A disclaimer should be added

[ChaelKruip]

We don't want to give our users the impression that all our methods and values are guaranteed 100% accurate.

[grdw]

How would this disclaimer take shape? Is this a line of text you see right before you create your LES? Or somewhere on a separate page on the website, like on ETModel:

[ChaelKruip]

Is this a line of text you see right before you create your LES?

I dislike pop-ups as they inhibit the work-flow of the user but in this case I'm not sure.

Or somewhere on a separate page on the website, like on ETModel:

I think that is difficult to find (I've never consciously seen the above text myself).

@dennisschoenmakers @antw @AlexanderWirtz @jorisberkhout @ploh what do you think?

[ploh]

1. What is an LES?
2. How often would a user see this pop-up? If it is an action that only occasionally happens or we remember that we showed it to the user not long ago and then do not show it again, this should be fine. But if they see it every couple minutes, it will definitely be annoying - and will just be ignored.

[antw]

Is this a line of text you see right before you create your LES?

How about sticking it at the bottom of the import form?

It would be super-nice if we also included a blurb about being open source and that we (happily!) welcome contributions and corrections, with a link to GitHub or the open source page.

(It would also be good for the actual message used to be a little more... human, and a little less "lawyer". 😀)

What is an LES?

A Local Energy Solution (LES) combines a topology (the structure of an electricity network) with technologies – such as electric vehicles and space heaters – in order to compute the load on the network. It's the main concept in ETMoses.

The project wiki has some documentation on the ideas behind ETMoses, and a quick-start guide.