We've got a great slate of programs planned for the Acadiana Adobe User Group to take us through the first half of 2010! And remember, attending any program gets you a ticket for our raffle for a free suite of Adobe Creative Suites software!

March 16, 2010: Photoshop work flow

One of Acadiana's favorite photographers, Travis Gauthier, will take us on a tour aimed at showing how real photographers really use Adobe Photoshop. We're allowing extra time for questions and answers on this one! This program will take place Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 6-8 pm., at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

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Here's some info on Travis:

Travis Gauthier is a native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Travis is a 1995 graduate of The Art Institute of Houston where he earned an Associate of Arts degree in Photography with a focus on digital imaging and portraiture. With experience in several different photographic arenas; photojournalism to retouching and lab work to the portrait and wedding industry, Travis has made photography his lifelong chosen career.

Awards, Achievements:
2005 1st place Louisiana Press Association Feature Photo
2007 Professional Photographers of Louisiana, Portrait : First Place
2008 Acadiana Arts Council Solo Exhibit
Speaking:
2008 Lecture - LSUE "Infrared Photography and The Photography Business."

April 20, 2010: Adobe-sponsored Flex and Flash Event!

If you cruise Adobe labs or other spots where you can see what's heading down the pipe from Adobe, you know that there's lots going on now with Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash programming. Adobe will sponsor our get-together in April and we will get the latest on these technologies, where they're headed, and what's in store for developers. This program will take place on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

May 18, 2010: After Effects wizardry from Scott Rachal

Lafayette's Vidox Motion Imagery's Production Manger Scott Rachal uses Adobe After Effects on the front lines of his workflow every day. For this program, we'll meet at the Vidox studios and Scott will walk us through some stunning video post-production samples from the Vidox portfolio. This can also be considered part of our "Real pros really using Adobe software" series, as we'll see how projects start and finish and how Adobe After Effects adds powerful tools to the Vidox arsenal. The program will take place Tuesday, May 18, 6-8 pm, at Vidox, 204 Winchester, Lafayette, LA 70506.

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June 15, 2010: Adobe CF Builder

Adobe CF Builder is a new IDE for ColdFusion developers that has been previewing on Adobe Labs for several months. Our own Raymond Camden, the ColdFusion Jedi, will bring us up to date on the latest with Adobe CF Builder, showcasing the features that will make it an attractive choice for anyone coding ColdFusion. This program will take place on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA. Also, at this meeting we will draw for our free Adobe Software winner for the first half of 2010!

At every program...

Any time you attend a program of the Acadiana Adobe User Group, you're entered into a raffle for free Abobe software! Our next drawing will be at our June meeting.

We always provide light refreshments, and there are giveaways of some kind at almost every meeting!

Program contents, dates and times are subject to change; notice will be provided on as timely a basis as is reasonably possible in the event of changes.

We look forward to seeing you at one (or all!) of these upcoming meetings!

You're at the airport baggage carousel watching the identical black bags circle around and whip out your iPhone for a quick check of your email... and Yikes! Someone's attached a photo that needs to be swapped into his company's web site, and of course it needs to be done right away!

No need to haul out the laptop and hunt up a connection for these or similar pesky web maintenance chores, there are iPhone apps that make it quick and easy to make changes to your web site, and we're not talking just about desktop remoting.

James Edmunds will give a review of apps that allow you to work on a web site from the palm of your hand at the next meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2009, 6-8 pm, at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

SOFTWARE RAFFLE

Adobe has provided a CS4 Suite package which we will raffle at our June meeting, and just by attending the meeting in February, you get a ticket entered into the raffle.

Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you!

Ray Camden will present on ORM (Object Relational Mapping) at the next meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group, January 19, 2010, 6-8 pm at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.. ORM features are included in the newest release of ColdFusion.

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FLEX BUILDER GIVEAWAY

In anticipation of an upcoming Flex-oriented program later this spring, we will be raffling off a license for Flex Builder 3 at our January meeting! We will also be collecting raffle entries for a drawing for a CS4 Suite package to be raffled at our June meeting. Just by attending the meeting, you are entered in the raffle drawing for the immediate Flex Builder 3 license giveaway, and the later June CS4 giveaway!

MEETING TOPIC PLANNING

Also on the agenda for Jan. 19 is a discussion of upcoming program and presentation ideas. We're always eager to hear your requests and suggestions, and even offers of presentations you might make!

Topics under consideration for the first half of 2010 include Premiere Pro; workflow through an ad agency; design flow at the LITE center; working with Flex Builder; powerful sound editing with Adobe Audition; and surely something about jQuery! At our meeting, we will discuss these ideas and any others that members would like to see at upcoming meetings.

Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting Jan. 19!

The next meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group will be Tuesday, Dec. 8, 6-8 pm. We will convene at the home of AUG member Crawford Comeaux, 103 Glynnwood, Lafayette, LA, and walk together to nearby Judice Inn to gather up hamburgers and return to Comeaux's house for burgers, beer, soda, conversation and the drawing for the Adobe software package.

BURGER IS ON US, IF...

If you RSVP by Dec. 7, everything is our treat! You may still attend if you don't RSVP, but then you're on Dutch treat. If you RSVP and fail to appear, you will be plagued by a mysterious itching sensation for 31 months. This offer is limited to the first 20 RSVPs. To RSVP, simply put your name and the Dec. 8 date in an email to:

rsvp@acadiana-aug.org

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Note that the Google map algorithm places this address deeper into the street than it actually is. The real 103 is very near the corner of Glynnwood and Old Maurice Road.

We look forward to seeing you there, and to buying you a hamburger!

