[PCB_FORUM] Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to CDNUSERS.ORG

  • From: Michael.Catrambone@xxxxxxxxxx
  • To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:26:41 -0600

ICU PCB Forum Participants,

Last month, the Cadence Designer Network rolled out an enhanced new
User Community site at"www.cdnusers.org".  Our goal for this site is to
promote a greater exchange of technical information and ideas among
customers, and between customers and Cadence throughout the year
between the annual CDNLive! Conferences.

This community site has established user forums for the SPB Co-Design
space that the PCB Forum on Freelist.org currently serves.
Cadence technical/support AEs have been encouraged to register as
members of this new community to monitor the forum postings and
contribute to the discussion as we have seen on the PCB Forum.

The ICU PCB SIG board members, who currently maintain the Freelists
PCB Forum, have accepted moderator positions on the new cdnusers
community site.  Detailed discussions were held regarding whether
or not to move the Freelists forum to the cdnusers PCB Forum.
The consensus from those discussions was that we should shutdown
the ICU PCB Forum on Freelists.org and transition over to the forums
on cdnusers.org.  The cdnusers community site is open to the public
so please feel free to browse around to see what it is all about.

Note that at the forum or the thread level you are able to subscribe
and get email notifications of all posts directly to your desktop
(must be registered and logged in to access this feature).

There are many advantages in moving over to this new user community,
above and beyond the forums.  The cdnusers site is organized into four
major technology zones, with user-contributed articles and interviews
user contributed product reviews, screenshots and videos, as well as
user-to-user forums.  The content on these zones will be refreshed on
a weekly to bi-weekly basis, and the forums and user comments are
posted immediately with moderator oversight.  The forum and community
moderators will poll the user community from time to time on current
design challenges, tool enhancements, tool refinements and tool
use common practices.  This feedback will be used to drive content
at the annual CDNLive! Conference and provide input to the Cadence
planning/development process.

We are also developing a process to capture key issues to feed back to
Cadence on a regular basis which will be done via the www.cdnusers.org
web site.

We have a lot of talented users that have taken part in this forum and
we do not want to lose this knowledge base.  We encourage everyone
to register for this new community site and connect with other Cadence
users worldwide.  Once registered you will be able to reply and post to
the user forums and access any of the downloads including the CDNLive!
2005 Silicon Valley Proceedings.

Please visit  http://www.cdnusers.org and click Register to get started.
Note: We will process the registrations as quickly as possible but
there may be slight delay in receiving the confirmation email which
grants login access to the site.

Thank you all for supporting the ICU PCB Forum. We look forward to see
everyone's participation on the new Cadence user community site,
www.cdnusers.org

Sincerely,
Michael Catrambone
UTStarcom, Inc.
Chairman
Cadence Designer Network

Andreas Kulik 
ICU PCB SIG Chair
PTC

Randy Bye 
ICU PCB SIG Co-Chair
Unisys Corporation

Carl Musetti
SilverStorm Technologies

Charlie Davies 
Harris Corporation

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