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!

The weather is warming up, and we've got lots of great things planned in upcoming months for the Acadiana Adobe User Group. Here's the schedule through October:

June 16, 2009: FLEX / CF Event

Ray Camden, the ColdFusion Jedi himself, will lead a presentation of materials provided by Adobe, detailing exciting new technologies in Flex and ColdFusion that are all ready for launch. Plus, we'll have our raffle for a CS4 Creative Suite package! This meeting will have special support from Adobe and we'll be posting more info when details are set.

July: Summer Furlough

No meeting in July. Enjoy the beach, the yard work, or whatever it is that gets you through the summer torpor!

August 25, 2009: Show and Tell

Always a popular event: various members will show current projects of interest, or even pose questions to the group. We'll announce details nearer the meeting date, and meanwhile, if you're working on a project or issue that you think would interest the group, let us know and we'll get you on the agenda!

September. 15, 2009: Word Press

Ron Domingue will take us on a tour of WordPress, a powerful and extensible publishing platform which has emerged from its role as a blogging tool to be utilized in some cases as a site CMS.

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All meetings are 6-8 pm, and are held at Graham Group Interactive, 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA., unless otherwise announced. Light refreshments are served, and we raffle off swag at every meeting.

AUG member Zachary Guidry passes along this information:

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I have been helping a client update their website. They would like to implement a shopping cart and also want to revise the graphic design for the entire site.

I have only ever implemented a cart once and don't want to have to re-learn the process! If you would like the work, let me know and I will recommend you to the client.

I can help with revising the graphics, but if you want to handle that as well as the shopping cart that is fine with me. The client is easy to work with (not pushy), down to Earth and pays quickly. If you are not interested but know of anyone else you can recommend that would like the work, let me know by email at zacharyguidry@hotmail.com.

I had set up hosting for him, but he is not tied to that webhost. The current host is Alentus.com, which supports ASP or PHP (and possibly other scripting languages). A free Access DB comes with the account, but a SQL or other DB can be added. He is not currently using a DB or any server-side scripting, so any webhost will work.

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Be sure to make note of the next meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group!

May 19, 2009 6 - 8 pm - Abigail Ransonet will give us a tour of Abacus Data Exchange, which offers web hosting, dynamically configurable virtual servers and a range of other services. She will explore some of the possibilities for developers and take us on the insider tour of the facility. Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will be held at the Travis Center at 110 Travis St., Lafayette, LA, in the Oil Center.

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Giveaways and discounts!

Adobe has once again provided a CS4 Suite package for giveaway, and we will draw for it at our June meeting. You get a raffle ticket for that drawing just for attending any of our upcoming meetings! And to set the tone (and keep in practice), we raffle something of interest at every meeting, books, t-shirts, etc.

Also, there is great news regarding User Group Member discounts from Adobe. Adobe is offering a 20% discount on all Adobe products in the North America online Adobe store, through May 31, 2009. You will need a special code to use the discount... get details from UGM James Edmunds at any upcoming meeting between now and the end of the discount offer.

We look forward to seeing you at these upcoming meetings!

The Acadiana Adobe User Group upcoming meetings for April and May:

April 21, 2009 6 - 8 pm - Zachary Guidry will present on Audio production for video and podcast. Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will be held at Graham Group Interactive, , 2014 West Pinhook Road, Suite 210, Lafayette, LA.

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May 19, 2009 6 - 8 pm - Abigail Ransonet will give us a tour of Abacus Data Exchange, which offers web hosting, dynamically configurable virtual servers and a range of other services. She will explore some of the possibilities for developers and take us on the insider tour of the facility. Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will be held at the Travis Center at 110 Travis St., Lafayette, LA, in the Oil Center.

Google map

Giveaways and discounts!

Adobe has once again provided a CS4 Suite package for giveaway, and we will draw for it at our June meeting. You get a raffle ticket for that drawing just for attending any of our upcoming meetings! And to set the tone (and keep in practice), we raffle something of interest at every meeting, books, t-shirts, etc.

Also, there is great news regarding User Group Member discounts from Adobe. Adobe is offering a 20% discount on all Adobe products in the North America online Adobe store, through May 31, 2009. You will need a special code to use the discount... get details from UGM James Edmunds at any upcoming meeting between now and the end of the discount offer.

We look forward to seeing you at these upcoming meetings!

The March meeting of the Acadiana Adobe User Group has been slightly re-scheduled to WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2009, at the Travis Center at 110 Travis St., Lafayette, LA, in the Oil Center, 6-8 pm.

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Ron Domingue will be making a presentation on the career of Joshua Davis, which promises to be a very informative and stimulating evening.

Remember, just for attending, your name goes into a raffle for an Adobe CS4 suite to be given away in a drawing at our June meeting, and we always keep in practice for our raffles by drawing at each meeting for books, t-shirts or other prizes.

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

Also, there is great news regarding User Group Member discounts from Adobe. Adobe is offering a 20% discount on all Adobe products in the North America online Adobe store, through May 31, 2009. You will need a special code to use the discount... get details from UGM James Edmunds at any upcoming meeting between now and the end of the discount offer.