FlashinTO

FlashinTO Gathering v.106

Egnaro — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:10:34 +0000

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:00 PM

The Office Pub (3rd Floor)
NOTE: the 3rd flr!

117 John Street, Toronto, ON

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. We are working on the schedule for the upcoming event, and will post details as soon as they are available.

Get all the details over on our Meet-up page: http://www.meetup.com/FlashinTO/events/55237242/

7:00 pm
Mingle, network and drink!

7:30 pm
Emerging technologies in the real world
Demi Kandylis

8:10 pm
A look at the latest version of Adobe Edge.
Ken Peleshok – @PeleKen

8:50 pm
Matt Fabb holds a draw to win a ticket to FITC!

9:00 pm

Panel = KiDigital.
A look at apps for kids, what’s good, what’s bad and much more.

Panelists :

Jason Krough, Andrew Smyk, David Girolami, Jeremy Bell

Moderator: Simon Conlin

Collaboration Panel

Egnaro — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:08:29 +0000

Last night’s Gathering concluded with a panel hosted by Hugh Elliot and featuring Dave Jaffer, Jason Chesebrough and Cassie McDaniel.

You can watch the whole thing here:

Video streaming by Ustream

FlashinTO Gathering v105.0

Egnaro — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:48:59 +0000

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 7:00 PM

The Office Pub (2nd Floor)

117 John Street, Toronto, ON

Get all the details over on our Meet-up page: http://www.meetup.com/FlashinTO/events/46567222/

7:00 pm

Mingle, network and drink!

7:30 pm
Flash on iOS and Android using the VGK Platform
Chris Brady – animatedmedia.ca

8:00 pm
Introduction to Canvas for Flash users
Kevin from cineblueone.com

9:00 pm
Collaboration Ins & Outs
Panel discussion moderated by Hugh Elliot
Panelists: Dave Jaffer (davejaffer.com), Jason Chesebrough (jasonchesebrough.com), Cassie McDaniel (cassiemcdaniel.com)

FlashinTO Gathering v104.0

Egnaro — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:42:24 +0000

When:

Wednesday, January 25

Location:

The Office Pub (2nd Floor)

117 John Street, Toronto, ON (map)

Schedule:

7:00pm

Mix & Mingle

7:15pm
HTML5 and Flash: Why the need to compete?
Flash isn’t dead, Flash will never be dead…maybe. But like the print industry, it will adapt and embrace it’s cohort HTML. Using appropriate technologies to perform the needs of your communication and interaction will be the key to developing in a modern and future web. Join us in learning how to implement native technologies where once only capable by the third party plugin.

Presented by…
Matthew Potter (http://www.askmatthewpotter.com)

8:00pm
AI50.ca
AI50.ca was created for Amnesty International Canada to mark Amnesty’s 50th anniversary, and includes a first of it’s kind tool for strategically coordinating the social media activity of users.

Presented by…
Clayton Partridge, One Pixel Off Incorporated (http://www.onepixeloff.com)
Jason Chesebrough (http://www.jasonchesebrough.com)

8:45pm
FlashinTO v.105 and Beyond
The continuation of our discussion regarding the future focus of FlashinTO and where you as the members would like to take this group.

P.S. we’ve started using MeetUp to organize the gatherings so be sure to go there and join FlashinTO. Here’s the link to the upcoming event: http://www.meetup.com/FlashinTO/events/46566222/

FlashinTO Gathering v103.5

Egnaro — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:00:25 +0000

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FlashinTO Gathering v103.0 // Wednesday, November 30th

Location:

Fox and Fiddle Wellesley
http://wellesleyfox.com/

Meeting will be held in one of the upstairs rooms, ask or look for FlashinTO signs when you get there.

Schedule:

7:00pm – Adobe MAX report – Matthew Fabb

It’s been a few months and much has happened since but there was still lots of news out of Adobe’s annual MAX conference and Matt is going to give you the highlights.

8:00pm – Q&A with Adobe’s Renaun Erickson

There’s been a lot of talk about Adobe since they announced they were ceasing development on Flash Player for mobile and handing management of Flex over to the Spoon Project/Apache Foundation. We’re sure you have questions as we certainly do. Renaun will do his best to answer those questions.

9:00pm – Group discussion

Following the Q&A with Renaun we’re going to open up the floor to talk about Flash, web development, the current state of things are where this is all going. We’ll hope you’ll join and share your thoughts.

No RSVP this month. There should be lots of room for everyone. Just show up and join the conversation.

