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Here are some questions and comments about the proposed Service Provider Program that were raised in last week’s meeting (7/19/22) that we may want to ‘revisit’ in this week’s meeting.
Some service facilities have previously expressed interest in the program. Some have said they are interested in promoting their knowledge of ACES to studios and others.
Key topic: Are we talking about facilities or individuals getting the logo acknowledgement? If a facility has only one person that ‘knows ACES’ what happens if they leave? How do you track that?
What ACES really needs is more training. Concentrate your efforts here.
Training Materials, both detailed and high level
Webinars, education materials, tools
“Train the Trainer” program to leverage the amount of people that can be trained
Is SMPTE a good choice to help with training?
ACES needs more activities and work to support interoperability. Can we do more plug fests and other demos. Would this Service Provider program facilitate this?
Is this program trying to take away the buyer’s responsibility to “ask” a vendor if they know how to do an ACES workflow?
Does the Academy have the resources to do the vetting for facilities (or even more importantly individuals which could be hundreds or thousands of people). Won’t they get ‘swamped’.
Devil’s advocate: If ACES was more artist-friendly and fool proof (which I think should be the goal), then you wouldn’t need an individual cert program.