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Three Rivers Designers Council
For Pittsburgh and the Tri-state area
`Everything comes together at the Three Rivers Designers Council'
Contact the 3RDC Steering Committee :
Jeff Imes PH 412-349-1811 email : [log in to unmask]
Jamie Morrow PH 717-944-9560 email : [log in to unmask]
Lou Takach PH 412-688-2574 email : [log in to unmask]
Joseph Zdybowicz PH 412-772-6552 email : [log in to unmask]
The steering committee met on July 30th and prior to the general membership
meeting on August 8th. to discuss the following topics.
First of all, I'd like to thank Joe Zdybowicz and FORE Systems for hosting
the
July 30th. meeting.
We discussed .....
The creation of a `Mission Statement'
The status of our `Information distribution plan'
The status of our `Web page design and content'
The creation of an `Attendance tracking method'
The creation of an `Information Archiving system'
Different methods `Fund raisers'
Joe Z. Has worked on our mission statement. What he came up with is :
"The Three Rivers Designers Council is an organization for
professionals in all areas related to PCB (printed circuit board) design,
fabrication and assembly. Although the council is open for anyone to attend,
our members primarily consist of PCB Designers, manufacturing engineers,
PCB fabricators and assemblers. Our mission is to provide a professional
forum for information exchange and technical instruction, while serving to
enhance our member's expertise and abilities in the PCB field."
This sounds good to me.... Modifications, however, need to be made to
include a reference to "Pittsburgh and surrounding areas" or "Pittsburgh
and the Tri-State area".
Lou Takach and Jamie Morrow will take on the responsibility of information
distribution and archiving. They will work in a "primary" and "secondary"
roll, backing up each other. Lou will handle meeting minutes, chapter
announcements and the distribution of this information to the group while
Jamie will handle the archiving of any "hard copy" information used during
presentations.
Jeff has already started work on our Web page. It will be used as an
information source not only for our chapter but for any designers or
engineers that have internet access. Since it will take some time to create
and design the necessary pages, Jeff will start with the following
information :
o The member list
o Meeting minutes both current and an archive of previous minutes.
o Meeting announcements
o Links to various technical pages and Cad pages.
o Links to the IPC home page
o Any other PCB related links
If you have an interesting link that is appropriate to PCB design,
fabrication and
assembly, e-mail it to Jeff Imes at the following address
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For statistical purposes, Jamie will start to track attendance. This
information can be used to entice future speakers in that if we can show
them that we consistently have a large attendance, they may be more willing
to give a presentation.
Jamie volunteered to maintain an archive of all "hard copy" information
presented at our meetings. In doing so, a reference library will be created
and be accessible to all of our members.
The last topic that was discussed was fundraising. Most of the funds
necessary to run this chapter will be obtained from member dues. Other ways
of raising funds were also discussed. This money will be used where
necessary in the operation of our chapter and also fund events such as
yearly picnics, Pirate game outings etc.
The steering committee met again prior to the general membership meeting on
August 8th. The following items were discussed.
o Review of the items discussed at the 7-30 meeting
o Forwarding of information to Jeff (to be included on our WEB
page)
o Contact with the Pittsburgh High Tech Council
o Discussed the appointment of officers (President, Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer
o Additional officers will be added as needed such as a
`Membership Officer', a `Certification
Officer' etc.
o Additional help !
o IPC Certification and Training
o Creation of an email header
o IPC affiliation
o Creation of a "government"
A review of the previous steering committee meeting was held. It was
confirmed that:
Lou will handle all announcements to the group using the information
distribution system that was implemented. Lou will also take the meeting
minutes and distribute them along with any announcements to the group.
Along with distributing announcements and meeting minutes, he will also
forward this information to Jeff for inclusion in our WEB page.
Jamie will continue to track attendance and archive all "hard copy" meeting
information. Whenever new members or visitors are added to the master list,
he will forward this information to Lou so that they can be added to the
distribution list. Jamie also contacted the Pittsburgh High Technology
Council. We are going to be added to their membership list. Jamie is also
going to obtain their membership directory. We can use this to, hopefully,
attract additional members.
Jamie is also going to be our membership officer.
Jeff is involved in establishing our WEB page. It looks great !!. Jeff is
also investigating IPC affiliation issues, tax ID numbers, fictitious name
etc. Jeff is going to be our IPC Certification officer.
Joe has been busy coming up with our mission statement, help needed
information sheet, email header standardization and other managerial tasks.
Joe has taken the lead in organizing this chapter and moving us forward.
The steering committee also discussed the creation of a government and
appointment of officers. Since this chapter is new and everyone is trying
to "get to know" each other, it would be difficult to elect officers this
year. With that said, it was decided that the officers would be the members
of the steering committee. A formal election will be held next year. The
appointments are :
PRESIDENT - Joseph Zdybowicz
VICE PRESIDENT - Jeff Imes
SECRETARY - Lou Takach
SECRETARY - Jamie Morrow
TREASURER - Jeff Imes (acting)
Other officers :
Membership officer - Jamie Morrow
Certification officer - Jeff Imes
Other officer positions will be created as needed. If you wish to
participate in the steering committee or possibly be an officer, please get
in touch with one of the current steering committee members.
AUGUST 8th. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
First of all, we would like to thank Jamie Morrow and Tom Coyle from Hadco
for sponsoring this meeting and providing refreshments.
Today's meeting was about IPC Designers Council affiliation and
Certification procedures. The presentation was given by the distinguished
Dieter Bergman from the IPC. It was an honor to have Dieter at our chapter
meeting.
Dieter talked about :
o History of and general council information
o An explanation of the IPC "technet" and "designers council"
forums
o Chapter by-laws
o The need for a core group of individuals to run the chapter
o The need for a chapter purchasing agent
o Dues
o An information kit used for chapter incorporation
o Explained the history and current practices of Designer
Certification
A CD-ROM is available for training !
Thanks again Dieter for taking the time to talk with us !
Our next general membership meeting will be held September 17th. at 7:00pm
and will be sponsored by Union Switch & Signal Inc. Directions are
available upon request. The topic will be OSP's and be presented by Tom
Eshelman from Enthone.
The next committee meeting will be held on August 27th.
Possible topics to discuss are :
o Chapter incorporation : Jamie to bring incorporation kit.
o Chapter by-laws : Jeff is looking into this.
o Sponsors
o "Fun things"
o Gary Ferrari and his newsletter
Lou Takach
Union Switch & Signal Inc.
412.688.2574 (voice)
412.688.2399 (fax)
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