We just implemented a volume discount for Grant Skinner's 3-day Flash MX 2004 Enterprise Development workshop in May. Sign two people up for a 15% discount and three or more for a 25% discount. This promotion ends May 14th.

I just noticed that we had the date wrong in the last post (now fixed -- thanks to Peter Elst for the catch!) Grant's workshop will be held May 24th-26th, 2004. Sorry for any confusion this might have caused.

We have an amazing month planned at the London MMUG for May.

To kick off Macromedia's Community Week, we will be hosting the Worldwide-MMUG meeting in London on May 19th. We've been told that we'll be getting never-before-seen sneak peaks at certain Macromedia products during this event. Then, the very next day, we're got two of the Flash world's most famous names, Grant Skinner and Mike Chambers presenting at our monthly meeting. Grant will show us how to create simulations of autonomous lifeforms and Mike Chambers will share his (and Macromedia's) vision for the future of Flash. Grant will also be holding a three-day workshop organized by Bits And Pixels on May 24th-26th.

Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) will be holding a protest in Brussels against the latest attempt to bring software patents to Europe, a move that is being pushed by Nokia.

FFII is a non-profit association registered in Munich and dedicated to the spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More than 300 members, 700 companies and 50,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions in the area of exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing.

(more...)

Winds of change are blowing through our computers at Bits And Pixels...

We're finally switching over from Microsoft Office and Outlook to Open Office, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Calendar. Unfortunately, the OS of choice remains Windows XP since Flash MX 2004 doesn't run flawlessly on Wine/CrossOver yet (then again, Flash MX 2004 doesn't run flawlessly on Windows either so maybe there isn't too much to worry about!) :P

In an effort to embrace open source a little better, we're also going to be saying goodbye to our Mac server, which we've been using for CVS, in favor of a Linux server (this will coincide with a switch from CVS to Subversion in the coming days.)

(more...)