Whoops ! Apologies to CFUGWA for jumping the gun. They are prob watching the Flex 3 videos next year, so we'l meet without them sometime in December. Please use the survey to add your vote for the best time and venue.

Our group now has a presence on LinkedIn

Here's an aggregation of official Adobe Blogs : http://blogs.adobe.com
There's some great stuff in there eg. the videos from the MAX conference

Our second meeting will be with the Cold Fusion Users Group WA in the first half of December. We will be watching some Flex 3 training videos from Adobe.

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Next year we will settle into a regular venue and meeting time. Promise !

Congratulations to all those involved in pulling together the week just ending with a packed series of events stirring up the web industry, including Edge of the Web Conference, WA Web Awards and WebJam. In a tiny corner of the week we had our first meeting with Kai, and had some good conversation about Flash, Flex, Adobe, Obama, Silverlight etc.

Some points that came out :

1. As an official Adobe User Group we will get major Adobe products twice a year to give away to members. Kai suggested we give tickets out at each meeting, which go into the hat for the 6 monthly raffle, and speakers get extra tickets. Sounds good to me.
2. We can possibly get some money for food and drink at meetings from Adobe (other groups do)
3. 3:30 aint a good timeslot (but the best we could do this time around to have Kai with us)
4. We need a regular venue - any offers/comments ? How about the Velvet Lounge on the 3rd Wednesday of each month ?
5. Organised speakers with advertised topics are a big drawcard for people to come

Any comments ?

p.s. I talked about the concept of Flash/Flex reading its data from the HTML page it is hosted by, and that data doubling as a fallback if Flash isn't available. I've blogged about that and my current pet project Freethingo here.