FlashAndTheCity Statue of Liberty Awards 2010 winners
FlashAndTheCity Statue of Liberty Awards 2010 is a community driven award that recognizes some of the best contributors in the community in the year 2009-2010. The awards recognizes people under 6 different categories. Nominations for the awards were made on the basis community recommendations which was collected through the Flash and the City website, speaker mailing list and twitter. All Adobe employees, products, organizers and their products were not eligible to be nominated for the awards. The final selected few were put on the ballot for community and expert vote. The vote responses were equally weighted between the community and the panel of experts (which again were either organizers or members of the community). The final vote numbers were tallied and the winners were determined.
Each winner receive a box of Adobe® Creative Suite 5 Web Premium which retails for $1,799 and will be signed by many of the conference speakers.
Each winner also get a copy of FDT 3 Enterprise retailed at $699: http://www.fdt.powerflasher.com/
As if that weren’t enough, FATC Community winners will receive a litl web book! They won’t ship until Flash Player 10.1 is available.
Categories:
Most significant Open Source Project of the year – Open source projects have been shaping the Flash community over the last few years. This award recognizes the most significant Flash platform related open source project in the year 2009-2010.
And the winner is…..RobotLegs
Most influential Flash person of the year – The “most influential” person award recognizes the contributions of such a person who has affected and impacted the thoughts and actions of most people in the Flash community.
And the winner is…..Steve Jobs
Best contributor of the year — A number of folks have been instrumental in making the world of Flash active, vibrant and participative. This award recognizes the best contributor among the many that we have today.
And the winner is…..Joa Ebert
Most talented Flash Developer of the year — While contributions of all forms are necessary for the growth of a technology, its developer base and its users, some stand apart from others in being truly brilliant in what they do. This award celebrates the most talented Flash developer of the year.
And the winner is…..Joa Ebert
Best Flash book of the year — Despite the rise of online content, a good book can be a great teacher and a companion. The best flash book of the year award attempts to find the best among these host of great knowledge bases created in 2009-2010.
And the winner is…..ActionScript for Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds (by Jobe Makar; New Rider’s Press, August 2009)
Best Rookie of the year — While seasoned folks take all the kudos and the attention, its also important to recognize the new and the upcoming. The best rookie of the year is not so much about someone new to the world of Flash but its more about those who have newly entered the virtual major league of the community.
And the winner is….. Kyle Kellogg
Since Steve Jobs won the Most influential Flash person of the year we will auction his prizes and donate them to charity. The award will be shipped to his office.
We invited impersonator and thanks to Sigma group team we have came out with what we think Steve Jobs would have said if we he would have been present to accept the award. We will post the video soon, meanwhile you can read the acceptance speech below.
Thank you. Thank you my followers. Elang, Elab, or whoever you are, you can now leave. I have officially taken over the conference, as stipulated in Section section 3.3.1 of the new Apple Developer Licence Agreement.
I have a couple of big announcements. But first a few housekeeping points.
To start, this is my boat. Secondly, this conference will now be know as Objective-C in the City. And finally, no matter where you run, or where you hide, I will always find you. You see the thing about flash developers is you might write classes but lets face it you have no class. I mean look at yourselves. What a pity, but luckily I am here to save you.
I hoping to convince you all to finally abandon the flash platform, because I want YOU to give YOUR users the best web experience they’ve ever had. And if I can’t convince you, well … get off my boat. Now.
On to the big announcement. You’re hearing it first at OCATC…
I’VE JUST BOUGHT ADOBE.
Lee, Doug, Ryan, Kevin, and the rest of you so called “Adobe” evangelists, you’re all fired. In addition to recoding the entire web in HTML5, I am personally working on the release of our brand new product– iFlash… It publishes content in the magical iSwf format. This new platform is so revolutionary we have removed roll-over states.
See what we’ve done is taken the pitiful platform that once was Flash and put an “i” in front of it. It will be cross-compatibile with iAir, iFlex, and the full iSuite. And now it’s an acceptable platform for apple products, provided all of your code is written as iClasses.
There I said it. Now you know. And now I’m leaving. See you later. The iCopter is waiting to take me back to Cupertino. And don’t worry, I’ll always be watching.
