Last night's Waterloo Region Web Design & Technology Meetup (or #kwdm on twitter) was again a great success.
Thanks Julia & Around KW!

We started off in the Huether Hotel (this place needs a new website!) with yummy pizza and veggies - although I passed on the food this time because of the Fine Indian Cuisine at Masala Bay. Our first speaker was Steve Montgomery on patents.
He buttered-up the audience by calling us the "best designers in Ontario"... Smooth. Although the subject was a bit dry, the information that Steve passed on was invaluable as we often overlook the importance of patents and trademarks.

Our next presenter was Dhiaa talking about Blender 3D. "Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems." Dhiaa took us step-by-step of how to create a 3D object using this free tool and wowed the audience with his 'animated towel' trick. Many of us were blown away by the amazing skill of some of the blender artists that Dhiaa shared with us.

Shawn Steinman zipped through some of the main elements of his JaxCore/Melodicmedia Apps. The audience was interested and wowed by what he had to offer - however, I'm not up to speed on the programming languages that he showcased so much of it went straight over my head.

We didn't actually have time for a third presenter after the length of the first presentations but I'm sure Corey is excited to show off his Adobe Fireworks skills in March.

Karl & I are already on the RSVP list for March 9 & we're excited to see TinyHippos present their demo.
See you all again next month!