[Arp] Announcing OpenARP.org, the advisory committee and the ARP subversion repository

[Keith Peters]

Come on, it's gotta stand for something! How about Awesome RIA Platform? :) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Arp-bounces at ariaware.com [mailto:Arp-bounces at ariaware.com] On Behalf
Of Aral Balkan
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 7:46 PM
To: General List for Ariaware RIA Platform users and developers
Subject: [Arp] Announcing OpenARP.org, the advisory committee and the ARP
subversion repository

Hi everyone,

This announcement is long overdue but I wanted to make sure that we had
everything in place before making it.

I am very happy to announce that ARP has a new home and an absolutely
amazing Advisory Committee comprised of some truly wonderful people. Our new
home is http://OpenARP.org and you can see the advisory committee list at
http://www.openarp.org/index.php?page=ARP+Advisory+Committee

The new web site is a Wiki -- a WysiwygWiki to be precise
(http://WysiwygWiki.org) -- to better enable the whole community to partake
in the sharing of information on ARP.

The advisory committee has already started debating the future direction of
ARP (and please keep sending your thoughts, additions, etc. to this list
also) and will begin committing experimental additions to ARP's new
Subversion repository in the coming days. Which brings me to... ARP's new
Subversion repository. Here's the URL:

http://svn.sourcesecure.co.uk/osflash/arp

(There's not much that's new there at the moment but, believe me, there will
be in the coming days!)

By the way, as part of this move, ARP no longer stands for anything other
than ARP. In other words, it no longer stands for the Ariaware RIA Platform.
It's no longer an acronym (we have our hands full with FAME, FAMES, FLAMES,
etc.) :) The name was a legacy artifact dating back to the days when ARP was
a closed-source framework at Ariaware which we actually licensed to our
clients.

Although the winds of changes are a-blowin', please know that there are a
couple of overriding principles that we will adhere to as we take ARP
forward:

1. Simplicity before all else (the core of ARP will never mushroom into a
complicated mess) 2. Documentation, documentation, documentation!
3. Commitment to the Flash ecosystem (Flash, Flex, MTASC, etc.)

So, for example, although you may see that new utility classes get added to
the framework over time, these will always be optional and will not create
any dependencies on the core framework. Again, you may find that the
experimental branch of the SVN tree grows to include interesting
additions/extensions -- but these will not be included in the stable branch
until they are fully documented and then only if the utility they provide
does not outweigh any simplicity they remove.

Finally, ARP is now part of the OSFlash movement (http://osflash.org). 
There has been a groundswell of activity in open source Flash projects
recently and OSFlash.org aims to support this by providing a common
information hub, community tools (like the OSFlash and Swfmill mailing
lists) as well as repository hosting for open source projects through
SourceSecure.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to the new ARP Advisory Committee
members and a big thank-you to everyone who has supported and continues to
support and use ARP. These are exciting times for ARP and exciting times for
open source Flash and I'm just happy to be a part of it!

All the best,
Aral

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