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FMP (Firefox 3 Microsite Projects) Are Now In!!!

For those who don’t know, BackSpaceStudios and PHUG havce been working closely with students from Seneca College in the Digital Media Arts program to develop/contribute Firefox 3 Microsites. The students where split in to development and given 2 weeks to produce a basic concept using WordPress to re-brand Firefox 3.

Last week the FMP presentations began, and I am happy to say that the results where brilliant. There where some very unique presentations and concepts delivered, and everyone had fun!!! Some development teams went all out with there presentations including marketing material, slide shows, flyer’s, some even made shirts…

We are hopping to hear some feedback from Mozilla Firefox representatives soon…

Without further ado, here are a selection of the concepts in no particular order:

Joe Pasek, Dave Zuniga, Mark Reale, Justan Accaputo, Jonathan Ponzini Download Presentation This site uses APNG’s, you will need Firefox 3 or Gran Paradiso.

Logan Aube, Miroslav Glavic, Kin On Lam, Terry Kalambalikis, Alex Naser, William Wong, Aaron Ritchie Download Presentation

Jessica Senos, Derek Rose, MiaoMiao Kuang, Agelica Hernendez,Amanda Labatia Download Presentation

Quentin Malcom, Sasha Pelenero, Joanna Viera, Jeff Mulder, Maurizio Vanarelli Download Presentation This site uses APNG’s, you will need Firefox 3 or Gran Paradiso.

Nick Karch, Kevin Shetler, Daniel Coltri, Jeannie Ma, Preettri Khatri, Emmanuel Vistro

Matt Loureira, Sabrina Rossi, Steven Hamilton, Lisa Bifolchi, Matt Zaharia, Alfonso Suarez

Dary Loeuy, Scott Wyder, Slavko Milesic, Robbie Luzius, Leslie Nguyen

Geoff Palin, Mariusz Dabrowski, Aaron Wilkin, Taunya Brooker Download Presentation This site uses APNG’s, you will need Firefox 3 or Gran Paradiso.

Nicole Kelly, Shane Bray, Evan Finn, Stephen Zorzie, Raya Pomelkova

FMP Presentations Begin This Week!!!

This morning we began the first of many FMP presentations scheduled to take place this week. I am very proud of the work my students produced over the past few weeks. Three groups presented their concepts this morning to a group of their peers and faculty. We are looking forward to see what the Mozilla reps think when they have a chance to take a look later next week.

Excitement and fear was definitely in the air this morning when all groups showed up on time and ready to flaunt their stuff. I have to admit the results where outstanding, and I feel privileged to have been able to see so many creative and unique interpretations based on the initial specs for this project.

It’s amazing to see so many passionate and dedicated students driven to succeed!!!

…and we are just beginning…I will continue to post links and screen shots as the week proceeds.

Here are a few examples from this morning

	Group Members Logan Aube Aaron Ritchie Alex Nasser William Wong Miroslav Glavic Terry kalambalikis
This group also prepared a flash presenation. View Here

	Group Members Nicole Kelly Evan Finn Shane Bray Raya Pomelkova Steve Zorzi

APNG Update

Development of the APNG microsite is underway. We hope to have the site up before the end of the week.

I will be holding another training ATS ( APNG Training Session ) later this month. Untill then here are a few good links to get you started.

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/08/better-animations-in-firefox-3/
http://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/apngedit.html
Also see http://phug.ca/index.php/apng-assembler-andrew-smith/

Here are a few samples contributed by PHUG members.
You will need a Firefox 3 beta or Gran Paradiso to view the APNG files.

Pet My Kucha on facebook

Since the launch of the petmykucha.com contest site, Dec 2nd 2007, we have received over a hundred pre- submissions and many logo contest entries. We are very happy with this early success and anticipate an even more successful launch Feb 1st 2008.

Sample kucha’s will be posted soon on petmykucha.com.

We will be holding a Pet My Kucha night, sponsored by PHUG.ca, scheduled for early Jan 08 to showcase some of our kuchas. There will be drinks, prizes, and live music. Event details will be posted soon on petmykucha.com and our new facebook group.

Pet My Kucha has decided to join the facebook craze and start a group. We currently have 55 members and the numbers are growing daily. If you use facebook, and let’s face it who doesn’t, get on the kucha train to stay up to date with events, contests, and more.

Firefox 3 Microsite Project

The Firefox 3 Microsite Project (FMP) is one of many current ongoing initiatives I’m heading/consulting on, others include PHUG, Pet My Kucha, APNG, other Mozilla open source projects, and teaching part-time at Seneca College in the DMA (Digital Media Arts) program.

Not only are the holidays coming around the corner my plate is full with many creative works on the go. Some say I’m a workaholic, I say “I’m passionate” either way there are many great things to report on.

Current progress on FMP is excellent. Yesterday John Crisp, also faculty at Seneca and FMP leader, and I had the opportunity to take a few pictures in class of the progress. There are a lot of great designs coming out and development is under way. We have 6 more groups to check in on later this week and I will keep you all posted.

Final concepts are due next week and each group will be presenting there concepts to audience of fellow students and professionals. I’m very excited to see the results!

I will post the links to all the concepts when the project is done, so check back soon!

I’m very proud of my students, they have shown passion, drive, and motivation to contribute to open source media and have embraced the FMP full heartedly (…yes they are getting marked on it, but still…)

Here are a few pictures from class, courtesy of John Crisp.