Adobe Chennai Flex User Group

The first Flex bootcamp was successfully conducted by CFUG, RIA-RUI society and Griffin Education. The event started around 1:00 PM on 22nd January.

What exactly happened in the event?

1:30 PM: Students from the department of Computer Science and Engg, Information Technology were present at the event hall. Around 200 students were present.

1:40 PM: The event was kick started by a welcome speech from Sathish, Head Executive RIA-RUI. Followed him was the Dean of Veltech, Vice Principal and Ananth, Founder RIA-RUI who addressed the students.

2:10 PM: It was time to start the real bootcamp. Ananth started to present “introduction to Flash Platform” and “Introduction to RIA”. Before going to the PPT’s he showed a video of “Adobe and Avatar” for 2:30 mins. He explained how Adobe technologies were used in the real world.

2:20 PM: Ananth talked about Flash Platform and how web has evolved in the past decade. He talked more about RIA and lots of technical jorgans. He continuously interacted with the students, so that the students weren’t distracted.

3:05 PM: Next part of the event was the hands-on session. The session was conducted by me(Karan, CFUG Manager). I gave a basic overview of Flex Builder and how students can get started. I started to build a simple Login Form Application using Flex Builder 3 and gave a quick introduction to components in Flex.

3:40 PM: I finished my hands-on session. As expected, students were excited about Flex. Most of them said that they would try a hand. After this, Vinod from Griffin Eduction did a small presentation.

3:50 PM: Sathish did a vote of thanks as students rushed out to their college bus.

4:00 PM: We took some snaps along with Griffin Team.

It was a wonderful experience overall. First event for CFUG, RIA-RUI and Griffin.

I thank Veltech management for their support. A special thanks to Griffin who sponsored the event. Not but least, thanks to Sathish for co-ordinating and organizing the event and making this event a success.

I also thank Ramesh and Harish from Adobe, for their timely help. I look forward to have more support from them.

We will do many more events in the coming months. Follow the activities of the group at http://twitter.com/chennaiflexug

Follow Ananth: http://twitter.com/ananthmani
Follow Karan: http://twitter.com/prabhakaran_v
Follow Sathish: http://twitter.com/followriarui

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Welcome Speech by Sathish

Ananth adressing students

Ananth welcoming Karan

Veltech College Students

RIA-RUI Team

RIA - Griffin Team

Sathish and Ananth