RE: Avid Community Forums

["Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony(at)hdheaven.co.uk>]

Title: Avid Community Forums

Hi Sylvain,

 

You know, because you asked the question before, that this community is overwhelmingly in favour of a mailing list as opposed to a forum for reasons that have already been discussed.

 

If Avid no longer wishes to host a mailing list for us, then that's fine.  The new list now has in excess of 231 members (representing around 35 million dollars of revenue that Avid has received) and we're very happy in our new home.

 

Regards,

Tony

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sylvain Labrosse
Sent: 27 January 2006 14:10
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Avid Community Forums

Hello,

I waited for the dust to come down a bit before posting.

The intention was to regroup all the wonderful knowledge into a single place so all great minds could help newcomers with their excellent advices.  The forum did not have much activity for Avid DS and there are numerous other forums where the DS community could pick great information and even exchange workflows and tips.

The forum is also a place where users can provide their suggestions and feedback about the product.  It is totally acceptable to even post complaints about what is missing or not working.

I research the e-mail question with the forum web developers and they provided me this answer:

You can subscribe to one or all forums and receive the posts in your mailbox:
Log in to the Community Forums.
Click the forum you want.
Scroll down and click the "Options" button.
In the bottom pulldown ("Send e-mail"), select the option you want;
        never
        when new topics are posted in this forum (new threads)
        when new posts are posted in this forum (new posts) Click "Remember!"
To reply to a post, though, the member would have to click on the link they receive in their e-mail to return to the forums - you can't reply via e-mail.

It is not like a mailing-list but this an option for users who wish to lurk and read the discussions, maybe even participate.

I feel that going away to a separate mailing-list is like isolating yourself from the Avid community instead of joining in with the entire group, exchanging ideas and workflows between products, and helping building the next generation of products by providing suggestions or pointing out the current flaws.

I understand the overall reaction.  Being at Softimage since 1992 and living through two major acquisitions (Microsoft in 1994 and Avid in 1998), I know how upsetting things can be, or appear to be, at first.  Can I ask people to re-evaluate it all, when the emotion is taken out of the equation?  Maybe not today, not next week, just when you feel ready?

Having a separate mailing-list is fine if that is everybody's decision.

The Avid Community Forums welcome anyone who wants to join.

Sylvain Labrosse
Avid DS Support
Escalation team
http://www.softimage.com/avidds
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