+1 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Matthew Poole <mattjpo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 (non member) > > On 12 January 2012 13:38, Peter Elst <peter.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > As per Bertrand's proposal I have a post I'd like to publish on the blog, > > see below. Setting up a vote with 24 hour lazy consensus "if no one > opposes > > within 24 hours I'll post this" (or as soon as I get my blog account :)). > > > > ---- > > > > Title: Flex settling in at the Apache Software Foundation > > > > The beginning of a new era for Flex, on December 31st 2011 our project > got > > accepted as an incubator podling at the Apache Software Foundation. > > > > Now the real work begins - if you have joined the developer mailing list > > you will have seen some of the excitement and discussion on how to move > the > > technology forward. One thing we can say for sure, we have a good group > of > > enthusiastic volunteers and no lack of ideas. > > > > We've seen some great first contributions to the whiteboard area by > several > > committers that could potentially make it in a next release. Our > > contributors from Adobe are working with their legal department to get > > source submitted to the Apache code repository - special thanks to Alex > and > > Carol for their hard work! > > > > How can you get involved? Well if you're a Flex developer and would like > to > > contribute you can join the mailing list. The mantra at Apache is "if it > > didn't happen on the mailing list, it didn't happen." We're also looking > > for a logo for Apache Flex, if you've got some good design skills and > would > > like to submit a proposal you have until January 17th to get something > in. > > > > In short, we're excited to see things getting up and running and the > amount > > of enthusiasm shown by the community about the future of Flex at Apache. > > > > --- > > > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > >