Seattle ARCHICAD 19 User Group — June 24, 2015
We have our next Seattle ARCHICAD User Group scheduled. If you’re in the Seattle area you probably already know the drill. We’re meeting at the same location as the recent meetings, but this time on a Wednesday night. And once again, a big thank you to Geoff Briggs, John DeForest and the whole team at DeForest Architects for letting us congregate in their great new(ish) office. Here are the details:
Date:
Wednesday June 24, 2015
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Location:
DeForest Architects
1148 NW Leary Way
Seattle, WA 98107
Host:
Jesse Gallanar, GSNA’s sales manager for Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
What’s Happening:
We’re keeping it simple this month. There’ll be one main topic: ARCHICAD 19. Of course as anyone who’s ever been to a user group that I’ve run knows, lengthy lectures aren’t the goal. The official topic is just a starting point. I know we’ll all be jazzed to talk about ARCHICAD 19, but if we get sidetracked, that’s okay. What I want to see-and what I hope the topic will facilitate-is a two hour discussion about ARCHICAD that continues afterwards at a local bar**. So if you don’t want to talk about ARCHICAD 19, that’s okay. Show up and change the subject. Sound good? Bring whatever you need: questions, a project, a printout, a gripe, a coworker, a friend, a disgruntled Revit user, a prospective user. I don’t care. I just want to get a big bunch of passionate ARCHICAD and BIM users together to talk about what’s important. You in? ALSO…if you have a question or topic you’d like to have discussed, please e-mail me ahead of time. I can’t promise we’ll cover it (especially if you ask about EcoDesigner STAR), but we’ll do our best. Oh and if you are curious, here are my initial thoughts on ARCHICAD 19. Spoiler alert: I think it’s an awesome release.
Please share this post and e-mail it to all your coworkers. I know not everyone gets the official e-mails about user groups-especially new and/or quieter employees.
**100% yes we will be having an after-party ARCHICAD nerdfest at a nearby bar. Geoff tells me there are a lot of great places to go close to their new office. And I assume, as with the previous meetings, Jesse will be feeding us.
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Jared Banks
Oh yeah. I forgot something else about this next meeting. In addition to looking at ARCHICAD 19, let’s also look back at ArchiCAD 18 to reflect on our favorite parts, the bits we never touched, and other thoughts on the past year. Hopefully that’ll inform us all on how to look at ArchiCAD 19 with a more critical idea (Thanks John Adams for the awesome suggestion to include that).
Jared Banks
Jesse sent me a note this morning to say we were having some special guests at our user group this month. Monte Chapin and Laszlo Drajko with both be joining us.
Monte is a long time ARCHICAD user and currently Business Process Leader at GRAPHISOFT North America. That means he goes around the USA talking about some high level ARCHICAD and BIM stuff. So you can ask him all your crazy ARCHICAD questions. My Monte fun fact is that he spoke at the first ARCHICAD user group I ever ran. Or maybe it was the second. I can’t remember. It was a long, long time ago (September 2009). Either way, I know he was introducing the brand new wonders of ARCHICAD 13.
Laszlo is Vice President of the Americas for GRAPHISOFT. He’s Jesse’s boss’s boss’s boss. Laszlo is just an awesome person. My favorite Laszlo story is when he gave not one, but two private tours of nearby Roman ruins to attendees of the 2014 Key Client Conference in Budapest. That sounds cool, but when you realize that the first tour started after midnight and the second happened a few days later because he felt bad that the second group wasn’t included in the original tour, well, you start to get a sense of just how wonderful Laszlo is-and how much he loves all ARCHICAD users.