Hey Cortland,
This could be an interesting idea and I'll pass it on. When we had the derby when Flex 2 launched, no one submitted any utility libraries. I'd be curious if others would be interested if we were to focus on an area like this. Matt ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cortlandt Winters Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] more news on our upcoming marketing efforts Hi Matt, Something I'd like to see would be a contest like you had when Flex2 first came out, but with two differences. 1) The focus is on porting open source libraries from other languages to As3. 2) The prizes aren't tv's, but licences to either Flash Media Server or Flex Data Sevices. That way if somebody has an idea that they think would be worth creating if not for the eventual server license costs, there is a real motivation to implementing it. If they sucede and it wins, maybe they can make a small business out of it. What programmer wants a tv? Programming is twice the fun. Put those servers at the disposal of some motivated individuals rather than just companies with capital funding at no cost to yourselves but providing ten times the value of a tv to the contestants. Though I competely agree with Bruce Eckel's article in general, it is also still true that there are 10 years of libraries available for applets. If hell were to freeze and sun were to suddenly learn how to make installing applets easy for the normal computer user, applets would suddenly be competitive because of that. For business software I think applets are competitive in many cases because of existing libraries. With all the speed of as3, we still don't have a standard 3d library and there are a lot of graphing tools and abstract libraries that seem like they could be pretty easily ported over. Thanks for asking. -Cort On 2/9/07, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2007/02/flex_campaign_f. <http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2007/02/flex_campaign_f .> cfm Hopefully we're going to see an influx of people trying Flex, any suggestions the community wants to put together for helping folks get up and running are always appreciated. Matt __._
