360Flex – We’re Bringing Training Back

October 21, 2011 By

Now that I’ve got that song stuck in your head…

 

Some of you will remember this, many won’t. We once offered a two day hands on training course at the Ebay Campus. We had 4 instructors, and the entire weekend was hands on with frameworks.

Well we’re getting back into training. NOT just frameworks. That’s where you come in. If there was a 2 day hands on, meals included training in Denver sometime around January would you come? What would you like that training to be? Should be focus on more 101 intro level stuff, or see if we can’t raise the training bar and really go nuts? Maybe we do something mobile with Adobe’s shiny new Phonegap platform?

Your ticket to this training would also apply in part to a ticket to 360|Flex, because we’re cool like that.

What would you like to see offered?

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360Flex – Denver folks, join us at Rocky Mountain Adobe Camp! Sept. 1

August 2, 2011 By

feeling the pains of  360|Flex withdrawal? we know how that goes! If you’re in or around the Denver area though, you’re in luck, there’s a fix :)

My friends at the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group are hosting their second Adobe Camp here in Denver. You should come! I went to the first one and it was awesome. Come to think of it, I’ll be around this one too!

Date: Thursday, September 1 from 9am to 9pm

Price: $30 until this Thursday

Discount: Save $5 with code “360rocks” Register here.

Rocky Mountain Adobe Camp is back And bringing you a day chock-full-of design goodness with Adobe’s Creative Suite. Purchase your tickets by this Thursday (August 4) to get Early Bird Pricing, and save an additional $5 with the discount code “rmaug”. That’s a full day of Adobe Evangelists, hands-on-training and cutting edge sessions for just $25.

 

  • Three hours of Hands-On Photoshop with a Top-Five rated Adobe Photoshop Instructor
  • Three hours of tips and tricks in Adobe CS 5.5 with four members of the Adobe Creative Suite Evangelism team.
  • Sessions on mobile, video, and best practices from top real-world designers and developers.
  • Networking opportunities with leaders in the Adobe design and development commnuity.
  • Opportunities to win prizes from Lynda.com, Adobe Press, Wiley, Peachpit, and other sponsors.

 

And your registration includes lunch!

 

Don’t miss out! (Plus you can come check out the future home of Adobe camps and possibly some 360|Flexpress training coming soon :) (Hint. the next block over)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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360Flex – Volunteers needed

July 19, 2010 By

For those that were at 360|Flex San Jose this past year you’ll know we had volunteers to help out. The volunteers were a HUGE help, and a large part of why the conference was probably the smoothest we’ve ever done.

It’s that time again for our call for volunteers!
Why do we want volunteers?

  • Obviously having free workers is a bonus, but one of our main reasons for having volunteers is to provide a way for those that absolutely cannot afford the conference to be able to have a way to join us!
  • Give us your new graduates, those that were laid off, and those without 2 nickels to rub together!
  • The point behind 360 conferences is to have an affordable event that the majority of people can come to! Being unemployed doesn’t need to be the barrier.

Please note, that if you just want to save a few bucks you don’t necessarily fit the bill. Think of those less fortunate than you! We’re always throwing out discount codes, visit your local user group, they’ll have one, etc. The volunteer program is really for those that won’t otherwise be able to make the conference.

What do I need to do if I’m a volunteer?

  • We need you to be available Saturday thru Wednesday.  (Saturday can be waived, but the more hands the faster the work is completed)
  • We need people the Saturday prior to the conference for lanyard/badge assembly, and swag bag assembly, and to get familiar with the location.
  • We need people Sunday to run the Registration desk. This is your training for monday when the masses invade! There are 3 shifts, 7am-noon, noon-5, and 5-8.
  • Monday thru Wednesday we need people to run the Registration desk as well as the cameras in each session. You will be assigned to either the desk or recording sessions.
  • If you are assigned to record a session you need to remain in that session for the duration. You will need to confirm the camera continues to function and get the slides from the speaker at the end (via flash drive)
  • Sunday and Monday you will need to arrive between 7 and 7:30.
  • Tuesday and Wednesday you will need to arrive between 8 and 8:30.

What’s in it for you?

  • When you are not assigned to a session or the reg desk – you are free to see the sessions.
  • You get to enjoy lunch.
  • You get to mingle at all the parties (unless you are working the desk on sunday)
  • You get to meet a ton of people during registration!
  • You get a cool badge that says “Volunteer” :)
  • You get to say you know the folks that run 360|Conferences.

We really want you to get something out of the conference! We want you to have fun and learn a ton! You’re there to help us, but also get as much as you can out of sessions.

