Merspi is a question and answer site for the VCE community that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions and free to read. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free. And easy to use.

We don't run Merspi. You do. Merspi is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow VCE students, tutors, teachers and parents. Once the system learns to trust you, you'll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia. With your help, we can build good answers to every imaginable VCE question together. No matter what subject you study, better knowledge transfer in all fields is our goal.

Merspi is as frictionless and painless to use as we could make it. We believe finding the right answer to your VCE questions should be as easy as falling into the pit of success. And maybe even a little fun along the way.

Our Beliefs

Here at Merspi, we believe that:

• All education, wherever possible, should be free and easily available
• The best way to learn and study for your subjects is to teach it to someone else
• A concern shared is a concern halved
• Students often have a unique perspective that teachers can't provide
• We do, however, always urge you to check any answers received on Merspi with your teacher

Merspi is about unlocking knowledge - we urge you to share this knowledge with your classmates, teachers, friends and family.

What's so special about Merspi?

Well, nothing really. We're just a synthesis of a variety of effective websites that have used different approaches to deliver and transfer knowledge. At Merspi, we have been inspired by the following technologies:

• Wikipedia, for their collaborative knowledge archive.
• Digg, for their innovative method of socially organising great and relevant content!
• Blackboard-style systems of content management, used in the leading universities all around the world.
• Online forums, for their ability to create and maintain social networks

Merspi borrows the relevant features from all these concepts, and brings them together to facilitate the best learning and understanding of VCE content possible. We are a knowledge base like Wikipedia, a socially organised website like Digg, with a strong emphasis on specific learning objectives like Blackboard, whilst fostering a strong VCE community like online forums.

And to try it out, you don't even need to register! Just ask a question!

Who runs Merspi?

You do. At Merspi, anyone who has ever left a question, answer or comment with merspi.com is a team member! Are you ready to join the team?

Our moderators are 100% elected by the community, through their reputation with Merspi. As users gain karma, they will be given more trust to manage the community's contributions.

Outside of merspi.com, our fan-base actively promotes the website through a variety of means - online social media (Facebook and Twitter), flyers and word of mouth. There's something about Merspi. And people want to share it.

But hopefully you'll see what we mean when you experience it for yourself. Welcome to the team.

How can I learn more?

Check out the Merspi FAQ. And if you need to contact us, you can do so at merspi@merspi.com.