FlashinTO

Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’ of people. Designers, developers, and anyone else interested in chatting and seeing some cool presentations and mingling and meeting some others in the industry. All are welcome and its free for DATA Members and cheap for Non-DATA members $5.00 and only $2.00 for students! So come out and join us! And as always, its cheap beer, and FREE pizza!

PLEASE NOTE: The location has changed this month!
And because of limited space you MUST RSVP!!

If you try to RSVP but the event is sold out – Fear not my friends we will be tweeting (@flashinto) every 30 mins to let you know if there is space available or you can skip the presentations and just meet us over at The Bishop and Belcher afterwards :)

Location: BNOTIONS

46 Hayden Street
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M4Y 1V8
416 924 2784
www.bnotions.ca

Click here for a Map

There is a Green P Parking lot on Hayden street and it is  just down the street from the Yonge/Bloor Subway Station.

Doors Open at 7pm

This Month’s we will have 3 Panels;

The Educators – A discussion about the challenges posed to educators by the ever evolving field of digital interactive media.

The Industry – An insider perspective on what the industry sees lacking in their new hires and interns.

The Students - Recent graduates talk about the shortcomings of their education experience and the things they wished they knew before they started working.

Panel members to be announced shortly!

To RSVP Click Here

For Gathering v99.0 we are having an education themed night. We’ll be talking to teachers, employers and students. I’m working on getting the people together right now and I’m looking for 3-4 students who’d be interested in being part of a panel to talk about some of the challenges they faced learning interactive digital media, things that worked well f0r them to make learning easier and maybe even some of the shortcomings they’ve found themselves faced with as they enter the workforce.

Also if someone is really ambitious and wants to moderate this panel, let me know and we can discuss.

If you’re interested in being on the panel, leave a comment here.

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FlashinTO Gathering v98.0 // Wednesday, April 27th

Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’ of people. Designers,
developers, and anyone else interested in chatting and seeing some cool
presentations and mingling and meeting some others in the industry.
All are welcome and its free for DATA Members and cheap for Non-DATA
members $5.00 and only $2.00 for students! So come out and join us!
And as always, its cheap beer, and FREE pizza!

Location: Function13, 156 Augusta. Toronto
From 7pm onwards

This Month’s Speakers are:

Colin Moock
Code Walkthrough of Multi-Player Pong
moock.org

Rick Mason
Overview of CS5.5
egnaro.com

Quickfire Panel
Panelists get 1min each to discuss a series of questions.

Giveaways

Not one, not two, but three very valuable prizes will be given away at this meeting. You don’t want to miss out on this!

Hint 1: there’s a big interactive event happening next week – maybe you’d like to go?

Hint 2: so there’s this company called Adobe and they make a bunch of software that you might be into.

Influential

In addition to watching the great presentations you will also have the chance to be in a movie!

Click here to RSVP!

Anyone been working with the Flex Hero SDK? AIR 2.6 and it’s new iOS features? Playbook development?

What about the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, anyone taken a look at working with it? Or how about the public previews of Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst?

If so and you’d be interested in speaking at the April FlashinTO Gathering, leave a comment below.  Note: I’d prefer to have new speakers but you old timers are welcome too :)

We are holding an Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members for the Digital Arts and Technology Association (DATA) and would like to invite you to attend.

The AGM will be held:
April 18th, 2011
at Element 156 – 156 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2L5
(Enter through Function 13 and the meeting will be held in the lower level of the building)

DOORS OPEN: 5:30pm
AGM: 6:00pm (sharp) – 7:00 pm
Q & A; Networking : 7:00pm – 7:30 pm

The main purpose of the meeting will be to:
- Inform members of any changes that have been implemented since our last AGM
- Discuss with our members what we hope to achieve in the coming year.

Please RSVP at Eventbrite http://dataagm11.eventbrite.com/

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Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’ of people. Designers, developers, and anyone else interested in chatting and seeing some cool presentations and mingling and meeting some others in the industry. All are welcome and its free for DATA Members and cheap for non-DATA members $5.00 or $2.00 for students! So come out and join us! And as always, its cheap beer, and FREE pizza!

Location: Function13, 156 Augusta Ave Toronto
Date: Wednesday March 30th, 2011

Come by at 7:00pm to Mix and Mingle with the group.

Presentations begin at 7:30pm

Here are a few of the speakers you will see!

Jason Thomas
redblox.ca
RedBlox CMS

Kerry Williams
creativelegal.ca
Copyright law and some basic contract issues that often arise

Alkarim Nasser & Jason Broughton
bnotions.ca
Eightshit.me

RSVP Here!

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FlashinTO Gathering v96.0 // Wednesday February 23rd

****UPDATE****

If you can’t make it tonight, you should be able to join us LIVE via Adobe Connect:

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/devicespotlight

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Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’ of people. Designers, developers, and anyone else interested in chatting and seeing some cool presentations and mingling and meeting some others in the industry. All are welcome and its free for DATA Members and cheap for non-DATA members $5.00 or $2.00 for students! So come out and join us! And as always, its cheap beer, and FREE pizza!

Location: Function13, 156 Augusta. Toronto
From 7pm onwards

Please RSVP here!

An Evening with the Playbook!!

This month we will focus on the Blackberry Playbook!

Playbook App Show & Tell

Sunil John
www.suniljohn.com/

Matthew Fabb
www.matthewfabb.com/blog/

Hugh Elliott
www.blog.wheniwas19.com/

Matt Fisher
www.fisherinnovation.com/ (also demoing the work of Mikko Haapoja)

Matt Rix
www.struct.ca

Julian Dolce
www.qnx.com

Q&A with the Developers

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Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’ of people. Designers, developers, and anyone else interested in chatting and seeing some cool presentations and mingling and meeting some others in the industry. All are welcome, RSVP here, and its free! So come out and join us for cheap beer, FREE pizza and lots of informal discussion about development and design for Flash and more!

Location: Function13, 156 Augusta Ave Toronto
Date: Wednesday January 26th, 2011

Come by at 7:00pm to Mix and Mingle with the group.

Presentations begin at 7:30pm

Here are a few of the speakers you will see!

Mikko Haapoja
“Less code More cool” (Beta 1)
www.jam3.ca
www.mikkoh.com/blog/

“Mastering the new Designer-Developer workflow with Flash Catalyst Panini”
Joe Flash
www.joeflash.ca/blog/

Hugh Elliott
“From Liking Movies to Making Movies”
www.blog.wheniwas19.com/

After nine years of managing the Toronto Flash User Group, it is time for me to step down. Its been a great run, and I’ve met so many passionate and interesting people through the User Group. I leave Rick Mason, the co-manager, in place and have invited long time member and friend Simon Conlin as the new co-manager to run things with Rick. Feel free to reach out to Simon at simon@flashinto.com. Both Rick and Simon have been involved and working with FlashinTO for many years, and I have the ultimate faith in their abilities to continue the legacy.

I will still be around and involved, but unfortunately due to growing work demands i have decided to pass things on to Simon.

sincerely,

–
Shawn Pucknell

I’ve finally got the (un-edited) videos of Matt’s Oct presentation up on Youtube. Matt talks about the story of Trainyard and it’s rise to success on the App Store. The video is hand-held and for that I apologize, still lots of good nuggets of info in here for you.

Visit the FlashinTO channel on Youtube to see:
http://www.youtube.com/user/flashinto?feature=mhum

p.s. I know there’s nothing else up on here yet but I do intend to try and get some presentations online for people to see.