San Flashcisco

Event: Combine Ingredients, Mix, and Bake: Contribute to the Future of the Flash Family of Tools

Description: In this collaborative session, see the latest workflows that are part of Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder and Flash Professional, and collaborate directly with the product team on what you want to see as part of the future of these tools. This session will review the current features of Flash Platform Tools and ask you for your recommendations on new feature ideas. Having direct impact on upcoming features can be a rare event, so be sure to come and share YOUR thoughts on Adobe Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional and Flash Builder.

Please RSVP no later than 10am 1/21/2010 or your entrance to Adobe WILL be delayed. http://sanflashcisco.com/event/28

This meeting is free to attend and will have free pizza, beer and refreshments thanks to the generous support from Filter Talent.

It’s been such an excellent year building our local Flash community with you. Thanks for all your support, participation, presentations and encouragement.

In lieu of our 3rd Thursday event this month, we thought we’d take a break from the regularly scheduled program…

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San Flashcisco and our friends at SilvaFUG SF are pleased to announce our 2009 holiday party—AKA: SAN FLASHDISCO.

So come on you regulars, our old guard and newbies alike… Bring on some seasonal cheer next Tuesday, December 15th and meet us at Bloodhound Bar from 7pm on…

http://bloodhoundsf.com/ 1145 Folsom Street @ 7th Street in SOMA

While we can’t have a DJ, Bloodhound is rumored to have an awesome jukebox! There’s also a pool table and they will be giving our group happy hour prices all evening (no-host bar this time).

Please RSVP here: http://sanflashcisco.com/event/27 and we’ll look forward to seeing you next Tuesday evening!

Happy Holidays and a Wishing You All a Magical 2010.

We’ve setup an event page on the site where you can RSVP if you’re going to the Adobe MAX conference this year.

Here are all the assets and presentation slides from last Thursdays presentations. Enjoy …

Who needs a timeline anyway? An introduction to Programmatic Animation

So you wanna bend pixels? An introduction to Pixel Bender

If you want to follow-up with Eric Socolofsky and/or check out FLARManager and FLARToolkit

Then follow … tinyurl.com/sanflarcisco

This is a reminder that you have one more month before we start judging your San Flashcisco logos. The deadline for entries is March 16th at midday PST.

San Flashcisco is looking to revamp is old lazy, ugly, unoriginal logo (created by yours truly) with something that we’d be able to put on t-shirts, mugs, websites, power-points … you get the idea.

Please send entries to: sanflashcisco at gmail dot com. Please make sure we know who you are in your email ;).

We shall be giving out a prize to the winner, so stop procrastinating and get on it!

In an ever growing attempt to keep connected with its members, San Flashcisco has launched a new Twitter account.

Follow: sanflashcisco

If you are not a twitter member yet, we highly recommend that you signup. Twitter is used by a great deal of the wider Flash community; it’s a perfect way to keep your finger on the pulse.

Sign up for a Twitter account https://twitter.com/signup

San Flashcisco Twitter Page https://twitter.com/sanflashcisco

San Flashcisco also endorses the TweetDeck desktop app. It’s the perfect way to follow and post Twitter tweets … check it out … http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Additionally, please tag all your tweets relating to San Flashcisco with #sanflash. That way, other members can search for your tweets!

Example http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sanflash

San Flashcisco shall now be hosting all of it event photos on Flickr.

http://flickr.com/photos/sanflash

We are back in action and ready for a bumper 2009! This month, Ninja RIA blogger and Adobe evangelist, Ryan Stewart, will be visiting San Flashcisco to talk about and show off a new member to the Flash family; Flash Catalyst (code named Thermo).

We’ll also be hosting Current TV who’ll tell us how they hacked the recent Presidential Debates with the assistance of Twitter.

So, procrastinate no longer, RSVP today !

Sorry folks, we’ve run into a little venue problem. This means that we shalt be having “San Flashdisco” today. :(

We may still meet up at a bar later this week though, so keep an eye out for an email.

This month we shall be taking a well deserved break from meets to concentrate on partying!

And so, we pleased to announce the first annual San Flashcisco xmas/group-anniversary party, “San Flashdisco” :D.

