FlashinTO

FlashinTO Gathering v86.0
// Wednesday, February 24th

Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’
of people. Designers, developers, and anyone else
interested in chatting and seeing some cool
presentations and mingling and meeting some
others in the industry. All are welcome, no RSVP
needed, and its free! Some come out and join us!
And as always, its cheap beer, and FREE pizza!

LOCATION: Function13, 156 Augusta.
SCHEDULE: 7:00pm – Doors Open
Come and network and mingle!

7:30 – Matt Fabb
topic: HTML5 Video vs. Flash Video

8:15 – Dayton Pereira – Indusblue
topic: 2010 Olympics iPhone App

8:45 Panel
topic: Apple vs Adobe. no love for Flash?
With the recent flurry of blogs and articles about the
absence of Flash on Apples new iPad, what does the
future of Flash hold? Will Adobe stop making CS for
Apple? Will Apple cave to public pressure and allow
Flash content on the iPad/iPhone? Why is Apple NOT
allowing Flash on the iPad? Will HTML5 kill Flash? Join
us for this lively debate by a panel of industry experts
to get the scoop?

Hey folks, I’ve just realized there are some problems with the Classified plugin I’m using for the Job Posts. It’s not working with our email system. I recently fixed this for the overall Wordpress install but the Classifieds are using their own mailing code.

As such they aren’t send posters their access codes and people aren’t able to reply via the post. For now, please include contact info in your post while I work on solving this.

I’ve also found a problem with the Contact Form plugin I’m using – it doesn’t include your email address in the email it sends to me making it kind of useless. Please include your contact info in the body until I can figure this out.

Update: I’ve fixed the contact form.

Sorry for the problems, still working out the kinks on this new site.

Here’s Jason Theodor’s presentation from the last FlashinTO.
http://www.slideshare.net/jted/red-riding-hood-remix

You can also keep up with Jason on his blog or Twitter:
http://jasontheodor.com
http://twitter.com/jted

Next FlashinTO is this Wednesday. Here’s the details:

FlashinTO Gathering v85.0, FlashinTO Gathering v85.0
// Wednesday, January 27th

Each month FlashinTO hosts a monthly ‘gathering’ of people. Designers, developers, and anyone else interested in chatting and seeing some cool
presentations and mingling and meeting some others in the industry. All are welcome, no RSVP needed, and its free! Some come out and join us!
And as always, its cheap beer, and FREE pizza!

LOCATION: Function13, 156 Augusta.

SCHEDULE: 7:00pm – Doors Open
Come and network and mingle!

7:30 – Spotlight on student work: Zach Goldstein

8:15 – Student Portfolio Review + Educational Panel / Q&A

8:45 – Jason Theodor
Creative Director, Critical Mass Toronto

http://thereisnobox.ca

Presentation: How to BS Better: A short guide
on how to tell better stories

At the last Gathering of 2009 David Fasullo showed us the drawing application he’s created called Livebrush. In case you missed it or just want a refresher, David’s posted the presentation slides on the Livebrush site for everyone:

http://livebrushproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/test.html

If you’re a Toronto area Flash designer or developer who maintains a blog drop an email to rick at flashinto dot com and I’ll add you to our blog roll.

And if you are into Twitter, don’t forget to follow @flashinto

We’re getting details together for FlashinTO Gathering v85.0 right now and we’re looking for some students to show some of their work. These will be short and quick presentations either of stuff you’re working on now or projects you’ve already completed for school.

If you’re interested send an email to rick at flashinto dot com. We’ll be posting more details about the gathering soon.

Thanks to the efforts of Simon Conlin, Function13 will be hosting wINTERACTIVE next Wednesday, Dec. 16th. Come celebrate the holidays with your peers and more! Here’s the details:

Event = “wINTERACTIVE” mixer/party
Day = Wednesday December 16th
Location = F13 Gallery, 156 Augusta
Time = Starts @ 5.30pm

wINTERACTIVE is the seasonal holiday gathering for everyone in the Toronto Digital community. The “Office Party” for anyone working in digital media / interactive / mobile /  advertising. Come and meet with old friends and new.

Great conversations, awesome people, amazing artwork! Cheap drinks all night and free food (while it lasts) so come early or better still come straight from work.

This year’s mixer party will be a party & a fund-raiser for the non-profit organization GalaxyGoo. We will be previewing the launch of the new GalaxyGoo book and also opening the annual Flash-a-thon event. This year’s Flash-a-thon theme is “Particle”. This event is happening in Toronto and San Francisco on the same day.

What is GalaxyGoo?
GalaxyGoo brings together programmers, developers, artists, scientists, teachers, and writers to help educate children and adults about Art, Code and Science. GalaxyGoo is a publicly supported, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization.

RSVP on the Facebook event page

I know I’ve been saying for months that we were going to be moving something new for FlashinTO. After lying abandoned by all but the most dedicated members we’ve decided to lay the forums to rest. Forums are really pretty old school at this point anyway – at least we hope you agree.

There were however two things that the forums were still used for: posting upcoming events and listing job postings. For events, you’ll see a list of upcoming events on the right and there is also an events page. You can also find event info on at www.facebook.com/flashinto

For job postings, we’ve added a classifieds plug-in so that everyone can continue to post and view local jobs. You’ll find a link to the right or go here: http://www.flashinto.com/index.php/flashinto-classifieds/

Over time if we see the need, I may expand the classified categories to include things other than jobs.

If you maintain a blog and want on the blog roll, let me know in the contact section.

There is still much to do, but this is a start at least. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment here or contact me.

See you tonight at Gathering v84.0!

Rick

P.S. I’d also like to thank joeflash, false, s33k3r, pucknell, penciltest, sn1p, Fluffco, devEllOper, jason, headwinds, mrhogg, tgeorge, jkozuch, ian, _insect, Matt_Fabb, lars, n0wak, w.ll.am and the countless others who made the forums a lively and useful resource for all these years.