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

  • From: "Malou" <malourdes.kes93@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:44:26 +0800

Messageyap I agree to , dont shut it down , its more efficient and more 
effective if thru email


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott, Ron 
  To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:18 AM
  Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to 
CDNUSERS.ORG


  I echo George's sentiment, why shut down an easy way to communicate with each 
other? I took a look and registered on the other forum but it won't be as up to 
date as the email notifications are. The current method allows you to easily 
glance at subject to see if it pertains to any particular crisis you are 
working on.

  Cheers, 

  Ron Scott C.I.D.+ 
  Texas Instruments 
  Storage Products Group 
  Tel:   214.567.4715 
  Cell:  972.816.7978 
  rg-scott@xxxxxx 





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  Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:39
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  Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to 
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  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
  Å 503-627-5272 (voice)     Æ 503-627-5587 (fax)
  http://www.tektronix.com    http://www.pcb-designer.com

  "Off-Grid and Proud of it!"
    -----Original Message-----
    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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