (en) : <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec</a></span></div>
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