We are still finalizing the venue and details but you can be rest-assured that it shall be hosted near to public transportation.

Adobe has developed a compiler, code-named Alchemy”, that takes C/C++ code and converts it to ActionScript bytecode usable in Flash CS4 Professional and Flex applications whether running in Adobe AIR or Flash Player.

Scott Petersen, the lead mastermind behind “Alchemy”, is coming on down to San Flashcisco (Nov 20th) to give us all a heads up on how we can take advantage of this new tech and what it means for the future of the Flash Platform.

Event Details & RSVP

Flash Player 10 has now been officially released! link

This months meet shall be about “Flash in an agency setting: Design and Development”

Read More & RSVP

Congratulations to John Egan, Brian Kiel, Tony Shumskas, Jacob Surber and Alex Bustin for winning “Best in Show” at FlashCamp this past weekend with their hilarious project; “Avenue Fighter”. http://www.avenuefighter.com/

All the winners from FlashCamp:

Adobe FlashCamp is a free event in the “unconference” style, focused on developers creating rich interactive experiences using the new Flash Player 10 features.

This event is inspired by BarCamp, iPhoneDevCamp, and the Hackathon, to develop inspiring content and applications using an advance copy of the Flash Professional CS4 authoring tool.

Attendees will include Flash and Flex developers, mobile developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together over the weekend. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event.

Participants will be able to:

• Learn about new Flash Player features
• Create Flash Player 10 content and applications
• Test and optimize content and applications for Flash Player 10

Of course, there will be a Contest, featuring some great prizes including — you guessed it — Adobe Creative Suite 4! In addition to the prizes, winners of our Contest will be featured as part of our subsequent CS4 launch.

Register now to secure your place, then RSVP on San Flashcisco to let other members know you’ll be there!

The number one requested feature, “Forgot Password?”, has now been added to the site! This is surly a monumental day in tech. ;)

The Jobs Board feature has also been updated to its phase 2 status. This means that anyone can now post a Job posting on the site for a fee.

Phase 3 of the Job Board cycle shall introduce Job posting management/renewals and opt in/out of Job Board digest emails.

This 3rd cycle shall also introduce a greater granular control of what emails your receive and the option to have the RSS Ticker updates emailed to you for if you don’t like RSS.

We wanted to let all of you know who missed the last meet and to remind those of you that were there that the deadline for Current TV’s contest is Monday September 1st. Here are the details if you missed our meeting

VCAM (Viewer Created Ad Message) is a program where viewers can earn money making TV commercials (and for the first time, Flash ads!) for Current sponsors.

For the Flash component of our L’Oreal VCAM, we are looking for people to submit either 300×250 online display ads and/or a 300×50 Flash Video Overlay Ad to encourage viewers to use L’Oreal’s service “Can I Help You?”.

(L’Oreal has a team of experts who have poured their knowledge into a database called “Can I Help You?” which allows you to input information about yourself (i.e. Dry skin, brown hair, blue eyes) and “Can I Help You?” will recommend which products will work best for you.)

Each ad L’Oreal selects will run on Current.com and earn its creator $2500.

You can find all the assignment details, Flash assets and terms at http://current.com/canihelpyou

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend this months fantastic meet. I think everyone had a great time meeting the legendary Grant Skinner. So thank you again to him for his time, and I hope that one day we can have an encore performance.

Photos

Grant Skinner

Members look on

Thanks for the drink Patience!

Phone Pose!

Things look small from way back here

End of meet / raffle

Epic Raffle Win!

Due to the popularity of tomorrows (Monday, Aug 18th) special Grant Skinner event and our 80 person room capacity, we have decided to freeze RSVP’s tonight and observe RSVP strictness at the event.

If you are RSVP’d and you DO NOT intend on going, PLEASE email us stating so and we shall remove you from the list.

If you haven’t yet RSVP’d and you wish to attend, please email us and we shall put you into a first-come-first-served list of standbys.

