I would like to start promoting OpenSG a bit more but I need some help. 
  We need the ability to download OpenSG, install it, and see 
examples/demos of what it can do.  Currently when you download and 
install OpenSG (on win32 at least) it will install the tutorials.  That 
is great, but those application aren't too impressive IMHO.  Having this 
ability would also help immensely with marketing OpenSG places like 
OpenGL.org because it would let us announce new features as they happen 
instead of waiting for a full release.

What would it take to modify the build and nightly build/packaging to 
build some applications from an examples directory and install those 
with the distribution?  I don't know how to do this, could someone help?

If anyone is willing to help out with that, I would be willing to help 
move some of the test and demo applications over to this examples 
directory to create some demos we can point people at when promoting OpenSG.

If we can get this working, then I suggest gradually moving some 
demos/examples over that show OpenSG's strengths relative to the other 
options.  The current list I have running through my head in order of 
priority is:

- ShadowViewPort: The images look great and we could promote this well
- Sort-last rendering: This is a huge strength of OpenSG, let's promote it
- Sort-first rendering: No one else does this and it is a totally killer 
feature that could bring in users that want to render big data.
- Occlusion culling: The new code from Andreas would be a nice demo
- Surface rendering: How much of the out-of-core rendering is public? 
Is there a demo that could be used?
- Tiled clustering: Create a small example that uses SSM to load any 
model and render it across a tiled cluster configured from the 
commandline or a small conf file.

Does anyone have other ideas?

If we were able to get one of these done ever two weeks, we could have a 
continuous stream of good examples to show people and promote OpenSG on 
opengl.org and other similar places.

I am looking for volunteers to help out, is anyone interested?

-Allen

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