The 2012 Apache Flex Tour
We’d like to announce the 2012 Apache Flex Tour, sponsored by Adobe. Members of the Spoon Project and the Apache Flex project will be visiting — in-person at as many locactions possible — user groups around the world in an effort to spread the good news about the future of Apache Flex. Here is the list of events we will be appearing at: 2/13/12 – New York: New York Flex Meetup (Jeff Tapper) 2/15/12 – Boston: Boston Flex User Group (Michael Labriola, Michelle Yaiser) 2/21/12 – Denver: Rocky Mountain Adobe Users Group...
read moreSpoon Project Open Meetings February 2
Now that Adobe has donated code to The Apache Foundation, the community needs to get to work. Spoon wants to help get things started. Join your fellow Spoon members in our first open meeting of 2012 on Thursday, February 2. We will have two events to accommodate our global audience. The first meeting will be held at 10:00 GMT -5 and the second meeting will be held at 21:00 GMT -5. Barring technical difficulties, we will record these meetings for those of you who can not attend. UPDATE: The recording can be found at:...
read moreFlex Summit – Live Updates (Day 2)
[Wrap up] - Contribute Flex 4.6 SDK, Flex 3.6 SDK, BlazeDS, FalconJS, new Spark components and functional testing framework - COntribute Falcon with AS3 support - Develop new Flash Builder productivity features – will use mxmlc, not falcon – will ship with Apache SDK support release of Builder - Publish Flex whitepaper early 2012 Adobe will do the following… - Whether FalconJS can be contributed before Falcon AS is complete - Plan for when we contribute Falcon AS via Apache - Duration of runtime support commitment for Flex...
read moreFlex Summit – Live Updates (Day 1)
[breaking for drinks, see you tomorrow. this is the end of day one] Group consensus that we want Falcon brought into the open source as fast as possible. Adobe is asking what is more important. Productivity features (such as “Edit and Continue”) or Falcon compiler complete? Falcon Session Q&A: Once in Apache, will Adobe continue working on this? “It will be open source and the Apache/Flex governance can choose if it is a priority” Q&A: When? When falcon gets donated. Q&A: Will this be donated? Yes....
read moreDo You Have Questions About the Future of Flex?
As announced by Adobe this week, on Monday, December 12, Adobe is hosting a Flex Summit. As Adobe said in their post, “due to budget, we were unable to invite everyone we would have liked to the summit.” We thought that it would be a good idea for the whole community to be able to have a voice at the table during the summit. Do you have questions about the Future of Flex? About the Apache Foundation? Ask them at http://openspoon.uservoice.com/. We will do our best to get these questions answered as quickly as possible. Please take...
read moreFlex Forward
The Battle of Technologies HTML/JS versus Flex arguments are absurd. This is not about one or the other. That is a construct of the media and sensationalism, not the needs of the software we craft for our clients. As developers, it is our responsibility to choose the tools most appropriate for the job. Choosing tools for any other reason is irresponsible. It is a spectrum. Right now, HTML/JS solutions are not practical for building and maintaining applications of the same size and scale as those that we routinely build. Flex is. The...
read moreThe Spoon Project, Adobe & Flex
As you are all well aware, a lot has happened over the past weeks and we’d like to tell you about the activity that has been going on in the background. We have been working with Adobe in cementing the future of Flex as an Apache Software Foundation project. Adobe is currently preparing project proposals to incubate the full Flex SDK and related projects with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Members of the Open Spoon Foundation are working with Adobe on these proposals as well as working to prepare our own plans for contributing to the...
read moreAdobe Announces Intention to Donate Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation
Over the coming weeks Adobe and the Spoon Foundation will be working together to donate the Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation. The project will be jointly led by developers from the Flex SDK team, members of the Spoon Project, key developers from the community and contributors from enterprise companies using Flex. Continued development will happen under this new governance model. The Open Spoon Foundation board and officers are excited by these continued developments and looking forward to the collaboration. Details will be evolving...
read moreAnnouncement: Spoon Officers
For the last few weeks the Board Members of Spoon have actively been pursuing a few champions in the community to join the Spoon Project as leaders. I am happy to announce that on Friday the 12th the Spoon Board closed submissions for Spoon Officers and voted on candidates that submitted their information. I want to point out that voting wasn’t simple and there were many excellent candidates. Many of whom sadly had to be turned away from one of the three positions we had open. We, the Board Members of Spoon, hope that those...
read moreSpoon Introductory Meeting
Join current members of Spoon to hear about current Spoon initiatives, ask questions, and see how you can help! We will be giving this presentation at 2 times, so join in whenever is best for you. These meetings will be delivered by Adobe Connect. Meeting 1: 08/16/2011 12:00 PM CT http://experts.adobeconnect.com/spoonintro1/ The recording is available here: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p34ei9xhqkk/ Meeting 2: 08/16/2011 7:00 PM CT http://experts.adobeconnect.com/spoonintro2/ The recording is available...
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