Congrats to Tom Chiverton who submitted our first patch which we have now checked in! A sign of things to come!

A few weeks ago Chet Haase joined the Flex team and is going to be focused most likely on our graphics and animation pieces. Very exciting for us. He's already started blogging about his Flex experiences. For now he's focusing on getting up and running, but expect to see the more advanced topics coming soon! Check it out!

Today at 360Flex I premiered the video Flex: Behind the Scenes. It is a view onto the Flex team like you've never seen before. I have now made the video available on YouTube in 2 parts (because it's 17 mins total). We're hoping to make it available in higher-res on the onair site sometime in the future, as I think it's useful to be able to read some of it up close. If you're in Atlanta we'll show the video in its high-def glory again tonight!

Mike wrote up a post on the Flexteam blog that says it all so I won't say more here. But woohoo! Definitely check out the new Open Source Flex SDK site!

Less than 24 hours and I'll be giving the keynote at 360Flex. I wonder what Flex news I might have to share. I wonder why I think this keynote might be the best keynote ever even without some of that news. Curious? Maybe there's a cheap airline ticket to at least get you there for Monday. This conference is going to rock!

As everyone should hopefully know by now we have a public bug and feature request system located at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex. Over the last few months we've had a number of feature requests filed, and it is becoming time to evaluate them for Flex 4. I wanted to let folks know that I and the rest of the Flex team will begin scrubbing through the Flex SDK feature request list starting this week, in a process that will definitely end up taking a few months.

Tuesday February 5th is Super Tuesday in the U.S., when over 20 states go to the polls to select their candidate for President of the United States. That's all well and good, but what if you don't live in the U.S.? What if your state already voted? What if your state doesn't vote yet? What if you're not 18? What if you don't care? Don't you still want to have the voting experience? For this reason we offer Tuesday as a special day to vote on Flex Feature Requests and Bugs. 1. Go to http://bugs.

Tom beat me to the punch with a description of what we're hoping to talk about at the 360Flex Atlanta keynote. Now that Ted can't make it (it's a lie, I totally stole this keynote from him) the plan is to rock the audience with tales of the development of Flex 3, secrets about team members, and whatever else might interest folks. Interested in any inside scoop info on the Flex team or our development process? Want to see what a particular team member actually looks like?

One of my primary functions as a Product Manager is to interact with the Flex community to make sure that the current product is meeting its needs and find out things we can be doing in the future to meet those needs even better. As we've moved Flex towards open source we've introduced additional infrastructure to help facilitate these kinds of interactions, most importantly the public bugbase.

If you haven't checked out what's going on at 360Flex in Atlanta you really should, it looks like it's going to be great! As you look at the schedule you'll see that there is a ton of great content planned, along with two open slots for the Flex team. What would you like to see us talk about? Are you looking to understand a particular feature better (either in the SDK or Flex Builder)? Want to learn more about future plans?