The Blender coders organize a weekly IRC meeting ( #blendercoders on freenet),
on Sundays at 16:00 CET, in order to discuss outstanding issues, project
direction, and to generally work things out. Naturally, Blender is a different
kind of project. It is backed by a foundation, which employs (on a salary)
people for the sole purpose of developing Blender and managing external
contributions, so even though the project is open source it has to find and
manage funding and it has a well established organizative structure. I don't
expect, nor want, for FlightGear to follow suit (though I imagine that if it
gains a footing in commercial applications it will do so almost automatically).
But since the blendercoders meetings are open to the general public as long as
they don't make themselves a nuisance (you must be authenticated to have voice,
but can attend unauthenticated to just follow the discussion), I'd suggest to
anyone interested in self-organizing to attend to a couple of them to see how
they handle things?
Regards,
Alessandro
From: flightg...@sablonier.ch
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:25:59 +0100
To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Musings on FG on Linux/Windows
Hi Curt
Maybe these are two types of conferences now. One could be the WIFGH, the
Weekly International FlightGear Hangout ;-) Or monthly ?
Another option I see now is probably a smaller european conference when I read
about this idea at the forums. Maybe spring or summer 2013 is a possible
schedule. The problems you mentioned about travelling etc. is serious, but when
we are looking for some sponsorship for conference location and accomodation
maybe it's doable? We could try to collect money to pay flights for developers
who have a good setting for the project, but no money left for travelling now.
I will help to collect money and to organize such a meeting. I guess everyone
has its prefs about location (see the forum post). I would recommend
Switzerland of course, because James and Vivan can park their JU-52 here:
http://www.airforcecenter.ch/index.php?id=25 , and because one could invite
this guy http://www.rtw2012.com and he can not charge that much expenses . Or
because the devs could visit this lab here http://www.sfly.org . Or because the
Google Zurich Headquarters could sponsor an international video hangout in the
nice old brewery they took. (They also took all the beer!).
But ... maybe you know it already, Switzerland is not in Europe unfortunately.
Sad, we need to look for another location. (Ok when we go along family size and
children, then I will win a location contest probably).
-Yves
Am 02.12.2012 um 14:35 schrieb Curtis Olson <curtol...@flightgear.org>:
The FS Weekend event has been the closest thing to a developer conference that
we've had over the past few years. Our developers are dispersed across the
world so any event would involve significant travel for most people. For
people with day jobs, young families, or tight budgets, international travel
can be a significant challenge. Everyone is in a slightly different situation
though, so attending an event might be doable for enough people to make it
worth while? With our size, it probably makes sense to continue to piggy back
on other larger events.
Another thing that might be fun to try is a group skype call or google hangout.
I think you have to pay money for the high end version of skype to organize a
group skype call, but google hangouts are free. If there's any interest in
something like this it would be fun to try it out. I could imagine a weekly
"hangout" to discuss issues of the week, future developments, etc.
When FlightGear was first launched in the late 90's, group email was the way
these things were done, but now we have more options. For a google hangout we
have to deal with timezones around the world, and we'll never have a perfectly
convenient time for everyone. If you've never used google hangouts before, you
have to download a plugin for your browser (which is available for windows,
mac, linux) and then you need a google+ account. I propose google hangouts
because it's free to the end user (even though not open-source), supports all
the major platforms out there (and can even run on smartphones or tablets), and
as far as I know, there isn't an upper limit to the number of participants in a
hangout.
But if anyone is interested in something like this, let's propose a time to do
a test. I think for many people they'll need to spend some time messing around
getting the plugin installed, getting their mike and video to work (if they
wish to show their face) :-) I got it running pretty quickly on linux, but the
true test was that I got it running on a mac and a windows box (which means it
can't be all that hard to get running there if I could do it.) :-)
Curt.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Olivier <acom...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Yves, all,
De : HB-GRAL <flightg...@sablonier.ch>
Envoyé le : Dimanche 2 décembre 2012 12h12
> My dream: FlightGear should held a developer meeting once next year.
> This would be my all time favourite. Have there been such meetings once?
At least there were thoughts about doing a FG "Eurodev" conference (
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8337 )
after the FSWeekend.
FG is a very exciting project, where everyone can find a place where he can
contribute depending on his skills, interests, ... Maybe something we are
lacking is a kind of roadmap, so we can have a clearer view on the future.
Olivier (silent, but working!)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel:
DESIGN Expert tips on starting your parallel project right.
http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
--
Curtis Olson:http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/
http://www.flightgear.org - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel:
DESIGN Expert tips on starting your parallel project right.
http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel:
BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects.
http://goparallel.sourceforge.net
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel:
BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects.
http://goparallel.sourceforge.net
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
