Happy Birthday! Many thanks to Aral, Nicolas and the OSFlash-community! The last year was an amazing year for Flash developers who don't shut their eyes for new innovations.
Imagine programming Actionscript without MTASC? We all still would be coffee junkies ;) Rock on, Sönke > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aral Balkan > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 1:52 AM > To: Open Source Flash Mailing List > Subject: [osflash] Happy Birthday, OSFlash! > > 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? Thats 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 Arts > version (Arts 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 isnt 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 > its all very fitting! :) > > Also, Sönke and Nicolas have been working on a little surprise that > unfortunately we havent been able to release yet due to my tight > schedule. I hope Ill 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 dont 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