If you think you can hack it – apply!

  • Name:
  • Email:
  • Local:  Y/N
  • Phone Number:
  • Current application of technology:
  • Reason for wanting to be a volunteer:
  • Availability Sat?
  • Availability Sun?

Just email us at INFO at 360flex DOT com with the above details. We’ll let those selected know ASAP.

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360Flex – Things you’ll see in DC – Part 1

July 13, 2010 By

We’re hard at work locking in great sponsors (see two of them below), and awesome content, and I wanted to share a little with everyone.

Keynotes

Obviously monday’s keynote will be something to not miss. Not only will Adobe be giving us a peak at what’s new/hot/coming soon, but we’re handing over the mic, and the room to Doug McCune.

Sure we all know Doug from “Cool Shit” at Indianapolis, and plenty of other awesome, if not always child friendly sessions, but he’s also ridiculously smart, and a great speaker (Check out his RIAdventure talk, and tell me it’s not motivating). 360|Flex since the beginning has opened with more staid keynotes. Adobe (Ebay when we’re there) giving more state of the union style talks, previews, etc. I’d like to change that.

While we don’t want to completely move away from that, we do want to start raising the bar in the community, for events. Deepa is awesome, and I hope she come to DC to wow us (Check out her keynote from 360|Flex San Jose, it’s free just put it in the cart), but I think it’d be cool to get the community jazzed about what we do. We’re not stodgy old programmers building dashboards, and Web service front ends. We’re doing cool things! Let’s talk about that! Let’s talk about what isn’t done but is possible. Let’s talk about what isn’t possible and how that’s not stopping us!

360|Flex is first and foremost a community event. Organized by members of the community, supported by the community, and aimed at increasing the size of the Flex developer community. Adobe wants 1mil. Flex Developers, we want to help. We also want 360|Flex (and this I think we’ve succeeded at) to be the place where developers come to get knowledge, experience and face time, with things and people they wouldn’t otherwise. Every tried to find someone you didn’t know personally at MAX, not easy. We want everyone leaving 360|Flex on Wednesday to be so energized, they go back to work Thursday or Friday ready to “Crush It!” Ready to go to their bosses, co-workers, etc and show them the things they learned, the new ways of debugging, the new way to compile large apps faster, etc.

General Sessions

If you were in San jose, you got a taste of this, we had some awesome panels! This time around we’re not doing panels (Not for lack of interest, a lack of submissions, LOL) but rather are doing more themed general sessions. Ben Stucki, will be talking about “The Art of Computer Science”, Chuck Freedman is holding “The Great Framework Debate”, and Antonio Holguin is talking about User Experience and mobile. Mobile is growing! I expect the next 360|Flex to have a much higher AIR for mobile showing, and can’t wait!

We’re more than just coders and designers!

And no, i don’t mean some bastard love child of the two! Devigners, desoders, whatever. I mean, we’re interesting people! To highlight that we’re gonna have more than just Rock Band during the evening one night. Jun, Eric, and Scott AKA the compilers will be performing one night (Still TBD). They’ll also be doing a lunch session, talking about how their band incorporates technology into the sets. It’s rumored (Nothing solid yet) that 22nd Century, band of Adobe Evangelist Duane Nickull will be on site as well, and maybe even a little live DJ action from an old friend :)

I don’t want 360|Flex to turn into a “Festival” there’s enough of those out there, but I do think there’s room for more interesting stuff than what we’ve offered before.

Go register… right now! Do it, click this link, register, and secure your spot. Then go book your hotel, it’ll be THE place to be. Why cab/walk/whatever to another hotel, when you can be in the event hotel. I can’t stress enough how much better an experience it is to be in hotel of the conference.

Go on! Register! See you in DC!

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360flex – Spread the word, earn some money!

June 25, 2010 By

I’m trying something new.

I’ve created a badge for the conference, grab it here.

It’s a smaller version of what you see on the left there.

Make money you say? Yeah I had this idea the other day, and figured, you know it doesn’t hurt to give a little something back to those that help me out.

I ask a lot of the community, I realize that. I can’t ever stop expressing my gratitude to the Flash/Flex/AIR community, ya’ll are truly awesome. So this experiment is my attempt to give something back.

This link is to an eventbrite affiliate program. You do need to sign up for an eventbrite account, sorry but how else will they be able to pay you?

It’s easy, just

  1. get the badge
  2. sign up (if you don’t want some coin, skip this step)
  3. put the badge up on your site (with the link or without).
  4. Done. If folks click the badge, and register, you get $25. Each time.

That’s it. See you in Washington DC

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