Seventeen new projects on OSFlash
I went through and cleared the backlog of new project requests on OSFlash today.
We have seventeen new projects added this month, including the following: AS2XML, XTrace, PlazesASPI, FLVMux, FLVPlayer2, Mikrokosmos, MingMotion, AS3Style, ImageThumbStrip, Zeroi, Sandy, JavaFlashBridge, JavaFlash, Wonder, AS3 Lightweight Remoting Framework, Charm'd, and FlexDesigner.
The projects currently haven't set up their web pages on the wiki so I will add links to the list above as they become available.
By the way, we have a new web page template for OSFlash projects.
The motivations for the new template are to make it easy for users of the site to see -- hopefully at a glance but at worst, as a minimum:
- What the project does
- A quick spec of the project: Category, audience, platform, maturity, and license.
- How to download the project
- How to install the project
- How to access documentation
- How to ask questions (mailing list) and find out further info (archives)
- Find a link to the SVN repository
- Find out who contributed to the project (credits)
- The open source license that the project is released under.
Your thoughts and suggestions are, as always, very welcome.
The Seventeen new projects on OSFlash article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
michal
wow that is a massive amount of additions. osflash is definetly heading in the right direction well done! - btw you should definetly take on the Sandy project. it rocks!
August 13th, 2006 at 3:36 amBjorn Schultheiss
Very Cool.
Some of these new projects sound super hot!
August 13th, 2006 at 10:57 amCant wait to find out more
aral
Hi Michal, Sandy’s on the list
August 13th, 2006 at 2:02 pmBjorn: Me too!
chris sperry
RIP flvmux.
upon reopening it seems rather broken
and a bit too boring to fix. next time some video work comes up I’ll sort it out, but for the time being it’s shelved. bummer.
I’m working on some seriously cool flex audio stuff at the moment and when it matures i’ll be asking for a project again…
new template is good… should give users a more implicit sense of orientation wrt getting up and running on an OS project. It confused the hell out of me.
keep up the good work aral & co.
August 14th, 2006 at 12:49 amUnitZeroOne
Cool, alot of new projects…very nice. But there’s a problem starting to show; with people inventing all kind of cool names and acronyms for their projects, almost no-one can figure out what is what. How about tags and category’s for the projects ? /r
August 16th, 2006 at 4:09 pmaral
We’re just talking about that on the OSFlash mailing list and my little dev team here (it’s two of us) had a meeting yesterday to discuss this for the next version of OSFlash. Needless to say, tags will be in there alongside a completely automatic system.
August 16th, 2006 at 4:28 pm