07-15-2010, 08:19 PM
VIP Membership: A personal story
For all of you that want to be, or at least are curious about becoming VIP, here you have brief excerpts and hints about my case. (I think I am the latest member to become VIP.)
Although I wanted from the very beginning of CivilEA to have a VIP status, I didn´t do much to earn it. As time passed, I surfed ocassionally through the forum looking for whatever material I needed at that given time. I have always have in mind that if you need to say something it is because it will be really helpful for someone, otherwise not only you are not helping, but actually doing wrong as you may be misleading some guys. On that premise, my posts are focus only on what I know. If I have no knowledge/experience at first hand on the subject, then I won´t comment about it.
Then it turned out that my experience in the structural/earthquake engineering field helped a few guys. Also then I realized that a great number of our members are either students or fresh engineers, altough there are a good number of senior ones. So, in my case, helping others was kind of easy, as am a senior engineer, profesor and lecturer in some universities. Fortunately too, I have had the chance to gain experience in some high-profile projects in the "real world". I think that has been my humble contribution to the forum.
I know nothing about reverse engineering, decoding and cracking of software, so I can not help on that. But I have legal access to some technical resources in the Struct/EQ Eng. field, so I try to help on that whenever I can. In the same line, the fellow members of this forum that are good at reverse engineering and the like have posted here "medicine" for software that I have found very useful for my work. The key issue is: help others.
Anyway, CivilEA gives to me what other forums don´t: the opportunity to stay in touch with students/engineers from all over the world, to know what other engineers are doing, to stay in touch with good friends as Benny and Dell Brett, for example, to read some very useful hints regarding the use of specialized software or how a given technical situation was solved. Examples? If you are a structural engineer just have a look at the dcocuments posted by Benny, Veggeta and Rafik among others...
My final thought: Everyone is different, and so are the ways you can go through CivilEA. Just contribute with whatever you can as long as it is helpful to others and adheres to the forum rules. If youi give, you will receive, in this forum as in life.
What to expect in the VIP members area? Again, talking only about structural enginnering, believe me that you will find there very special publications that you will not want to miss. And above all, as BennyP pointed out, it is like growing in life... and you will feel very close to the great guys that admin and moderate this lovely forum.
For all of you that want to be, or at least are curious about becoming VIP, here you have brief excerpts and hints about my case. (I think I am the latest member to become VIP.)
Although I wanted from the very beginning of CivilEA to have a VIP status, I didn´t do much to earn it. As time passed, I surfed ocassionally through the forum looking for whatever material I needed at that given time. I have always have in mind that if you need to say something it is because it will be really helpful for someone, otherwise not only you are not helping, but actually doing wrong as you may be misleading some guys. On that premise, my posts are focus only on what I know. If I have no knowledge/experience at first hand on the subject, then I won´t comment about it.
Then it turned out that my experience in the structural/earthquake engineering field helped a few guys. Also then I realized that a great number of our members are either students or fresh engineers, altough there are a good number of senior ones. So, in my case, helping others was kind of easy, as am a senior engineer, profesor and lecturer in some universities. Fortunately too, I have had the chance to gain experience in some high-profile projects in the "real world". I think that has been my humble contribution to the forum.
I know nothing about reverse engineering, decoding and cracking of software, so I can not help on that. But I have legal access to some technical resources in the Struct/EQ Eng. field, so I try to help on that whenever I can. In the same line, the fellow members of this forum that are good at reverse engineering and the like have posted here "medicine" for software that I have found very useful for my work. The key issue is: help others.
Anyway, CivilEA gives to me what other forums don´t: the opportunity to stay in touch with students/engineers from all over the world, to know what other engineers are doing, to stay in touch with good friends as Benny and Dell Brett, for example, to read some very useful hints regarding the use of specialized software or how a given technical situation was solved. Examples? If you are a structural engineer just have a look at the dcocuments posted by Benny, Veggeta and Rafik among others...
My final thought: Everyone is different, and so are the ways you can go through CivilEA. Just contribute with whatever you can as long as it is helpful to others and adheres to the forum rules. If youi give, you will receive, in this forum as in life.
What to expect in the VIP members area? Again, talking only about structural enginnering, believe me that you will find there very special publications that you will not want to miss. And above all, as BennyP pointed out, it is like growing in life... and you will feel very close to the great guys that admin and moderate this lovely forum.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein