Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-06 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Done. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:53 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:19 AM, jude wrote: > > > Congratulations on the release! > > > > One suggested edit in places where it's possible (was away). I think we > > should emphasize the new Spark components more. This is the c

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-06 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:19 AM, jude wrote: > Congratulations on the release! > > One suggested edit in places where it's possible (was away). I think we > should emphasize the new Spark components more. This is the current > wording: > > + The new spark components ensure that SDK users can buil

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-06 Thread jude
Congratulations on the release! One suggested edit in places where it's possible (was away). I think we should emphasize the new Spark components more. This is the current wording: + The new spark components ensure that SDK users can build functionalities quickly and in a more performant way. The

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-06 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
derp -- august 7th. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:01 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala wrote: > June 7th? ;-) > On Aug 5, 2013 7:30 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" wrote: > > > The blog entry has been armed to post at midnight EDT on 6/7/2013. > > Basically took the press release and added the links to the downl

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-05 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
June 7th? ;-) On Aug 5, 2013 7:30 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" wrote: > The blog entry has been armed to post at midnight EDT on 6/7/2013. > Basically took the press release and added the links to the downloads at > the bottom. Great job Scott! > > I also updated the URL on the staging site to po

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-05 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
The blog entry has been armed to post at midnight EDT on 6/7/2013. Basically took the press release and added the links to the downloads at the bottom. Great job Scott! I also updated the URL on the staging site to point to the blog entry as soon as it posts. Unless somebody tells me otherwise,

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-05 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Scott Guthmann wrote: > All the edits have been made to this announcement. Thank you all for the > help proofreading and suggesting edits. > > Both Nick and Justin have offered to post this to the > http://blogs.apache.org/flex/ > > I think this document is ready to

[Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-08-05 Thread Scott Guthmann
All the edits have been made to this announcement. Thank you all for the help proofreading and suggesting edits. Both Nick and Justin have offered to post this to the http://blogs.apache.org/flex/ I think this document is ready to be posted. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bG5EDWbCYhujhu_o

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-26 Thread Alex Harui
Hi Scott, I finally got a look at the doc. Thanks for writing this up. Some comments: 1) Instead of "Voting member & committer of the Apache Flex PMC", which sounds like a title, that it say "committer and member of the Apache Flex PMC". 2) I'm not sure I understand this paragraph: The Pro

RE: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-26 Thread Scott Guthmann
> Scott, > I can post this to blogs. apache.org. Are we still going to wait for the > installer to be finished, or do you want me to post it right now? > -Nick First, here is the shared document. Please let me know if you are not able to see it and edit it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-26 Thread Erik de Bruin
There hasn't been a release yet, we just passed the VOTE on which candidate will be released. We wait for the release manager to tell us when it's OK to start the marketing. EdB On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: > Scott, > > I can post this to blogs. apache.org. Ar

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-26 Thread Nicholas Kwiatkowski
Scott, I can post this to blogs. apache.org. Are we still going to wait for the installer to be finished, or do you want me to post it right now? -Nick On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Scott Guthmann wrote: > > I have made all the edits I could find from this thread. The press > release is r

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Erik de Bruin
Me too, that isn't right. The previous version wasn't 'protected' this way. Scott? EdB On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > I just went to the link Scott provided and it says I have to request > access, so I won't be able to review it until then. > > On 7/25/13 9:48 PM, "Justi

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Alex Harui
I just went to the link Scott provided and it says I have to request access, so I won't be able to review it until then. On 7/25/13 9:48 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> I haven't had a chance to review the document yet. My email shows that >> the document was posted only about 12 hours ago

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I haven't had a chance to review the document yet. My email shows that > the document was posted only about 12 hours ago. I don't think the intention was to put the document out before we have an the release on the mirrors etc etc, not a huge point in sending it out before people can dow

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Jul 25, 2013 9:26 PM, "Alex Harui" wrote: > > > > On 7/25/13 8:28 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: > > >HI, > > > >> I received a reply from the Apache VP of Publicity about distributing > >>this as a press release on the Apache news wire. Unfortunately, > >>distribution on the news wire service is

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Alex Harui
On 7/25/13 8:28 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >HI, > >> I received a reply from the Apache VP of Publicity about distributing >>this as a press release on the Apache news wire. Unfortunately, >>distribution on the news wire service is not possible because it is not >>a major release (e.g. version

