Igor Costa

Yes. After 5 years working hard, teaching people, spreading the word and trying to share code, samples, passion about a technology we’re going to have our first ever Flex/Flash Event in Brazil.

Flex Mania is a Brazilian developer/design event for those who works with Flash Platform and specially Flex and speaks Portuguese.
It’s an open and free conference for Brazilians or people who speak Portuguese to participate. Even with a little slot for 300 capacity. All sessions will be in Portuguese and three in English. In total will be 20 sessions mostly of them for Flex and some for Flash.

I would love to share with you the aspects evolved in organize such event.

Isn’t easy to organize a event even if it’s on-line. You have to delegate many tasks and keep track of little details. And this is getting me very excited and happy. I’m learning a lot and for sure this is going to be a calendar event for next years to come.

The Challenge:

The Supporters

The Adobe presence in Brazil isn’t equal in US, Europe and India. Where they have a big budget, evangelists and a team to take care about the RIA aspect. For lucky in life I met people that can help out me a lot in this field. From US I have Matt Chottin, Rachel Luxemburg, Stacy Sison, J. Randy all crew from Adobe. And I must say to them a HUGE thank for supporting me in this event. They are for sure the bigger suppliers.

The Economy:

We’re living a economy crisis, and in Brazil we’re not different from other countries. In this field We would like to have sponsors and more companies evolved. But thinking a little bit, the first cuts in companies are sponsors and marketing things, all over the world. And this couldn’t fit well in the event. We had the guarantee from our supporters that I could arrange the event and the infra-structure was complete. Why do i need for this first time a sponsor? Who knows on the next edition.

The Location and geographical aspect:

Brazil is huge, a country with so many different locations, cultures and behaviors. To arrange a event in presence mode we had to create a local community big. Mostly city in Brazil to organize IT events are in São Paulo. But São Paulo is so suture about events that become expensive enough to anyone who lives outside to participate in a event. Then the most sense decision was to include the event on-line and free. Where no matter where you are in Brazil or outside in Brazil and you can understand Portuguese, you can participate.
Two rabbits killed on one shot. We did.

The Sessions, content:

I’ve get so inspired about 360 Conferences and Head Conference that I dream to include the same content in sessions spoken from brazilians communitiers. I’ve search a little bit to find out some that have a high capacity on those Flex fields. And to include more speaks on the list and give a thank for those who visit this blog. I invited some gurus of World Flex community to speak. I’m pleased to have Stephen Downs(Tink), Laura Arguello, Iiley Chen and Mrinal Wadhwa. They had contribute to the community since I met Flash player and so long. Thank you guys you rock.

Those three speakers are going to speak in english where is good enough for those who want to learn more about their sessions titles.

The last but not Least:

Everything not come to free or easy. Become this event true, is a high emotion for many people, for Brazil, for participants, for speakers, for me. We brazilians deserve such event. Even with all those limitations I’ve wrote above. I love challenge and this is a excited challenge. Because what motivates us keep going is the passion about a community. Happy enough.