Hi folks, Okay, here's is a quick update from the FSWeekend.One FlightGear developer, who wishes to remain anonymous, Robin, and I are currently back in Amsterdam, enjoying (a) beer(s), after a very insightful first day at the FlightGear booth. We were very pleasantly surprised by the overall positive feedback we got on FlightGear. An event like this is predominantly microsoft oriented. We were actually placed right across from the microsoft booth (on purpose, as we found out), and despite the fact that their presence was pretty dominant, many people were really surprised to find out about the alternative we were presenting. Actually, microsoft had the largest screens and made the most noise, but not everybody was impressed by them. Many people were really pleased by the smoothness of our instruments, validity of our flight models, and the fact the entire simulator was actually written from scratch by the community. And not mention of course that it is entirely distributed for free (as in free beer in this case).
A few people took the simulator for a ride and gave suggestions for possible improvement: - Have a better graphical user interface inside FlightGear that includes the functionality of fgrun - There are not enough buildings in the scenery (especially in the Dutch Scenery that we were using) - We should get more media exposure in printed and online magazines. In addition, we have some additional ideas for improving our presentation on expositions like these: - Merchandising: Have the scenery available on DVD for sale - Have various versions of FlightGear (source, binaries, scenery, base package) for sale as well - Have (a) beamer(s), so our graphics look a bit more impressive than on a 17" TFT screen - Bring adaptors to connect real aviation headsets to our equipment. Okay, that's it for now. Tomorrow's going to be pretty busy again, and hopefully we can present some more news. Pictures will follow as soon as my webserver finishes its job as FlightGear presentation machine. Best, Durk, Robin, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
