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    • July Meeting - Starting out with Fireworks / Project and Learning Incubator

    on Jul 16 in Meetings


    Meeting Time: 6:30pm on Tuesday July 29nd

    PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE!  DUE TO A SCHEDULING CONFLICT WITH THE LOCATION, WE CAN NO LONGER HAVE THE MEETING ON THE 22nd.

     

    Location: Railinc Corporate Headquarters, 7001 Weston Parkway, Suite 200 Cary, NC 27513


    Join the Raleigh Durham Adobe User Group and the Triangle User Experience for the first of many shared meetings!  Presenting first will be Ben Farrell and Eric Coker taking you through the basics of Adobe Fireworks CS3.  Eric will specifically be covering image exporting, and Ben will be covering a basic workflow from Photoshop to Fireworks to Dreaweaver or to Flex.  For those of you who don't know, Fireworks is the best program you've never used - it saves loads of production time if you can integrate into your workflow properly, and we'll show you just how to do that, along with some basic features.

    Next, as our groups join forces and meet, we'll be asking those with an idea or a desire to learn speak up and let us know what's on your mind.
    The "Project Incubator" is our idea to get innovative ideas out there and get skilled people together on these innovative ideas.  Here's how it works....You present an idea you have for a project, let us know what your goals are and if you'd like to make money on it or just bask in fame for doing something very cool.  As a group, we'll ask you questions, offer our critiques and concerns over how to meet goals, what wrinkles lie ahead for your plan, etc..  At the end of the meeting, we'll all socialize and see if people would like to help you on your project or vice versa.  It's like a support group for future web/software inventors and renown artists!

    If you're just starting out, and are a little shy to talk projects - maybe your a beginner and are still learning, we'll also host the "Learning Incubator" portion of the group.  Here we'll be asking those with a desire to learn a particular subject to speak up.  We'll try to put some groups together to learn a subject, and hopefully we'll put groups with a volunteer instructor.

    And lastly, we'll be providing one lucky winner with a software prize worth up to $2100.  If you present a project idea to the incubator, or offer your expertise to lead a group to learn a particular subject, we'll give you a raffle ticket to win the Adobe software prize.

    Please RSVP by leaving a comment in this post!  You're also welcome to leave other comments or suggestions in this post.

     

    16 response(s) to “July Meeting - Starting out with Fireworks / Project and Learning Incubator ”


    1. Denny Cole Says:
      Jul 7, 2008 at 11:07 PM I am planning to attend, unless I get stuck at work !


    2. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM Cool! Obviously I'm coming - but glad to see that Denny's coming - maybe he'll talk about his model ship project at the incubator. He's explained it to me several times in passing, but I think I need a full explanation to understand what the heck he's doing.


    3. Heather Wrenn Says:
      Jul 8, 2008 at 11:42 AM Looking forward to this meeting!


    4. Troy Stratton Says:
      Jul 8, 2008 at 12:41 PM Will be there.


    5. Beth Shepherd Says:
      Jul 9, 2008 at 7:56 AM I'm new to working with Adobe products and am looking forward to this discussion. I will be there! Thanks!


    6. byron nelson Says:
      Jul 11, 2008 at 2:43 PM Hi. I haven't been in awhile, but hope to make this meeting. Fireworks has been a great prototyping tool for me at work.


    7. byron nelson Says:
      Jul 14, 2008 at 8:42 AM BTW here's a good article on how easy it is to <a href="http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/april2008/articles/article5/index.html?trackingid=CAFWB">make a clickable mockup</a> in fireworks CS3.


    8. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 14, 2008 at 9:59 AM Sorry to do this everyone, Adrian of the Triangle User Experience just informed me this morning of a conflict with the location during that week. I hate changing times like this, but I don't have a choice. We'll be doing it the following Tuesday on the 29th. My apologies!


    9. Steve Hong Says:
      Jul 28, 2008 at 8:31 AM I'll be there with a friend from work. Is the meeting at 6:00 or 6:30? Triangle User Experience lists the time as 6:00.


    10. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM Hey Steve, good question! I listed it as 6:30, and the TUE listed it as 6:00. As a result, I'm saying that the presentation will start PROMPTLY at 6:30, but you can come as early as 6:00 to socialize. Lotsa times, we wait 15 minutes or so for everyone to trickle in, so we'll just save the trickling in for the 6:00-6:30


    11. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM So we had some cancellations due to the change in meeting time, but current head count seems to be 8 RDAUGers and 14 TUEers. Lets hear some RSVP's from some more RDAUGers!


    12. Steve Hong Says:
      Jul 28, 2008 at 3:50 PM Is there going to be any food at the meeting? I'm just wondering if I need to get something on the way in.


    13. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM Hey Steve, yah, I'll be ordering some pizza, and Adrian will be getting drinks.


    14. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM phil's coming too, but apparently he's too cool to rsvp


    15. Angela Hardison Says:
      Jul 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM Will be there...my first meeting! Found you on facebook!


    16. Ben Farrell Says:
      Jul 29, 2008 at 10:25 AM Angela, how you found out about this meeting off of my facebook page, I'll never know, but glad to have you at the meeting!

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