[Equest-users] Should onebuilding.org mailing lists transition to Discourse?

Jason Glazer jglazer at gard.com
Fri Dec 11 13:27:23 PST 2020


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.

Thanks also for the many the kind words!

Stay tuned, this should be an exciting transition for the 
community.

Jason


On 12/3/2020 12:44 PM, Jason Glazer wrote:
>
> BLDG-SIM and eQUEST-users
>
> Sorry for the cross posting but this is a "meta" issue 
> that I would like feedback on.
>
> 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 onebuilding.org <http://onebuilding.org>. 
> 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 Discourse:
>
> https://www.discourse.org/ <https://www.discourse.org/>
>
> 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.
>
> Example of the web/phone interface can be seen at:
>
> https://meta.discourse.org/ <https://meta.discourse.org/>
>
> https://forum.golangbridge.org/ 
> <https://forum.golangbridge.org/>
>
> https://discourse.julialang.org/ 
> <https://discourse.julialang.org/>
>
> https://discuss.atom.io/ <https://discuss.atom.io/>
>
> 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:
>
>     forum.onebuilding.org
>
> or something like that.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
>
> -- 
> Jason Glazer, P.E., BEMP, GARD Analytics, 90.1 ECB chair
> Admin for onebuilding.org building performance mailing lists


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