Joe, I for one (and I'm sure many on the Flex team - which is basically all users! - with me) welcome your effort. As you say, Peter's blog has been invaluable for me when trying to get to grips with new and existing features of past frameworks. A 'continuation' of such an effort will be of great value to the community.
As PMC member, I must inform you there are a few 'legal' issues you need to take care of, but you seem well aware of those. I think your idea for a private beta would be a good tool to iron issues like that out. In all, a very worthwhile effort, thanks for contributing! EdB On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Joseph Balderson <n...@joeflash.ca> wrote: > The way to look at it is, I'm trying to carry on the work done by Peter deHaan > with flexexamples.com. AFAIK, the Apache Flex site does not have a blog format > specific to coding tutorials, which this "micro tutorial" format requires. > Since > they will be more or less single file coding tutorials, no repository will be > necessary. Longer more complex examples and tutorials would be listed on my > personal tech blog (which I'm going to completely revamp in the new year). > > And besides, you guys have more than enough on your plate just updating the > framework itself. My participatory inclinations lie more towards publishing > and > blogging, so I am happy to take full responsibility for apacheflexexamples.com > (which is why I purchased the domain). Look at it as a fan-based tutorial site > rather than an official publication. Some improvements from Peter's site will > be > made, such as indicating the version of the framework used, and I'll be > checking > back every once and a while to make sure old examples work with newer > releases. > > If you guys wanted to include some of the future examples on the site into the > Apache Flex documentation itself, similar to how Adobe used to put links to > Flex > examples in the ASdocs, that would be great. But I think it's important to > have > a separate, indexable, searchable, blog-style listing of micro tutorials for > Apache Flex. > > If at some later date the Apache Flex team were to designate a subcommittee > exclusively for tutorials and related publications, I might consider donating > the site's governance to the group, but for now I think it best it remain as a > "fan site". > > I guess what I was asking is what approvals do I need to get from Apache to > use > the Apache name, and it has been answered here: > https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/#domains > https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/ > > I was thinking, as a courtesy, that I would launch a private "beta" of the > site > to elicit feedback from the flex team, and then the site would be launched > only > once everyone is comfortable that it does sufficient justice to the work being > done at Apache Flex. > > > Any further suggestions by the Apache Flex team would be welcome. > > Thanks, > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Joseph Balderson, Flex & Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca > Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book > > Justin Mclean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Not to discourage you from anything, but it's suggest that that sort of >> content went on the Apache Flex site or wiki. That way there's no trademark >> issues, the code is correctly licensed, it can use use Apache infrastructure >> and anyone can contribute to it. Unless you think there a good reason to not >> do so? >> >> Thanks, >> Justin -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
