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Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

Kirk Arnold — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:56:49 GMT

I Love Athens. But, sadly for me no immediate plans to visit. I would be very happy to hear from the group about your suggestions for cities and dates where we could get a small gorup together for a meeting. We'll take a look at your suggestions and try to get a couple of them set up.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

jveekeres — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:32:07 GMT

As it seems these meetings are having a very positive effect, it would be nice if, at some point, these meetings could also be organized in other markets then LA. I understand that Athens, Greece is not anywhere near the top of your list but... we have very nice souvlaki, mousaka and ouzo.....

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

BobbyMurcerFan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:51:06 GMT

Kirk, please pass on to the engineers how much their presence was appreciated. They are definitely heros of the Avid team.

And of course, thanks again to you.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

NICKB — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:07:51 GMT

Sounds good, i have a lot more faith in the present management than the previous to lead us to a better future.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

Kirk Arnold — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:07:24 GMT

Morning Guys!

The team and I had a great time this past weekend in LA. A great big thanks to Terry and the gang for hosting. What a nice spread! We had some great conversations and learned a lot from all of you. The team and I would love to do more of these. As we find ourselves in other cities we will find a way to do this again.

Thanks again!

Kirk

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

Sycophant — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:04:24 GMT

Mad props (I believe that's the term) to Kirk for the meeting.

Obviously LA was a little far for me to travel, but if Kirk ever finds herself in Auckland, I will arrange a location and drum up some editors... :)

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

BobbyMurcerFan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:08:24 GMT

What he said ;) !

I can't say that there was any one direction or idea that came out of the meeting that was earth shattering or game changing.

What did come through very clearly was that the exectuitves and engineers from Avid in attendance care very much about customers and the direction of the company's products are taking.

I wholeheartedly believe that Avid has all the pieces and capabilities necessary to be a case study on how to sucessfully manage a turnaround.

Thank you again Kirk, the engineers and everone else who attended. And of course, an extra thanks to Terry for being such a gracious host.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

TCurren — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:56:41 GMT

The meeting happened last night and was a great event. While Kirk can't really talk about upcoming features, she was very communicative about the market in general. She brought top engineers and product designers with her to fill in the technical areas of the discussion.

Once again it made it very apparent that is a new Avid. They are listening, and do care about keeping our market.

Thanks Kirk!

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

ghuson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:19:26 GMT

Great time to be in LA? Sudden heatwave! Unless your from Vegas, not a great time to be in LA.

But alpha dogs has good air conditioning, so I'll be there... of course we might turn the A/C off to make Frank sweat, but that's a different story...

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

Schy Gleason — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:17:24 GMT

Great time to be in LA. Count me in. I'll be there.

RSVP Schy Gleason

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

jwrl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:47:04 GMT

I'm about as far away as its possible to get from LA, but I don't expect a videotape of every informal meeting between Avid execs and user groups. In fact I'd go further; I've headed our local editor's guild branch in the past and been involved with events of this kind. For the reasons that Terry outlined earlier we've never videotaped them. People are seldom relaxed when they're being recorded.

Kenton.VanNatten:
The Boston Avid Users Group meets the 2nd Wed of nearly every month, but sadly we have not seen any executive level representation from Avid to date

This thread started with a formal invitation from BobbyMurcerFan to Kirk; maybe BAUG could try something similar?

Anyway guys, have a good night. It sounds like it will be interesting.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

adam5000 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:33:03 GMT

I was originally for the idea of video taping it but, after thinking more about it, and with the idea that taping it makes it more formal then, I'd now say pass on taping it. The whole idea was first suggested as a way to take Kirk out and shoot the breeze and making it more formal will take that away. Leave it as a casual get together and have fun. Wish I could attend.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

BLKDOG — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:16:12 GMT

I want to point out that Kirk and other execs at Avid meet with small groups of users on almost a weekly basis without benefit of recording for posterity. This would simlply be another of those meetings.

I agree that meetings of this type benefit greatly from one on one conversation without the hassle of it being recorded.

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

Kenton.VanNatten — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:04:53 GMT

Haze:
It would be great if Avid considered holding a meeting with customers outside of LA. While there are a ton of editors on the West coast it doesn't paint a complete picture of the user base. How about a meeting on the East coast?

The Boston Avid Users Group meets the 2nd Wed of nearly every month, but sadly we have not seen any executive level representation from Avid to date*

*Actually, I forgot that Graham Sharp attended a meeting a few years ago

Re: Let's Ask Out Kirk ;)

Haze — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:25:24 GMT

Kenton.VanNatten:
While I understand your point about keeping it candid and less corporate-speak - it would feel now that the select few people who can actually make it to the event would be the "voice" of the User.

I don't think that Avid is so narrow minded to believe that a small group a editors is the voice of all users.

Here's an interview with Frank Capria that describes a little bit about how they filter through the many feature requests.

http://hdfilmtools.com/2009/03/road-trip-to-avid-a-chat-with-sr-product-designer-frank-capria/

It would be great if Avid considered holding a meeting with customers outside of LA. While there are a ton of editors on the West coast it doesn't paint a complete picture of the user base. How about a meeting on the East coast? London? An occasional meeting with customers outside of LA would qualify as "New Thinking".