About Open BlueDragon

Open BlueDragon, was released as a GPLv3 open source project, on the 3rd of May 2008. Designed to capitalise on the popularity of the Java CFML runtime engine, by bringing together a community of users and experts to drive the future of CFML as a whole. For a full history on BlueDragon read Alan Williamson's interview.

The steering committee decides the direction of Open BlueDragon, making sure all decisions, patches, features are for the good of the community.

These gentlemen need no introductions. With well known names in the CFML community we have a representative from all walks of our industry. From high performance, to massively scalable, to hosting, to standards, to community leaders, to tools developers, to language experts, we have it all here within this select group.

As part of their introductions, they were all interviewed regarding their visions for CFML and Open BlueDragon. You can read their interviews by following the links below.

	Adam Haskell adam.haskell@openbluedragon.org — http://cfrant.blogspot.com/ — interview "I want the CFML language to stay true to itself and continue to grow in its own manner. Borrowing from other languages is always good as long as CFML stays true to itself, that is a big concern/focus of mine."
	Nitai nitai@openbluedragon.org — http://blog.sixsigns.com/ — interview I look at it from upside-down. Open BlueDragon is already a success!
	Jordan Michaels jordan.michaels@openbluedragon.org — http://www.viviotech.net/ — interview We all know about the many benefits of CFML ... but the cost is a mental block for most folks. With an open source version of BD, I believe we can get past that mental block and make inroads where we couldn't before - and that's extremely exciting to me
	Alan Williamson alan.williamson@openbluedragon.org — http://alan.blog-city.com/ — interview The biggest take up will be the distribution of CF apps; both in terms of hosting and also getting smaller apps up and running without having to haul around a huge and costly commercial engine. More tags/functions and reaching into other languages/platforms (aka mobile).
	Matt Woodward matt.woodward@openbluedragon.org — http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog — interview I have big hopes for the open source edition of BlueDragon and what it can mean for CFML as a language. I also am a huge proponent of open source software for purely philosophical reasons, and I'd be lying if I said it hasn't caused me to re-evaluate my heavy use of CFML.
	Andy Wu andy.wu@openbluedragon.org — http://www.andywu.co.uk/ — interview It frustrates me that the CFML language is often overlooked just because it can't swim in the open source pool. OpenBD excites me moving forward as we break down preconceived conceptions and show people what really can be done.