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Justin Mclean
HI, > I received a reply from the Apache VP of Publicity about distributing this as > a press release on the Apache news wire. Unfortunately, distribution on the > news wire service is not possible because it is not a major release (e.g. > version N.0 or equivalent). Apache doesn't issue a pres

RE: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Scott Guthmann
> I have made all the edits I could find from this thread. The press release is > ready. Last call. > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bG5EDWbCYhujhu_oYl7f2eFaxmxfSTNTNa4o8W_DQQM/edit?usp=sharing I received a reply from the Apache VP of Publicity about distributing this as a press release

RE: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Scott Guthmann
> Looks good - more minor mods required. I have made all the edits I could find from this thread. The press release is ready. Last call. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bG5EDWbCYhujhu_oYl7f2eFaxmxfSTNTNa4o8W_DQQM/edit?usp=sharing

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Looks good - more minor mods required. - "consist of a software development kit" should be "consisting of a" If I was being really picky I would talk about automated testing tools as they are not actually part of the release. - change "The v4.10 release" to "The 4.10.0 release", this o

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Scott Guthmann wrote: > Thank you to those who contributed to this publicity document. > > This is a draft of a press release announcing the arrival of Apache Flex > v4.10. > > > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwtzQKOyBr2cQTdiMXdMNXRpMHM/edit?usp=sharing > > Do y

[Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Scott Guthmann
> Carlos said: > I think is good, but agree that incubator paragraph should be removed I agree. > I miss Linux reference, since we now support it and this is a great step > forward. I would point something like "Apache Flex now supports Linux making > possible for development teams around the w

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Carlos Rovira
amework / installer. > > -Message d'origine- From: Scott Guthmann > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:50 PM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10 > > > Thank you to those who contributed to this publicity

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Frédéric Thomas
: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10 Thank you to those who contributed to this publicity document. This is a draft of a press release announcing the arrival of Apache Flex v4.10. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwtzQKOyBr2cQTdiMXdMNXRpMHM/edi

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Erik de Bruin
Hi, I just did just a quick scan, will read more thoroughly later: to me it seems that the paragraph about 'incubation' is no longer relevant, since we graduated and are now a top level Apache project. EdB On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Scott Guthmann wrote: > Thank you to those who contrib

[Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-25 Thread Scott Guthmann
Thank you to those who contributed to this publicity document. This is a draft of a press release announcing the arrival of Apache Flex v4.10. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwtzQKOyBr2cQTdiMXdMNXRpMHM/edit?usp=sharing Do you see changes that need to be made? Are all the important features & be

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Also add: Out of the box support for Advanced Telemetry allowing developers to easily profile their application and improve performance using Adobe Scout. Justin

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-23 Thread Erik de Bruin
Scott, > • What business problems can a business manager solve with v 4.10 that > weren't possible to solve with v 4.9.1? Remain up to date; not particularly a feature of THIS release, sure, but certainly a feature of any release and worth mentioning. Also, the testing of the platform has

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-23 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, And how could I forget better international support for dates in formatters, validations, date fields and date choosers! Justin

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Another very important: Better localization for multiple languages. Flex 4.10 is better now when trying to make application for multiple countries and languages. 2013/7/23 Justin Mclean > Hi, > > > • What business problems can a business manager solve with v 4.10 > that weren't possible to s

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-22 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > • What business problems can a business manager solve with v 4.10 that > weren't possible to solve with v 4.9.1? Better for developer productivity - less RTEs and work arounds required. Justin

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-22 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
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RE: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-20 Thread FRANKLIN GARZON
Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10 > To: dev@flex.apache.org > > Scott, > > Thanks for jumping into this right away! I will try my best to answer a > couple of questions: > > *1. What business problems can a business manager solve with v 4.10 that > we

Re: [Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-20 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
Scott, Thanks for jumping into this right away! I will try my best to answer a couple of questions: *1. What business problems can a business manager solve with v 4.10 that weren't possible to solve with v 4.9.1?* - 480 dpi mobile resolution/skin support means that Flex SDK users can now target

[Marketing] - publicity for the new Apache Flex v 4.10

2013-07-19 Thread Scott Guthmann
I would like to coordinate writing a press release to announce the arrival of Apache Flex 4.10, assuming it is ready for release. IMO, our project’s release notes [1] are very impressive. But, I’m not a developer & I do need some help generating the content and giving context to highlights in th