Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-25 Thread Greg Reddin
Sent from my mobile device. On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:02 PM, "Guthmann, Scott" wrote: > While 4.8.0-incubating more descriptive than 4.8.0, I opted for the latter > because it was shorter and more clear. I think more application owners would > want to upgrade to 4.8.0 than to 4.8.0-incubating.

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Keith Sutton
Updated the User Group list - 50 and counting Pinged the UGM's that I have received interest from with the annoucement On 7/24/2012 5:39 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: Page has been updated to include the trademark sign, and added the announcement of the release. Not really happy with it, bu

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Done. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Not that I mean to add you your work load but these pages probably need > updating as well: > > http://incubator.apache.org/flex/news.html > Actually perhaps just change the LHS menu from "news items" to "new > archive"? I ha

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Not that I mean to add you your work load but these pages probably need > updating as well: > http://incubator.apache.org/flex/news.html Actually perhaps just change the LHS menu from "news items" to "new archive"? I had missed that the page title was "News Archive". Thanks, Justin

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Keith Sutton
I will send out the announcement to all User Group Managers and Apache Flex Partners (3rd party products and services) On 7/24/2012 1:22 PM, Guthmann, Scott wrote: In the meantime, it seems like it would be great to get someone to update the Apache Flex home page to also announce the release.

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Not that I mean to add you your work load but these pages probably need updating as well: http://incubator.apache.org/flex/news.html And perhaps this just link back to the news page(s) rather than have the info in 3 places? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Status Thanks, Ju

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Page has been updated to include the trademark sign, and added the announcement of the release. Not really happy with it, but since the new website is underway, I'm not putting much effort into hacking up the CSS in a way that the CMS wants to see it to make it bolder/brighter. -Nick On Tue, Jul

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Alex Harui
On 7/24/12 4:02 PM, "Guthmann, Scott" wrote: >> " but I think Scott's needs to say 4.8.0-incubating in the subject." > While 4.8.0-incubating more descriptive than 4.8.0, I opted for the latter > because it was shorter and more clear. I think more application owners would > want to upgrade to

RE: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Guthmann, Scott
Alex- > " Did you and Keith get these reviewed by Apache PR?" I received an e-mail from Keith Sutton because I am a SilvaFug subscriber. Keith is the Silvafug group moderator. It looks like he forwarded the message Carol sent to flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > " but I think Scott's needs to say

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Alex Harui
On 7/24/12 1:22 PM, "Guthmann, Scott" wrote: >> In the meantime, it seems like it would be great to get someone to update the >> Apache Flex home page to also announce the release. Any volunteers? > > 1) Flex Community: Please tweet something about this - I have seen several > tweets about i

RE: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Guthmann, Scott
> In the meantime, it seems like it would be great to get someone to update the > Apache Flex home page to also announce the release. Any volunteers? 1) Flex Community: Please tweet something about this - I have seen several tweets about it already. 2) I posted this content to the Apache Flex D

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Alex Harui
On 7/24/12 1:09 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" wrote: > Alex, > > This is on my to-do tonight. If you have some verbiage that you want > included, that would help :) > My personal thought was a banner across the home page with: "Breaking News... Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating is released! Get i

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Alex, This is on my to-do tonight. If you have some verbiage that you want included, that would help :) I am also taking the task to update the text to say "Apache Flex™" this evening as well.I'm going to be compiling a few iOS AIR apps, so I've got a lot of time to dedicate to it ;P -Nick

Re: Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Keith Sutton
Already posted to SilvaFUG Included the following "For those new to Apache Flex and the open source project the following presentations are very informative: https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1SsVcr2SLkBJMXk1N6U3-HpxloSUUa4pBX-2f4GrRL5M#slide=id.p21 http://www.slideshare.net/tpokrajci

Announcing Flex

2012-07-24 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Folks, Carol officially attempting to post an official announcement of Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating on the Apache announcement email list. I will post something on the Adobe blog after I see it on the Apache website. In the meantime, it seems like it would be great to get someone to update