1st Boston Flash Platform User Group meeting
December 29th, 2005 by Scott JanousekWe had our first Boston Flash Platform User Group meeting tonight.
Perhaps a few hand fulls of people showed. Overall a good turn out for that “neck of the woods” (literally). The Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham was a nice place to meet for the 1st time. I think they publish the New England Journal of Medicine which Harvard and a bunch of other institutions collobrate on.
It was also interesting to hear about Flash within the medical community, as a multimedia tool. Something you don’t hear people talk about too often.
The agenda was fairly loose, but we talked about possible topics for future meetings, technology/tools people we were using in our daily flash work … mobile as a platform, as well as Flex, AJAX (not the car wax) … plus a lot more. I won’t post it all here (maybe Keith or Eric will post some) … besides, more incentive for you to attend (if you are in the area)!
Next meeting is … I believe at the Adobe Newton office, MA. I think the topic is to TBD, but it could be Design Patterns. Check out the BFUG site for more details … and for those who aren’t able to physically make these (DP for one) … I believe we have a breeze account we may take advantage in upcoming events.
Here are a few pics I snapped with my 6620 (sorry about the quality):
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December 29th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Happy to have hosted the 1st meeting. Yes, we publish the New England Journal of Medicine.
December 30th, 2005 at 10:52 am
Wow, sneaky with that camera. I didn’t even see that you had a camera!
December 30th, 2005 at 11:15 am
Great meeting. I learned a lot not only about the future of Flash, but technology in general. Looking foward to the next one!
January 1st, 2006 at 11:12 am
Sneaky! Were you the guy with the iRiver MP3 player? I was the chinese guy in the corner
January 1st, 2006 at 1:59 pm
The camera was in the nokia 6620. It’s only a
January 1st, 2006 at 2:01 pm
The camera was in the nokia 6620. I believe it’s less than 1 MP, but my 6680 has a 1.x MP.
… imagine the quality I would have had with a 7 MP camera phone … which sadly we do not have yet here in the States!
January 2nd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Cool !!!
I wish I could be there !!!
Boston has the larger flashlite communities
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Looks like you guys had a great first meeting. I wish I still lived in Boston so I could join you. Perhaps I’ll be able to use Breeze to take part.
January 3rd, 2006 at 3:50 pm
>I wish I still lived in Boston
No you don’t.
January 9th, 2006 at 9:00 am
[...] Well, we managed to pull off our first informal meeting. Scott Janousek has posted some photos to prove it. The meeting was pretty informal. Just met and talked about random, generally Flash-related topics. About a dozen showed up, which is about what I expected. Sorry I can’t remember everyone’s name. [...]