On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, Holger Wirtz wrote: > http://sadr.dfn.de/~wirtz/_bilder_linuxtag_2007/Linuxtag/ > > Thanks for this really nice for days!!! >
Let me just use this reply to second that. First of all, let me take this opportunity to thank everybody involved for the excellent organization! I was only at the booth for two days, Thursday and Friday, so I missed out on all the excitement of organizing and setting it up. It wasreally nice once again to meet some people from the project, and a great opportunity to discuss development ideas face to face. On Friday, we installed some additional IA goodies I had brought with me, and once we discovered it didn't work as expected, I learned how invaluable it was to have _the_ FlightGear OSG expert at the booth. Matthias and I started a debugging session (Matthias coding, and me test-flying), and within an hour the problem was solved! In addition to that, some other serious development work was going on during the meeting:Torsten Dreyer build the DragonFly, and me and Thomas Foerster did ground networks for EDDI, and EDDT (thanks Torsten for having TaxiDraw/CVS on your laptop!). In general, people were very enthusiastic, and this alone makes the effort of working on FlightGear very rewarding. I probably didn't talk to as many people as some of the other members, but those people I did talk with were, in general, very enthusiastic. I did talk with one experienced private pilot, who described the simulation of the Piper as "excellent", his only comment being that the absence of proprioceptive and auditory feedback did make it hard to judge the landing. Personally, I've been exposed to many aspects of FlightGear I hadn't really gotten into sofar. These included Flying the Helicopter (Awesome: Holger uploaded some pictures, where it seems all I'm doing is heliflying :-)), Carrier take-off and landing (Didn't try myself. Wanted to, but we were flying with Metar enabled, and just as I was making low passes over San Francisco, a low and thick overcast cloud layer came in), and Multiplayer (really nice). Finally, I believe a BIG thank you is in place for Sun micro systems, who loaned hardware for the booth. This solar system gave a stellar performance; even with loads of multiplayer and AI goodies enabled. The multi display system also shows the power of OpenSceneGraph, and in case one might have had any doubts about the way of the future, let this be final proof that OSG is the way to go! Thanks everybody for your involvement. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
