Third Thursday of the month at 6:30pm
Hey all you MFUGers! Great meeting last night. We covered a lot of Perlin Noise at the meeting and as promised, here are the files from the presentations:
Val’s Files
Noise and Particles
Ben’s Files
Fire!!!
We look forward to seeing you guys at the next meeting. We plan on having the big software raffle for real this time 
. You must be present to win! See you in June.
Podcast 20 is now available from the PittMFUG crew. We had special guest Julian Dolce on the podcast!
Julian Dolce
Director Creative Technology, Fuel Industries, Ottawa
Bio from FITC:
Julian Dolce is a Creative Technologist with Fuel Industries in Ottawa, concentrating on creating Flash Applications, Flash Multi-User Environments and Immersive web solutions. While at Fuel Julian has worked on projects for Coors Light, Panasonic, Pepsi, and MegaBloks.
Julian is also involved in improving Fuel’s Flash team workflow by extending the Flash Authoring Environment and creating code libraries so the team can be more efficient. He is actively involved in the Flash development community, and can be found lurking on many Flash mailing lists. He is also one of the main contributors and authors of Fuel’s web blog.
iTunes users: Click here.
Direct Feed URL: http://www.pittmfug.com/podcast/podcast.xml. If you don’t listen to podcasts or subscribe you can always download the mp3 itself here.
Our May meeting is this Thursday, May 15th. If you want to get meeting info in your inbox, use the form on the right to subscribe to our mailing list.
We have two presentations booked for this month’s meeting:
FIRE!!!!, Ben Pritchard
Ben will demo how to create a fire effect in Flash. Or, he may just set fire to the table… no one can be sure.
Particles in Perlin Noise, Val Head
Perlin noise is the official theme of this meeting! Val will show some of the perlin noise variations that Flash can natively create. She’ll also show and example of how to get particles to animate “through” perlin noise.
Meeting details:
Thursday May 15h
6:30pm
at New Perspective
(directions linked on the right –>)
FYI: We’ll be holding the meeting upstairs this month. If you arrive after 6:30pm the front doors will be locked and you’ll have to call the number posted on the door to get in.
As all your MFUGers know, Flashpitt has been officially announced. If you have a blog, grab a banner to help get the word out.
Flashpitt 2008 will take place on October 10th 2008 at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh. National industry leaders will be present to educate, inspire, and engage the region’s New Media community. Check out flashpitt.com for more info.
We’ll be announcing more details like confirmed speakers and ticket prices as soon as that info. becomes available. Joing the announcement list or follow flashpitt on twitter to be the first to get the news.
I have been bombarded with openings for Flash developers lately. It detracts from the blog to constantly post the openings. I think I will start posting them in the Yahoo Group for the PittMFUG. I was recently sent a few so if you are an aspiring Flash developer in look for work make sure you check out our Yahoo group. You all DID know we have a PittMFUG Yahoo Group right….?