Next week I would like everyone to help celebrate the *20th
anniversary of the BLDG-SIM mailing list*. On March 4, 1999
I posted the first message:

http://onebuilding.org/archive/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org/1999-March/000229.html

Bill Clinton was president, people were concerned about Y2K,
and the first Blackberry had just been released.

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.

Overall, it has been a incredible journey to try to help the
building energy modeling community which has been so
supportive to me personally.

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.

Feel free to post:

?- pictures (maybe some "buildings" that look like the
number 20, or comparison picture of you from 1999 and now)

?- jokes (simulation related, is that possible?)

?- stories (what has changed in 20 years and what has not?)

?- thank you's (publicly thank those who have helped you
over the years)

?- contests (worst simulation pun?)

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.

Thanks to all of you!

Jason

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Jason Glazer, P.E., BEMP, GARD Analytics, 90.1 ECB chair
Admin for onebuilding.org building performance mailing lists