For those of us who were authors and wouldn't mind our content being migrated over -- how do you think we should proceed? Do we just have the rights to donate it to Apache?
-Nick On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Michelle Yaiser <myai...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hi, Everyone. > > I just heard from legal about getting the approval to donate Flex content > that was published on the Adobe Developer Connection to Apache. > > We can only donate the articles, tutorials, and examples - and the code in > them - that are written by Adobe employees. That means we can't donate any > of the content written by non-Adobe authors. All external authors select a > Creative Commons license and sign a NELA (license agreement). Those > licenses only give Adobe the right to post the content on Adobe sites. > Ownership of the content is retained by the author. The owner is the only > one who can donate the content to Apache. > > There have been mixed opinions on what, if any, ADC Flex content would be > useful for Apache Flex users. You can find most of the content on the ADC > from one of the two links below. If you tell me that getting all content > written by Adobe or Adobe employees is helpful and what Apache Flex wants, > I will start prepping it for donation. > > * http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex.html > > * http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/article-index.html > > > > Related, we are almost done with all the prep work that needs to be done > in order to donate the Flex documentation. If anyone has any familiarity > with Framemaker and GEP, you'll know that getting content out of those > systems into a useful format is not easy and is very time consuming. We'll > be donating: > > * Using Flex: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/index.html > > * non-Flash Builder chapters of Accessing Data with Flex< > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/accessingdata/index.html> > > > I'm happy to answer any questions. > Cheers, > Michelle > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michelle Yaiser > Instructional Designer | Creative Cloud Learning > Adobe Systems | myai...@adobe.com | 781-839-1697 > >