The RSVP list shall be final by 3PM tomorrow (18th)! (note: all guests declared on the existing RSVP list shall be honored)

Event Page: http://sanflashcisco.com/event/8

Email: sanflashcisco [at] gmail [dot] com

Like evening at the improv, but nerdier, and probably not as funny (well, funnier than Carrot Top). Grant will talk about a variety of subjects related to Flash and Flex, while fielding questions from all comers and exploring some of his recent experiments and projects. Topics will range from the technical to the creative, from art to business, and from early works to the future of the Flash platform.

As always, admission is FREE and pizza and beer is complementary!

Details & RSVP -> http://sanflashcisco.com/event/8

San Flashcisco this month is taking a break from its usual presentation format to instead host a hands on forum/round-table for ActionScript 3 general discussion and support.

Got a project you need help with? Bring it in!

Need to get a better grasp of a new AS3 features? Come and ask!

Already know ActionScript inside and out? Then come help out!

Just wanna let off some steam? ... you get the idea! :)

Event Page / RSVP: link

Please create a comment on the Event page if you want to give other members a heads up about a subject you’d like to see discussed.

Hope to see you all next week!

We would like to send out a big thank you to everyone who was able to attend last Thursdays meet. I hope you all had a great time getting in depth with 3D.

As promised, here are the links to the various pretensions of the night:

Alex’s Introduction

Trevor’s 3D without an Engine PowerPoint & Files“

Lee’s Blog

Photos

Adobe’s John Dowdell taking Q&A

View down to Market St from our venue

Trevor McCauley presenting

PIZZA!

Lee Felarca presenting

Hey everyone, we have just managed to 95% finalize our June meeting agenda. All the details are now posted on the June Event page that you can find here. We are very sorry for the last notification.

As always, please RSVP as soon as you can so that we can make pizza and beer estimates.

Our emailing system is now fixed. We have moved from using Gmails SMTP to using authsmtp.com SMTP service. I’ve not used them before but everything seems to be working thus far.

Hi everybody,

Just a friendly reminder that our June meeting is this Thursday (June 19th). To RSVP please visit http://sanflashcisco.com/event/6.

Email Problems

Also please be aware that we are having issues with our mass emailing system due to Gmails tightened restrictions.

We are also aware of a problem with our email dispatching system which posted a good chunk of OLD emails last-night.

If you have signed up for San Flashcisco recently and have not received an email to confirm your membership, please email me directly at bustin {at sign} gmail {dot} com

Hello once again! It’s that time of month again when we eat pizza, drink beer and talk about our favorite subject; Flash! And this month (on Monday May 19th) we’re talking games, Flash games.

We’ve arranged for some great gaming speakers for you, they include: Evan Green who shall be talking about mobile games, Gabriel Jenson who has a 10 year history of creating games for big clients and Jim Greer; CEO of the ever-additive Kongregate.com.

Please RSVP as soon as possible..

RSVP & Details :> http://sanflashcisco.com/event/5

P.S. – If you have your own Flash game, please make sure to bring it along. I’m sure that we’ll have a fun Pizza break this month :).

What a wonderful 4th meeting we had last night. It was great to see a lot of returning face but also a lot of new ones. Here at SanFlashcisco we want everyone to feel welcome to come learn, network and share their experiences and last night was a good example that we are providing a space for that.

All the presenters did a stellar job last night and we got a lot of positive feedback on our meets as a whole and last nights presentations especially. As we talked about briefly last night, if any members have any meeting topic ideas or would like to see us cover something specific, please email us at sanflashcisco@gmail.com.

As usual, we’ve have made the first presentation of the evening publicly available at buzzword.com. Use the login: sanflashcisco@gmail.com and the password: sanflashcisco1 to sign into buzzword.

As promised, the progressive video demo files can be downloading from here: http://sanflashcisco.com/meeting_assets/april/videoDemo.zip

Also, check out the live Justin.Tv demo recording :) from the night.

Photos

Mark Altenbernd talking about Adobe Media Server

Kyle Vogt showing off Justin.tv

Justin himself

Geoff Stearns discussing YouTube

Guest speakers chilling out in the bar afterwards

IMPORTANT: April meet date and time has changed due to venue availability. The new date is Monday, April 14th @ 6:10pm.

As you may already know, at this months meet we shall be focussing on Flash video, and boy do we have a bumper evening planned for you!

