About a year ago i first read about an open source compiler named MTASC and I discovered the shiny world of OpenSource for me. But as everyone in business now, life is short and time is expensive and lot´s of projects had focused my view far away from that.
But in near future I´m going to reorganize my life in some parts, I have canceld my employment at the company I have worked for about 3 years and I´m going to find new challenges.
I want to rediscover OS for myself and get a new view on things like usability concepts, development workflows, etc.
So i visited OSFlash for about one hundred times last two weeks and i was surprised what´s going on in the “better world”. There is a solution for a strict OpenSource Flash Developement called Fame+s which brings some fantastic projects together.
- Flashout, includes logger solution, implements MTASC in his GUI, etc. (not Open Source, but will become or get replaced by another solution)
- AS Eclipse Plugin, syntax highlighting, uses MTASC for Live Error Handling, Outline, nice Explorer like Feature called Navigator
- MTASC, the famous ActionScript 2.0 Compiler
- Eclipse, the well known Editor(but Eclipse is much more than this)
- SWFMill, create Basic SWF File, transform XML2SWF, SWF2XML, possibility to create assets Libraries similiar to the library behaviour of Adobe Flash IDE, SIMPLE Dialect is XML Based and very easy to understand
All these projects and many others like XRAY are documented, and some of them are also hosted, at OSFlash.
I am not working that long with these Tools, but my first impression is very good. I tried to compile a big flash game, written in last months, and it nearly compiles(only one error was thrown, cause of lazy variable declaration) at the first time. What many Flash developers likeme hate on Adobe Flash, is the slow compiler and the creepy debugging possibilities. For example, the game compiled with Flash Compiler need about up to 1 minute for compiling 10k, maybe 15k lines. With MTASC i nearly did not recognize that the compile process has ended, cause it was done in 1 or 2 seconds(and the compiler allow real strong typing, yeahh!!)
So I think, this projects should be distributed as one package and should be called “FAMOUS” 
so long, h.