on AIR Tour European Cities and Dates
February 19th, 2008 by Mike ChambersAs you may have noticed, we have just updated the on AIR tour website, with new cities, dates and information for the European leg of the tour.
Here are the cities:
- Madrid – March 31
- Paris – April 2
- Amsterdam – April 4
- Brussels – April 7
- London – April 9
- Stockholm – June 2
- Berlin – June 4
- Warsaw – June 6
- Prague – June 9
- Munich – June 11
- Milan – June 13
Each event is a free full day event where you can learn everything you need to know to start building applications for Adobe AIR using Flash, Flex, JavaScript and HTML.
You can register for the event here.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t bring the bus to Europe, so we will be packing a backpack, and riding the trains across the continent to get to all of the cities (although I have been told I am crazy for taking the train from London to Dublin!).
You can find a list of all of the confirmed speakers on the tour page, and each individual city page contains a complete schedule. We are pretty flexible on both the schedules and speakers, so check back often for new session and speaker info (and if you want to do a session, or maybe demo an app you have been working on, just email me at onair@adobe.com.)
So, who is the event targeted at? Basically, anyone doing web development, which includes Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, ColdFusion, etc… If you are deploying web applications to the browser, and are interested in allowing those applications to also take advantage of the desktop, then this event will be useful for you. There are both Flash / Flex and HTML / JavaScript focused sessions, with the rest of the sessions relevant to both Flash and JavaScript based development. Unless otherwise noted on the schedules, the sessions are presented in English.
The thing that I really enjoyed about the North American tour, was all of the opportunities we got to meet other developers interested in Adobe AIR and doing web development. We have scheduled in plenty of breaks and networking (i.e. beer drinking) sessions, to ensure everyone has a chance to chat. We will also have the Xboxes and wiis set up in case you need a break from all of the technical discussions.
This isn’t like a regular “marketing event”, so it might not be as polished around the edges as some of the other events you have been to (but this gives us a lot of flexibility to change the schedule and add new sessions). It is a conference for developers, put on by developers, and because of that, we are really relying on word of mouth to help drive awareness of the events. So, if you are interested in it, or know someone that might be, please let them know about it. If you would like to blog about the tour, you can use this image:
and can also grab a vector version of it from the tour’s google code project.
If you want to keep up with what is going on with the tour (both before and during the events), then keep an eye on this blog, as well as our twitter account. You can find a complete list of information and feeds from the tour on the website.
You can find all of the information on the on AIR website, and you can register here.
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Hi Mike,
How about you guys do like Bill Perry and use 3G phones and QIK to stream from the event? http://www.flashdevices.net/2008/02/qik-youtube-meets-twitter.html
That should deliver way better video quality that it was possible on the US tour?
J
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I just tried to send an email to onair@adobe.com, and i got the response: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 No such user – psmtp
Anyway, here’s the message I wanted to send:
I’ve noticed there is a break in your European schedule between early April and early June — why not go down a path less traveled and visit the Southeastern Europe? Specifically, it would be great if you could come to Zagreb, Croatia, around May 8/9 when we’ll be having the premier SEE Web event, the Web.Start conference (details at http://webstart.ini.hr).
If this sounds interesting, feel free to drop me a note.
Sincerely,
Berislav Lopac.
Jensa,
re: 3g. Yes, we are definitely looking into that right now.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
Berislav,
Sorry about the email error, we are looking into that. As far as coming down to Croatia, I would love that! Unfortunately, it is a little too late for us to bring the entire tour down there, although perhaps we can set up a smaller event sometime?
Ill ping some of the European people here about the Web.Start conference.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
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Hi Berislav,
Can u please get in touch with me regarding Web.Start in Croatia?
My email: eduvos@adobe.com
Thanks,
E-
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