| February 3, 2010 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
We have a packed meeting planned for February 3rd at 6pm at the Art Institute of San Diego. First off we will have a representative from Chumby. For those of you who do not know what Chumby:
chumby takes your favorite parts of the internet and delivers them to you in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. It’s a window into your internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content like weather, news, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, and more has a place to play away from your world of documents and spreadsheets. Just plug in your chumby, connect to your network, and use your computer to create a lineup of favorites from over 1,500 widgets in more than 30 categories, with new ones arriving all the time. Then let your chumby do its thing — streaming everything you like, from sports scores to stock quotes, from video clips to interactive games, from photos to trivia.
They currently have two devices, the classic and the Chumby One. However, at the recent CES show in Las Vegas, several new concepts were shown; a Samsung / Chumby prototype digiframe and the Chumby Sunfury Touchscreen tablet. Hopefully we can learn more about these products as well.
We will hopefully have a recap from FlashCamp Brazil that was recently held. The event was organized by our own Demian Borba (who has been honored as an Adobe Community Professional (formerly Adobe Community Experts).
Here is a tweet from @ddura about the event:
Big shout out to @demianborba for putting on one of the best Flash events I have ever been to. Can’t wait for next year! #flashcampbrasil
Maybe we might think about a FlashCamp here in San Diego???
We will wrap up the meeting with an open forum. So if you have questions, not sure how to do something, want to demo a project, bring it on!
And one more thing. We are going to try having pizza at the meeting. I will stop by Costco before the meeting and pick up a few pizzas. We will charge $1 per slice (unless someone wants to sponsor it). Please RSVP with on Adobe Groups site so I will have an idea of how many to purchase.
December 17th, 2009 admin
| January 6, 2010 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
January Meeting:
We are pleased to announce that Doug Winnie, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, will be joining us once again this month. He will be presenting an overview of all the current features of the Flash Platform, and give all of us the chance to give our feedback, feature requests, and ideas! This is a really great opportunity to share your thoughts and interact directly with the Adobe product team!
Date: Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Time: 6-8PM (May run a little longer depending on how much feedback everyone has)
Location: The Art Institute of California-San Diego (South Building)
7655 Mission Valley Road
San Diego , CA 92108
*Please note, this is the Art Institute of San Diego College, not the museum.*
*The South building is the lower of the two buildings, and is closest to the shopping center.*
Session Description:
Combine Ingredients, Mix, and Bake: Contribute to the Future of the Flash Family of Tools
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.
About Doug:
Doug Winnie is Principal Product Manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe’s interaction design tool for the Flash Platform. In addition to Flash Catalyst, Doug is product manager for Flash Platform workflow, integrating Flash authoring and development tools with Creative Suite, and WorkflowLab, a new initiative to help build community around workflows and best practices; helping teams be successful when undertaking new workflows. Doug oversees the integration of Adobe’s platform and creative products, building roadmaps for product evolution and evangelizes the workflow to designer and developer communities.
Doug is also an instructor at San Francisco State University focusing on Internet technologies including Flash, ActionScript, XML and Ajax.
Prior to joining Adobe, Doug led interactive design and development teams creating web sites and applications for Scion, Lexus, Toyota, Nestle, and other leading companies. Doug’s work has been nominated for two Webby awards in 2007 for the Industrial Light and Magic: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest promotional site.
Doug has provided development and design expertise to the e-learning community, developing interactive applications, instructional design plans and graphic designs for various companies as an independent consultant. In 2001, Doug served as creative strategist for DigitalThink, providing creative direction and vision for various e-learning engagements including Adobe, Marsh, and Citibank.
In his spare time, Doug is an avid developer – writing, designing and programming interactive games and applications for the web. His blog can be found at
http://adobe.dougwinnie.com/, and can be found on Twitter as “sfdesigner”.
November 27th, 2009 Chris Griffith
| December 2, 2009 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Come join us this Wednesday, our topic will be on the new WorkflowLab project, developed in part by our own James Polanco. WorkflowLab is a new AIR application that provides an easy way to learn about and share workflow best practices. It provides designers, developers and project managers with a common way to share information on specific project types including tasks, applications and instructions. The application includes a number of workflow starting points and enables users to easily share additional workflows. WorkflowLab is currently in development and an Alpha build is available for download. Rumor has it that other members of the team might be attending, including Doug Winnie. In addition, we will have several software giveaways, so you better make plans to attend. When: December 2nd, 6pm Where: Art Institute San Diego, South Building
October 15th, 2009 Chris Griffith
| November 4, 2009 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Go beyond the standard Flex Charting to focus on creating innovative and compelling data visualizations used to solve a wide range of data visualization challenges. We’ll discuss various design patterns and techniques used for mapping data, defining layouts, and rendering customized visual outputs. We’ll take a deep dive with several examples and explore common design patterns you can use in creating your own innovative data visualizations.
We will also cover Axiis, an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.
Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you.
Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.
Axiis is built upon the Degrafa graphics framework and Adobe Flex 3
Tom Gonzalez is the Managing Director at BrightPoint Consulting, Inc, a professional services firm specializing in data visualization research and development.
Tom is also a frequent public speaker on data visualization with Flex and an active member of the open source community.
You can reach Tom at - tom[at]axiis[dot]org
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