Google Groups Signup and Posting Guidelines

ERCOT would like to announce the availability of the ERCOT API Subgroup forum. The goal of this forum is to facilitate threaded discussions between ERCOT, the Market Participants and Vendors, developing software against the Nodal Web Service APIs.

We encourage everyone to become a member and use the forum as a resource for questions, answers and feedback. 

To request membership to the forum you must first have a Google account. If you don't already have a Google account you can create one by going to https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Faccounts%2FManageAccount.

Once you have a Google account you may send an email to skerr@ercot.com or mstanley@ercot.com requesting access. Please indicate which e-mail you have registered with Google groups. An invite to the forum will be sent to that email address. The invite must be sent to the email address attached to your Google account for the invitation to be accepted.

Please note this is an invitation only forum that will be moderated by ERCOT. Please review the posting rules below before requesting membership. By requesting membership you are acknowledging and accepting the posting rules.

Thank you all for participating and I hope to see you all in the forum.

Regards
Stephen Kerr
Manager, Enterprise Integration Project
ERCOT
512-248-6648

Posting Guidelines for the ERCOT API Subgroup Forum

•	Don’t distribute or otherwise publish on this forum any libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal material.

•	Don’t upload documents or applications to the forum.

•	Be courteous. Don’t threaten or verbally abuse other members, use defamatory language, or deliberately disrupt discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages, or "spam."

•	Use respectful language. Like any community, the message boards flourish only when our members feel welcome and safe. Don’t use language that abuses or discriminates on the basis of race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, region, disability, etc.

•	Debate, but don't attack. In a community full of opinions and preferences, people always disagree. ERCOT encourages active discussions and welcomes heated debate in our message boards.

•	This forum is noncommercial. Don’t, without the express approval of ERCOT, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, advertising or solicitation for goods or services on the forum. 

•	You are solely responsible for the content of your messages. Don’t knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and remove the same when you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, don’t post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate.

•	This forum is for discussions within the group.  Don’t repost material without prior permission of the author and ERCOT.

•	You are responsible for your behavior and postings.  Breaking these rules may result in the postings being deleted and/or immediate and permanent suspension of access to this forum.

•	You indemnify ERCOT, its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted.

•	You acknowledge that any submissions you make to this forum may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by ERCOT. You waive any rights you have if we modify the material in a manner you don’t agree with.