Congrats to OSFlash. And welcome Buzzy! Keith
On May 27, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Aral Balkan wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Guess what? OSFlash is one year old today! I just blogged about it and > here it is again for the list: > > It was one year ago, near midnight on the 27th of May, that I hit the > “put” button in Dreamweaver to send the site up to cyberspace. Since > then, OSFlash has continued to grow rapidly and this month we are > going > to have more than 80,000 unique visitors. Now if only I could get all > those people into a single venue with a band behind me! /m\ as John > Grden would say! :) > > Oh yeah, and take a look at the site and see if you see anything > new!.. > > http://osflash.org > > Ah, you noticed him did you? That’s Buzzy, the OSFlash mascot! As you > may remember, Jirasak Saebang from Codegent had won the OSFlash mascot > contest some moons ago. Since then, Codegent have been amazing at > realizing the initial Buzzy sketches I sent them and both Jirasak and > Art provided a number of variations. We finally decided to go with > Art’s > version (Art’s real name, by the way, is Sillapanon Hattachanchai). A > big thank-you to Luke, Art and Jirasak for making all this > possible. The > design change isn’t limited to the Flash header so expect more changes > to come as the site evolves (including a really big one.) > > Another big thank-you to MSK, a brighton-based graffiti artist who > designed the “Wiki” graffiti for the wall. A Wiki /is/ cyber > graffiti so > it’s all very fitting! :) > > Also, Sönke and Nicolas have been working on a little surprise that > unfortunately we haven’t been able to release yet due to my tight > schedule. I hope I’ll be able to help out with that in the coming > days. > > So many people have had such important roles to play in getting > OSFlash > to where it is that I don’t know where to begin. Sönke and Nicolas, > thank you for your support from the very beginning. John, dude, what > would we do without you? Luke and the whole team at Codegent — thanks, > guys — you rock! And, most importantly, all the OSFlashers out there: > Thank you for your time, effort, lively conversation and the magic > that > you do! > > Here's to many more... I love you guys! :) > > Aral > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
