Wow – what a great meeting! Standing room only in the room at the last PittMFUG meeting. We had some great presentations from Max and Joe and then afterwards the giveaways started!

The Winners
Terri won the Grand Prize of $2100 worth of Adobe Software

and Joe won the O’Reilly Book Pack!

We also handed out a bunch of new Adobe Swag at the meeting as well. If you guys are interested in more photos from the event you can view them on the MFUG Flickr page or my Flickr page.

The Files
Max Kaufmann – Flash and Flex Files
Joe Kromer – Creating Screensavers with Flash and Zinc

In the Meantime
Don’t forget about our UG Holiday party on December 13th – more details to follow!

Mark your calendars! Kevin Hoyt from the Adobe Platform Evangelist team will be making another stop in Pittsburgh, the evening of February 4th, as part of a 40 city user group tour announcing Flex and AIR. A copy of Flex 3 (delivered after the launch) and the CS3 Web Premium Suite will be raffled off during the event. Adobe’s kicking in for munchies. Stay tuned for details on the venue.

This joint meeting of the three Pittsburgh Adobe User Groups will be held on Feb 4th at IMPAQT in Greentree. The presentation begins at 7pm, with networking and food starting at 6pm. Adobe is also kicking in some bucks for upgrading the food and munchies! The meeting is jointly sponsored by IMPAQT and Adobe. Click HERE for directions.

Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe. Passionate about engaging user experiences, you’ll most often find him meeting with customers, speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography and general aviation.

Mike Chambers has the scoop on the new Adobe AIR Logo on his blog. Check out his post about the new logo.

Mike Says:

I am not going to go into a detailed analysis of what the logo represents, but I do want to point out one of the core concepts behind the logo. Adobe AIR is built on top of three core web technologies (HTML, Flash and PDF), and we wanted the logo to represent this. Thus, each corner of the logo represents one of these core technologies.

I for one love it. I made a quick wallpaper in case anyone is interested. You can download it here (click to get the full-sized version):

Mike offers vector versions of the logo as well here.

Hey all you MFUGers out there!
Tomorrow is the November Meeting for the PittMFUG. More importantly, tomorrow is the Bi-annual software drawing! Someone will be winning $2100 worth of software! You HAVE to be present to win – the only exception is Jeremy Heckathorn. We also have some BIG PittMFUG announcements for you guys. Be sure you show up, bring a friend! The night’s presentations include:

Joe Kromer – The Ease of Screensaver Creation Using Flash
Max Kaufmann – Flex + Flash Working Together

If you want to present as well or want to have us review something at the meeting feel free to shoot me an email.
We got a new swag shipment in as well guys!
I look forward to seeing you there – make sure you plan to stay a little afterwards for some Guitar Hero action!