April Meet

Recorded Attendees
Description:

Theme

Flash Video

Cost

Free to attend & free PIZZA and BEER

Guideline Agenda for Meeting

6:10-6:25: Q&A with Adobe’s John Dowdell

6:25-6:35: Welcome & Announcements

6:35-7:00: Flash Video Intro and Sample FLA’s – Alex Bustin

7:00-7:30: Flash Media Server – Mark Altenbernd

7:30-8:00: Break

8:00-8:30: Case Study / Q&A: Justin.tv

8:30-9:00: Case Study / Q&A: YouTube (Geoff Stearns)

9:00-9:15: Q&A

9:15-9:25: Raffle

9:30 : The Chieftain Irish Pub


About – Justin.tv

Justin.tv is building the destination site for broadcasting and watching live video online while chatting with friends.

Justin.tv tears down the walls of traditional video and social networking sites by enabling viewers and broadcasters to interact and exchange ideas in real time through chat and live video.

Find out more about Justin.tv

About – Geoff Stearns of YouTube

Geoff Stearns is a Flash Engineer at YouTube and the author of SWFObject, a Flash Plugin detection and embedding script that has become the de-facto standard for embedding Flash content. Before joining Google, Geoff worked on web projects for Adobe, MTV, New York ’s MoMA, XM Radio, Comcast, Sony Pictures Classics and taught front end web development at The Cooper Union in New York. Geoff also maintains a personal blog at blog.deconcept.com.

About – Mark Altenbernd

Mark is a technology consultant with a broad range of experience in computers, specializing in relational database design and programming. He has worked for large commercial banks and for AT&T Laboratories, and he has managed his own technology consulting firm. Currently he is focused on developing Rich Internet Applications using Flex and ColdFusion to access relational databases. He also develops applications that stream video on the Web. Mark’s particular strengths in technology include ActionScript, Flex, ColdFusion components, Oracle and PL/SQL, SQL Server and Transact-SQL, Flash Remoting, Flash Media Server, and relational database analysis and design. Mark graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in video production and from the University of Chicago with an MBA in finance. He has been a full-season subscriber to the San Francisco Symphony since 1978 and has accompanied the orchestra on several international tours.

Address:

SFSU Downtown Campus,
835 Market Street,
6th Floor, Room 673
San Francisco,
CA 94103-1901

The entrance to the downtown SFSU building is located between the entrances of Walgreens and the Westfield shopping centre on Market St between 4th & 5th. Once in the building, take the elevator to the 6th floor and follow the signs for room 673.

Recommended Public Parking – The 5th and Mission/Yerba Buena Garage at the corner of Fifth and Mission.

Time:

Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM

Event Discussion:

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Gwendolyn Says: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM

Great! Looking forward to the next meet. Will there be any chat of video compression techniques for Flash? I mean really, how do those big guys get there video to look so damn good AND run smoothly? Tell me. I must know.

Gwendolyn Says: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM

Great! Looking forward to the next meet. Will there be any chat of video compression techniques for Flash? I mean really, how do those big guys get there video to look so damn good AND run smoothly? Tell me. I must know.

Gwendolyn Says: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM

At a Peet’s now. Had too much coffee. What I really want to know is what compression software should I invest in? Does the stand alone Flash Video Encoder do the best job?

Rhatia Says: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM

looking to learn the same myself!