I'd like to see OSG get some more legitimacy
and recognition. When OSG is recognized as a successful product with many users,
the size of the OSG community will increase, and as a result, OSG's features,
quality, and long-term stability will also increase.
I have three
suggestions to increase OSG's legitimacy:
One, as others have mentioned,
would be an actual book on a bookshelf. OSG is a project who's time has come,
and a book would prove that to the world. I see there's already an extensive
thread on this subject, so more on this in another post.
(On a related
note, something that would lend almost as much legitimacy to OSG would be
published articles in online or print trade magazines. This is something that
most anyone in the OSG community could contribute to. It'd spread the word about
OSG and would be a boost to the author's career.)
Two, a course or
tutorial at SIGGRAPH, GDC, I/ITSEC, IEEE Vis, or a conference along those lines.
Maybe a couple OSG-based projects displayed in the Posters section of these
conferences. The OSG community has produced a lot of good work; exhibiting this
work at a conference would spread the word about OSG (and be a boost to your
career).
Three, OSG needs a killer app. An OSG-based application that is
both successful and ground breaking would not only help spread the OSG word, but
would be a real career-booster to the group that developed it. This experience
could then be leveraged in the two areas mentioned above (for example, the
developers could exhibit at a conference and/or write an article about the app
they developed and how it uses OSG).
The common theme here is that all of
these things would promote both OSG itself, as well as the developers who
contribute, so there's incentive for all of us to do what we can in these
areas.
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