Adobe Camps

Welcome to the Adobe Camps group! Adobe Camps is a program that supports small regional events that align to corporate goals and product intitatives for the current fiscal year. Adobe Camps are:

• celebrations of the talents of the local community. They showcase the skills of local developers and designers to inspire and train the attendees. Adobe speakers also participate in Camps when its possible.
• events that expose people to Adobe tools. This is done using many creative approaches, such as demos, hands-on trainings, and team coding sessions to just name a few

• events that feature case studies and examples of projects built using Adobe technologies
• events that raise awareness of the local Adobe community and introduce attendees to the local user groups
• small regional events that are typically funded on a case-by-case basis and are typically funded at $500 - $2500/event.  Any events funded at larger amounts must be reviewed by the Adobe Community team and their is a funding ceiling each quarter for ALL (aggregate) events funded.  Note: Adobe Camps are not intended to be recurring annual events.
  

Sample Cost Sheet for Adobe Camp Organizer - Please Consider Using this document.
Entry posted on Jan 25 by thisishouston

Hello Adobe Camp Organizers,

For those who do not know, there have been some significant personnel changes that has occurred with the Adobe Community Team; We hope to have these changes communicated to the community-at-large sometime very soon.

But, with the changes in Adobe's focus noted in this press release in November:

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/adobe’s-transformation.html

We will have to make some changes in the way Adobe Camps Program Application Process and ask for some additional details with each application.  We will be asking Camp Organizers to be more detailed about the information on how they will be spending their sponsorship monies in their submission of the Camp sponsorships.  We have a document that may help in this process.

One of the User Group Managers, recently submitted an Adobe Camps application with this follow-up document/spreadsheet -- A Sample Event Cost Sheet.

It is a very good organizational document... and would be helpful if folks would consider using something like this when asking for Camp Funding. It is not required, but  I would recommend using something like it when submitting your application.  The Adobe Community team has gotten smaller, so anything the Camp Organizers can do to show that they are more organized and know exactly how they will spend Adobe Sponsorship money... it will help.

Lastly, I want to point out that the funding of Adobe Camps is not automatic; There has been a perception that Adobe will be funding Camps at the same level and in the same locations year after year; this may change as Adobe's business needs and focus changes.  Please, Please prepare for this and get approval for your camp funding before starting to advertise your Adobe Camp.

Cordially,

Aaron Houston

Adobe Community Mgr

San Jose, Ca

Flash Camp Hanoi 2010 Overview
Entry posted on Aug 21 by Tra Dang

Hi everybody,

I'm Dang Huong Tra - co-camp chair of Flash Camp Hanoi 2010 which was organized on 27th Nov 2010 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

We shared an overview of Flash Camp Hanoi on our website: http://flashcamphanoi.com.vn/?lang=en However, I believe that posting it here will give us a better connection. Flash Camp Hanoi hopes to be gotten advice for the next camp from you guys and always be willing to share experiences with you :)

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With various activities such as diccussions, workshop (game making competition) , Q&A, knowledge from basic to advenced, Flash Camp Hanoi attracted 200 pariticipants from technological companies ,universities and colleges ,including the members having experience with flash platform or students who want to approach to Flash. The following photo reportages will show the excitement of Flash Camp Hanoi:

The biggest regret was the absence of Peter, so we lost one topic but don’t worry, five others are still interesting  :

The feature of Flash – Thuan Do The
This topic gave us a more adequate perspective on the strengths of Flash, the fields that Flash was dominating. They were web applications requiring both computing power and interactive solutions; Flash was also a good choice when you wanted to build a game on the web. In Q&A period, we also saw the fundamental differences between HTML5 and Flash as well as the ability that they would clash when we chose technology solution was not as much as we thought.

Quick demo of HTML5 and Flash in a real application – Dung Nguyen Quang and Tam Nguyen Manh
They showed the concerns in choosing technology. Going into the subject we see the comparison and evaluation of the performance between Flash and HTML5 and the solution that Garagames selected for their product.

Augmented Reality in Flash – Thanh Tran Trong
It was a demo series of applying FLAR toolkit to augmented reality applications. From the normal display of a photograph appearing on hand to interactive 3D games made the exciment for the audiences.

Talking and sharing experience with Flash community – Linh Nguyen Ngoc
It was an opportunity for Flash communitiy in Vietnam to come together and  share their future orientation and plans in order to satisfy firms' Flash human resource.

Optimazing in animation and design Flash – Nhat Ton Tuan
Through this topic, Mr. Nhat wanted to share his experience in optimazing Flash products. This topic was very useful not only for Flash designer, but also for Flash developers to reduce the processes for users’ computers.

Hacking Flex and PHP – Duong Thach
Not only the staff from big companies but the students also wanted to contribute to Flash Camp Hanoi. Although Duong Thach - a student from Hanoi Technology University - was still very young, he brought a deeply academic topic to Flash Camp Hanoi: Hacking Flex and PHP.  This subject sounded like stranger with many members but applying AMF to Flash products had got attention of professionals because AFM brought out a solution of optimized protocol, system load reduction, security … Moreover, Thach Duong shared his experiences and the way to take full advantage of Zend framework power in combining PHP with Flash.

