Kanawha Valley Web Illustrators, Designers & Developers

Current Meeting

Our August meeting will be held at CONTACT POINTE (formerly Executrain) in LAIDLEY TOWER from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday the 24tth. We will be working on a group project that involves using multiple Adobe technologies. If you don't have your own laptop, there will be desktop machines provided. You may park in the parking building next to Laidley Tower (usually free after 6pm).

Past Meetings

July 27, 2010

Our July meeting will be held on TUESDAY, the 27th at the South Charleston Library from 6pm-8pm(ish) Topic is CFUNITED, ColdFusion/Flex/Air. There will be giveaways from CFUNITED and for those interested, we will be retiring to a local restaurant after the meeting.

March 30, 2010

Our March meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library in Room A on TUESDAY, the 30th from 6pm-8pm(ish). Topic will be the Version 1 of ColdFusion Builder!. For those interested, we will be retiring to a local eating establishment after the meeting.

February 23, 2010

Due to a scheduling problem with the library, we are going to meet from 6pm to 8pm-ish at Taylor Books on Capitol Street. Taylor Books has free wifi so if you like, bring your laptop. They also sell gourmet stuff like coffee and sweets if you want a snack. Delford Chaffin will be presenting on Building an Adobe AIR application using JavaScript.

January 26, 2010

Our January meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on THURSDAY, the 26th from 6pm-8pm(ish). Special guest Ted Rose, co-director of the Almost Heaven Chorus, will be on hand to demonstrate how to create singing valentines, using the Adobe's Audition product. Light refreshments will be served.

December 16, 2009

Our December meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on WEDNDESDAY, the 16th from 6pm-8pm(ish). We will continue our Introduction to ColdFusion topic. Bring your laptop/desktop machine that you used in the last session. If you do not have a machine , let me know. I'll try to find one for you. We will be retiring to a local restaurant for refreshments. There will be TWO software giveaways! One will be our regular members-only six-month raffle and there will also be a raffle for a copy of Flexbuilder open to all attendees!

November 24, 2009

Our November meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on Tuesday the 24th. Christine Harold will be presenting on the topic Camtasia . Light refreshments will be served.

October 27, 2009

Our October meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on Tuesday the 27th. Topic is Photowalking. We will meet at 5:30pm and walk around South Charleston snapping pictures for about an hour. Then we will end up back at the library for a bit of instruction of how to manipulate those photos with Adobe products. Inclement weather location will be the Town Center Mall. No refreshments will be served.

June 23, 2009

Our June meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on Tuesday the 23rd. Topic is Flex 4 / Flash Catalyst User Group Tour. Come learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework, Flex Builder 4 and the newest Adobe product -- Flash Catalyst. See product feature demos, and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content. Light refreshments will be served.

May 26, 2009

Our May meeting was cancelled.

April 28, 2009

Our April meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on Tuesday the 28th. Topic is Web Form Design based on the book by Luke Wroblewski, presentation given by Delford Chaffin. Go to http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/ for more information on the book. Light refreshments will be served.

March 24, 2009

Our March meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on March 24th. Topic is Web Form Design based on the book by Luke Wroblewski, presentation given by Delford Chaffin. Go to http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/ for more information on the book. Light refreshments will be served.

February 24, 2009

Our February meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on February 24th. Christine Harold will be teaching Intro to ColdFusion. Contact Christine about getting your laptop set up for the session.

January 2009 Meeting

January 2009 Meeting cancelled due to inclement weather and the library closing early.

December 16, 2008

Our December meeting will be held at Dream Catcher, LLC, 521 Slack Street on TUESDAY, December 16. Delford Chaffin will be presenting on creating videos and we hope to create a holiday video for our group. We came up with some content ideas for our video. We had two main ideas:

1) A short Holiday Video with different members saying Happy Holidays for the different languages/beliefs (Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, etc.) with a culmination of the group at the end saying Happy Holidays;

2) Animation of Santa calling out to his reindeer only calling out Adobe products instead ("on Flash....on Flex...on ColdFusion and AIR, etc.).

In fact, we may end up doing both ideas!! Please note that we plan on putting the videos on our KVWILD website and possibly on our Facebook page, (yes we have a facebook page, thanks to Delford: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32601298774).

