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November 22, 2006
Adobe Open Sources ActionScript Media Gallery Code
The ActionScript code that is used by Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Elements to create beautiful slideshows is now completely open source. You can download the ActionScript source code from the Adobe Media Gallery website. There are also sample galleries, a getting started guide, documentation, mailing lists, forums and instructions on how to contribute to the project.
This work continues Adobe extensive involvement in open source technologies. I can't remember a company changing so quickly so fast. A few months ago we had very little in the way of open source software, today we're working hard on things like Tamarin, part of the Mozilla project, the Adobe Media Gallery, ActionScript 3 libraries for popular web services like Flickr, Mappr, YouTube and more (we're working right now on open sourcing the eBay libraries that were the basis of the eBay Apollo application shown at MAX), the Flex / Ajax bridge, the Adobe source libraries and more.
technorati tags:adobe, opensource, tamarin, photoshop, lightroom, actionscript, mediagallery
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Thanks for the heads up Mike, this will be a lot of fun to plow through.
I wish you guys would host the discussion group on your own NNTP server instead of sourceforge, just to keep adobe groups easier to find...
Mike, thats great news. I have a question? How do you guys approach Open Source in such a big company. Is there a board who oversees the developments. Who looks at certain software and says that could benefit the community and our organization as well.
Anyway, this is another great announcement. Thanks Adobe!
[The decision really depends on the size of the project. For something like the Tamarin project, it requires a few levels of approval. For something like the eBay ActionScript libraries, it requires fewer approvals. - Mike]
Thanks Mike. Hey check your tab order on this page
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