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

  • From: sjchar3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:47:53 -0500

I'll stay on this forum till it shuts down, then I'll switch. IF it isn't broke 
why fix it.
 
Sam 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael.Catrambone@xxxxxxxxxx
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:28:11 -0600
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Announcing the Transition of the ICU PCB Forum to 
CDNUSERS.ORG



Hello Richard,

Question 1 response
      We are working on this issue but the Freelists.org discussions will
not be merged
      into the main database at this point.  The effort in doing so would
be too great.
      The currently plan is to find a way to save off each of the threads
on Freelists.org
      and have them saved in an archive area on CDNUSERS.ORG so they can
      be accessed / searched.  For now the archives will continue to be
stored on
      Freelists.org and I link be put in place on CDNUSERS.ORG.

Question 2 response
      As long as it is related to the Forum topic... this is all that
matters..  The Forum Topics
      are broad by design to allow all related discussions.  So a Forum
Topic like PCB Design
      can cover all aspects of PCB Design not limited to just software
related discussions.

Question 3 response
      Replying to the posts for the web site have grown quite a bit from
the original roll-out
      as well.  You now have the ability to format your replay, (Bold,
Italic, Underline, Bullets, etc.)
      It is still a work in progress and I would certainly post to the
Suggestions Forum on
      improvements you would like to see to improve usable of the site.

Question 4 response
      I agree the existing forum has last of personality and there is no
reason we cannot
      continue that on the new CDNUSERS Forums..

Mike






"richard moffat" <richard.moffat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>@freelists.org on
03/07/2006 03:34:29 PM

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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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>>> Michael.Catrambone@xxxxxxxxxx 8/03/2006 8:54 a.m. >>>

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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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