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It’s a real shame that both FlashForward and MAX are in San Francisco this year. No fancy hotel to stay in, no bunking off for a day to take in the sights of a different city and no lost baggage. Ah well … c’est la vie!

p.s. Don’t miss the San Flashcisco welcomes FlashForward event link.

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/beer is complementary!

Details & RSVP -> http://sanflashcisco.com/event/8

… well, slide-show’s at least.

San Flashcisco recently invited Lee Felarca to come down and speak about his experiences with papervision3d.

Lee has some very cool pv3d experiments posted on his blog “zero point nine“, one being a forward kinematics experiment of a modeled robotic arm.

So, what can you do with the robot arm, well Lee has exposed various keyboard controls that allow the user to move the arm into different poses. Very cool, so what else? Well how about making it run a slide-show? WOAH?! That’s right, Lee had his robot arm at the meeting, running the show! Check it out .. link.

San Flashcisco (aka. the San Francisco Flash User Group) is meeting this month to discuss Flash Video and is pleased to announce that they have special guest speakers from Justin.tv and YouTube to give talks on the ways they utilize Flash video.

In addition, San Flashcisco 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.

RSVP & Details: http://sanflashcisco.com/event/4

Cost: Free to attend & free PIZZA & BEER

Reminder: San Flashcisco March meet is tonight.

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 of 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.

Cost: Free to attend & free PIZZA & BEER

Details & RSVP

San Flashcisco has 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 of 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.

Cost: Free to attend & free PIZZA & BEER

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 it’s second meet, so thank you all again!

Check out photos from the event and view defails about the March meet here.

Luke Bayes, co-founder of AsUnit, shall be giving a presentation tonight to the San Flashcisco user group about his new project, Sprouts!

Sprouts is an open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR and Flex projects.

Lukes presentation will introduce you to this project and show how it may help you and your team be more productive.

Sprouts has the following features:
* Provides easily customized and shared project and code generators that get you up and running instantly and keeps you and your team moving quickly.
* Installs any publicly available ActionScript library directly into your project by name and version (including Adobe corelib, AsUnit, PureMVC, Cairngorm and many more).
* Instantly install and configure all of the tools you need to get started with ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3 or Flex development on Windows, OS X and Linux (including the Flex SDK, MTASC, SWFMill, and the Adobe Flash Player).
* Provides simple, intuitive automated build tasks to help you build your project anytime from any computer and integrate your project with existing continuous integration tools.

Read more and RSVP

This past week, to the annoyance of my wife, I’ve been working evenings after work to create a new website for the San Francisco Flash User Group from the ground up.  And today I’m pleased to announce the launch of the live “beta” version of the site.

Visit the new SanFlashcisco.com

The main objective for the next San Flashcisco meeting was to have the ability for users to create a profile on the site and be able to RSVP for the upcoming events.  And now I’m happy to announce we have those features on the site.

The site also offers threaded commenting on articles, events and on member profiles.

The next wave of features shall include:

• Flash/ActionScript Job Postings
• Flash Blog RSS Aggregator
• Article / Tutorial / Blog posting by Users
• Richer User Profiles (picture, contact information, skills, desired skills, recommendations, social graphing tools, etc)
• Promotion of 3rd party events taking place in SF

If you have any technical difficulties using the site, please let me know as I’ve only been able to test on OS X thus far. Also, if you have any feature suggestions I’d love to hear them.

San Flashcisco has information about how to obtain 30% of the price of Papervision3D Training that’s happening this weekend in San Francisco.

check it out, click here