FYI, here is my official request proposal to Apache. Alex, if you would be so kind as to forward this on to the folks at Apache that would be greatly appreciated.
------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 3, 2014 To Who It May Concern, My name is Joseph Balderson, and I am a professional ActionScript 3.0 developer of 13 years, and a specialist Flex developer for 8 years now as of January 2014. I have been, in my professional life as an ActionScript developer, an Adobe-certified Trainer, a teacher of Flash programming at Humber College in Toronto, a speaker at user groups, and a professional tech writer. I have tech edited a number of books by Peachpit, Friends of Ed and O'Reilly, and in 2009 I lead a 6-person team to write a 1400-page book Professional Adobe Flex 3 by Wrox Publishing, rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon. With the migration of the Flex framework from Adobe to Apache, good internet resources for Flex have fallen through the cracks, namely Tour De Flex and flexexamples.com, both of which have functioned as essential micro-tutorial resources for the beginner, a quick reference for the more experienced programmer, and visibility on its use to managers and stakeholders. These two resources have yet to be migrated/updated to Apache Flex. Thus, seeing a need in the programming community, and wanting to help restore and promote the adoption of Flex for its own sake, I have purchased the domain apacheflexexamples.com, with the intention of turning it into a micro-tutorial site with the same purpose and intent of the former flexexamples.com. (An archive of the site as it existed prior to Flex's migration from Adobe to Apache in 2012 can be seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20111010030748/http://blog.flexexamples.com/ ). To be specific, the purpose and features of apacheflexexamples.com will include: 1) provide blog-like micro-tutorials; 2) will be administrated and authored by myself, Joseph Balderson 3) tutorials will be short, on average "single page", thus no code repository or downloads of any kind will be necessary; 4) where possible the most recent version of Apache Flex will be used and indicated; 5) an average of one post per business day will be issued on the site; 6) commenting will be disabled, and users will be encouraged to discuss the tutorials on the official us...@flex.apache.org list; 7) an email address will be set up where users can contact the administrator (me) for the specific purpose of pointing out typos or problems specific to the examples which are non-specific to Flex framework errata issues; 8) a resource/"blogroll" list of resource links will be situated in a prominent location in the left or right column so as to help users refer to official Apache Flex resources; 9) if desired, to avoid confusion with official Apache websites, a disclaimer similar to what is currently used in book titles and other publications will be indicated at the top of every page, "Apache, Apache Flex, and Flex are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. Used with permission. No endorsement by The Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks." 10) no personal promotions (other than an author credit on my part), nor any product reviews, endorsements or sales of any kind will be permitted on the site: it is strictly for micro-tutorials pertaining to the Apache Flex framework. (See the flexexamples.com archive as an example) In addition, if there comes a time when I am no longer willing or able to administer the site or keep up a reasonable posting frequency, I will commit in writing to donating the domain and the site administration to the Apache Flex group. The aim is to have a few dozen examples blogged and ready to go prior to launch sometime in February of 2014. A private beta will be issued, to be reviewed by the Apache Flex development team (and the legal department at Apache if such is desired) to ensure everyone concerned is satisfied with the end result prior to launch. Once the site is launched, posting frequency will be as indicated above. All this to say that I am very vested and interested in conserving the quality and integrity of the Apache Flex name. And in order to help increase positive adoption of Apache Flex usage, I have purchased this domain with the intent of continuing on the work of the esteemed former Adobe employee Peter DeHaan at flexexamples.com with a new site. In the spirit of this intent, I humbly request your permission to use the Apache trademark in the domain name apacheflexexamples.com. Thank you, Joseph Balderson Flex Developer & Tech Writer http://www.joeflash.ca http://www.linkedin.com/in/joeflash http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book
