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Flash Camp!
One day mini-conference on many aspects of Flash design & development. Good learning, networking and inspiration opportunity for the STL. New this year, we are doing some divided designer / developer sessions.
While summer camps everywhere are ending, the good news is... that Flash Camp is coming to town! Wooohoooo! Move over Space Camp, we're going to get some actionscript on bitches!
We find it funny that, with so many quality sponsors (Toky, 4ORCE, Momentum, etc.) , the website seems to be a WP skin, there is absolutely no flash on the site, and the logo (not the one above) looks like it was made in MS Paint. The schedule also looks fairly slim and it's confusing when looking at the amount of speakers there will be. (Update: Looks like they added some more schedule points to the list)
We're not blaming anyone (we're guessing the site was a volunteer project) and we're sure it's probably a totally worthwhile event for the cost; some good local names are going to be speaking.
And hey, if it is a bust, just get up and start climbing around the City Museum. You may now begin debating the worth of flash in the future of web design.... now.
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You say MS Paint like it's a bad thing.
Thanks, Egotist. Way to boost a major St. Louis innovation event.
Remind me not to feed you news about mine any more.
Yeah, JP should have done more with the design, but he's a dev, not a designer. And it's a dev focused event. Maybe if the local design community stepped up their involvement in the interactive space, it'd be different.
Getting St. Louis designers to go to anything about technology and innovation is like getting cats to go to a bathtub full of rottweilers.
@J.Jeffryes
We think giving Flash Camp a specialized news feature on it's existence (where marketing of the event has been rather slim) is quite the boost. But if you think that we'll just blindly advertise events without having an opinion on them, you can totally submit them to your own google calendar and promote them yourself.
This is the St. Louis EGOTIST - not the St. Louis Developer's Event Promotions website. If something looks sub-par or not well thought out, we will clearly voice this. You said it yourself, it's a dev-focused event. Why should the local design community step itself up in the interactive space? Why can't designers focus on being good designers and developers focus on being good developers? Obviously, part of being "good" is a knowledgeable acceptance of each other and working together to achieve the most positive outcome is an important part of the process (where design & dev are in tandem).
How many developers do you know that go to art & design focused events?
(BTW, We do encourage people to check it out at the bottom of the post, regardless of site aesthetics, for some individuals we respect will be presenting. And we know that JP was happy that we promoted the event, even if we are opinionated sons (&daughters) of bitches. Not telling us about future events will do nothing to boost future events visibility.)
The design community in St. Louis needs to step up in the interactive space because that's where the design community in the rest of the world has already gone.
When you have an event like Flash Camp, Innovation Camp, Startup Weekend, or any of the other innovation events in St. Louis, they're 70% developers, 25% business people, and 5% designers.
In cities that have thriving, growing design communities, that mix is 40/10/40.
If St. Louis doesn't want to be left behind the design community needs to be directly involved in the growing entrepreneur and startup scene.
Otherwise designers are surrendering the new ideas and business models to tech and business people, and wondering why they don't have jobs any more.
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