Midlands Flash Platform User Group

Just as we’ve all recovered from a fantastic Flash Camp in Manchester, we now have just over a month to prepare for the next one in Birmingham – 7th September.

To give us enough time to prepare and market the Birmingham event we will not be holding a Flash Midlands meeting in August.

Please check back soon for further details about Flash Camp Birmingham.

Based upon the 160 or so that came through the doors on Thursday 8th July, it appears Flash Camp Manchester was a resounding success. We had a brilliant bunch of speakers who delivered a varied array of topics covering most parts of the Flash Platform.

We’d obviously like to find out what you all thought about it, so we’re inviting you to leave your feedback (both good and bad) below so that we can make sure our future events are better. Also, if you have any pictures from the day we’d love to see them, just post a link

Then things took an amusing turn at Taurus…

More pics to follow…

Presentations:

Slides: Mobile User Experience 101: The Current State of Mobile UX (Ribot)

Video: Michael Plank’s FDT4 presentation (Adrian Parr)

Here’s what people have been saying so far:

Manchester Flash Jamboree… Camp (D2 Digital)

Flash Camp Manchester (Dan Hett)

Flash Camp Manchester (PowerFlasher)

Flash Camp Manchester 2010 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Tom Chiverton)

Flash Camp Manchester (Cris Bloomfield)

Thursday 8th July 2010 12pm-8pm
Manchester Metropolitan University

Flash Midlands is really proud to be staging two large Flash Camps this year.

The first will be in Manchester on Thursday 8th July 2010, where we expect 200+ Flash Platform designers and developers to converge on Manchester Metropolitan University Business School for an afternoon (and evening) of presentations, discussions and demonstrations of Flash Platform technologies.

Expect content to include Flash Player 10.1 on Android, 3D, Flash Builder 4 and Flash Professional CS5.

The best thing about Flash Camp is it’s completely FREE for attendees! You can find our more and register through the dedicated Flash Camps section of the site flashmidlands.com/flashcamp

Following our meeting last weekend with Seb Lee Delisle we wanted to
provide everone with a few more details about the training courses that
Seb is running in Birmingham at the end of July.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn hard-core Flash programming
skills from acclaimed Papervision team member and Plug-in Media CTO,
Seb Lee-Delisle. He’ll reveal the secrets behind his exceptional
visual Flash projects in two intensive days of training, in Birmingham
UK.

The first day is Papervision3D and learn about how to make
professional 3D Flash websites and games. You’ll take away ready-to-go
source code for several cool interactive 3D interfaces, particle
effects, a 3D pong game, and several FLARToolkit projects.

The second is all about Flash games and actionscript animation and
we’ll give you the base code for many game engines including Space
Invaders, Asteroids, a top down driving game, 3D soccer shootout and a
platform game engine, as well as a simple framework for putting your
apps together.

For further details and to order your ticket use the following link:

http://sebleedelisle.com/2010/06/2-days-of-papervision3d-and-flash-games-training-for-249/

Saturday 26th June 2010, 11am to 1pm at The Nottingham Trent University

Seb Lee-Delisle (http://www.pluginmedia.net)

Why limit yourself to 2D in the browser when you can use 3D, webcam motion detection and massive projectors to invade the real space all around you?

Seb shares his experience on the Papervision3D team and as Technical Director at Plug-in Media, putting the fun back into digital. Whether through Flash games, projects that involve the wider digital community, or public art installations (see Pyrotechnics for the People).

Afterwards, we’ll head over to the Toby Carvery pub on the A52 for a beer and some lunch – all welcome, and there’s plenty of room if you need a lift!

This month we will be giving away a rather large piece of software to one lucky winner however you have to be registered to win it, so register your attendance as a comment to be in with a chance.