The North Netherlands RIA / Web 2.0 scene
December 29th, 2006
The RIA Web 2.0 scene in the north of the Netherlands has been described in a very nice article by Edgar Jager, who is business development director with Adobe. They linked to my weblog (i’m quite proud of this) and to the blogs of Niels Bruin and my teacher Raymond van Dongelen as an example of the scene. Waldo Smeets of Adobe Netherlands commented on a post of Niels with the question to submit ideas on how Adobe can support education in a better way. I have some ideas on how they can improve or achieve this.
Within our schoolminor called RIA Web 2.0 we are purely focussing on development with Adobe Flex Builder 2.0 and Ruby on Rails. We have a wiki where we try to collect useful information that can help us with our study. Unfortunately this wiki isn’t working properly at the moment. The students don’t visit it because there is not enough useful content. So my idea is for us to collaborate with Adobe on how to make a useful wiki (a web 2.0 wiki built with Flex ofcourse) for both parties. Adobe could post useful links, tutorials, etc for us. The wiki could also serve as a platform where we can post our questions/problems which Adobe can answer or give us hints to where we can find a solution for it. Perhaps there could be a showcase section where we could show our Flex products (like the Adobe Flex Cookbook).
Another suggestion might be to send the Flex API poster to schools who work with Flex as this is a very useful poster and the PDF version is not that handy to read from. Ofcourse it would be great if students could also help Adobe in a way. This could also be done within the wiki or the students weblogs. We could post wishes for a next Flex release and provide self-written tutorials or code-snipplets (this already happens at the moment). As Waldo suggested in his comment, there could be a weekly live connection with Adobe Connect between one of the Flex people at Adobe and our students to discuss problems or give tutorials.
I hope my ideas will help improving the collaboration between Adobe and Flex students.
Related posts:
Niels Bruin: The North Netherlands Web 2.0 / RIA scene is gaining interest
Gerben Robijn: The North Netherlands Web 2.0, RIA scene
Raymond van Dongelen: Supporting the scene
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As for tutorials: adobe have their very own del.icio.us page, where they collect links to useful tutorials etc. Might turn out useful: http://del.icio.us/adobe
Hi Wietse, awesome feedback. I really like the new idea of Adobe collaborating on the Wiki, though I find it important to not make it a Adobe wiki; it should stay unbiased from a content point of view. I will add it to my feedreader and try to reactively contribute when possible.
There might also be a role for Adobe in helping the different elements of the Benelux community to better collaborate. For example, I know for sure that visitors or FlashFocus.nl/be as well as http://www.mmug.be (Adobe usergroup Belgium) could benefit but also contribute to establishing this important RIA Wiki resource.
I will try to focus more on this topic at Adobe during the coming two months, so hopefully something good comes out of this afterwards. Feel free to push me a bit on this
Goed bezig jongen… knee deep in the RIA. Je link naar Waldo Smeets deed het bij mij niet. Oowja, je blog doet het best ok in Lynx. Ik heb de grootste lol nu ik internet met Lynx. Eindelijk weer een uitdaging ; )
thnx rieks:) er zat inderdaad een foutje in de link naar de log van waldo. bij deze gecorrigeerd.
[...] Contribute but be careful how you do it: Wietse mentioned he thinks Adobe could contribute to a Wiki (link). I think there are risks attached to this. I noticed that when I contribute to a Wiki mostly written by students, the students tend to believe everything I write. I have found that my contributions are more likely to kill the community, than to stimulate the community. [...]