San Flashcisco

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

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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.