Meetings

Fire on the Bay will usually meet the third Tuesday of each month.

If you would like to speak, sponsor or suggest a topic please contact manager@fireonthebay.org.

Current Meeting

Date: Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 6:45pm
Speaker: Storm Bear Williams
Topic: Fireworks to draw and illustrate cartoons
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)
Can't make it to San Francisco, please join us via connect
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/septfotb/

Storm Bear Williams has been involved in interactive marketing and advertising since 1990 - you know, the good old days. Currently he serves as the Group Creative Director of Nimbus World Group, an ad agency that specializes in virtual world development and social media marketing. He draws the political cartoon "Town Called Dobson" to keep from throwing things at the television.

SEPTEMBER PRESENTATION
Storm Williams will present how he uses Fireworks to draw and illustrate his political cartoon, "Town Called Dobson." Starting from a character and through to copywriting and strip completion.

Williams will autograph your favorite TCD strip during after the presentation. Just print it out and bring it in..

Town Called Dobson can be found at - http://www.towncalleddobson.com/

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 6:45pm
Speaker: John Nack
Topic: Adobe Bridge
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)
Couldn't make it to San Francisco, please watch our recording via connect
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p84207439/

John Nack is Principal Manager for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge. Prior to joining Adobe John was a Web designer and animator at AGENCY.COM New York, where we developed online content for clients such as Gucci, Nike, British Airways, and Coca-Cola. That experience convinced him that design tools could and had to be better, leading him to join Adobe in 2000, working on the Web animation tool LiveMotion. John has been on the Photoshop team since 2002 and has worked on features such as Adobe Camera Raw, Smart Objects, Vanishing Point, the File Browser, and Adobe Bridge.

Johns's Blog can be found at - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 6:45pm
Speaker: Christian Baptiste
Topic: Fireworks is adaptable to different workflow styles - tips and tricks to speed up yours, for all levels of users.
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)
Couldn't make it to San Francisco, please watch the recording via connect
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p24223988/

Christian Baptiste brings a vast array of talents to the San Francisco Bay Area web community. He is a designer/developer with emphasis on interaction and usability.

Always on the forefront of new technologies, his work has won him several awards for his innovative designs. Christian's portfolio includes some of the largest Internet and software companies in the world. He has built web based software/sites, cd's, e-marketing material and customized e-commerce packages for companies like, Roxio, Sonic, Dell, Microsoft, HP, Digital River, Siebel, Curious labs, SearchForce, AOL, Odigo, SKYY Vodka, E-Greetings, American Greetings, Blue Mountain Arts, as well as some the top Internet dating sites like Match, Matchmaker, Udate, Community Connect, and many more.

Christian has been a long time evangelist for Macromedia and Adobe products. You can find Christian in the forums under the name Christian3D. He also occasionally does product demonstrations showing product tips and tricks, and sharing his custom Fireworks and Dreamweaver commands, textures, styles, patterns, snippets and tutorials.

Christian is currently working for SearchForce, Inc. When designing SearchForce's innovative Flex interface, Christian paid close attention to a PPC (Pay Per Click) manager's day to day tasks. The result is that SearchForce provides advertisers with the tools to quickly, efficiently and effectively manage complex search marketing campaigns.

Christian's most recent portfolio can be found at - http://visionarydesigners.com/

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 6:45pm
Speaker: David M. Hogue
Topic: Prototyping With Fireworks
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)
Couldn't make it to San Francisco, please enjoy the recording
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p57401248/

Dave Hogue, Director of Information Design & Usability at Fluid, will be showing how the information and interaction design team uses Fireworks for wireframing and prototyping for their high end ecommerce projects and rich internet application experiences. He will show example prototypes and demonstrate how they design and create basic slideshows, simple click-throughs, and interactive prototypes to test more complex workflows and interaction designs. The demonstration and discussion will be conversational, and attendees are encouraged to participate, ask questions, and offer suggestions for other ways Fireworks may be used by information and interaction designers.

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 6:30pm
Speaker:Rick Jones, Product Manager for Fireworks
Topic:Fireworks NEXT!! whats new and cool
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)
Couldn't make it watch the recording. http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p65485923/

We are going to be given the first public demo of the new features of the next version of Fireworks!!

Great Prizes including CS3 Web Premiumn

About our Speakers

Shadowy figures that loom in the night that get lit by fireworks to come out of the shadows to share fanstasic news.

