Am Freitag, den 03.03.2006, 07:40 +0000 schrieb Martin Spott: > Martin Spott wrote: > > > It's pretty likely that we're going to have a booth at the Linux-Tag > > exhibition in Wiesbaden on May 3 - 6, 2006. In order to present the > > local area to the visitors it would be nice to have an online-map > > showing Wiesbaden and its entourage. > > Yesterday evening I was confirmed that we _will_ get a free booth on > the LinuxTag show (3rd to 6th May). Now several things come into my > mind that would help us to make our presence on the show a success and > that we probably won't find the time to do everything ourselves. So > here's my "feature request" - others might follow :-) > > The LinuxTag-show will take place at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden > > http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/home/aktuelles.html > http://www.rhein-main-hallen.de/ > > We already triggered Ralf and Ingrid to try to prepare detailed scenery > for the show so that the guests of our booth could fly around over the > local entourage. Now as I realize that much progress has been made > regarding the Scenery Objects Database and that there are lots of > skilled designers out there I'd like to ask kindly if those who have > fun to create new scenery models would consider creating some buildings > that reside in the environment of Wiesbaden. There definitely _are_ > lots of significant buildings there so having a few of then to show on > the show would be terribly nice. > Please post your intentions on this list in order to avoid duplicate > effort on certain buildings. > I would like to do some scenery work, but as I don't live in Wiesbaden I might do some generic models of rhine bridges or Highways. Also I like to put some AI ships on the rhine. Finally, what do you think about a Ju-52 in a Linux Tag livery?
I know there is some scenery object development for the "Rhein-Main" Area on the german flightgear forum at http://www.flight-gear.de. > There's another request: Is anybody on this list who has experience in > createin live-CD's like Knoppix ? It would be nice to have a FlightGear > live-CD to give away - or at least to have a CD image on out FTP > mirrors that we can point at. > > Next one: I know how it feels to fly a real aircraft but I've never > used a yoke or pedals with FlightGear. Sometimes I've use other > people's equipment with M$FS but I wasn't satisfied. The pedals I found > there had a spring that centers the pedal position much too hard - but > in a real aircraft (Cessna, Piper) you don't need strong initial forces > to move the pedals out of the center position. Now: Does anyone have a > recommendation for pedals and a yoke that he knows resemble the > controls of a real aircraft ? > > And the last one for today: Is anyobody on this list whom we didn't > already contact, who would like to support us in running the booth and > who at least is able to speak som German words ? The more people we > have at the booth the easier the 'job' will get. > > Thanks, > Martin. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
