> Any ideas on what we can do to improve this? Is it the project pages 
> themselves that do not provide enough information or are you having 
> difficulty finding the project pages in general.

I recently went through every project in the right menu on osflash. Yes
some projects do not describe what they are for on their project pages
(e.g. RED5 starts with a mission statement and to be honest I'm still
not clear what it actually is for; MTASC UnitTests is another project I
couldn't work out if it was for the end user or just for MTASC
developers), or expect you to know about other software (e.g. Flashr
describes itself as a Flickr wrapper (I'd never heard of Flickr) instead
of calling itself a photo management tool).

I've also heard of other open source projects since, that are not listed.

My suggestion would be another page, an index of all open source flash
projects, that are grouped by their function: compilers, frameworks, GUI
toolkits, trace/debug, browser/javascript related, etc. Some projects
can be in multiple sections. Projects that have an open source license
but do not have a project page on osflash can also be included.

I envisioned just the project name and a link, but a one-sentence
description on this page would be even better. Mentioning the license
type here would also be nice; for tools I don't care but for libraries
BSD vs. GPL is important.

Darren


>>I am in... the thing is...as is the case with most of the OS Flash 
>>projects... there is some very interesting stuff going on but I 
>>actually have a lot of trouble finding clear descriptions of the 
>>projects....meaning descriptions that could tell me exactly how some 
>>of the project end goals would deliver value.
>> 
>>BUT... as I get to undertand what some of these projects are doing I 
>>find it incredibly impressive!

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