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The FDS-SMV Discussion Forum is a place for users to ask questions and share their knowledge and experience about fire modeling. The community is a few thousand strong and growing. Group members are asked to conform to Effective Posting Guidelines to keep the discussions productive. To join the group, members must pass a Turing test to prove they are not a malicious bot. The group is moderated by the FDS-SMV development team.
The FDS-SMV Developer Blog is used to provide updates on code release and may elaborate on FDS Release Notes or Smokeview Release Notes, if necessary. The blog is linked to the discussion forum and posts as a new discussion thread whenever a developer publishes a blog.
For shared files such as the FDS-SMV Manuals and FDS Validation Test Reports, there exists a centralized Google account at fds.and.smokeview@gmail.com under the control of the FDS development team. Under that account's Google Drive, there are "shared" folders for FDS-SMV Manuals and FDS Validation Test Reports. These folders are "owned" by fds.and.smokeview@gmail.com and shared with the FDS developers. We have the ability to add any additional folders that we wish to share large files in, especially binary files (up to 5 GB at the time of this writing). This also makes it easier because the shared folders will not be "owned" by our various Google accounts, but rather will be owned by that one centralized Google account and shared with us to add as we please.
Another thing that exists under the control of fds.and.smokeview@gmail.com account is a YouTube channel, which is located at http://www.youtube.com/fdssmokeview. This means that we can upload an unlimited number/amount of videos to this channel without using space on the Google Code repository or Google Drive. These YouTube videos can also be featured on wiki pages on our main website.
The FDS-SMV team maintains a Twitter account @fdssmv. This account is used to announce code releases or other matters of interest to the fire modeling community. We also follow other international fire protection engineering groups.