Earlier this week I sent an email out to a bunch of Flasher’s in the Boston area to see who might be interested in getting together, either as a formal group or a “beer and a design pattern” discussion. I guess the timing was right, because suddenly we find ourselves with an official sanction to start a Macromedia User Group.
Now, there is already an official MMBUG here, but rather than having a dozen newcomers come in and take over their group with all Flash stuff, we decided to start our own group, specifically targetting Flash, Flex, Flash Mobile, the entire Flash Platform, Rich Internet Application Building, Patterns in ActionScript / Flex, etc., and have been given the OK by MM to do so.
We need to do a couple steps to complete the new group checklist, one is to get a web site up and list our first meeting on it, and hold monthly meetings. For now we are throwing up a WordPress site. Shortly, we will have the domain, http://www.bfpug.com.
There is also a mailing list, which you are free to subscribe to at: http://bit-101.com/mailman/listinfo/bfpug_bit-101.com.
Now we just need to decide where and when to meet. If you are in the Boston area and have any ideas, chime in. I’ll be out of town from the 11th to the 15th, so probably some time after that.
As we would say around here: “Wicked” cool.
Maybe even “wicked pissa!”
oh so nice…
Cool, I just applied yesterday for to have one in Atlanta. I’m the organizer of the Flash Meetup Group (www.flash.meetup.org/112) but I’m forced to use Meetup’s site. Hopefully MM will approve my application to create one!
-Danny
Beer patterns and design! Sounds excellent! I’m in, though only part time Bostonian.
🙂
-Bo