Next meeting Thursday September 23rd 7 pm

Travis Kirton
Travis will be talking about typeis. TypeIs is a drawing application that lets artists create non-linear typographic works. Imagine, instead of ink, letters flowing from your pen tip as you draw and sketch across a canvas. He will be showing some artworks using the software and demo the software itself.

Al Cameron
3 Birds Software Inc.
Al was born in one place and raised in a couple other places, but for the past few decades has thought of Calgary as home. After performing a variety of computing-related roles for a couple decades, Al realized that playing “LDAP Server Admin” wasn’t all that much fun. Around the same time, Steve Jobs decided to let others write software for Apple’s shiny new iPhone. Zoinks!

Now, I’m pleased to give Dorkbot Calgary a hands-on preview of 3 Birds’ soon-to-be-released first App —
a 3D variation of the classic letter-tile word discovery game (at which you may boggle! 🙂 and discuss some of the technology and issues involved in creating it.

Gerry Straathof
Test magazine is a collection of content to test a publishing concept whose primary goal is get as many creating content for mobile devices as possible. There is an example of a photo portfolio, an example of written content with a unique flow, several conceptual advertisements and a test of a table of contents. This project uses as many of the new, modern web technologies as possible, including HTML5, which allows you to save this file to the homepage of most mobile devices (not implemented just yet, however). There are extensive CSS3 concepts being used within, as well as advancements in font management using webfonts.

Many thanks to EMMEDIA for donating our space this month.