Hi All- Welcome to the New Year and welcome to another year of the IPC Designers Council. A year that we fully intend to fill with exciting and educational events for all our members. We will use our first meeting this year to carve the future of our chapter. We want to strongly encourage not only existing members to attend, but any past members who are considering membership and would like to help the council pick up the pace of events and activities. If you haven't heard, the Council officers for the year 2000 are- President- Rick Hartley Vice President- Jeff McGlaughlin Secretary- Dan Tagg Treasurer- Keith Morgan We're late getting started this year, but we're not going to let that slow progress. Our first meeting (usually held in January) will be Wednesday, February 9th at 7:00pm. The meeting will be held at Alpha-C (directions at the end of this email). There will be a door prize presented at the end of the evening to one of the attendees (We will have a door prize at each meeting this year). Officers are not eligible to receive the prize, so that all other attendees chances are increased. Additionally, we will have a grand door prize at our December dinner. Each meeting you attend during the year puts one more entry into the jar for the December drawing. The agenda for the Feb 9th meeting is- * Meeting Topics- A list of potential meeting topics was distributed to each member, earlier this year. We will discuss those topics, along with any other suggestions and create this years schedule. A new copy will be distributed at the meeting. We will also discuss potential incentives to increase membership and retain members. It has also been suggested that the meeting night rotate between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, instead of every meeting being on a Wednesday. Food for thought. * Designer Certification- For those of you who haven't followed this lately, a lot of great things are happening. Things that can only benefit our members. Since there is a certification workshop coming to Columbus in April, this is a great time to discuss the possibilities. * High Speed Workshop- We are having a one day High Speed workshop, sometime in the next few months. We will select a date. The workshop will be open to anyone wishing to attend, but will be free to Central/Southern Ohio IPC members. * Technical Roundtable- With the remaining time we will have a roundtable discussion / Q&A of the articles in the January issue of Printed Circuit Design magazine. Those of you who read it know that there were several very interesting articles. This should prove to be quite educational. * Door Prize Drawing. Remember, if you are a past or present member and you're interested in the future of IPC Designer Council, plan to attend the February meeting. Help us create a dynamic council for all our members. Also, if you know of someone who might be interested, tell them about IPC or just bring them along. See you at the meeting. Best regards, Rick Hartley - President [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (614) 798-1199 (x2026) _______________________________________________ Directions to Alpha-C: From Columbus and points East- 70 West to 675 South. 675 South to Rte 35 West. Rte 35 West to first exit (Woodman Dr.) Left (South) on Woodman Drive to Research Blvd. Left on Research, past first traffic light, turn left at next entrance. Alpha-C is in the middle building (#3155). From Cincinnati and points South- 75 North to 675 North. 675 North to Indian Ripple Rd. Left on Indian Ripple to County Line Rd. (County line is first big intersection- Shell station on Corner) Right on County Line to Research Blvd. Left on Research, right at first entrance. Alpha-C is in the middle building (#3155). If you need help, call- Mike Floyd (937) 252-9496 (x120)