The first three of four days at LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin are over. Your booth crew, consisting of David Glowsky, Holger Wirtz, Mathias Froehlich, Thorsten Brehm, Torsten Dreyer and myself has experienced quite some change over the days. Now I'd like to share a brief report with you.
First item to mention: We are certainly having more displays in use than any other booth :-) http://foxtrot.mgras.net/bitmap/FGFS/LinuxTag_Stand2.jpg Note that two screens in the 'large' setup are mounted upright for the purpose of demonstrating the versatility of the multi-monitor feature in FlightGear. Thursday's number of booth visitors had been a bit slack, but friday was quite acceptable. It's been pretty interesting that we actually managed to attract a noteworthy share of business people to our booth this year, which makes a contrast to the exhibitions of the past. Unfortunately, after one out of five graphics cards in our heavy machine failed on wednesday afternoon and the box had to get shut down for debugging the hardware, we hardly managed to attract any new guests to our booth while the screens were dark, whereas there was almost continuous interest as long as the machine was running. Thus it became very clear that showing animated content at large scale was the primary eye-catcher. Aside from the sheer number of screens, Torstens's home-glued "Poor Man's Procedure Trainer" was blessed with compliments - and it really deserves this recognition. Following the vague tradition of testing recent, development-features in 'production' environment at LinuxTag (mostly related to scenegraph in the past), I'm glad to mention that we were now able to check wether FlightGear/HLA is robust enough and suitable to serve as a substitute for multiplayer in local environments. I does ! While I'm at it, I'd like to express a warm "thank you" to those private and commercial sponsors who actually made this particular booth setup possible by donating money and/or equipment and giving trust into our promise to do "the right thing" with these donations. In chronological order I'd like to highlight those who had been contributing to this year's "FlightGear expo hardware equipment pool": - Local FlightGear-enthusiasts and -developers who had been buying a set of six 24" displays from their private budget in the run-up to one of the former LinuxTag exhibions. - Thomas Krenn AG (http://www.thomas-krenn.de/) who have been donating an extremely powerful workstation for use in development and on exhibitions - including four graphics cards - which would have been completely unaffordable from our private budgets. - Various FlightGear-enthusiasts and -developers from all over the world who've been donating private money via our PayPal-account at "donati...@flightgear.org", which eventually led to .... - the occasion of buying another five 24" displays at an advantageous price thanks to the subsidy of Baastrup GmbH (http://www.bee.de/). - Finally, Science + Computing AG (http://www.science-computing.de/) contributed to the affair by - guess, what - paying the insurance for all this equipment at the booth :-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