Now come to Student workshop : game building competition !
Three team had successfully completed ! They made funny ,interesting games in five hours, can’t you believe?

With the help of team supevisors , judegs and attendees really surprised about the quality of products ,especially the creativity of the members, for example: a team without designer could design by powerpoint !!!

Ha ,Quan and supervisor Hien were introducing Matching Game !!!

Thai ,Duy ,Toan, Loi were introducing Gay Typing Game , a perfect game in five hours.

Tung ,Hoa ,Toan and supervisor Loc with their product:Captured mosquitoes .

Finally, the winner was Matching game.

Quiz questions about Flash got enthusiastic participation with many witty and intelligent answers

The participants wrote entries for Flash Camp Hanoi.

Flash Camp Hanoi really had been very successful. Many thanks to Flash community, HAFUG, Adobe, FOF, Garagames and FPT University. Hopefully the future will have more activities like this for the Flash community.

For more information, please see:

Photos of the Camp  

Presentations 

Student workshop's products

Flash Camp Brasil Overview 3
Entry posted on May 11 by Demian Borba

Hello everybody,

My name is Demian Borba, and in January 2010, I had the pleasure to organize the first Flash Camp in Brazil.

My journey with Flash Camp Brazil began in late 2008, when I was working for EFM as Sr. Flash Developer. In October of that year, me and my colleague Erwin Haya (then an illustrator for EFM) were invited to participate in the first Flash Camp to be held before the release of Flash CS4.

Flash Camp 2008 San Francisco was organized by Dom Sagolla, then an Adobe employee, and gathered 200 developers and designers over two days, where teams were created to produce apps using the not released Flash CS4. While the teams produced, several speeches were held simultaneously. This event followed the model barcamp, explained by Dom in the video he did for Flash Camp Brazil in 2010, titled "The spirit of Flash Camp".

Video "The spirit of Flash Camp": http://www.youtube.com/flashcampbrasil

In the same event, we were super excited to win "the coolest app" award. We created a simple app done in AIR, called Surf Alarm, which used several new functions that would be launched in Flash CS4 (2.5 D, XML parsing and Inverse Kynematics).

Blog post about the coolest app award: http://efmexperience.com/html/blog/efm-wins-coolest-app-award-at-flash-camp-san-francisco/

After participating in the Adobe Max 2008, I was informed that Adobe was creating a plan to support other Flash Camps, to be hosted by other members of the Flash community in the United States and other countries. It was when I started thinking about bringing this event to Brazil, a country with a very talented and active Flash community, but lacking in events of this level.

During 2009, I attended several Flash Camps in several American cities, where I was observing and noting POSITIVE POINTS, such as the level of the speakers, the event structure, number of lectures, schedules, food, exhibitors area etc, and NEGATIVE POINTS, such as lack of cables for monitors of some speakers, weak/instable public internet, difficult location, lack of punctuality in some cases etc..

In mid-August 2009, I defined a basic structure for a possible Flash Camp Brasil, to be held in January 2010 and applied on the Adobe website. After several  conversations with John, Rachel and Stacey, my camp was approved.

That same year, 2009, during Adobe Max, I started the promotion strategy of Flash Camp Brazil. I prepared 100 shirts with the words "FLASHCAMPBRASIL.COM.BR" and distributed them among people found to be key points, such as Adobe's members, community leaders, potential sponsors etc.. Remember that at that time I was not even with a website, neither with the line of speakers closed. It was also at Adobe Max where I met some of the sponsors, as Influxis, Lynda.com and also some companies which ended up not closing the sponsorship with Flash Camp Brazil, like HP and Universal Mind. And finally I confirmed the presence of two more American speakers (who I met at Adobe Max 2009) and made the invitation in person, giving away a T-shirt. They were Lee Brimelow and Josh Hirsch. Of course I invited these two after attending his lectures and getting really impressed with the quality of the presentations. It is worth remembering that it is very important, for the success of your event, that you choose very carefully who the speakers will be. Watch their lecture in person before inviting is crucial. Even though these people are extremely well known, all were super receptive and very interested in the invitation. Another tip, do not be afraid to invite a famous speaker, they are mere humans, like you.

Still at Max, I recorded a video with a handheld camera, interviewing big names in the Flash Platform, including Kevin Lynch and edited the video to call further attention to the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ7FLeep0ZU

A strategy I used in Flash Camp Brazil was to host the event on a Friday and a Saturday, because on Sunday I could do a tour with the speakers and sponsors, focusing on networking and especially to please these people. With this idea, the event became even more interesting for the speakers.

After distributing Flash Camp with Brazil shirts at Max, I returned to San Diego and I made the sponsorship kit in two languages, English and Portuguese, because many companies would be American and other companies would be in Brazil. I made an estimate of overhead costs like rental of conference room, air tickets for the speakers (Brazilians and Americans), accommodations, rental of the sound system etc, and divide the costs in quotes (gold, silver, bronze and support).

