Minutes from the first  Ideas and PLM Rocky Moutain Region Users Group Meeting held 12/13/02 Chair and co-chair Concerns:
 
As the software merges the convergence and usability of legacy data
    What is the latest version Nx will open?
        Ug1
        Ideas v10
Functionality concern between platforms
         Who determines what’s right?
              Teams have been formed to help in this effort
Enhancement requests downturn of ideas
             I would encourage all of you Ideas users to continue to ask for enhancements and report issues
             If you sit back you will get exactly what you don’t want
Make sure that the design aspect is not the focal point of this group

Why we are here

How to get the other side of the mountain to participate?
     Possibly use webx or broadcast to them the meetings or vice versa
     Many of the users on the other side would spend funds to go to the national instead of the regional
Funding
    Feel that sponsorship will come from EDS and the vendors within our region
    No reason to collect fees from users to attending the meeting
How often will we meet?
    Quarterly plus the picnic
Will Friday’s work best for all in the room?
 Yes
Format of the meetings
    Interest from both sides of the users to see how the product works
    Functionality
    Sponsorship from vendors
    User demonstrations
Our meeting schedule will be as follows:
    March--- Bo Powell to demonstrate some of the Basic Ug functionality and another to demonstrate the Ideas functionality on the same     part.
    June---Ideas demo meeting
    July--picnic
    September---
    December---
Mike’s Presentation
        Nx2 digital decision making
        Nx will be the convergence of the strengths of the following software: Ideas, Imageware and Unigraphics
        Preserve customer investments in process and data
        3rd quarter 2004 will be the nx3 merged release
        ideas 11 will be the last separate release of ideas and nx2 will be the last separate UG release
    There are four areas that PLM is working at
    1. next generation knowledge enabled architecture---strategic technology advantage
    2. UG user interaction model---workflow productivity
    3. open by design---interoperability
    4. production proven application--- scalable solutions
    went into the knowledge fusion
    went into the nx3 and some of the functionality being converged between the software’s

Action items from meeting:
    Get listing from Jeff Grieve at CADpo of past users and also Migel for any new users in our region
    Find out from PLM how we can get a mass e-mail to the users
    e-mail all the users and encourage them to become citizens