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 6:30pm
Speaker:Making Fireworks kuler
Topic: Tim Strickland
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Conference Room)
If you couldn't make it to San Francisco please watch the recording on connect: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p63457132/ - Audio is fixed, Tim Presented again at the Jam Session

Making Fireworks kuler:

kuler overview
What's new in kuler 2.0
Prototyping kuler 2.0 with Fireworks
kuler 3rd party APIs & applications

About our Speaker

Tim Strickland is a senior computer scientist for Adobe's Emerging Creative Technologies group. He is the lead developer for kuler, a web-hosted application that is all about color: color for exploration, inspiration, experimentation and sharing. Kuler enables novice and advanced designers to find, share and post colors and color themes and connects the Adobe community. Although Tim's primary focus is on kuler's backend development, his background is in User Interface design, which he has taken advantage of to do mock-ups in Fireworks of new functionality & features for kuler which he has successfully handed off to front-end flash developers to implement.

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Tuesday, February 19th, 2007 7:00pm
Speaker: Trevor McCauley
Topic: 10 coolest features of Fireworks
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)

Trevor McCauley, of Adobe and author of Senocular.com will showing 10 coolest features of Fireworks CS3

About our Speaker

Trevor McCauley is a quality engineer on the Flash Player team at Adobe Systems Incorporated. During the 2 years he has been working at Adobe, he has supported the Fireworks team in his spare time with contributions such as the MXML and Images export. Before that he worked as a web developer for 4 years at a production company in Maryland where the Macromedia Studio products were his tools of choice. His personal site, senocular.com, to hosts free tutorials, source files, and extensions for both Flash and Fireworks.

We will also be giving away a copy of Fireworks CS3 to a lucky winner.

If you couldn't make it to San Francisco please watch the recording on connect: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p21558287/

Broadchoice.com is very kindly sponsoring Pizza and Drinks please check out their Digital Marketing Manager at http://www.broadchoice.com

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/

Previous Meeting

Date: Monday, January 21th, 2007 7:00pm
Speaker: Ted Patrick, Adobe Platform Evangelist
Topic: Flex and AIR Pre-release Tour with Adobe's Ted Patrick
Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Chaplin Conference Room)

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/
(This meeting is past the security barrier at Adobe so you must RSVP!!)

This is a Joint meeting between 3 Bay Area Usegroups.

Join users from Bay Area Coldfusion Usergroup (BACFUG) and Bay Area Application Developer Adobe User Group (BAADAUG) and Fire On The Bay for a night of cool things you can do with FLEX and AIR. Also there will be giveaways and food as well.

From The BACFUG website

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, Ted Patrick from the Adobe Flex/AIR product team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and help prepare us for this exciting launch.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event!

RSVP: http://webdesign.meetup.com/485/
(This meeting is past the security barrier at Adobe so you must RSVP!!)

Previous Meeting

Date: November 20th, 2007 7:00pm
Speaker: Logo / Site Mock Up Entrants
Topic: How and Why did this in my Design entry.

We announced our winner for the Web site design contest.

Aaron who designed a great logo and site, did a great presentation on how and why he did his design as well as giving a great display of the blend modes.

Here is his winning design:
http://www.fireonthebay.org/contestgallery/processed/fire.jpg

I also want to thank Christian and Wes for giving demos and talking about how they did their entries.

You can see all of the designs at:
http://www.fireonthebay.org/contestgallery/

Over the next few weeks we will make the Fire on the Bay web site look much better.

If you couldn't make it onto the connect room or couldn't make it to SF you can watch the connect recording at:
http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p49432435/

I also wanted to thank our sponsors:
Adobe, lyris inc, iStock photo, and Peachpit please visit these sponsors from the Fire on the Bay site and let them know where you heard about them.

Danielle and Rob came all the way from Barrie, Ontario Canada to help out the group with presenting some of their products and how fireworks can be used with them, they also provided great pizza and our monthly grand prize of an iPod touch. So a big thank you to them for being so generous and making the effort to come here from the great white north.

For the grand prize of the iPod, it was won by Angela D.

Also we had a drawing for a bunch of othe great swag so no one left home empty handed (except me that didn't have to haul stuff back to the car )

Previous Meeting

Date: October 23rd, 2007 7:00pm
Speaker: Alan Musselman - A Member of Adobe's Fireworks Team
Topics Covered:
- Intro to Alan and Fireworks
- Random Tip 001
- Rich Symbols and how to make them

This meeting was recorded on Adobe Connect. You can view the Connect Session here: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/fireonthebay/

Raffle winners: