HomeConferences Open Design Alliance Announces Cancellation of ODA World Conference 2010
Open Design Alliance Announces Cancellation of ODA World Conference 2010
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
Phoenix, AZ, April 6, 2010 – The Open Design Alliance (ODA) announces the cancellation of the ODA World Conference in Orlando, Florida (USA), May 4 – 5, 2010.
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The World Conference is primarily designed for ODA members to come together from across the globe to exchange ideas, innovations, and advancements in CAD and technical graphics technology. However, initial feedback from ODA members cited the tightening of corporate budgets, especially for travel and conferences, as a major reason for not being able to attend this year’s conference.
The ODA is making alternate arrangements with members who had previously decided to attend this year.
Arnold van der Weide, ODA President, stated, “Not enough members were able to attend this year in order to make the conference a success. It was a difficult decision to cancel the conference, especially after the successful first conference that was held last year in Leiden, The Netherlands. We understand that members’ interest in the conference did not outweigh the expense during this time when many member companies are just starting to come out of the economic downturn. We are a member-oriented organization and the cancellation is in response to what our members were telling us. That said, I fully anticipate meeting again on a large scale in the future.”
About the Open Design Alliance
The Open Design Alliance is a non-profit consortium of over 2,000 software developers and users in 40 countries committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data and CAD legacy data. Teigha™, the software development platform, provides software developers with the tools to create a wide range of technical graphics applications, including custom data access and editing utilities, visualization tools, and even full-scale CAD systems. Teigha also supports the use of both .dwg and .dgn files, with import and export capabilities to other file formats. The Open Design Alliance maintains and publishes the Open Design Specification for .dwg files.
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