Adobe Community Experts

Giorgio Natili

Italy

Biography

Following studies in electronic engineering I began to dedicate myself full time to my passion for web design and the study of programming algorithms.

My field of expertise focuses on Adobe Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion Flash Media Server, Flex and their integration, as well as accessibility both in html and Flash. I privilege developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) making full use of the integration between Coldfusion, Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server and XML. More recently my interests have broadened to include developing mobile applications, e-learning tools, and spreading awareness on accessibility issues, especially to flash developers.

As an active member of the Igenium community (Macromedia Users Group), I took part as speaker, in the 2003 webb.it of Padova and Naples. In 2004 I was once again present at the webb.it with four seminars on Flash and related technologies. In 2005 the community and me participated at SMAU in Milan, with other four seminaries.

I also find great fulfillment in teaching and have had excellent results in the field, from developing and producing editorial material for our courses to developing e-leaning applications with Adobe Flash.

I have collaborated with the training project HTML.it since its very inception, teaching Flash MX Designer and Flash MX 2004 Developer courses. In 2003 I received the award  "Sito Protagonista" from Macromedia Italy for the website www.alessandracellini.com.

Between June and July 2003 I developed the on-line version of the TV game show “Quiz show” for Einstein Multimedia, subsequently published in the portal www.libero.it
In September 2004 I developed in collaboration with Lucca | co, a Rich Internet Application for the visualization in real time of all the data concerning seria A soccer games, for the portal Kataweb.

In 2005 I founded the Flash community Actionscript.it and have been User Group Manager ever since.

Throughout 2005 I have been Mobile and Technological innovation consultant for  Saatchi & Saatchi Italia. I developed the J2me version on the mobile application D&G for Interpreting.it.

My passion for accessibility, originated two years ago while teaching a course to disabled people. After ten days spent in the class room with them, and experiencing first hand the issues and problems they encounter, I became aware of the importance of the subject, and given my field of expertise, I began to document myself on the techniques necessary to make web content developed in Flash accessible.

About the Community

The community was founded in February 2005, and has grown at a staggering rate ever since. Today we count almost 3000 subscribers, and have about 100,000 unique visits per month.

The community runs on three dedicated servers. It is entirely self sponsored. And among its activities we offer 10 meetings, throughout the a year, each for between 50 and 100 people, and each entirely free.

Interest in mobile began to take shape at the end of 2004, when myself and other staff members who had started working with flashlite, perceived the phenomenal potential of a tool that could literally bring mobile application development from a the elite domain of highly specialized programmers to the much greater community of flash developers.

Following the first brainstorms we offered 4 seminars on flashlite, and in the summer of 2005 we decided that the interest was deep enough to create a section of actionscript.it entirely dedicated to mobile. We developed the mobile version of our actionscript blog in flashlite. In the fall of 2005 we created with great success the first flashlite contest in Italy. To our surprise the contest had a very big international following, and that persuaded us to present the mobile section entirely in English.

The actionscript mobile section will go online the 1st of February 2006. There are 20 founding staff members (from Italy, India, Finland, New Zealand and Armenia).