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I had a lovely surprise when woke up a few moments ago and read the OSFlash mailing list this morning: There was an email from Mike Chambers announcing that Adobe intends to release Flex as open source under the MPL license. This follows hot on the heals of Adobe releasing the the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation under the Tamarin project.
What a great move! I love you guys!
These are the notes from the Adobe keynote at FITC. The areas in emphasis (like this one) are my thoughts and comments. The highlight of the presentation for me was the new information released on Flex Builder 3 and the latest statistics for Flash Player 9.
Latest statistics for the Flash Player to be officially released this week:
I arrived in Canada yesterday afternoon after a bearable eight-hour flight from London and proceeded to sleep for the next seven hours, waking at about 4.30am this morning, Toronto time.
Had a great breakfast at the Hilton (finally, a major hotel that has real freshly-squeezed orange juice) and looked in on the preparations for the conference.
Photos from FITC 2007 conference in Toronto, Canada.
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- A view of Toronto from my hotel room.
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- A view of Toronto from my hotel room.
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- A view of Toronto from my hotel room.
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- A view of Toronto from my hotel room.
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- The glass elevator at the Hilton rocks -- great views over the city.
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- The Space Needle and downtown Toronto.
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- Another view of downtown Toronto.
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- Niqui on the escalator, going up from the convention center at the Hilton. Day 0 of FITC.
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- A shot of the room that I'm going to be doing my talk in.
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- Projectors being installed.
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- Naomi and the FITC crew getting ready for registrations.
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- FITC Panic signs.
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- Shawn on Day 0 of FITC. The workshops have started and the crew is busy setting up for Day 1.
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- Niqui flashing a lovely smile at the lobby of the Hilton on Day 0 of FITC. - Taken at 8:03 AM on April 21, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
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- It's a nasty thing to happen to any hotel :)
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- John and Chris not so much presenting as performing. Music a-plenty! :)
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- But camera love Keith.
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- He isn't really -- he's just giving us evil smile.
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- Keith Peters, Grant Skinner, Chris Allen, myself and Mike Downey.
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- Made with Apollo. Projected during our panel at FITC (Day 1).
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- Grant, Bobbi and Tink ponder this eternal question.
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- ... or, "On our way to lunch" :)
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- Niqui on the streets of Toronto as we head out to lunch.
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- Guess what they sell there!
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- East was yum!
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- On our way to dinner.
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- Our preferred mode of transportation in Toronto.
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- We didn't stay long but the party venue was cool (not that you can see it in this picture!) Oh yes, and there was an open bar!
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- My twitter friend, Paul, whom I helped judge the AIGA awards recently.
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- Into the fire...
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- Cook meat. Eat. Repeat!
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- Our generous host watches on as a vegetarian dish is prepared for Ben Fry's girlfriend (whose name I am ashamed to say I heard once and summarily forgot -- please add to the tags or leave in a comment.)
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- Mario considers a pre-emptive strike on a neighboring BBQ.
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- There's something primeval about throwing food on the fire.
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- It's Craig. He's cooking meat. 'Nuff said.
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- One of the few moments I was able to capture Alexandra as anything but a blur in a photograph.
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- There was no shortage of meat at the Korean BBQ.
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- The P fell off!
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- Hoss Gifford shows some Scottish hospitality to Dian O'Reilly.
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- Displays the secret of her success: coffee!
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- Flash Lite and mobile devices talk.
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- At Dave and Dongyub's session.
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- Dongyub and Dave setting up for their talk.
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- A sample of the plethora of devices that Dave and Dongyub demonstrated Flash Lite on at their talk.
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- Dongyub oversees the setup of their various toys before the session.
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- Mario, Alexandra, Kristin and LordAlex
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