On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Beamers are great, as they can provide a view to many more spectators than > you can gather around an ordinary screen. We did have the largest screen so > far, but it was floating somewhere in the room, so there was no clear > connection to our booth.
+1. In particular it makes it much easier for the people not actually using the sim to see what's going on - something that's particularly important if people are going to have queue for 5 minutes before they get the opportunity to try for themselves. One other nice side-effect of using a projector is that their reduced resolution relative to a LCD display means one can run more eye-candy or get better frame-rates. > Being able to give people a DVD/CD/USB (the installer is 640 MB for > Windows, that should fit on a CD...) with the latest version of FlightGear > would probably encourage them to install it and actually try the software. > We do tell people to download it from our website, but most of them will > forget about it. If you bring a CD home with you, you will probably at least > look at it before you throw it away. Of course this costs money, so we may > need to look at some fundraising (sponsoring?). Curt - at one point you sold FG CDs/DVDs. What's the cost per DVD with a nice label? > Comparing with MSFS and X-Plane > Feel free to use the wiki to make a list of "unique features" and/or > "comparison to other simulator". > Someone started this a while ago, but it could use some loving care: > http://wiki.flightgear.org/Unique_Features I agree with Vivian, currently this list is rather un-inspiring, and really doesn't address the question "Why should I switch from FS-X?". I'll have a think about how to address that question for the next release so we've got some collateral to go with our release note. > Aircraft download page > I have a fully functional revamped download page set up at > http://flightgear.byethost31.com/aircraft/aircraftpage.html, but there were > some issues getting it operational on flightgear.org intialy, so we decided > to push the "old" scheme for this release. We can always add this > interactive page though, and now that my last exams of 2012 are over, I'll > have a closer look at it again. Feedback is welcome! We should absolutely have aircraft-rating filters on the main download page. The aircraft raitings have been around long enough now. I suggest that we mention this explicitly when we announce the beginning of the release process so that aircraft authors have plenty of time to add ratings. Note that this requires a bit of cleverness when writing the parsing script, as some ratings are not stored in the -set.xml file, but rather a file that is included withing that one. I'd also suggest that by default it should only show aircraft with a 3+ rating, so that a completely new user will only see the best aircraft we've got available. Gijs - some direct feedback: I can't see anyone wanting to only show aircraft with a rating less than a given value, so I think the sliders should just consist of minimum values. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