Update on the content of the meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group for October, 2009:

Ray Camden will give a recap of the highlights of the recent 2009 Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. James Edmunds will demo two AJAX projects; first, related auto-suggests, and, second, inline Google translations.

The October meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group will be held Oct. 20, 2009, 6-8 pm, at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

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As always, light refreshments will be served.

RON DOMINGUE'S WORDPRESS PRESO MOVES TO NOVEMBER 3

Our November meeting will be held jointly with Net2LFT, on Nov. 3, 2009, 6-8 pm, at The Lounge, 401 Jefferson St., Lafayette, LA.

We will have a presentation on WordPress given by Ron Domingue and Daniel Ketinger. We are very enthusiastic about meeting together with this group and know that this will be a great outing with a terrific presentation!

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There will be refreshments sponsored by Firefly Digital.

RAFFLE TIME!

Adobe is once again providing giveaway software, and your attendance at either meeting earns you a ticket in our December raffle drawing for an Adobe CS4 Creative Suite package! We will also have giveaways at the meetings on October 20 and November 3, just to keep up that winning mood!

The October meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group will be held Oct. 20, 2009, 6-8 pm, at Graham Group Interactive, , 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

Ron Domingue will give a presentation on WordPress. Ron is a top-flight designer with shrewd insights into how to use WordPress to achieve many tasks, with elegance.

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RAFFLE TIME!

Adobe is once again providing giveaway software, and your attendance at this meeting earns you a ticket in our December raffle drawing for an Adobe CS4 Creative Suite package! We will also have giveaways at the meeting on October 20, just to keep up that winning mood!

As always, light refreshments will be served.

The next meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group is Sept. 15, 2009, 6-8 pm, at Graham Group Interactive, , 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

SHOW AND TELL night. Several folks are coming with bits of new material to share, and we'll also have "Open Laptop" for any members to share their latest projects or even pose questions to the group. A night sure to be drenched in Adobe magic and serious helpings of jQuery!

RAFFLE TIME!

Adobe is once again providing giveaway software, and your attendance at this meeting earns you a ticket in our December raffle drawing for an Adobe CS4 Creative Suite package!

As always, light refreshments will be served.

Due to unforeseen difficulties with several speakers who were to participate in our August meeting, that meeting, originally scheduled for Aug. 25, 2009 at 6 pm, has been CANCELLED. Announcement of the revised meeting schedule will be posted soon, thanks!

We gladly pass on this information that was recently sent our way:

After looking at the initial responses as to when is best for folk, it appears as though the timeframe with the most people being available is Thursday July 16th from 5-7pm, so that's when we're going to have our CampFiber Redux.

Location will be the same as last time: the media room at the Travis Technology Center , generously donated to us by the Abacus Data Exchange.

The agenda will be roughly as follows:

5 - Happy Hour

5:30 - Welcome

5:35 - Show and tell (who's been working on cool stuff?)

6 - LUSFiber Update (should have an LUS representative there)

6:15 - LUSFiber Taskforce discussion

6:45 - Plans moving forward

If you have something cool to show off or important to discuss, let me know via email and come prepared to talk for a few minutes. Though we want to keep any presentations short, so if you have something to show try to keep it under 5 minutes plus then we can have time for Q&A.

Though like a BarCamp this schedule is mutable based on the interests/needs of the group.

The LUSFiber Taskforce is an entity I want to lead a discussion of that we can create that would help coordinate the efforts of developers and provide a more formal communication mechanism between developers and LUS.

I'm also hopeful we can get into discussing the creation of new apps and see what opportunities there are to get everyone working on cool stuff and collaborating on this development.

To register for the event go here: http://campfiberredux.eventbrite.com/

And please feel encouraged to send this link around to any other developers you know that you think should be at this event.

Additionally, to help make the day even more special, Abigail Ransonet, head of the Abacus Data Exchange, has offered to open up the media room all day for a Lafayette Jelly!

For those not familiar with the concept, a Jelly is a casual coworking space/day. Basically she's going to open up the media room, which has lots of cafe tables to facilitate groups, and everyone who works from home or has flexibility in where they operate out of can come together and be able to work around like-minded people. It's a great way to get out of the house and into a creative environment where you have people to bounce ideas off of and commune with.

The Jelly will run from 7am until 5pm on Thursday July 16th. Though the casual part of this means you can come and go as you please and not feel like you have to stay the whole time.

Like the happy hour, it will be BYOBeverages.

If you can come you'll have a place to work, people to work alongside, and all the connectivity you could want.

As Abigail says, "Real Cool, Real Comfortable, Real Time."

I may set up a wiki or eventbrite page for the Jelly as well, but for now just reply to this email if you're planning on stopping by. And please also invite anyone who you think would enjoy the Jelly mindset to join in on the fun as well.

If you have any questions let me know, otherwise go get yourselves signed up and I look forward to seeing you all soon!

Geoff 202-834-0121

There's exciting news in the world of Flex, Flash and ColdFusion, and the Acadiana Adobe User Group will get an insider look at everything that's happening when the group meets on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 6-8 pm at Graham Group Interactive, , 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

ColdFusion Jedi Ray Camden will give us a closeup view of the exciting features of newly released Flash Builder 4 (the successor to the Flex Builder line) and Flash Catalyst, as well as the "under the hood" features of the newest Flex SDK. He will give insightful info and demos about the latest in ColdFusion technology as well.

Come hungry for complimentary poorboys as well as enlightenment! Bring a thirst for free sodas as well as a thirst for knowledge! This is a launch event for Adobe, and Adobe is providing sandwiches and drinks, and we'll also have some special giveaways.

We'll also be drawing for a free Adobe CS4 Creative Suite package, and you're eligible for the drawing just by attending this event!

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We hope to see you there!