Saturday 5th February, 11am to 1pm at The Nottingham Trent University

Dan Sumption has worked across a wide range of web technologies and
business sectors: from co-founding one of the UK’s first web agencies
in 1995, through producing award-winning advertising at top-5 global
agency Leo Burnett, to his more recent work on web applications and
embedded software for BBC iPlayer and YouView TV Ltd.

He will be talking about the things he has learned during 15 years working
in the UK Internet industry, and about tools and practices for effective
working.

For this meeting we
are in the normal
Computing and
Informatics building
in room 101.

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!

Register for the raffle!

As always it’s free but we like to know who’s coming…attendees who register
their attendance as a comment will be entered into a raffle for a software
giveaway later in the year.

Saturday 11th Decemberber, 11am to 1pm at The Nottingham Trent University

Speaker: Adobe evangelist: Mike Jones

In this session we will be looking at what’s new in Flash Builder ‘Burrito’ including new productivity features, the new multi-screen workflow for developingapplications for mobile and devices as well as the improved workflows between Flash Builder ‘Burrito’ and Flash Catalyst ‘Panini’.

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!

Software giveaway this month!

As always it’s free but we like to know who’s coming…attendees who register their attendance as a comment will be entered into a raffle for a software give-away during this months meeting. To be eligible to win you will need to register a comment and be there at the meeting itself.

Saturday 6th Nov 2010, 11am to 1pm at University of Warwick

Find out what you missed at Adobe Max:

If you didn’t get the chance to make it to
Max this year in Los Angeles, join us at the University of Warwick to find out what happened across the pond.

Flash Midlands foreign correspondant (Trevor Ward) is flying off to LA to
catch up on all the latest new development and gossip from Adobe MAX.

At the meeting Trevor will report back to us regarding all of the news from
the states about Flash, Flex, AIR and Adobe’s longer terms plans for the
Flash Platform.

Register for the software give-away in December

As always, it’s free, but we like to know who’s coming… Attendees who register their attendance as a comment will be entered into a raffle for a software give-away in December! Please add a comment if you’re going to be there, and feel free to invite friends/guests along.

Meeting room:

This time we will be meeting in Room SO.03 – Social Sciences Building -

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/interactive?type=building&num=53

See you there!

Saturday 9th October, 11am to 1pm at The Nottingham Trent University

Speaker:

Grzegorz Kozakiewicz is an accomplished art director, designer + craftsman.

His ability to physically build mixed media art into digital experiences has
garnered him international awards for various interactive mixed media, stop
motion and film projects.

Most notably, Grzegorz’s Pencil Rebel project which has been featured on a
large list of publications and websites including Disney. He has also been
recognized by FITC Awards, Golden Joystick Awards, Webby Awards and also FWA.

He currently holds the position of Concept Director at fuse8.com digital agency.

Presentation:

Behind the Scenes: Pencil Rebel

“Whenever you use advanced technology or a pencil, what matters is  the initial idea and the process of it’s creation.”

During this session, you will
be presented with a range of creative  jump-starts to help maximize your workflow in photography &  stop-motion and how to mesh these traditional art processes into  modern flash development.

Presented by award-winning mixed media project creator Pencil Rebel.

You will also see other samples of mixed media usage in web-based
commercial projects such as Vivid Display – Large Format Printing
and the Allen Design Group Digital Agency website.

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!

Register for the raffle!

As always it’s free but we like to know who’s coming…attendees who register their attendance as a comment will be entered into a raffle for a software giveaway later in the autumn.