Haxe Foundation

The Haxe Foundation was created almost three years ago for several reasons: At that time I was leaving Motion-Twin, a company I co-founded back in 2012. While most of the time spent developing Haxe was on my spare time, there was still a significant time spent on Haxe (and Neko) while working at Motion-Twin. Motion-Twin was also hosting the Haxe an... d Neko websites and I was introducing the work I was making with Haxe at Motion-Twin when I was going to conferences, etc. So it was necessary at that time to clarify Haxe's ownership. First I created Haxe Foundation then we transferred all the rights that Motion-Twin had to it. I also made sure that all compiler contributors signed a "contributor license agreement" so that nobody could decide to suddenly take back his source code and put it closed source. Keeping Haxe open source has been and will always be my primary goal. Another reason to create the Haxe Foundation was that while quitting Motion-Twin I was starting a new venture at Shiro Games, which would take most of my day time. Simon was ready to take over daily compiler maintenance while I would focus on the high (and very low) level issues but given it required a lot of work I needed to find a way to compensate him. Actually several significant companies were already using Haxe at that time and wanted to make sure that in case of bugs or problems they would have someone to help them. I then put together support plans and we soon got Area9, TiVo, Prezi and Motion-Twin signing up for them, with some other companies that are listed on our partners page and that I want to thank once more because without them we would not have any kind of budget. The Haxe Foundation was born: we had people (me and Simon at first, Jason joined us afterwards, and more recently Andy and Josefiene), we had plans (make Haxe a big success) we even had a bit of money (~60K). What did we make out of it?Read More