Hello Fellow Designers in the Ottawa area! It is our pleasure to announce that, at long last, the Ottawa Area is taking the first steps in setting up an IPC Designers Council Chapter. Over the past several years we have discussed the possibility of forming such a group and the time has finally arrived! We will be holding a kick-off meeting at Dy-4 Systems Inc. on Wednesday August 15,2001, from 6pm until about 8pm to provide you with information outlining the benefits of forming and joining the council. Our guest speaker for the evening will be Gary Ferrari from the IPC Council who will discuss the formation of the group, and the Designers Certification Examination which is also being held that week ( go to <http://www.ipc.org/html/fsrelated.htm> and follow the designers council link for more information). It is our hope to have a series of seminars set up by that time featuring a local board shop (maybe a tour) and local and international guest speakers in our field. If you have any ideas that might help attract other designers to this group please forward them to us at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> If you know of any other designers that may be interested in joining, please forward this message onto them (and copy us). If you are not interested in the designers council please let me know and I will remove you from this distribution list. For other information please see out homepage at... <http://www.ipc.org/ottawa/index.html> our email address....... [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> regards co-chairs ..... Ed Murphy and Jackie O'Grady ps... we are hoping to have some of our cook's famous pizza available so please if you are coming let us know so we have enough! E.J. (Ed) Murphy x C.I.D. Dy4 Systems Inc. Tel: (613)599-9199 (EXT 521) e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Customer First, Quality Always PLEASE RESPOND TO THE [log in to unmask] EMAIL ADDRESS!! E.J. (Ed) Murphy x C.I.D. Dy 4 Systems Inc. Tel: (613)599-9199 (EXT 521) e-mail: [log in to unmask] Customer First, Quality Always --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To set a vacation stop for delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------