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Apache Flex is a project run by professionals and volunteers alike. If you would like to help the project including contributing code, documentation, training or marketing, we are always looking for help.
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I'm happy to have been able to help Flex incubate at Apache, the team did a great job in creating a successful Apache project. I left the PMC on graduation to free some time for other podlings, wishing Flex a bright future!
I'm fascinated by the communities that develop around projects at Apache I really enjoy the spirit here in the Apache Flex project. I am particularly interested in documents and am on the Apache POI and OpenOffice PMCs. Apache Flex for office documents anyone?
I live in San Francisco where the weather is mild.
Carlos Rovira is a technologist, entrepreneur and businessman. He is passionate about advanced web interfaces and rich multi-device business applications. He is extremely happy when their applications are useful for people, combining functionality and usability. He's founder of various companies including carlosrovira.com in 2007 and Codeoscopic in 2009. He's the technical leader behind the Riality Flex/JEE Platform and other successful insurance software products like Direct Writer and Avant 2.
Carol is a software engineer at Adobe, based outside of Boston. She worked on Adobe Flex for about five years - FTE and TLF text with Gordon, Spark DataGrid, mirroring and the top bug fixer for the last couple of years - then transitioned with Flex to Apache. Release manager for Apache Flex 4.8.0. Being a generalist, she's worked on a wide variety of software, including ColdFusion and JRun, kernel-level networking code and distributed networking software.
Web application developer. Focusing on JS right now and trying to help with Falcon and FalconJS as an Apache Flex Commiter.
Christofer is a software engineer secialized on Flex, Java, Spring and Maven. After helping support the Flexmojos project (Maven plugin for building Flex applications) for a long time he has taken over the development beginning 2012. His main areas of contribution to the Apache Flex project were creating a tool for creating Mavenized versions of Flex SDKs and he is currently working on creating a new Maven plugin to act as a replacement for Flexmojos.
Douglas passed away in May, 2012. He is deeply missed within our community.
Erik is a software engineer (Flex/Flash, PHP, Delphi, Authorware, to name a few), e-learning consultant and occassional project manager. For the Apache Flex project he is a committer and part of the PMC. He has contributed the SDK Installer Badge, was contributor and co-release manager on the first release of the SDK Installer and is currently busy getting the FalconJx and FlexJS projects off the ground.
Espen is a Vice President at JP Morgan, where he is leading the development of client facing trading technology. Espen was one of the initial committers and PMC members of Apache Flex.
Freelancer, software architect, Apache Flex PMC Member, trying to make the Flex world better.
(French)
Gordon is currently working on completing MXML support in the new Falcon compiler. He lives in San Francisco and works for Adobe.
Gordon was one of the original four engineers on a 2002 Macromedia project that became Flex, and worked on the Flex framework for eight years:
Since 2010 he has been part of the compiler team at Adobe.
Harbs comes from a print background and his primary interest is in publishing. He keeps himself busy with his multiple technology businesses:
In-Tools, PrintUI and UnHurdle.
All three businesses rely heavily on Flex as one of the active technologies, so Harbs has a strong interest in Flex.
Harbs also spends his time studying Talmud, and with his wife and kids. If there's any time left, he gets a bit of sleep.
Jeffry Houser is a technical entrepreneur that likes to share cool stuff with other people.
Jeffry is the Brains behind Flextras, a library of Open Source Flex Components
including a Calendar, AutoComplete, and a Mobile DropDownList.
Jeffry is one of the initial contributors to Apache Flex and his primary interest lies in
expanding the component library, especially for use in mobile applications.
In his spare time, Jeffry runs DotComIt, a consulting firm developing Rich Internet Applications. He has spoken
all over the US, is author of three books, over 30 articles, and hundreds of podcasts.
Jose Barragan is a Software Architect, with over 10 years experience in the enterprise sector. Has a big experience in design, development and implementation of high performance software in corporate environments. Has an extensive knowledge of Flex, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Git, being the technical co-leader behind the Riality Flex/JEE Platform and other successful insurance software products like Direct Writer and Avant 2. Restless mind and enthusiast of new technologies. Always learning from everything and everyone.
Helping Apache Flex grow through mentoring and community awareness. An officer of the Open Spoon Foundation. Cross-platform Flex mobile developer at RealEyes Media with a focus in video and multiuser applications. Adjunct Faculty at University of Denver, University College teaching students how to build native applications with Adobe AIR.
Experienced web application developer, certified trainer, international conference speaker and Arduino tinkerer. Interesting in making Apache Flex more international and work on a wider range of platforms. Added international postcode support and locales to Apache Flex 4.9.0. Release manager for Apache Flex 4.9.0.
Past; ActionScript since 2001 and ui component developer. Created a read/write DOM for ActionScript in AS3 and Java, familiar with parsers and compilers.
Future; Working creating a framework to make synths and sequencers for techno music in Android and also Unity3D, WebAudio and JavaScript.
Leading the development of FalconJx to finally put the last nail in the Flash Player for myself.
I don't claim to be anything I'm not, the thrid person scares me.
Working on components, website, marketing.
Apache Flex committer and PMC member. Test driven development enthusiast. Wrestles code all day. Developing Flash since 2000, Flex since version 2 beta. Senior Architect for almer/blank developing front-ends and back-ends in HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, Flex, Node.js, PHP, MySQL and MongoDB, just to name a few. Interested in expanding Apache Flex beyond the Flash Player plugin as well as other random experiments.
Om 'bigosmallm' Muppirala is a UI architect with years of experience building Flex and Flash based applications. He has been working on various tools and utilities aimed at making life easier for Apache Flex developers and users(SDK Installer, OneClick Mustella, etc.) Also interested in contributing more web and mobile Flex components.