> > I will offer my studio Monday 6 to 7:30pm August 28 at 419-14th Street at > > Valencia in San Francisco. I will have snacks - those interested could go > > eat at one of the nearby restaurants after... > > Any agenda, goal? I'd be interested too, let me know. >
On the last thread about this topic, someone suggested moving towards a monthly osFlash user's group. I think that's a good idea. There're other Flash related user groups in the Bay Area (SFMMUF [http://www.sfmmuf.org/], BAADAUG [http://www.baadaug.org/], and SilVaFUG [http://www.silvafug.org/]), but I don't find it useful to attend those very often. The most useful group that I attend is the San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group (http://www.asserttrue.com/articles/2006/06/14/san-francisco-design-patterns-study-group-meeting-tonight). The patterns study group is more interesting for a few reasons. The first is that the topic covered is consistantly one that I'm interested in. The second is that the group is small, personal, and equally skilled (everyone comes prepared to discuss a specific pattern). And, the third is that it's less of a social group than the others and more of a learning one. Attendees of the patterns group aren't looking for work; they're looking for knowledge. Carbon 5 hosts a Java group called Kirestu that has a similar feel. Every patterns meeting gets me thinking and teaches me something. An osFlash group that did the same would be a good one. I lean towards meeting on August 28th with the agenda of seeing how many people show up and getting to know one another. Maybe one person could even present, or we could all choose a project to study and discuss? If there're enough people, then maybe a monthly meeting could be planned. I'd be happy to present on or study and discuss any of the projects I'm interested in - AsUnit (http://www.asunit.org/), haXe (http://www.haxe.org/), SWHX (http://www.haxe.org/swhx), ActionStep (http://www.actionstep.org/), or cross-platform desktop applications with XULRunner and SWF (http://www.osflash.org/pipermail/osflash_osflash.org/2006-February/007659.html). What do you think? Ali _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
