The January Meeting of the Michigan ActionScript User Group will focus on AIR Native Extensions, a new feature available for the AIR 3 runtime.  AIR Native Extensions allow you to include features that we were locked out of before for both the mobile and desktop platforms.  Some examples include interacting with the vibrator of a cell phone or the Microsoft Kinect on the desktop.

Nick Kwiatkowski will show how to use pre-existing ANE (AIR Native Extensions) to enhance your AIR projects and the basics of how they work.  We will be creating a few projects that interact with ANEs while in the meeting.

We will be meeting on Wednesday Jan 18th, 2012 in room 151 within the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on the campus of Michigan State University.  The meeting will start at 7pm.

Recording of the meeting is here : http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p6awboyfo2k/

In light of Adobe's recent announcements in the past week on their restructuring and focus changes, we felt it would be best to have a meeting on the state of the Flex, Flash and Adobe world.

We will be talking about the open-sourcing of the Flex framework, the ramifications on some of the announcements of the changing product lineup and we will be giving a quick introduction on the Spoon project.

Join us in or near room 165 in the Communication Arts and Sciences building at 7:00pm on the 17th of November .  We will broadcast this meeting for those who wish to join remotely.

Join us live : http://experts.adobeconnect.com/theflexgroup/

On October 20th, Jade Freeman from Michigan State University will be preseting the Robot Legs framework.  He wil show us how to use Robot Legs to build desktop and mobile applications that integrate with Flickr and GIS applications.

The meeting will be held in room 165 within the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on the campus of Michigan State University.  The meeting will start at 7pm.

On Sept 15th, join Nicholas Kwiatkowski, leader of the Michigan Flex User Group, on an Adobe Flash Platform and hardware interactions adventure. Discover how devices like Microsoft Kinect and the Arduino prototyping board can bring Flash into the physical world. In this session, you'll learn how to integrate your Flex and Adobe AIR applications with physical hardware for an impressive combination of technologies.  This is Nick's trial-run presentation for his MAX session in October.

On Thursday, August 11th, 2011 starting at 6:30pm we will be having our annual picnic at John M. Patriarche Park located off Alton and Saginaw Highway in East Lansing.  [map]   Burgers and hot-dogs will be provided, just bring a beverage of your choice.

There will be no presentation this month.  Please feel free to bring a friend or co-worker!

Rain location (check this website if it is iffy!), will be at Reno's East, located a few blocks west of the park.