The topic for the February 22nd meeting will be Flash Lite 2, presented by Scott Janousek and Alessandro Pace. Flash Lite 2 has some great new features, and mobile devices are definitely going to be a hot topic for Flash developers over the next few years.

Scott and Alessandro will show us what Flash Lite 2 is capable of and some real world examples.

Again, the meeting is Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. at the New England Institute of Art, Brookline Village. Directions are in this post: http://www.bfpug.com/?p=11.

We have moved the February meeting up to Wednesday, February 22. Same time, same place. It is likely that we can schedule a bunch of meetings into the future at NEIA. So to keep things consistent, the meeting time will be the fourth Wednesday of each month.

Well, it’s official. New meeting place, which is hopefully relatively convenient for most people.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
The New England Institute of Art, Interactive Media Design department, Brookline
(next to Brookline Village MBTA stop)
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Directions: http://neia.artinstitutes.edu/aboutus_directions.asp

If anyone has something particular they want to present or hear, let me know. Otherwise I have some people who can do a presentation on Flash Lite 2.

I just got home from the first official BFPUG meeting. Very nice turnout! I was surprised. I expected about 20 people, but we had almost double that. Very informative talk by William Wechtenhiser, Director, Flex Enterprise Services. And lots of other good conversation.

Actually, the room was standing room only, and people packed outside the door. It’s possible that we can use Adobe as our monthly meeting place if that’s cool with everyone. The only problem would be having a larger space. It’s a problem to have it elsewhere inside the building due to security rules, but we are discussing setting up a screen and podium and more chairs in the front lobby there. That would work great I think.

Look at that! Someone gets a free copy of Studio 8!!! A good reason to come to the meetings!

We have a very cool speaker lined up for next Wednesday: William Wechtenhiser, Director, Flex Enterprise at Adobe.

The subject is “Flex Enterprise Services Overview”. William explains what Flex Enterprise Services is and how it is different from Flex 1.5. He will cover the new programming model and features available to application developers with reference to the kinds of applications that can be built using these features.

The presentation will start at 7:00 p.m. and go about an hour. Come by a little earlier - 6:30 - for pizza and drinks (soda, etc.). After that we’ll have an hour or so to mingle, network, whatever.

Again, the location is Adobe in Newton, 275 Grove Street, right next to the Riverside T station.

The January Meeting is on January 18, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at Adobe in Newton.

That’s at 275 Grove Street, next to the Riverside T Station on the Green Line.

A couple of high level Adobe speakers will be presenting to us on some relevant Flash Platform topics, and Adobe is providing some food and drinks. Let’s bring a big crowd there.