Category Archives: Open Source

Apache Flex incubator vote has concluded

I’m happy to report the Apache Flex incubator proposal vote has concluded today and it has unanimously been accepted as a podling! There were a total of 23 votes of which 10 were binding (by Incubator PMC members). It was nice to see there were no 0 or -1 votes at all so think any read more »

Apache Flex incubator proposal is up for a vote

The vote on the Apache Flex incubator proposal is now open and in 72 hours we will know the result. The vote on adding the additional mentors to the Apache Incubator PMC has not concluded but they have provisionally been added to the proposal. In the unlikely event Dave Fisher and/or Anne Kathrine Petterøe are read more »

What it means for Flex to become an Apache project

The vote on the Apache Flex incubator proposal has not yet started but should only be a matter of days away – currently a few additional candidate mentors for the project (Dave Fisher and Anne Kathrine Petterøe) need to be elected to the Incubator Project Management Committee. Once that has happened it should be plain read more »

Update on the Apache Flex incubator proposal

The discussion about the Apache Flex proposal is now in full swing on the Apache Software Foundation Incubator mailinglist. I have to say its been great getting some outside perspective and it seems to generally be very positive and constructive. If you haven’t followed along, here are some of the discussion points that got raised: read more »

Apache Flex incubator proposal submitted

I’m happy to see things are moving along nicely – earlier today the Flex incubator proposal was submitted to the Apache Software Foundation. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FlexProposal There now is a discussion period followed by a vote on whether to accept the project. The voting procedure takes three days after which we will hopefully have some good news read more »

Flex summit – updates on the open source strategy and runtimes

 “Challenges that bring great opportunities” is how I’d summarize what I’ve seen of the Flex summit so far. Adobe has invited some key Flex community members and enterprise partners to discuss the open source strategy around Flex and shed light on its commitment to the Flash Platform runtimes. Here is some of the more interesting read more »

gotoAndSki(“Switzerland”) 2012 – Simple P2P for the common mortal

I’ve been meaning to attend gotoAndSki for several years now, but it never seemed to work out – until now. If you don’t know about this unique event you should definitely check it out! In summer it takes place in Norway, in winter in Switzerland. This coming January 2012 I’ll join a fantastic lineup of read more »

What have I been doing lately?

I realize I haven’t been blogging a lot about what I’ve been up to in the last few months so thought I’d better get a post out and share some of those things with you. Cocoon P2P The open source Cocoon P2P library has been released and got Dirk Eismann on board as a contributor read more »

TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source

It took me a long time to finally get round to it, but have updated the TWiT Live Desktop AIR application and released it as version 2.2. I’ve also gone ahead and made it open source under an MIT license, so feel free to check out the code and I’m open to having contributors to read more »

Flash Media Playback – WordPress plugin

Last night I started writing a plugin to easily embed the Flash Media Playback video component on WordPress blogs and its now ready for you all to use! Flash Media Playback is a free media player based on the Open Source Media Framework and hosted by Adobe so its ideal for bloggers to use. You read more »

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