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. 

On July 21st at 7pm, Matt LeGrand will be in town talking about MultiTouch in his presentation "MultiTouch -- Small, Medium and Large."

Learn and share new ways of interacting with software and computer hardware by looking at the multitouch capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Multitouch and natural user interfaces are growing in popularity.

We’ll be building mobile, tablet, and desktop software that responds to multiple touch inputs and we’ll be discussing best practices for developing your own rich engaging natural user interfaces for your own applications.

Matt LeGrand is an accomplished user experience specialist with a primary focus on Adobe Flex and Air application development. Matt has been working with Flex since 2005 and Adobe Flash since 1999. His interest are in human computer interaction and interactive media research.

The meeting will he held in room 1415 within the Biomedical and Physcal Sciences Building on the Campus of Michigan State University.  This is not our normal room location (but it is where we meet last month). 

During our June meeting, we are honored to host Ryan Stewart to talk about the new version of Flash Builder, Flash, Creative Suite and a whole host of other software that Adobe recently shipped.  With the release of Flash Builder 4.5 Adobe added support for building mobile applications with ActionScript and Flex for iOS, Android, and the BlackBerry PlayBook. Ryan Stewart, a developer evangelist for Adobe, will be coming to talk about the new mobile workflow and how you can use your Flex skills to deploy mobile apps across those platforms. He'll talk about the new workflows for deployment and debugging, some tips and tricks that will help you optimize your code, and some things to keep in mind as you're creating applications for all three platforms. This is one of the biggest Flex and Flash Builder releases yet and it opens up the world of mobile development to every Flex developer.

We will also be giving away a copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 in addition to many other awesome prizes!

The meeting will be held on June 23rd, 2011 on the campus of Michigan State University.  We will be meeting in room 1415 in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences building located in the heart of campus at 7pm.  Libations to follow the meeting.  This is NOT our normal meeting location.

This meeting will not be recorded or broadcast live.

Have you ever wanted to have a physical "panic" button on your AIR app that you could hit?  How about building an application that could collect GPS coordinates?  Or one that responds to light?

During our May meeting on Thursday, May 19th, we will be introducing the concept of building Flex and AIR applications for custom electronics.  We will be going through basic electronic concepts, hooking up an Ardunio Microcontroller to a computer, and interacting with it from a Flex application.  We will be working with LEDs, push buttons, gas sensors, etc. to make a an application that you can not only control with a mouse, but can also interact with phyically.

During the summer, we will be meeting in room 1345 Engineering, which is the north-west-most room in the Engineering building complex.  The meeting will start at 7pm, with free parking located a block south in the Communication Arts and Sciences parking ramp (Ramp 5).

On April 21st at 7pm we will be hosting Ryan Ward from Michigan State University's Physical Plant to talk about a Kiosk he created for the MSU Museum.  This presentation will cover the MSU Museum's Mask kiosk and its approach to using transparent container images and camera feeds with multi face detection. We will run through a camera feed and transparent container image example and discuss camera feed and face detection performance concerns while taking a look at some of the kiosk code.

We will be meeting at the MSU Museum.  Directions to the MSU Museum can be found on MSU's Website.  Visitor parking is available at the Grand River Parking Ramp located here (2 blocks walk).

The meeting will not be recorded or broadcast live.