Aral Balkan

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.

Comments

• 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!

  by michal on 2006-08-13 02:36:31

• Very Cool. Some of these new projects sound super hot! Cant wait to find out more

  by Bjorn Schultheiss on 2006-08-13 09:57:03

• Hi Michal, Sandy's on the list :) Bjorn: Me too! :)

  by aral on 2006-08-13 13:02:14

• 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.

  by chris sperry on 2006-08-13 23:49:17

• 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

  by UnitZeroOne on 2006-08-16 15:09:47

• 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.

  by aral on 2006-08-16 15:28:08