Hey Thorsten et al, Yeah, I guess it's time for some further impressions of FSWeekend from my perspective. This year was our 7th consecutive presentation, and the first time we had a presentation that was considerably scaled down compared to our previous tradition of growing in size every year. Though I think it's okay to throttle back a little, every once in a while, it did mean that our prominence was a little less present this year. This is something we probably need to consider for next year. Let me come back to that at the end of this post; first some impressions.
My pictures are are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/durktalsma/sets/72157631936384731/ As the Pictures show, Martin, Mathias, James, and myself started out on Friday with a 4-hour session at the full-motion simulator at simcenter (http://simcenter.nl/) lelystad Airport. Gijs also made some with my camera, but I haven't had the chance to process those yet. Yes, there are some rumors. Firstly, yes we did hijack the main projection screen in the uiverzaal, and yes a broomstick was involved. Secondly, there are some rumors that people may have seen a person walking around with a Curt Olson name-tag. Rumors also have it that the person carrying it spoke with a rapid Scottish accent. So, what's up with the projector/broomstick rumor? Well, despite my good intentions, I wasn't as well prepared as I had thought. I did bring my computer, a projector, and a screen. But, as we were setting up, I had realized that I had forgotten to bring the pole that is holding the screen up, making the entire exercise rather useless. In order to find a replacement, I tried borrowing a broomstick from the museum. Although that would have worked, we couldn't borrow it for the entire weekend. While we were contemplating our next move, Frans offered us to use the big screen. I hope that none of the other clubs took offense, because the screen was rather big. Secondly, by the time I had to register for the booth, Curt and I were discussing ways that would enable it for him to visit. With the deadline in sight, I did decide to go ahead and register Curt. But in the end, the travel plans didn't work out and in the mean time I had gotten an email from James Turner showing his interest in participating, but that was already after the registration deadline. So with one spare badge and one person without a badge, we decided that James should pretend he'd be Curt during the course of the show. I think that it worked out pretty well :-) So, compared to the previous years, a number of things were a little different. A few of our regular members couldn't make it this year, including Torsten, Jorg and Lindsey, Hans (but thanks for briefly stopping by Hans!), and even Gijs had to bail out on sunday. Their absence was offset by the presence of James Turner, Christian Schmitt, and Alexis Bory. It was a joy having you guys around! I hope you can make it to FSWeekend again sometime. Although in general I'm looking back at a fun weekend, I also have to admit that I've had some reservations about the event -and our presentation- that I feel I need to share as well. As mentioned above, this was the 7th time we were there and in those 7 years the format of FSWeekend hasn't really changed much. Most of the presenters are regulars and they seem to be doing exactly the same thing as in previous years. With FlightGear, I usually felt that we managed to escape that, by presenting something drastically new every year. But this year the new essence seemed to be missing somewhat. I didn't really feel that we had any major innovations to show (with the notable exception of project rembrandt, which ran well on Alexis' machine). With our multiscreen setups, we were somewhat limited in terms of graphics capabilities, and I also didn't feel that there were a lot of exciting new aircraft to demonstrate. Now, I want to emphasize that this was largely due to our personal situations, and nobody is to blame (if anybody, perhaps myself, because I was really late an a little lazy in organizing this year). So, despite our good intentions, not everything came about as intended, and I would like to consider possible ways of smoothing that out in a better way. But, to end on a positive note: We also met a lot of fabulous new people again. In addition to James's, Christian's, and Alexis's presence, I met Rob de Vries, who run the newssite www.simflight.nl, Gijs was interviewed for PCPilot, and we established contact with the folks at Saitek, which may hopefully result in full FlightGear support for their "Pro" line of products. We're still working out the details, but they gave me a copy of their radio stack for play with, and if we get that to work, more stuff may follow. So, to conclude, it was a fun weekend, but for next year I would like to come up with a slightly more organized plan of approach. Cheers, Durk On 04 Nov 2012, at 21:03, ThorstenB wrote: > ... is already over now, unfortunately. > > For those who couldn't attend but are interested in what it was like > (make sure to join next year!), here are some photos showing the event > and FlightGear booth: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/70866411@N05/sets/72157631926925511/detail/ > > More details are probably to follow (maybe Durk will explain how he > managed to reserve the hall's huge main projection screen exclusively > for FlightGear - and how a silly broomstick is connected... :-) ). > > Thanks to every attending this year! Yet again, it's been a lot of fun :). > > cheers, > Thorsten > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. > Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center > Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues > Automate, monitor and manage. 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