Kerala Adobe User group was honoured to conduct an event at Amrita Institute, vallikkavu where the flex developers team were able to communicate with Adobe Professional Arul Kumaran. Arul was the one who motivated us to conduct this event even when he was only available for couple of days.

My good friend Aneesh anand from Amrita made all the arrangements in coordination with Kamal Bijilani of the E-learning team at Amrita.

The Venue, Amrita Institute.

Although it was 3 hours travel from ernakulam, we made it by starting early and hiring a taxi.

The Audience

Audience were mostly starters in Flex along with some expert project leads with Java background.

The Celebrity

Arul started with the history of flash and how the whole evolution happened. He took time to answer all the queries and also demonstrated his Open Source tools which can make life easier for any Flex developer.

The Support

I made myself available as support, mostly adding bits of information to what Arul was sharing. There was a small interacttive session on game development where I tried to answer queries on gaming and 3D in flash.

The Sight seeing.

Aneesh took us around the ashram and we had the chance to see the awesome seaside view from a multistoried building. It was breathtaking and all of us enjoyed the same. On the way back we talked a lot about technology and life in general. For me it was the chance to meet up with a great person who was really down to earth and eager to share experience, that mattered the most. End of the day I was a richer guy with a new friend and lots of professional information.

Lady Juwal joined us on the way back as we had lots of pending thing to do as part of marriage preparations. It seemed like a family reunion when we three came together. Arul commented that he was happy to find a like minded person and I too realised the common energy channel running in both of us. I hope that this be the starting of a fruitful friendship, all thanks to Arul for making this happen.

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I had the privilege although accidentally, to take manage the Adobe workshop at MEC.

From Drop Box

I was informed only a couple of days prior to the event by Harish Sivaramakrishnan about the event at Model. It was a flex workshop and Adobe representation was impossible because of traveling restrictions over the Ayodhya verdict coming out that day. It was a as short a notice as it can get, so it was really hard to find people to take up the workshop. My expertise in Flex was that of a novice and I was not apt to take the workshop. After calling in a lot of favours and being denied by many, I got confirmation from Cabot Solutions. Mr. Shibu Basheer was really forthcoming and ready to provide a team of Flex experts for the event.

So i decided to take sessions on introducing the flash platform, Flex and AIR and then let the team from Cabot take the workshop. I could not create new slides and those adobe sent were not tailored to my suiting. So i decided to adapt the Key note by Ben Forta for the AFPS event. Everything went smoothly, and we did eventually run out of time. There was little issue with the flex version being dicstributed among the students and the goodies from Adobe. Goodies including Tshirts were sent by courier to my addres and it didnt reach on the date of the event. I later on delivered it to Sreedhar, the student coordinator.
Sreedhar did a wonderful job coordinating the event and also letting me have the snaps of the event.

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From BarcampKerala 5

Attended bck five point oh aka BCK5 at technopark. This one had lots of specialties to it, we had a new Tshirt being distributed (RS 220) , I was taking a session on Adobe technologies, lots of attendees and we got to travel with SEO guru Mani Karthik from dailyseoblog.com. Check out some photos here

My session slides are shared here

Now it was fun traveling with Mani as he was giving out expensive tips and help. Also being a god driver we reached prior to the organisers. When we reached there we saw Binny already present and after a little bit Anand and Kenney came along. We went to have food together which was kinda fun. We also had with us Binoy who was displaying his all new HP mini lap. The sessions were fun as Binnys session fired up new talks and discussions. Now looking forward to next one.

Some old links here : Barcamp1, Barcamp2

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