In Europe to discuss Flash Roadmap
If you follow me on twitter, then you may have noticed that I have been working on a white-paper laying out the roadmap and strategy for the Flash runtimes (Flash Player and Adobe AIR). The white-paper is going through internal review now, and should be available in the next 7 to 10 days.
As part of the release of the white-paper, I, along with Lee Brimelow, and Thibault Imbert will be spending two weeks in Europe meeting with the Flash community and laying out Adobe’s vision and strategy for the Flash runtimes. This will be a good opportunity to speak directly with Adobe, ask questions, and general discuss recent changes around the Flash Player.
Here are the cities we will be visiting. Click through the links to find more information and to register for the events.
- February 22 : Paris
- February 23 : London
- February 26 : FITC Amsterdam
- February 29 : Hamburg
- March 02 : Lisbon
In addition to discussing the Flash roadmap, we will be showing off the latest Flash and Adobe AIR content, give some sneak peaks on upcoming releases, and setting aside plenty of time for open discussions and Q&A.
The Flex team will be in Europe at the same time, discussing the future of Adobe Flex under the Apache organization. You can find information on the Flex tour here.
We plan similar tours over the next couple of months for North and South America, and Asia. Ill post more info here once we have more details.
I’ve recently seen at least a couple of persons around LinkedIn saying they know people working at Adobe, and that received internal memos saying Flash Player is soon to be abandoned.
I’m skeptical about those “I have a friend that…” comments, and even if they are true, I guess we won’t be able to know for sure in some time, but if it’s the case, well, it would be nice if you start preparing some info because someone is then leaking some information and you don’t want to have another PR nightmare.
I don’t think the Flash Player plugin as we know it will stay too long, but still has some years before doing so.
HB
13 Feb 12 at 2:01 pm
@HB
The Flash Player is not being abandoned. We will be releasing a whitepaper shortly which will lay out the long term roadmap for the player.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
mikechambers
13 Feb 12 at 2:21 pm
This is great news Mike! Really needed by the community to see some future for the platform!
Really excited to see what comes out of this!
Michael
13 Feb 12 at 4:08 pm
Looking forward to hearing more about this!
It would be great to have a well understood and accepted road map for the Flash Player.
Also it would be great to hear more about Adobe’s plans to help developers and content creators transition rich media and casual games to HTML5.
Thanks again for your post!
Geoff Freedman
13 Feb 12 at 4:24 pm
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