[PCB_FORUM] Re: Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to CDNUSERS.ORG
- From: "richard moffat" <richard.moffat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:34:29 +1300
Hello Mike
Thought I'd join in here...
I think the new forum has several advantages, but I'd still like to raise the
following:
1 -
Excuse me if this has already been answered, but: Is there any plan to merge
the thousands of very useful articles and postings from the existing PCB Forum?
Otherwise, those of us that do a search before a posting will have to search
through two forums. I believe many find the PCB Forum extremely useful for
this purpose
2 -
Sometimes (actually, a lot of the time) the existing forum covers many
skill-sets; postings will often overlap into another area, which is an
incredible learning tool. People skilled in Allegro use tend to be highly
skilled in many other areas - fabrication, assembly, standards, etc. Sometimes
it will be appropriately be suggested that the topic gets posted to a more
appropriate forum elsewhere. I hope people won't feel they can't ask slightly
off-topic questions because of the forum name being too catagorize.
(This may not apply to discussions such as Skill programming, where it IS just
usually about Skill programming.)
3 -
I'm not sure if the new forum is as flexible as the existing. For example,
when replying in the new forum, you can only "quote" the last posting, and not
easily embed your own comments. Maybe just a small issues, but worth noting.
4 -
The last point I wanted to raise was just covered by George. The existing
forum has a personality. I suppose I'm old fashioned, but I like to have a
laugh or even a bit of a debate with other users. I'll guess I'll have to be
assimilated!
Overall, in my opinion, the new forums have gained a bit, but we've also lost a
bit.
Cheers,
Richard
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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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