[Radiance-general] [Radiance-openstudio] Giving UnmetHours.com a Try

[Neal Kruis]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking into the problem some people are seeing with not receiving
instant email updates. I'll let you know once I track it down.

Neal Kruis

Vice President
Big Ladder Software
1624 Market Street, Suite 304
Denver, CO 80202
bigladdersoftware.com


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Guglielmetti, Robert <
Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov> wrote:

> Yeah, what I'm saying is that those notifications haven't worked for me.
> When I joined, I set everything to "instantly" update me, but I've never
> received an email from UH.
>
> On 8/20/15, 11:04 AM, "Mostapha Sadeghipour" <sadeghipour at gmail.com
> <mailto:sadeghipour at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks for getting this started Rob.
>
> Back to you concern in theory setting up the email subscription setting
> should solve the issue and you should receive an instant email. I attached
> a screen-shot.
>
> Also back to the conversation of auto-tagging the available email list
> [and bringing them into a similar platform to unmethours] I found a couple
> of options such as (http://www.nltk.org/) and (
> http://mrolafsson.github.io/autotags/). Didn't have the time to give it a
> real try yet.
>
> Mostapha
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Guglielmetti, Robert <
> Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov<mailto:Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>> wrote:
> Greetings simulationists,
>
> The very end of this week's International Radiance Workshop included an
> open discussion session, which spurred some excellent discussion about
> software tools, metrics, and support. This last topic (support) included
> all the usual talking points: information is scattered, and hard to find;
> the listserv is antiquated (tho there were people on both sides of this
> issue), etc...
>
> The UnmetHours.com website was mentioned during this conversation, which
> has been successful as a "Stack Overflow for energy modelers" kind of
> resource. For those unfamiliar with Stack Overflow, it's simply a Q&A
> website for programmers, where people can ask and answer questions. Both
> the questions and answers can be up and down voted for relevance and
> quality, respectively. Users who ask good questions and give good answers
> receive "karma points" which unlock further functionality on the site and
> boost the self-esteem of the users, impressing their friends and peers. =)
> UH is basically the same thing, but with a focus on building simulation.
>
> UnmetHours posts can accept software- and workflow-specific tags, allowing
> the content to self-organize and become searchable on these keyword tags.
> Images can be embedded in posts, as well as formatted code blocks. Users
> can comment, and offer answers, which can then be up or down voted; the
> idea being the community shapes the knowledge base. There are things I
> don't like about the site, versus the old-school listserv method. But the
> discussion yesterday focused on the problems of the new user, and offering
> greater visibility into the tremendous resource that is the radiance-online
> list archives (and those from the radsite list that preceded it). Matter of
> fact, I posted an announcement about UnmetHours on radiance-online last
> fall, but I can't find it now. So, there ya go.
>
> In the end, the general consensus was to give UnmetHours a try, for
> Radiance support. There was no agreed-upon methodology for this, but the
> general idea is:
>
> 0. Post this announcement here, and then:
> 1. Encourage the community to post new Radiance questions on UnmetHours
> (and tag appropriately)
> 2. When answers already exist on radiance-online.org<
> http://radiance-online.org>, post a brief answer on UH, cross-referencing
> the post or thread on radiance-online.org<http://radiance-online.org>
> This is as far as we got, frankly.
>
> My biggest beef with the UH workflow is that the onus is on me to check
> the site for new content, whereas the listserv simply sends me the
> conversations in realtime. The rss feed for UH is not at all good for this,
> either. So this is a big ask in my opinion, but I'm willing to give it a
> go, and - significantly - Greg was, too. So how about it? I'm hereby
> encouraging this lot to head over to unmethours.com<http://unmethours.com>,
> and sugn up for a free account. Have a look around, and check out the help
> page (https://proxy.unmethours.com/help.html) for info on getting started
> posting and voting, and bookmark the site so you can check in frequently.
> Let's see where this goes.
>
> One question I have for the group is do we want to follow suit with the
> radiance-dev list?
>
> OK, bye, see you over there.(?)
>
> - Rob
>
>
>
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