Meetings

Fire on the Bay will usually meet the third Tuesday of each month.

If you would like to speak, sponser or suggest a topic please contact manager@fireonthebay.org.

Current Meeting

  • Date: Monday, January 21th, 2007 7:00pm
  • Speaker: Ted Patrick, Adobe Platform Evangelist
  • Topic: Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe's Ted Patrick
  • Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Chaplin Conference Room)

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/
(This meeting is past the security barrier at Adobe so you must RSVP!!)

This is a Joint meeting between 3 Bay Area Usegroups.

Join users from Bay Area Coldfusion Usergroup (BACFUG) and Bay Area Application Developer Adobe User Group (BAADAUG) and Fire On The Bay for a night of cool things you can do with FLEX and AIR. Also there will be giveaways and food as well.

From The BACFUG website

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Ted Patrick from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and help prepare us for this exciting launch.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/
(This meeting is past the security barrier at Adobe so you must RSVP!!)

Previous Meeting

  • Date: November 20th, 2007 7:00pm
  • Speaker: Logo / Site Mock Up Entrants
  • Topic: How and Why did this in my Design entry.

We announced our winner for the Web site design contest.

Aaron who designed a great logo and site, did a great presentation on how and why he did his design as well as giving a great display of the blend modes.

Here is his winning design:
http://www.fireonthebay.org/contestgallery/processed/fire.jpg

I also want to thank Christian and Wes for giving demos and talking about how they did their entries.

You can see all of the designs at:
http://www.fireonthebay.org/contestgallery/

Over the next few weeks we will make the Fire on the Bay web site look much better.

If you couldn't make it onto the connect room or couldn't make it to SF you can watch the connect recording at:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p49432435/

I also wanted to thank our sponsors:
Adobe, lyris inc, iStock photo, and Peachpit please visit these sponsors from the Fire on the Bay site and let them know where you heard about them.

Danielle and Rob came all the way from Barrie, Ontario Canada to help out the group with presenting some of their products and how fireworks can be used with them, they also provided great pizza and our monthly grand prize of an iPod touch. So a big thank you to them for being so generous and making the effort to come here from the great white north.

For the grand prize of the iPod, it was won by Angela D.

Also we had a drawing for a bunch of othe great swag so no one left home empty handed (except me that didn't have to haul stuff back to the car )

Previous Meeting

  • Date: October 23rd, 2007 7:00pm
  • Speaker: Alan Musselman - A Member of Adobe's Fireworks Team
  • Topics Covered:
    • Intro to Alan and Fireworks
    • Random Tip 001
    • Rich Symbols and how to make them

This meeting was recorded on Adobe Connect. You can view the Connect Session here: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/fireonthebay/

Raffle winners:

  • 1 nights stay at The Block Hotel in South Lake Tahoe. - Jennifer Q.
  • Cf United Backpack - Matt D.
  • The Block
  • oda
  • Peachpit