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DigitalOctane is on site at Flash in the Can Toronto. Being held in this city is special to #FITC, Could it be because this is where they started 9 years ago? or maybe because its there largest with over 1100 Designers and Developers from around the world.

Each year we choose a different theme for our Toronto event. This year it’s Playground. Inspired by fond childhood memories, where tinkering and painting and playing and swinging was the norm, and how as we age these simple pleasures seem to be pushed aside by the world, by work and life itself. We feel it’s time to rekindle some of those simpler times. Play is Good! … we all need some playtime to get energized and to connect to our creative side.

As i review the schedule for the next 3 days.. They are running 5 sessions at a time for each time block. This is HUGE and Terribly frustrating… Which one should i go to for each session.  The Morning sessions until lunch break are up in the air, the only 1 i have already decided on his the first session after lunch. “From Solo to CEO” 6 presenters including Grant Skinner.

I will make a strong effort to write up a Day recap for each day… No promises.

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We were fortunate enough to spend a few days at the #FITC Conference in Edmonton Alberta. Canada. The speaker list included some familiar faces to the Flash Community: Grant Skinner, Lee Brimelow, Stacey Mulcahy, Erik Natzke, Mike Chambers, Mario Klingemann, Ralph Hauwert and James Paterson. If you do not know who these people are… i suggest you get to “google” and look them up. These People are Amazing at what they do and dedicated to the Flash Community.

We Arrived in Edmonton around 5pm local time on the 15th of October. We came in Thursday night because we were going to be attending the Optional Papervision3d Workshop hosted by Ralph Hauwert . This was to be his final “Papervision3d” workshop or speaking about Papervision3d again. He has recently left the Papervision3d team to pursue his own interests.

We were with Ralph from 10am till around 5:30pm, teaching approximately 40 #Flashers the in’s and out’s of Papervision3d using both Adobe CS4 and Flex. By the end of the day we were all left with “on export” planet earth rotating and a moon orbiting the planet in Papervision3d.

The Conference.
FITC is a smaller conference then lets say Flash Forward. This allows for way more opportunity to speak with some of the presenters if you were so inclined. We saw some great presentation on both days. We had a chance to have some one on one time with Stacey Mulcahy talking to her about a variety of things including process and “deselopers”. If you follow her Twitter account @bitchwhocodes You might think we were insane to approach her. Believe it or not She was very nice and helpful. Sorry to blow your cover Stacey.

I think the one important thing to take back from this conference overall is that in our experience attending previous flash conferences; Its easy to feel like your not good enough after seeing some of the things these guys have made. The Good thing about #FITC is that we had a chance to see people like Erik, Ralph and James beginnings. Seeing that they are in fact Human and that they started where you started. If you take the time like they did… you’ll be up there speaking.

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