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<p>Next week I would like everyone to help celebrate the <b>20th
anniversary of the BLDG-SIM mailing list</b>. On March 4, 1999 I
posted the first message:</p>
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href="http://onebuilding.org/archive/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org/1999-March/000229.html">http://onebuilding.org/archive/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org/1999-March/000229.html</a></p>
<p>Bill Clinton was president, people were concerned about Y2K, and
the first Blackberry had just been released. <br>
</p>
<p>At the time, I invited everyone I knew personally in the building
simulation industry and posted some messages to related mailing
lists. Word of mouth grew the list to over 300 subscribers a year
later and it is now nearly 2400 subscribers. The eQUEST-users,
HAP-users, and TRACE-users lists split off in 2008 and in 2014
trnsys-users moved to the onebuilding.org server.</p>
<p>Overall, it has been a incredible journey to try to help the
building energy modeling community which has been so supportive to
me personally. <br>
</p>
<p>To celebrate I would encourage everyone to post fun items related
to the mailing list and building energy modeling during the week
of March 4 to 10. <br>
</p>
<p>Feel free to post: <br>
</p>
<p> - pictures (maybe some "buildings" that look like the number 20,
or comparison picture of you from 1999 and now)<br>
</p>
<p> - jokes (simulation related, is that possible?)<br>
</p>
<p> - stories (what has changed in 20 years and what has not?)<br>
</p>
<p> - thank you's (publicly thank those who have helped you over the
years)<br>
</p>
<p> - contests (worst simulation pun?)<br>
</p>
<p>Go ahead and cross post to BLDG-SIM and eQUEST-users and please
indicate in the subject line "20th" so others (boring people) can
filter it out.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you!</p>
<p>Jason<tt><br>
</tt></p>
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Jason Glazer, P.E., BEMP, GARD Analytics, 90.1 ECB chair
Admin for onebuilding.org building performance mailing lists
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