There was a push for a while to produce a newsletter, but it's more work
than you'd think. Good layout tools for a nice looking newsletter seem
to be proprietary. We had two people working on a first newsletter
issue, but that seemed to fall through. Basically, it's a *lot* of
work. A newsletter would be great, but I personally have too many irons
in the fire already. We need to find other volunteers to organize it
and put it together, and still more volunteers to write content. We
need to find something with enough time that they can follow up and
remind people to finish their articles, with enough time to write a few
things themselves, and with enough time to follow through, get the
newsletter out, and be able to do it monthly or quarterly. We collect a
lot of developers and aviation enthusiasts here, but we are still
looking for that elusive publishing expert who also happens to be a fan
of flightgear and open source (and has some consistant amounts of spare
time to volunteer.)
Regards,
Curt.
Geoff wrote:
I have had enormous fun with all of a/c in fg over the past
five years or so. In my opinion, one of the nicer things
about fg is that one is able to see things develop. If a
model does not seem to work well (or at all), I just leave
it a while and sooner or later I return to find an
improvement. If something seems weirdly out of kilter I
browse the dev archives, and I usually find that a
fix is under discussion there. I am not picking a fight
with anyone who thinks differently, but for me this is the
essence of using open source software.
One thing that I would love to see would be an occasional
news letter from the developers - posted here or and/or on
the website every quarter or so - explaining the
general thrust of development. I know that one can read dev
for that, but the issues there tend to be very detailed and
it is difficult for an outsider to see the wood for the
trees. Such a newsletter could also be used to ask users to
monitor particular areas under development for bugs.
I do appreciate that every hour spent by (eg) Curt on the
newsletter would be an hour less of code (or just having a
life away from fg). Even so, it would be nice ......
--
Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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