We’re pleased to announce that we have special guest speakers from Justin.tv and YouTube coming down to give talks on the ways they utilize Flash video. In addition, we shall be readying some example FLA’s for you that demonstrate the latest Flash video features such as fullscreen playback. And San Flashcisco member, Mark Altenbernd, shall be giving an brief overview of Adobe Flash Media Server.

Cost: Free to attend & free PIZZA & BEER

See you on the 14th :)

Please RSVP ASAP => http://sanflashcisco.com/event/4

I’d like to thank everyone who was able to attend this months Adobe AIR themed meet up. Hosting Alan Lewis and free beer was an outright success in my books :).

I have made the first presentation of the evening publicly available at buzzword.com. Use the login: sanflashcisco@gmail.com and the password: sanflashcisco1 to sign into buzzword.

I’ve also uploaded all of the AIR tutorial files (.fla’s, .as’s, etc) that I’d created for the AIR sans Flex presentation. You can download all of those files here: http://sanflashcisco.com/meeting_assets/march/Alexs-AIR_Files.zip

News Flash

San Flashcisco finally has an RSS feed, http://sanflashcisco.com/feed, rejoice! With this feed you can follow every news post, article, comment and event. It also means that we won’t need to spam you as much. We highly recommend that you subscribe to the feed.

Match Meeting Photos

Alan Lewis Presenting eBay Desktop

Raffle Draw: (iTunes Gift Certificate, AS3 Books, $250 BAVC gift voucher)

Team San Flashcisco (Patience Elfving, Alex Bustin, Donna Coxon-McCory)

Pub!

We have just announced the agenda for the March 20th San Flashcisco meet up.

This month we are honored to have eBay Technical Evangelist, Alan Lewis, as our special guest. Alan will be presenting a case study on the high profile Adobe AIR project, eBay Desktop. Then afterwards he’ll be available to answer all your burning questions in an AIR Q&A panel.

We shall also be exploring new workflows within the Flash Authoring IDE for creating and publishing AIR projects and taking a brief look over the new AIR APIs/features.

If you have been involved in the creation of an existing AIR project we would love to hear from you.

Cost: Free to attend & free PIZZA & BEER

Please RSVP Now!

I’d like to thank everyone who was able to attend this months meet. I think we managed to double our attendance from the previous month to over 30 people! We’re all thrilled that San Flashcisco has become a big success after only its second meet, so thank you all again!

I have made the first presentation of the evening publicly available at buzzword.com. Use the login: sanflashcisco@gmail.com and the password: sanflashcisco1 to sign into buzzword.

If you encounter any problems with signing in to buzzword please let us know. Buzzword does not currently support a group share option so until we find a better solution we can all share using the sanflashcisco@gmail.com account.

If you need to get in contact with us about anything else, please email sanflashcisco {at] gmail.com.

As touched upon in the meet, the theme for next months meeting is creating AIR apps sans Flex. The March Meet shall take place on March 20th and you can start RSVP’ing today !

- Alex

February Meet Photos! :)

Q & A with Adobe’s John Dowdell

Pizza Break

Thank you FILTER

Luke Bayes Presentation

Raffle Draw: (Adobe Mug, Apple iPod, $250 BAVC gift voucher)

PUB!

After a successful introduction meeting to San Flashcisco, we are excited to bring you some informative, educational and fun presentations at the next meeting. The attendance, enthusiasm and participation at the first meeting was very good and we expect the 21st to be even better.

The february event will be themed around methods for creating and building Flash and will feature special guest speaker Luke Bayes, who shall be talking about his latest project, Sprouts.

For more information about the meet and Luke, click here.

Alex is still working on the group’s new site but our main objective for this next meeting was to have the ability for users to create a profile on the site and be able to RSVP for the upcoming events. That functionality is now available and I urge all of you to register and sign up to attend our next meeting.

We have heard a lot of buzz going around about a Flash users group and now that it’s here, let’s all do what we can to keep it going by spreading the word and making sure you participate in any way possible. If you would like to present at one of our meetings or want to know how you can contribute, please contact us at sanflashcisco@gmail.com.