This is roughly what we have planned, but we welcome your input as well:

6:00 - 6:30 Networking/Social/Food Time (pizza, etc.)
6:30 - 6:45 Director's Summary
6:45 - 7:00 Selection of the Cast (Volunteers Only)
7:00 - 7:30 Shooting Video (for east cast member using Adobe OnLocation)
7:30 - 7:45 Record narration for video (using Adobe Soundbooth)
7:45 - 8:30 Editing the video (using Adobe AfterEffects)
8:30 - ??? Editing the video (using Adobe Premiere)

Please note that you ARE NOT required to be in the video. It is on a volunteer basis only. This is a BYOP (bring your own props) meeting; however, Delford and I will hunt around for props as well. Also, DO NOT WEAR GREEN to the meeting or you will disappear in front of the green screen.

I need your RSVP and if you anticipate guests, how many (to order enough pizza).

Don't forget we will be doing our raffle for our 6-month Adobe software giveaway. Only regularly attending members with at least one point are eligible. Members, make sure I have your points tallied for the event.

LOCATION: The meeting will be held at Dream Catcher's offices at 521 Slack Street. Directions below:

FROM DOWNTOWN: Take Court Street away from the river until it ends at Piedmont Rd (in front of Green's Feed & Seed. Turn right and follow Piedmont about 1/10 of a mile until it intersects Slack Street. Turn left on Slack Street, go through 1 stop light about ¼ mile to two newer warehouse-type buildings on the right side of the road. The Dream Catcher building is the one on the right. The entrance is on the side of the building beside the large window.

FROM I-64. Take the Leon Sullivan/Capitol exit. Bear right off the ramp and go around the curve toward Capitol Street. Turn right on Capitol Street and follow it until it ends in front of the Capitol Market. Turn left onto Slack Street and follow it until Court Street. Turn right onto Court Street and then pick up the directions above.

If you need further help with directions, please call 342-9904.

Creating videos is a topic that most anyone enjoy, so all interested geek and non-geeks are invited. Hope to see you there!

Christine Harold Gray, User Group Manager

304.552.5530

November 4, 2008

Our November meeting was cancelled.

October 23, 2008

Our October meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on THURSDAY, October 23. Topic will be Drupal, presentation given by Delford Chaffin.

September 25, 2008

Our September meeting will be held at the South Charleston Library on THURSDAY, September 25. Topic: It’s Going To Be Brilliant. Be one of the first to see the next big thing from Adobe on September 25. Join in to see and hear first hand how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Save the date and get a good look at what’s to come.

August 21, 2008

0ur August Meeting will be held on MONDAY the 21st at the SOUTH CHARLESTON LIBRARY. Randall Kirk will be facilitating a hands-on presentation on CFECLIPSE.

Light refreshments will be served.

July 21, 2008

Christine Harold will be giving a presentation on Adobe workflows on WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2008 at the SOUTH CHARLESTON LIBRARY. Light refreshments will be served.

June 11, 2008

Christine Harold will be giving a presentation on Adobe Workflows WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2008 at the SOUTH CHARLESTON LIBRARY.

Those who have earned points will be eligible for the raffle up to $2,100 worth of Adobe software we will have this month. Light refreshments will be served.

May 8,2008

May's meeting was cancelled.

April 8,2008

Alethia Stollings will be facilitating a hands-on Photoshop CS3 Session for our April 8th Meeting in Building 7 of the State Capitol Complex. There are about 10-12 desktop units available that will be pre-loaded with Photoshop and the tools you need for the session. A wireless connection is available if you want to bring your own laptop. Light refreshments will be served.

Summary: The total time for the hands-on session will be about 1 hour. There will be 2 handouts and 2 examples files to open in Photoshop (1 hands-on and 1 example of a photo illustration).

Agenda:

About 30 Minutes:

Page 1 Introduction

Page 2 Photoshop Summary

Page 3 History

Page 4 Interface: Menu Bar, Tool Options Bar, Paletees, Moving, Closing Panels

Page 5 Workspace: Menu Items, Move Tool

Page 6 Toolbox Summary

Page 7 Clone Stamp Tool

Handouts

Handout 1: Advanced Toolbox

Handout 2: Clone Source Panel

*****10 Minute Break*****

About 20 Minutes:

Page 8 Sliders and Dialog Boxes

Page 9 Layers

Open File Photo Illustration

Example 1:

About Layers

Hiding Layers

Naming Layers

Open File Multicap Photo Illustration

Example 2:

Example of a finished photo illustration and its elements

Page 10 End Page

March 11,2008

As you may have heard, Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will be the focus of our March 11, 2008 special meeting! Adobe is sponsoring this meeting with food, giveaways and a raffle copy of Adobe Flex Professional. If 50 people or more attend this meeting, we will also be able to raffle a copy of Adobe CS3!!

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, delivering rich applications on the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write RIAs on the desktop using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR at this meeting.

The location for this meeting is the State Capitol Complex, WV Employee Development Center (Building 7), in the Training Labs area on the 1st floor.