June LA Flash: Chumby-fest '08

Chumby-fest '08

Location: Rich Media Institute, Venice, California (http://www.richmediainstitute.com/contact/)
525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291
FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | NO RSVP REQUIRED | NO WEBCAST

Sponsored by Chumby, the cuddly, Flash- and wifi-enabled alarm clock. In addition to some great talks, demos and content, Chumby will give away a couple devices and other cool stuff.

And then we'll break for a sponsored party from 9P till close. Come out and network with your friends, colleagues and the community!

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Chumby will demonstrate the chumby device, the underlying Adobe Flash Lite 3 technologies, how to create, publish and share widgets using the Chumby Network, and share "insider tricks" to hack the Linux-based chumby to do other interesting things.

We will also feature a webcast with Scott Janousek, a noted speaker and developer of Flash for mobile and devices. And several LA Flashers will show off the work they've done for Chumby.

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"Gettin' Widggy with it" - Chumby Widget Development with Flash Lite

Hear about how to leverage your existing Flash skills to create Flash Lite content such as glanceable applications, ultra casual games, and much more for this uniquely fun; and surprisingly powerful; non-PC device platform.

We’ll discuss many Flash Lite widget development topics unique to the Chumby; such as: various user input methods, remote data exchange methods, security, multimedia capabilities, API, the Chumby environment/framework; and time permitting, much more.

We’ll walkthrough the creation of a simple Chumby widget from initial concept; all the way through design, development, testing, and eventual deployment to the Chumby network.

Best practices as well as some tips & tricks will be discussed.

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About the speakers:

Duane Maxwell, VP Software Development and Founder, has been a serial entrepreneur and software developer since the mid 80s, founding, among
others, Gryphon Software, developing the multiple award winning hit product "Morph." He also developed CD edutainment titles for The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros, IBM, Creative Wonders, Saban, and several other companies. After Gryphon was acquired by CUC/Cendant, Duane moved
on to start Launchpad Technologies with idealLab!, which acquired Internet industry pioneer Pointcast and became Entrypoint/Infogate, then acquired by America Online, Inc. Duane also spent some time at Linspire, developing several open source applications. Duane has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Liz Tervenski, Art Director at Chumby Industies, is responsible for creating flash content and wigets for the Chumby Network. Her prior experience was as an interaction designer at Kadium (Euro RSCG) in San Francisco working on online advertising campaigns. Her work was featured on the cover of the 2006 Graphis Young Talent book. Liz received a B.A. summa cum laude in art direction from Pratt Institute.

Scott Janousek is a Flash and mobile developer working in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an Authorized Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash Lite and co-author of Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices (Friends of Ed/Apress, ISBN: 1590595580). You can find out much more information, or contact him through his blog, at scottjanousek.com/blog/.