AIR, AJAX, Flex, India, RIA, initRIA

Last year, many of us RIA enthusiasts in India were kinda disappointed with the lack of RIA related events in India, so very close to the end of last year I with some other members from BangaloreFX helped organize the very first RIA focused event in the country initRIA and it was a big success.

Things are very different this year, from the very beginning of the year I started to feel that RIAs were getting a lot of traction in the local circles and we have a lot of fun in store for India this year. In February all the Flex user groups in the county celebrated the launch of Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 and we now have some excellent events lined up already … here’s a list of events that have already been announced …

• Adobe RIA Architects Summit 2008 – April 3rd

  Notable Attendees:

  • Naresh Gupta, MD, Adobe India
  • David Wadhwani, VP of the Platform BU, Adobe
  • James Ward, RIA Cowboy
  • Ben Forta, the Coldfusion Guru

 

• Colin Moock’s ActionScript 3.0: From The Ground Up Tour – April 29th

  Colin Moock is the author of the best ActionScript 3 book there is, Essential ActionScript 3 and a very well renowned expert in the AS3 world.

 

• Great Indian Developer Summit – May 19th to 23rd

  Although this is a broader event and is not free like the above two events, there are two speakers on its speaker list that i would love to listen to:

  • Jesse James Garrett, he coined the term AJAX
  • Yakov Fain, a renowned name in the Flex and Java worlds and I love reading his blog

 
These are the events that have already been announced, I know there are many others that are being planned … there’s word that we might even have an Adobe MAX in Bangalore this year..
 
So lets get ready to party !!