Happy Earth Day from all of us at CFUnited! We want to encourage everyone to take some time and appreciate the Earth. Think of ways you can start being more green.

As we announced a few weeks ago CFUnited is going green for this years conference. We will be doing everything we can to be environmentally friendly throughout the event.

Here are some of our plans:

1. CFUnited Show Guide - If you've been to CFUnited in the past few years, you'll remember the 350 page show guide that you carried around thought the conference. The show guide included details about the conference, sponsor ads, and most importantly the power point presentation slides of each session at the conference. This year to spare some trees we have decided to skip the show guide and provide the power point presentations on the CFUnited website. We will release the presentations online approximately two weeks prior to the event. This will allow attendees to print their own materials if they choose.

2. Our Printer - "We've always been green. And now we're FSC Certified. Proof that our papers originate from sustainable forests." (ToddAllan Printing)

3. CFUnited back pack - CFUnited is known for providing someone of the coolest backpacks out there. This years back pack will me made of recycled materials, without lacking the coolness.

4. Evening event - Instead of busing our attendees to an evening event we will arrange an event within walking distance from the DC convention center.

5. The Grand Hyatt - CFUniteds main hotel, the Grand Hyatt DC, has an endless list of the ways they contribute to going green. The entire hotel has high efficiency lighting systems and allow control to energy consumption. Light colored roofs and low - emissivity glass that reduces heat gain. Voluntary towel and sheet reuse programs that allow the guest to determine if towels and sheets are to be replaced during their stay. (These are just a few examples from the long list of Hyatts green features)

6. Organic T shirts - It's tradition that each year at CFUnited attendees receive a custom made conference T shirt. Some of the favorites being the Purple & Yellow from CFUN08, Lime green from CFUnited 06 & blue baseball tee from CFUnited 07. This years shirt will be made of 100% organically-grown cotton. What does this mean you ask? Organic agriculture uses crop rotation instead of agrochemicals and artificial fertilizers, and biological pest control (lady bugs) instead of pesticides. Besides being organic, its a really comfortable and lightweight.

More will be added soon. Let us know if you have any other ideas!

CFUnited going Green

There is a lot of energy and material that go into making a conference like CFUnited, so we thought why not do our part in making sure we do the best we can for the environment by going Green this year. The following are some of the ways:

1. CFUnited Show Guide - If you've been to CFUnited in the past few years, you'll remember the 350 page show guide that you carried around thought the conference. The show guide included details about the conference, sponsor ads, and most importantly the power point presentation slides of each session at the conference. This year to spare some trees we have decided to skip the show guide and provide the power point presentations on the CFUnited website. We will release the presentations online approximately two weeks prior to the event. This will allow attendees to print their own materials if they choose.

2. Our Printer - "We've always been green. And now we're FSC Certified. Proof that our papers originate from sustainable forests." (ToddAllan Printing)

3. CFUnited back pack - CFUnited is known for providing someone of the coolest backpacks out there. This years back pack will me made of recycled materials, without lacking the coolness.

4. Evening event - Instead of busing our attendees to an evening event we will arrange an event within walking distance from the DC convention center.

5. The Grand Hyatt - CFUniteds main hotel, the Grand Hyatt DC, has an endless list of the ways they contribute to going green. The entire hotel has high efficiency lighting systems and allow control to energy consumption. Light colored roofs and low - emissivity glass that reduces heat gain. Voluntary towel and sheet reuse programs that allow the guest to determine if towels and sheets are to be replaced during their stay. (These are just a few examples from the long list of Hyatts green features)

More green ideas will be added to this list shortly. If you have any ideas feel free to comment below.

Flex Camp Boston is a full-day event featuring some top industry experts on Adobe Flex and AIR from both inside and outside Adobe. Come advance your Flex skills, meet members of the Adobe Flex team and network with local companies and fellow developers. Sessions will be geared towards developers with moderate to advanced level of experience with Flex and/or ActionScript. There will be plenty of giveaways, raffles and swag (and lunch). At $10, you can't beat the price! The event will be held on December 7 at the LaCava Center of Bentley College in Waltham from 8am to 5pm (registration from 8-8:30). For the full agenda, directions and latest announcements visit www.flexcampboston.com

If you are interested in sponsoring the first Flex event of its kind in New England, please contact Brian Rinaldi at brian.rinaldi@gmail.com.

Want to learn something new? Know of an awesome topic you'd love to attend? Have a certain speaker you think would make make the conference rock?

Well you're in luck...

We've opened the Call for Speakers for CFUnited Europe!

Join the tribe, suggest a topic today.

Our overflow hotel, the Bethesda Marriott on Pooks Hill Road, has 30 more rooms available at $239. After June 11th, however, the discount on these rooms will no longer be available and the regular hotel rates will apply!

So register now and book your room with the group code COFCOFA.

Check out the Travel Page for more information.

See you at CFUnited!

Join dataTV's Adam Bell for the prelude to the CFUnited Conference on Tuesday Evening, June 26th at 8PM ET at the Marriott Hotel in North Bethesda, MD for MiniMAX's seventh annual event.

This event is free to anyone who wants to attend. You don't even need to be registered for CFUnited to join Adam Bell and friends at this fun evening event!

You must signup to reserve a seat at http://www.minimaxconference.com/

Register now!

At CF_Underground we are giving away one free copy of Flex 2 donated by Adobe! Register today and you will be entered to win during our raffle at the event.

CF Underground VIII Sunday October 22nd, 2006 | Las Vegas, NV

CF Underground 8 is a pre-event to the new Adobe MAX 2006 conference. The MAX conference has gone through various iterations. It used to be called UCON, then DevCon and then Macromedia MAX. The one constant - you guessed it - CF Underground.

$99 price expires Sept 29th!!!

www.cf-underground.com

The rumor is that TeraTech is planning a CFUNITED Europe 2008. It is true folks. The plan is that we will continue to have CFUNITED in DC every summer in addition to CFUNITED Europe.

The first CFUNITED Europe will be in Spring 2008 located in London.

Join CFUNITED conference organizer, emcee, and Teratech's own Michael Smith in a live Breeze Meeting from the show.

Michael will be joined by Simon Horwith and other speakers and attendees. They will discuss what people are learning at CFUNITED, including keynote announcements live from the CFUNITED show floor.

The FREE EVENT will be held on Thursday, June 29th at 12:30 - 1:00 PM US/Eastern, live from the conference.

Please refer to: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ for timezone assistance. The URL for the Breeze meeting is listed in the MORE INFORMATION section of the RSVP page. Just click the button to login as GUEST with no password and enter your name when prompted in order to join the meeting from your browser.

If you've never used Breeze Meeting, get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/products/breeze/productinfo/meeting/meeting_intro.html

CFUnited is now Podcasting!

Want to listen to the CFLive! presentations in your car, at work, or on the go? If so, subscribe to our podcast! Just click the "podcast" button on our side bar and add the URL of the XML feed to your favorite podcatcher program.

Don't have a podcatcher? What's wrong with you? That's okay, we're just getting hep to this podcast thingy ourselves. Here are some links to some pretty good ones:

Apple iTunes (http://apple.com/itunes/) Juice Reciever (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/) jPodder (http://www.jpodder.com/)

Still not sure what podcasting is? Check out Wikipedia's article on podcasting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast).

As the Breeze presentations are archived, Christian Ready (http://www.christianready.com/) will be recording and adding them to the podcast.

Enjoy the show!