I got back Friday from OSCON down in Portland. It was my first time at an open source conference and I was impressed with how energetic the OSS community is. Adobe didn’t have a booth or anything, but James Ward and I were both there to mingle, ask questions and get feedback. James was also involved in an RIA panel with an evangelist from Sun talking about JavaFX.
James’ panel went very well. There was a lot of interest in Flex and nearly all of the questions from the audience were directed at him. I think open sourcing Flex went over very well with the community and they’re also interested in the Tamarin project. I think more so now that Mozilla has made a number of announcements around it.
One of the coolest things was getting to talk to people in a community I don’t normally deal with. I got to finally meet Mark Finkle from Mozilla and I had lunch with Rob Savoye of the Gnash project. Rob has been around technology for a long time and had some really good stories.
It was a great conference overall (plus it overlapped with the Oregon Brewers Festival) with lots of input about how Adobe can work more closely with the open source community. There was also no shortage of great examples for how companies can harness the power of open source software. In a lot of cases it’s win-win for everyone.
[tags]OSCON07, Adobe, Flex[/tags]
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