Jack, and Andy and anyone else that is interested:
The Designers Council Executive Board is hard at work trying to find a
formula that addresses two really big issues:
1) The IPC sees UP media and its shows as arch competitiors, and proceeds on
trying really hard to "win" the competitive war. There's justification for
that attitude - business is business.
2) The Designers Council stated intent is "By Designers, For Designers". Has
been all along. UP Media, through Andy Shaughnessy, Mike Beutow and
certainly Pete Waddell, have been very supportive of designers everywhere,
over many years. Pete especially went out on many shaky limbs to help the
Designers Council get up and running, and maintained, over a long, long
period of time. Times change - when there's a war on you don't ask for, or
give, any quarter, despite where your heart really lies.
It's like that. It's not something that can be easily solved without a
sturdy, business-like outlook from both parties that acknowledges that a
real business policy lies in finding a win-win solution.
There's a solution buried somewhere in the war of words that's flying about.
We have had a lot of discussions with both sides, and both sides profess a
desire to work together for the betterment of designers everywhere.
How to make that happen is not at all clear, but it doesn't stop your
Executive Board from trying hard. We are after all only an advisory body and
all we can do is advise, strongly, diligently, frequently and in clear and
unambiguous terms. The rest is up to the IPC and UP Media.
Watch this space - sooner or later I would sincerely like to tell you that
rather than a serious division in the two organisations capable of really
helping designers universally, we have a united, cohesive and effective
business policy from both sides that works.
It will be WIN-WIN-WIN: IPC wins, UP Media wins, and most of all you, the
designer wins.
Andy Kowalewski
Chairman, and proud member of a great team on the Designers Council
Executive Board.
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From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy
Shaughnessy
Sent: Monday, 28 February 2005 16:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Is there anybody out there?
Jack,
We'd certainly like to bring IPC certification back to the PCB Design
Conferences. I think they had their biggest CID class ever at PCB West one
year.
Maybe if enough designers ask IPC very politely, they'll bring certification
back to the PCB Design Conferences. We get lots of requests for it, that's
for sure.
Andy
Andy Shaughnessy
Editor
Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture
Conference Chair
PCB Design Conferences
UP Media Group Inc.
2018 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30339
678-589-8844
Our next event is PCB Design Conference West 2005, March 7-11, in Santa
Clara, CA. For more information, visit www.pcbwest.com.
>>> [log in to unmask] 02/28/05 06:59PM >>>
I just got an update from the IPC conference, which seemed to be glowing
with optimism, but one statistic kinda jumped out at me:
Anaheim, CA- The IPC Printed Circuits Expo and APEX show ended on Thursday
with an estimated attendance of approximately 1,000 visitors.
1000 visitors?
Did someone move a decimal point or accidentally delete a zero or something?
This show combines APEX and IPC. Doesn't that include designers AND
Fabrication people AND assembly people?
Sheesh, there's gotta be a thousand people related to this industry within
WALKING distance of Anaheim!
Well, maybe that means a whole heckuva lot of people waited for the PCB
Design Conference next week in Santa Clara, I sure hope so!
(That's where I'll be this time next week... can't wait!)
I know I'm not the only one who has a limited travel budget, and I can't
attend everything that sounds worthwhile.
(Sometimes you just gotta choose, ya know what I mean?) But it sure would be
easier if we could ease up on the splintering and division between us.
Do we really need TWO conferences?
Maybe its time we went back to the good old days, when we had a PCB Design
Conference for a couple of days and you could get your IPC CID training and
have a software User Group meeting ALL AT THE SAME PLACE.
whaddya think?
huh?
yeah.
see JaxHead at
http://theolsons.frontdoor.biz/Jack/JaxHead.htm
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