[PCB_FORUM] Re: Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to CDNUSERS.ORG
- From: "J Wages" <jwages@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:57:38 -0500
I agree. I really appreciated receiving the emails from the
icu-pcb-forum and was happy to contribute my 2 cents. I was always able
to get some direction on issues that were pertinent to my design
problems and greatly appreciated the help I received from others. I
surely hope that this will continue, but I can't see my self logging in
to view what the latest question or hot topic is for the day. Please
keep this email forum going!!! I can't stress it strongly enough how
much I enjoy the simplicity, usefulness, and the occasional chuckle at
the daily discussions. I have registered and logged into the
CDNUSERS.ORG website and find it very cumbersome. I realize that some do
rag a bit much on and about Cadence, but it is just the nature of the
beast when schedules are looming and formal help from Cadence is
sometimes slow.
Jim S. Wages / SR. PCB Layout Designer:
Cary, NC - (919) 466-1596
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Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:39 AM
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Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum
to CDNUSERS.ORG
And so the other shoe drops, and Cadence kills of another user group. I
am surprised it took so long, it took them less than a year to kill off
the Specctra group after they bought it. Now all those "hidden" Cadence
employees (hidden except when they went on vacation) won't have to
endure us "rabble-rousers" any more.
Mike, the advantages are to Cadence, not to the users. It is a lot more
of a hassle to have to log into a web site than it is to answer emails,
but it is much easier to control content. On top of that, Cadence has
absolutely NO interest in making the site more accusable to visually
impaired users such as myself. When told that the next was hard to
read, the web team's reply was that since my employer's site used small
text, too, I had no reason to complain. Real helpful... I have enough
difficulty reading the site, I doubt I will be visiting that often.
It's been a fun ride. See y'all in the funny papers <:^)
--
George Patrick
Tektronix, Inc.
Central Engineering, Engineering Design Services
P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512
Beaverton, OR 97077-0001
* 503-627-5272 (voice) * 503-627-5587 (fax)
<http://www.tektronix.com/>
http://www.tektronix.com <http://www.pcb-designer.com/>
http://www.pcb-designer.com
"Off-Grid and Proud of it!"
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From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Michael.Catrambone@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 20:27
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to
CDNUSERS.ORG
Importance: High
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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