RE: Avid Community Forums

Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:40:23 -0500
To : <DS(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Keuler, Bob" <KeulerB(at)WLIW.org>
Subject : RE: Avid Community Forums
So you can post at Majordomo and it will appear here?

Bob Keuler
Senior Avid|DS Editor
WLIW Productions
450 West 33rd St. (7th Floor)
New York, N.Y. 10001
(212)560-8843
keulerb(at)wliw.org


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Andi Loor
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:21 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Avid Community Forums


He still posted on the old list.
Andi


Keuler, Bob skrev:

>Since Sylvain posted here, Isn't he more or less "In"? I wasn't able to
>post until I gave my email and password.
>
>Hope you stick around Sylvain!
>
>Bob Keuler
>Senior Avid|DS Editor
>WLIW Productions
>450 West 33rd St. (7th Floor)
>New York, N.Y. 10001
>(212)560-8843
>keulerb(at)wliw.org
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
>Of John McMullin
>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:05 AM
>To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
>Subject: RE: Avid Community Forums
>
>
>My only worry is that in cutting the list off from the official
>channels, we're helping to steer the product into a cul de sac.
They'll
>be even less chance of a dialogue with Avid and, if DS does get any new
>users, they're going to be out on a limb without help from the
>experienced pros.  We'll be a community that isn't talking to anyone
but
>ourselves.  Just waiting for Avid to finally pull the plug.
> 
>John
> 
> 
> 
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Sylvain Labrosse 
>Sent: Fri 1/27/2006 14:09 
>To: DS(at)Softimage.COM 
>Cc: 
>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
><http://www.softimage.com/avidds>  
>	Check The Learning Collection 
>
>
>
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