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Sydney – Adobe User Group Meeting

April 29th, 2008

Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Sydney Adobe User Group. Note that it is now a joint group between the Flash User Group and the Coldfusion User Group.

Geoff Bowers did a presentation about “Setting Fire To Your Community”

The presentation was really good and I left the user group meeting with a nice feeling to try and help the opensource communities I daily use.

He gave really good (and a bit funny and disturbing) analogies comparing opensource communities with japanese mummies. Geoff also got into explaining some details about different opensource licensing schemes, and made us aware of the great difference between gpl and lgpl.

Even though most of us might just click next, next, next when downloading most of the software we use… If you are going to use that code in your commercial projects, you should really know what you are getting into and learn about the implications you will have when you distribute your project.

We also learnt that the extjs framework is changing its licensing from lgpl to gpl. This means that if you include that library in your code, you will have to opensource your project.

It was a great meeting and I’m looking forward to the next one. Chris informed us that the meetings will be held on every last Monday of the month, so the next meeting will be on May 26.

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