Open at Adobe

Thanks to all of you for showing up to the discussion on Flex SDK.

At one point, over 200 people were listening, typing comments, asking questions. It vividly demonstrated that there is a huge amount of interest in Flex, and in making it work for all of us.

The recording is up.
(Apologies for the broken link, should be fixed now.)

And if you have comments or questions post fact, please let us know via the forums. Or yell in my general direction.

Again, thanks for making your presence know.

davemc

Posted by Dave McAllister at 11:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

This Wednesday, Jan 28th, Adobe's Flex SDK team is offering you a chance to come talk to us and with us, about what you like and don't like, how you'd improve things.

But really, there's a larger message to this.

Do you care? Really?

I led two open source sessions at the recent MAX events in North America and in Europe. We had executives on one panel, with more in attendance.

And we go a count of 27 people in North America. Out of 5500+ attendees, 27 people came to talk to us about open source at Adobe.

In general, open source is measured by the vocal minority. I realize that, and understand the drive. But I can also say that it is unlikely that I will be allowed an open source panel or session next year.

So, when we hold this Talk2Adobe event on flex, given the recent blogs and comments around it, I suspect that management will be watching to see who and how many show up.

So, while this might be around Flex directly, your presence or absence might just impact all of our open work here at Adobe. So please try to make it clear you care about this.

davemc

Posted by Dave McAllister at 01:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)