Best Way To Find Freelance Flash/Actionscripters

[ashantieaton]

So I'm finding since the recession it's been considerably harder to find qualified and talented flash/actionscript coders. I've had to do hiring from the UK, Greece, Spain and Canada but want to find some talented people much closer to New York but it's been pretty difficult. This website is one good resource but what are some others the community would recommend I look at to try to post jobs or find talent in the USA?

Also, as an actionscript community I'm curious to hear if others feel this might be a technology that is being abandoned? Many of our clients are moving to HTML 5 and the full flash website is something that's not been requested since the release of the ipad 1. Combined with the fact that talent "appears" harder to find I'm wondering what peoples thoughts are on this technology being something that is just slowly fading. Interested to hear people's opinions.

Martin Eaton
Ashanti Eaton