Search for a venue

Egnaro — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:32:55 +0000

Working on getting things toghether for this month’s FlashinTO. We are still searching for venues both temporary and permanent. If someone’s got an idea about where we could hold FlashinTO this month and in the future please let us know. We need a place to setup a projector, the ability to serve/buy beer and room for at least 50 people.

Tentative schedule so far for this month:

Matt Fab will give us a summary report of all the Adobe news out of MAX.

A panel/open discussion to talk about the recent shift in Adobe’s Flash Player strategy.

Anyone have something they want to present?

Follow-up to Gathering v102.0

Egnaro — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:52:09 +0000

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night! And thanks to Relish Interactive for hosting us!

Hugh forgot to mention this part of his project so I wanted to share. During the performance each composition that was created is saved for viewing/printing later on. Hugh’s posted the images from last night up on Flickr for everyone to see. http://www.flickr.com/photos/68972915@N00/sets/72157627655651249/

Also, if you want to see the slides from my presentation about the creation of NOW’s iPad app you can find them here. Warning, you need a good modern browser like Chrome to ensure they work. I used a slide system created by Google using a lot of new HTML5 stuff. The pre-flight slide should indicate what features are and are not working. http://egnaro.com/presentations/NOWiPad/#2

Hope to see you all again next month!

FlashinTO Gathering v102.0

Egnaro — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:35:25 +0000

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FlashinTO Gathering v102.0 // Wednesday, September 28th

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, but please RSVP on Eventbrite as space is limited to 150.

Location: Relish Interactive

205 Augusta Ave, 2nd Floor

(Dundas & Augusta) MAP

Schedule:

7:00

Kevin from CineBlueOne introduces EasyCart

EasyCart, a drag and drop based component tool that allows flash designers with only basic flash design knowledge to create a powerful customized ecommerce websites without any coding. ActionScript developers can also interface with the SilentAPI classes built into the components to dynamically extend EasyCart to interface with other tools like MySQL.

7:45

Rick Mason talks presents: Print to Web to iPad

Rick puts on his web developer hat for nowtoronto.com and discusses the process and strategy for bringing NOW Magazine on to the iPad.

8:30

Hugh Elliott presents DisplacerCode

In May, Displacer asked Hugh to collaborate on a live music visual system. Hugh’s response was to create an art-creating program in Processing. Each track Displacer played, Hugh created a print to the song using the music as an input in addition to source images supplied by Displacer.

In his session, Hugh will talk about the process of coming up with the concept for Displacer and the pains and rewards of following that concept to completion. After the session, Displacer and Hugh will do a live performance showcasing the DisplacerCode in action.

Hugh Elliott – http://blog.wheniwas19.com \ http://twitter.com/wheniwas19

9:00

Live performance by Displacer

Displacer is the solo electronic project of Toronto, Ontario-based musician Michael Morton. He had his start on Mute Records’ Pre-Set New Electronic Music (2003). Selected from the best demos received during that year, the track “Deep” garnished the attention of Paris, France-based M-Tronic Records, on which he released 3 CDs. In 2008 he signed to Chicago, USA label Tympanik Audio and released 3 more albums; ‘The Witching Hour’, ‘X Was Never Like This…’ & ‘Night Gallery’.

9:30

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9:45

After-party = Beers and Chinese food (nearby)

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RSVP Please! http://flashintov102.eventbrite.com/

FlashinTO Gathering v101.0

Egnaro — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:35:22 +0000

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FlashinTO Gathering v101.0 // Wednesday, August 31st

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, but please RSVP on Eventbrite as space is limited to 100.

Location: Cartilage
35 McCaul St., #300
(Queen & McCaul) MAP

Schedule:

7:00
After Effects and Flash integration Tutorials (by AETO)
with Tom Green (& Friends)

8:00
Q & A
with Keith Peters a.k.a. Bit101

8:30
Adobe News Update
with Matt Fabb

8:45
Flash & Flex Attrition (Discussing the dark side and light side of the force)
with Team Fabb vs Team Lapasa refereed by Simon

9:30
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9:45
After-party = Beers and Chinese food (nearby)

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RSVP Please! http://flashintov101.eventbrite.com/

Taking July Off

Egnaro — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:39:37 +0000

Hello folks,

Simon and I have both been so busy and that July’s gone by so quickly and given that we just realized we haven’t planned anything for this Wednesday yet I’m making an executive decision to take the month off. We’ll re-convene and plan Gathering v101 for August.

Go out and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Rick