Kerala Adobe User group was honoured to conduct an event at Amrita Institute, vallikkavu where the flex developers team were able to communicate with Adobe Professional Arul Kumaran. Arul was the one who motivated us to conduct this event even when he was only available for couple of days.

Aneesh anand from Amrita made all the arrangements in coordination with Kamal Bijilani of the E-learning team at Amrita.

The Venue, Amrita Institute.

Although it was 3 hours travel from ernakulam, we made it by starting early and hiring a taxi.

The Audience

Audience were mostly starters in Flex along with some expert project leads with Java background.

The Celebrity

Arul started with the history of flash and how the whole evolution happened. He took time to answer all the queries and also demonstrated his Open Source tools which can make life easier for any Flex developer.

The Support

I made myself available as support, mostly adding bits of information to what Arul was sharing. There was a small interacttive session on game development where I tried to answer queries on gaming and 3D in flash.

The Sight seeing.

Aneesh took us around the ashram and we had the chance to see the awesome seaside view from a multistoried building. It was breathtaking and all of us enjoyed the same. On the way back we talked a lot about technology and life in general. For me it was the chance to meet up with a great person who was really down to earth and eager to share experience, that mattered the most. End of the day I was a richer guy with a new friend and lots of professional information.

This is the press release for the upcoming event on April 10 Saturday at Woods Manor, Kochi.

The Kerala Adobe user group in association with Bridge, India will conduct a launch event for Adobe’s latest product and technology releases at Hotel Woods Manor, Cochin on April 10. The products and technologies in focus includes the Flash builder 4, Flex 4, ColdFusion builder and the soon to be released Adobe CS5 software suite, which includes Adobe’s flagship product, the Adobe Photoshop. The details are available on http://godsowndevelopers.com/kad/launchevent/

The limited seats event is completely free with sessions on all the Adobe’s latest technologies and products. Speakers at the event include Mr.Harish Sivaramakrishnan, Adobe evangelist who will speak about the Flash Builder 4 and the Flash Catalyst and other experts. Food and refreshments will be made available to all participants for free. The event will also mark the first time that Cochin is included as a destination in its worldwide promotional tour by the software giant, another mark of Cochin’s rising superpower status in the IT world.

Though the event is mainly targeted at developers and designers, the event is planned to be helpful to entrepreneurs and business persons as well with networking session to meet and interact with fellow entrepreneurs and developers. Entrepreneurs can also find out how to benefit from these new software wonders by Adobe. There will also be many contests and even more prizes. Interested persons can register for the event by logging onto http://godsowndevelopers.com/kad/adobe-launch-registration/, the official website of the Kerala Adobe user group, God’s own developers.

Make use of this wonderful opportunity.

Thanks to Bridge, Toobler, Csharks, UST Global

Reposting information from Ramesh

The Product Management teams of Adobe Flash Platform Development
tooling are visiting Bangalore for a few days this January.We
are inviting developers on the Adobe Flash Platform
(specifically Adobe Flex and Adobe ColdFusion), to interact with
the product management team.This is a great chance to share your
experiences and provide feedback.

We have already sent invites to a cross section of the developer
community in Bangalore, to attend this meeting in person. This
meeting will happen on Jan 19 at 6.30 pm.

To enable developers from other Indian cities participate, we
are also setting up a voice conference on 21st Jan, at 4pm. I
had earlier written about remote participants dialing in to this
meeting, but we have decided to decouple the two meetings.

For attending the teleconference, interested developers must
register at http://meetflexcfpm.eventbrite.com. The conference
bridge details will be sent over mail to those who register at
the site.

Feel free to circulate this message to key members (active
Flex/CF developers within the user groups you lead); who may be
interested in attending the teleconference.

Please do note that we have limited capacity for the audio
conference as well; and therefore request you to register your
interest ASAP and login to the conference bridge in time.

Cheers
Ramesh