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 2/8/2007 1:59:05 PM
DonnyEMU
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MIDAS Innaugural Meeting

You are invited to attend the inaugural meeting of a new group

Michigan's
Interactive
Designers
and
Software Development

Date: February 27, 2007
Time: 6:30PM
Location: 

Frenchie's
56 E. Cross St.
Ypsilanti,MI
Phone: (734) 483-5230

Driving Directions

 
The group's focus is Interactive Design for the Microsoft and Adobe designers who are looking to design great user experiences:
 
Our first meeting will feature:
  • An overview of Expression Web (featuring a walkthru of it's features and creating a website). Expression Web is a new Microsoft product, centered around design using web standards.
  • Cool applications created with Expression Blend (Microsoft's WPF Interactive Design Program)
    • A look at designer's already using Expression and the applications they are creating.
      • Metalliq.com's Snowboard WPF Application (3D, Video, and GPS integration)
      • The Otto Online Shopping Experience (a WPF 2d/3D shopping app from the folks who own Crate and Barrel).
  • A look at the WPF Design Process
  • A review of the WPF/E cross-platform February CTP and discusssion about adding WPF/E video to your website and a discussion of the VC-1 high definition video codec that can be used with WPF/E.
  • Open Question and Answer session for people wishing to enhance their design skills. We will with audience participation attempt to answer questions on popular topics like Photoshop, Expression Design, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Flex, Xaml, XML, and others.
 
Please note while the meeting is free to attend Frenchie's is donating space for the meeting and will be offering food and drink for the meeting. We'd like to get an idea if you are attending or not so we can appropriately reserve enough space. please email us to let us know you are attending:
 
 
We highly recommend that you come to the meeting and order something for yourself to eat or drink at the meeting so that we can keep the meeting space available to us for future meetings for free for the group. The food from SideTrack/Frenchies is great and they have a world famous burger that just can't be beat.


 2/8/2007 2:11:55 PM
DonnyEMU
3 posts


Re: MIDAS Innaugural Meeting

Original Post Clarification:  Food at the meeting will be offered for purchase  during the meeting by SideTrack/Frenchie's. Please consider ordering something during the meeting. Until the group forms and we have a budget for food and drink during meetings, it's up to you individually.

 2/9/2007 3:34:40 AM
Dave Baldwin
72 posts


Re: MIDAS Innaugural Meeting

Sounds like an interesting group.
Do you have a website I can add you to our links page.
I am going to try to make it on 27th.


Dave Baldwin
 2/11/2007 12:07:55 AM
DonnyEMU
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Re: MIDAS Innaugural Meeting

We don't have one as of yet, during the first meeting we will discuss things like dues, websites, etc.  We hope to do a logo design contest as well. For now you can direct people to:

http://ixd.meetup.com/7/

Our meetup.com homepage..

Our group is aimed at Designers and programmers that work with designers..

We might have some special guests at the meeting from Microsoft from their new design wing (fingers crossed, don't want to jinx it by pre-announcing, it's only a possibility)..

 

-Don

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