Flashing in the City
24 August 2008 – 10:14 am
FlashForward was just in San Francisco and this was the first one I’ve been to that was run by Metalliq and not Lynda.com.
We had a booth right near the entrance and had a lot of foot traffic. Between the office, booth, and conference, I only made to a few sessions. Unfortunately the general buzz of the conference was disappointment.
Instead of the usual format of multiple sessions running at the same time, Metalliq daisy-chained all of the session into a large dark auditorium with no tables and instead of having inspirational and learning sessions they also decided to go with all inspirational. So new Flash users who were hoping to learn something were stuck watching portfolio and site reviews of more advanced designers and developers without gaining any knowledge on how to reach that level.
The last day of the conference I was talking to one Metalliq organizers and they mentioned that they were happy with the turn out but realized they need to switch it up for the next conference.
In either case, it was great catching up with my Flash friends and I made some new ones as well. 