Sponsorship Kit in English: http://www.flashcampbrasil.com.br/kit/SponsorshipKit_FlashCampBrasil.pdf
Sponsorship Kit in Portuguese: http://www.flashcampbrasil.com.br/kit/KitDePatrocinio.pdf
* Feel free to edit or use my sponsorship kit as a basis for your event

During three months, October to December, I focused on sending the proposals to several companies. I asked for help to some organizers of other camps to get their sponsors contact info, but unfortunately no one answered. I had to keep myself filling up contact forms, calling companies where I didn't know people, and contacting directly one by one, presenting the project, receiving numerous "no" s, but at the same time, receiving many "yes" s. The important thing is to maintain the focus and enthusiasm about your event.

Also during these three months, I contacted key community leaders of the Flash Platform in Brazil and some other countries, which were fundamental to the promotion of the event. Remember that this is not an event focused on profits, it is a community-oriented event. Then look for strong names in the communities, that information will dissipate rapidly to other members.

The goal was always to bring visitors to the site event: www.flashcampbrasil.com.br (with English and Portuguese versions).
After the event, visitors to the site had come from 87 countries and more than 50 blog posts were written about the event.

Throughout the process of promoting Flash Camp Brasil, I used the following services:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/flashcampbrasil
YouTube (channel): http://www.youtube.com/flashcampbrasil
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=flashcampbrasil&m=tags

Also, on the event site I created some badges (simple jpg images) to be added to the blogs of the speakers and attendees, with the messages: I WILL BE THERE, SPEAKER, SPONSOR, all with links to the camp site. This increased greatly the traffic to the site of Flash Camp Brazil.

During the event, which was held on January 15&16 of 2010, we managed to gather an audience of 380 attendees, plus 210 people watching the live broadcast we did via web. Just to clarify, the live broadcast was made using the Adobe Connect account available to all user groups, through a Internet connected computer, right in front of the main event screen. The costs? Zero. We partnered with the best internet provider in town, trading their services for one gold sponsor quote, and a result of that, we had a special link, with a fixed IP, only for Flash Camp Brazil. It was one of the few events where we followed tweets speaking good words about the WiFi, which never crashed and was very stable. Another tip, if possible, separate two WiFi networks, one for the speakers and one for the public, to avoid traffic and slow connectivity, especially for the speakers during their presentations.

We also provided three meals (coffee breaks) with regional dishes of Maceió, the city where the event took place.

One of the most important points: Punctuality. Follow strictly all schedules. A good planning strategy is to imagine, step by step, a week before, all that can occur, and think of every detail. For example, imagine that the participant will enter the hotel, register, pick up the folder, badge and head to the main conference room ... etc.. Imagine every step, every moment, until the closing. So you can better prepare for surprises that could hurt the smooth running of your camp.

After the event, after the last lecture, we thanked all sponsors and attendees, and made a raffle of products such as iPods, software and other freebies. Believe me, everyone waits until the last moment if you have a good raffling. This was the climax of the event, with a lot of interaction, and a very excited audience.

On Sunday we did a boat trip with the sponsors and speakers, to a beach paradise in the city of the event.
And on Sunday night and Monday morning, the speakers returned to their towns, relaxed and happy to see the union of the Flash community in Brazil.

Due to the success of the event, we were "required" to organize a new edition in 2011, probably in April of 2011.

It was very stressful, especially during the event, but I can guarantee it was worth every penny and every drop of sweat invested. See the joy and excitement of the attendees, because they are interacting with their professional idols, is priceless.

It is a unique and unforgettable experience.

Thanks Adobe for giving me the opportunity to organize Flash Camp Brazil. And all the luck to you in your camp.

All the best,

Demian
Twitter: @demianborba
Email: demian.borba@actioncreations.com

Some pictures of Flash Camp Brasil 2010

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Entry posted on Apr 09 by john_koch

Adobe Camps – what are they?
Entry posted on Apr 09 by john_koch

Here are some observations to help clarify what Adobe Camps are all about.

Adobe Camps are…

• celebrations of the talents of the local community. They showcase the skills of local developers and designers to inspire and train the attendees. Adobe speakers also participate in Camps when its possible.
• events that expose people to Adobe technology. This is done using many creative approaches, such as demos, hands-on trainings, and team coding sessions to just name a few.
• events that raise awareness of the local Adobe community and introduce attendees to the local user groups.
• events that feature information on any Adobe products.

Adobe Camps are not…

• sales and marketing opportunities for Adobe or any other company.
• user group meetings. One of the objectives of Camps is to introduce new people to the local Adobe community. The attendees would hopefully plan to attend local user group meetings after the Camp is over.
• Adobe-run events. Camps are run by a community leader who agrees to own the organization of the event. Adobe is ready to assist the event organizer with advice on organizing the event, promotion help and financial support.
• only large events. Proposals for Camps with a large number of attendees as well as proposals for smaller Camps are considered for support by Adobe.

Please log in and join this group to submit a new Camp proposal!

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