The Power Of The Blog…Or Something Like That

April 22, 2008 by jason raak 1 Comment

As some of you may have seen there has been some discussion lately about whether or not the presentations from SolidWorks World 2008 should be made available to anyone and everyone or should they just be available to this years attendees. Matt Lombard started this discussion last week when he posted a link to his FTP which contained all of the presentations from SWW. 2 days later Matt started a SolidWorks World Presentation Ownership Poll titled “Is SolidWorks justified in keeping the SWWorld presentations behind a login?” that received 61 votes with the winning answer being “No, the presentations belong to the creators” which received 31% followed by 25% for “Yes, they organized the event so the can control access to the content”.

Because of the responses and results to the poll Matt decided to try calling Greg Jankowski one more time before publishing as he put it “another scathing blog post”. Greg informed Matt that SolidWorks had decided to make all of the presentations available to everyone. But just in cased you really wanted to read Matt’s “scathing blog post”, he still posted it this at the bottom of his Control of SolidWorks Presentations blog post.

Late this afternoon Richard Doyle made the announcement that the presentations were available in the SolidWorks Customer Portal. Once you get in the Customer Portal browse over to the left side of your screen and look under the Links (left) heading to find your link to the SolidWorks World 2008 information. Or you can access it right here.

So for now this is a closed subject and as Matt said…“Score one for the SolidWorks Community!”

Filed under misc. randoms & rants

One Response to The Power Of The Blog…Or Something Like That

Matt says:

April 23, 2008 at 1:55 am

This is a great advantage for users everywhere, especially users who can’t make it to SWW. I thank users for raising the awareness and SolidWorks for finally seeing the light.

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