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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks everyone for the feedback. I
have received a lot of advice directly and through the mailing
lists. Almost all the feedback was that transitioning to Discourse
was a good idea as long as the archive is accessible. I'm taking
the first steps to do this now and will let you know more about it
in the upcoming weeks. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks also for the many the kind
words! </div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Stay tuned, this should be an exciting
transition for the community.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Jason</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/3/2020 12:44 PM, Jason Glazer
wrote:<br>
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<p>BLDG-SIM and eQUEST-users<br>
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<p>Sorry for the cross posting but this is a "meta" issue that I
would like feedback on.</p>
<p>As you may know, I've been running the BLDG-SIM for over 20
years and eQUEST-users for 12 years as well as other mailing
lists on <a href="http://onebuilding.org" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://onebuilding.org&source=gmail&ust=1607105292782000&usg=AFQjCNHB-UnDEG3di38biBAIeTBldZHmHg"
moz-do-not-send="true">onebuilding.<span class="il">org</span></a>.
While the number of modelers has greatly increased over the
years, the community that participates in these mailing lists
has not. I believe part of that reason is that mailing lists are
not very attractive to younger modelers. I would like to
revitalize the sense of community that I have always seen in
modelers by changing BLDG-SIM and eQUEST-users as well as some
of the other onebuilding.org mailing lists to a web and phone
enabled forum called <span class="il">Discourse</span>:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.discourse.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.discourse.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607105292782000&usg=AFQjCNFCUiYdTOvss3eFr4MJ1hfz4Zs4GA"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.<span class="il">discourse</span>.<span
class="il">org</span>/</a><br>
<br>
One nice thing about this type of forum is that for those used
to a mailing list, they can continue interacting just like a
mailing list but those more comfortable using a web-based or
phone-based forum can participate also.</p>
Example of the web/phone interface can be seen at:<br>
<p> <a href="https://meta.discourse.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.discourse.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607105292788000&usg=AFQjCNEyZ1S4esW6h82gkqNuw3J_dRYnoQ"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://meta.<span class="il">discourse</span>.<span
class="il">org</span>/</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://forum.golangbridge.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://forum.golangbridge.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607105292788000&usg=AFQjCNFWXoWPLVwQRiyYLSTh0QGIY4TvvA"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://forum.golangbridge.<span
class="il">org</span><wbr>/</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://discourse.julialang.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://discourse.julialang.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607105292788000&usg=AFQjCNEhNDIw9Xl5Sxp0GedpxAHjFrATOQ"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://<span class="il">discourse</span>.julialang.or<wbr>g/</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://discuss.atom.io/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://discuss.atom.io/&source=gmail&ust=1607105292788000&usg=AFQjCNHhyT7ryyPBmrKZ9vpAnypHsx-y7Q"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://discuss.atom.io/</a></p>
<p>I'm thinking it would be a single Discourse forum but with
categories that correspond to the existing mailing lists and
perhaps some other categories. It would probably live at:</p>
<p> forum.onebuilding.org</p>
<p>or something like that.<br>
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<p>The reason I'm bringing this up today is that I also help
manage the energyplus_support list hosted on Yahoo and on
December 15, Yahoo is going to shut down all of its mailing
lists and one of the transition options would be the same
Discourse forum. <br>
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<p>I know that unmethours.com has become a valuable resource to
the community for questions and answers but I believe that a
forum for discussion and announcements will continue to be
important. Announcements for jobs, training, events, etc.. as
well as discussion that does not fit in the question and answer
format continue to occur. <br>
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<p>Please let me know what you think and if you think that
BLDG-SIM and eQUEST-users as well as the other public mailing
lists on onebuilding.org should transition to a Discourse forum.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Jason<br>
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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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