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Meeting held at Taffys Restaurant Monday May 8th, 2000 at 11:30am
Present:
Doug Boone, Damon Oran, Glenn Wells, Woody Adams, Keith Larson, Mike
Korson, Paul Olson, Andy Kowalewski
Apologies:
None
Technical stuff:
The workbook is at the printers and will be ready today (Monday).
Andy will pick up the workbooks and send Woody and Glenn a copy for
preview.
Mike Korson will email a revised copy of his presentation to Woody and
Keith
Andy will email Pete Profilet's presentation to Keith
Woody and Glenn will chase up presentations from speakers and email to
Keith
Keith will photocopy other presentations and put into a simple binder to be
given to registrants
This is now the new schedule:
Thursday May 11th
0730 - 0900 Breakfast
0900 - 0945 Carl Johnson Keynote speaker
0945 - 1030 Mike Korson - Successful Process ....
1030 - 1100 Morning break
1100 - 1130 Pete Profilet - Effective CAD Library .....
1130 - 1230 Woody Adams - Specs for Padstacks
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1430 Scott Williams - Probe Card design
1430 - 1530 Tom Buck - PCB Materials, ......
1530 - 1600 Afternoon break
1600 - 1700 Woody Adams - Silicon Wafer ......
1700 - 1800 Open bar
1800 - 1900 Dinner
1900 - 2000 Wally Chariton and dessert & coffee
2000 - 2300 Bar, music and networking
Friday May 12th
0800 - 0900 Breakfast
0900 - 0930 Mike Millward - EDA Tools ....
0930 - 1030 Barry Hurley - Microvia Technology
1030 - 1100 Morning break
1100 - 1200 Woody Adams - Power distribution ...
1200 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1430 Joe Brown - Probe Card assembly
1430 - 1500 Afternoon break
1500 - 1700 Panel discussion - Woody, Barry Hurley, Mitch
1700 Prizes draw, Close
Woody and Glenn will set up panel questions in case the panel discussion
grinds to a halt.
Marketing stuff:
Doug will get credit card stuff done as soon as possible to get the cash
into the bank.
Doug has offered to let us use his corporate credit card to fund our
activities until the cash is in the bank. On behalf of the Chapter, I'd
like to thank Doug for his very generous offer - it's a big thing. I feel
we may be ok but appreciate the offer and if I need to use it then I will.
Sponsorships:
Currently we have:-
Thursday 11th
Breakfast No one
Morning break Cadence
Lunch Zuken
Afternoon break ???
Open bar DDI
Dinner Mentor
Friday 12th
Breakfast No one
Morning break Plano CAD
Lunch Valor / Circuit Technology
Afternoon break CAD Design
Damon is still working on getting
sponsors to replace Plano CAD and Valor /
Circuit Technology, as well as fill the holes in our sponsorship program.
Damon is going to talk to Barry Hurley about sponsoring a lunch or maybe
increasing their contribution for an open bar.
Venue stuff:
Current registration situation:
26 people registered
Add 2 from NEC at no charge
Add 5 from CCC College at $25 - but not to the dinner
Mike Korson will bring his spouse
Doug will bring his spouse and two others at no charge
Glenn may bring an expensive partner
Cerprobe are to register another 4 to 6
Woody will chase up Cerprobe's registrants
So I will book 50 attendees for the conference and 60 for the dinner. We
can arrange for extra meals (somehow) if we
get a sudden rush of attendees.
Glenn doesn't have a working A/V system.
Damon will see if his projector will take an video/audio input for
projecting a video picture.
Glenn will bring a VCR for the conference.
Please work together to have all cables etc where needed for the A/V stuff.
Extension cords will be provided by the hotel but some of your own wouldn't
hurt.
Damon and Doug will look at purchasing a sound system
Doug will bring a screen, an overhead projector, easel and large pad to the
conference.
Keith will make up some signs for our sponsors and email to Mike Korson
Mike will plot these onto large sheets ready for display at the conference.
Doug will bring in a suitable backboard
Glenn will email Andy a sample evaluation form
Andy will announce and oversee the eTeam free licenses (3 of through Doug)
for filling out evaluation forms on each day, plus a last one to be given
at the end of the panel discussion - drawn from attendees' stamped cards.
Damon will organise the tickets to be issued to registrants for two free
drinks at the bar after dinner on Thursday.
Damon will
organise cards and stamps to be given to our sponsors to stamp
attendee's visits to each sponsor, and to be used for the last draw after
the panel discussion.
Damon will supply Valor pens for registrants
Damon will look after the sponsors Thursday morning
Keith and Michelle will man the registration desk on Thursday
Keith will prepare name tags for people registered - printed for known
registrants and hand written for those extras who turn up on the day.
We will all wear Chapter T-shirts on the two days
Andy will get Woody an XL one to wear.
Doug will print and mail certificates after the conference
Filming:
Cerprobe will be arranging a film of the conference.
Andy will announce that filming will take place, and anyone objecting to
being seen in that should sit at the rear.
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Mike -
These are important telephone numbers if you need them
Woody Adams - office (214) 860 1029 cell (972) 679 0120
Glenn Wells - office (972) 367 2137 cell (972) 571 3555
Doug Boone - office (972) 985 1577
Keith Larson - office (817) 329 9066 cell (817) 247 6441
Andy Kowalewski - office (972) 705 ???? home (214) 871 1868
Other points arising:
Mike Korson suggested that next year (???) we
register our conference with
the in-house training section to get the word out better and make
registrations much easier. Seems Alcatel has a similar arrangement. Maybe
Motorola too.
Cheers
..............Andy
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