This is a recording of the Adobe Connect session done with the Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group discussing the open source initiative known as Team CF Advance. If you are a CFML (ColdFusion) developer who would like to learn more about this open source initiative and would like to participate, this is a good introduction to the concepts behind the team and where we are as of January 2014. Learn more and sign-up to join the team at http://teamcfadvance.org/

1. Team CF Advance
Presented at NVCFUG Jan 2014
By Denard Springle

2. What is Team CF Advance?
• Community driven FOSS initiative
• Platform, framework and technique neutral
• Involves Adobe and the Open CFML
Foundation

3. What is FOSS
• Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
• PHP, RoR, etc. communities drive
innovation through open source
development initiatives
• Railo, Apache and Tomcat are all FOSS
initiatives

4. TCFA Mission Statement
• Advancing ColdFusion applications as an
open source solution through development
and improvement of open source software
solutions combined with social marketing
to help raise awareness of ColdFusion
solutions as a viable open source option
against other open source solutions.

5. TCFA Organization
• TCFA Board Members
– Working Group Leaders
• Project Leaders
– Project Members
• Board acts as steering committee
• Working group leaders work with board and project
leaders
• Project leaders work with group leaders and project
members
• Seven (7) working groups…

6. FOSS Rescue Group
• Focused on locating older, unmaintained,
ColdFusion projects that could be resurrected
and given new life under TCFA leadership
• Resurrects legacy CF projects by taking over
code maintenance from original author(s) and
improving capabilities.
• Led by Randy
(randy@randy.cc)

7. FOSS Pioneer Group
• Focused on isolating new projects and
pioneering software solutions for the CFML
marketplace that do not already exist.
• Several suggestions have been proposed and
that working group has isolated which of those
solutions should be tackled and in what order
• Led by Pete
(pete@millionmunkeys.net)

8. FOSS API Group
• Focused on hackathons and sprints designed to
wrap and promote the use of CFML with various
APIs and providers.
• Our most active group so far – delivering over 7
new API wrappers in their 1st sprint
• Led by Danny
(rootuid@gmail.com)

9. FOSS Package Manager Group
• Focused, in concert with Adobe, on developing a
cross-platform package management system for
CFML.
• Developing a system that will allow the rapid
deployment of CFML packages, including
dependencies.
• Led by yours truly
(denard.springle@gmail.com)

10. FOSS QA Group
• Focused on helping other teams learn how
to write tests, validate our development
against the multiple versions and platforms
that run CFML, and overall ensure that the
development TCFA puts forth meets
quality standards.
• Lead by Sean
(sean@corfield.org)

11. FOSS Documentation Group
• Focused on helping developers document
their work, ensure all our documentation
follows the same standards and otherwise
ensure that the team has the support to
document our projects thoroughly.
• Led by Tony
(brandner@gmail.com)

12. FOSS Promotion Group
• Working in concert with the Open CFML
Foundation, and working the social media,
blogosphere and forums are our promotion
group members who help promote our projects
as they are completed, generate buzz for new
projects we take on, and advocate CFML as a
competitive development platform to others.
• Led by Ryan
(rmueller2008@gmail.com)

13. Contributor License Agreement
• CLA’s are a SOP in FOSS development
• TCFA uses the Apache v2 CLA as the basis for our CLA
• Protects TCFA from code revocation by any single
author
• Protects the IP rights of the author contributing their
code

14. Deep Thoughts…
• Over 120 participating developers… so
far!
• Developers of all walks of life, experience
and skill levels
• Organized and started development within
the first two months!

15. Learn More
• http://teamcfadvance.org/
• http://blog.vsgcom.net/
• @teamcfadvance and #TCFA
• +TeamcfadvanceOrg