O’Reilly is hosting another fun, free Ignite Boston event scheduled in Boston on September 11, 2008!

The fourth Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, September 11, from 6 to 10pm at the Hooley House, one block from Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA. This is a larger venue, so the acoustics will be better than our last event and there will be room to sit, stand and mingle.

From 6:00-6:45 pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs (Friends of O’Reilly), alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. After the mingling and social stuff, we’ll have a couple of special keynote presentations to kick off our Ignite talks. Then, on to guest speakers who’ll catch you up on the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in technology today. Don’t blink or you’ll miss their lightning-fast, five-minute presentations. During intermissions, get a cold beer and chat with speakers, sponsors, and O’Reilly’s own editors. Join us Thursday, September 11th, for a fun, energetic evening of talking, learning, collaborating and drinking!

Check out the events and activities of our previous Ignite events. RSVP if you plan to attend by emailing IgniteBoston at oreilly dot com. This will also enter you in a contest to win $300 worth of O’Reilly books of your choosing. You must be present to win. There will likely be other items like tee-shirts and other promo items for those who alert us ahead that they plan to attend.

Ignite is a user-generated event. If you’re interested in speaking, then submit a proposal for consideration.

Presentations must:

Be no longer than 5 minutes

Be on an innovative topic (no sales pitches, please!)

Be viewable on a PC [a MacBook Pro with Powerpoint and Keynote, and PDF] with standard AV equipment

Did we mention, no Sales Pitches.

For anyone that’s never been to Ignite, you may find it useful to see a talk or two. Here’s a link to a few good examples from Ignite Boston 3.

If you are interested, check out the Ignite site.

The Boston Flash Platform User Group is meeting and the topic is Red5.

Here are the details:

“This month, Chris Allen will present on Building Red5 Applications.

The meeting is Wednesday, July 23, 7:00 pm at the NEIA Annex, 303 Boylston Street, Brookline.”

Also, those that aren’t aware … Chris Allen (and some of the crew over at infrared5) are the ones behind the October scheduled “Flash on Tap” – Beer & Flash technology conference.

There is an EWAD meeting this Friday, at Fable Vision in Boston at 2pm.

Here is more info:

Eric Rosenbaum, a Research Assistant from the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab will be presenting lots of fun goodies at our next

EMAWD Meeting this Friday (6/11) @ 2PM

He’ll be sharing:
The $100 Laptop XO and some fun things to do with it
MmmTsss: playful musical looping software
S4SL: Scratch for Second Life
Lego stuff: this will be a surprise!

The meeting will be at FableVision (http://www.fablevision.com/info/directions/index.html).

Cookies will be served.

See you there!

-Brian

Last week, I was in San Francisco for some planned activities at Adobe.

Although I can’t go into specific details on the going’s on there, it was great to speak with the mobile team, as well as some other community members who attended the events.

Next month, I will be heading out to San Jose for another community based Adobe event. I hope to see many of you there as well!

All in all, there are lots of exciting happenings within the world of Flash Mobile these days … and the year is still young.

Events are lining up for this year …

Just confirmed that I will be at this year’s Adobe Community 2008 summit. Details are not finalized, however those that are privvy (UGM’s and ACE’s) know approximately when, where, and what the event details are.

I’ll post more about it as it shapes up and I am allowed to discuss (on a very high level).