Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011 (sneak preview)

2011-04-29 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Yes, the booth was confirmed. And this is a preview of what will be seen at the booth: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42t=11881 don't miss it! Torsten -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011

2011-04-28 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Looks like we're going to have a booth this year again: http://www.linuxtag.org/2011/en.html I'll post an update as soon as the booth is definitely confirmed. I hope I did not sure if I forgot to send it. In case of doubt: Yes, the booth was confirmed. Does any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011

2011-04-28 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Martin Spott wrote: Does any of the non-German crowd plan to serve as booth staff or attend LinuxTag as a visitor ? Do virtual visitors count? Hm, only if you'll have an internet connection at the booth of course... Anyway, wish you all the best and lots of fun. From experience I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011

2011-04-28 Thread James Turner
On 28 Apr 2011, at 20:40, Martin Spott wrote: Does any of the non-German crowd plan to serve as booth staff or attend LinuxTag as a visitor ? Unfortunately this year I have a work commitment, but hopefully next year! James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011

2011-04-28 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: Do virtual visitors count? Hm, only if you'll have an internet connection at the booth of course... We'll see. Primary focus is to serve the local visitors ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need

2011-03-21 Thread Martin Spott
Reagan Thomas wrote: Did you get enough donations to buy the new equipment? Not yet. We're currently at 285,68 Euros of donated money and the absolute minimum for a 24 inch screen is slightly above 150 Euros (at least in our country), the 1920x1200 screens (of which we already have six) are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your

2011-03-20 Thread Reagan Thomas
On 3/19/2011 4:42 PM, Martin Spott wrote: Torsten Dreyer wrote: As many of you might be aware of, a group of FlightGear enthusiasts have been presenting FlightGear at FSWeekend in Lelystad(NL) and LinuxTag in Berlin(DE) over the last years. I just recieved confirmation: we are excited to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your

2011-03-19 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: As many of you might be aware of, a group of FlightGear enthusiasts have been presenting FlightGear at FSWeekend in Lelystad(NL) and LinuxTag in Berlin(DE) over the last years. I just recieved confirmation: we are excited to inform you, that your application for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend needyour

2011-03-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin wrote Torsten Dreyer wrote: As many of you might be aware of, a group of FlightGear enthusiasts have been presenting FlightGear at FSWeekend in Lelystad(NL) and LinuxTag in Berlin(DE) over the last years. I just recieved confirmation: we are excited to inform you, that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Oh - and thanks for the first 150$, received today! Another $20 USD today, many thanks ! In summary this already makes almost one of the two additional monitors we planned to buy. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Another $20 USD today, many thanks ! Today we recieved even more, $50 US plus 50 Euros - but now I'll stop announcing every donation ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-06 Thread syd adams
I'd love to help , but things are tight right at the moment how much time do we have before the event ? I should be able to pitch in a little in a month or so if that's not too late. I'm also not sure how to go about this with the posted mail address. Cheers On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
It's never to late and after the show is just before the next show. We will keep this running for a while. If you go to http://www.paypal.com/ you find some kind of transfer money link somewhere on that site. Just follow the instructions, it's easy. But please - don't stress your budget. After

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-06 Thread Alexander Barrett
Guys, As some of you know I run an importing and sourcing company specialising in merchandising. I'd like to help the cause by donating a few boxes of 3D glasses, I can get them branded with the FlightGear logo and URL etc. Happy to help with any other merchandise also if there are any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-06 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Alexander Barrett wrote: Guys, As some of you know I run an importing and sourcing company specialising in merchandising. I'd like to help the cause by donating a few boxes of 3D glasses, I can get them branded with the FlightGear logo and URL etc. While the glasses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-06 Thread Alexander Barrett
I'm sure we'll end up with plenty of spares! I always have a habit of over-ordering - thats why I'll never afford that Bentley I dream of On 6 Feb 2011, at 20:17, Gene Buckle wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Alexander Barrett wrote: Guys, As some of you know I run an importing and sourcing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your

2011-02-06 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: All donations will be used for the sole purpose of adding to or maintaining the equipment used at the shows. BTW, you can be sure we'll stick to this rule for at least three reasons: 1.) We announced it this way !! 2.) We'll try hard to make sure the way we spend the

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-05 Thread Torsten Dreyer
As many of you might be aware of, a group of FlightGear enthusiasts have been presenting FlightGear at FSWeekend in Lelystad(NL) and LinuxTag in Berlin(DE) over the last years. Our presentation and the equipment list has grown with each show with every single item being donated by the

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
Looks like we're going to have a booth this year again: http://www.linuxtag.org/2011/en.html I'll post an update as soon as the booth is definitely confirmed. Generally I'd say: If you were planning to visit Berlin anyway, this is the perfect occasion for killing two birds with just one stone.

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, just wanted to let you know that this year's application for a booth on LinuxTag [1] has been approved today. Cheers, Martin. [1]: http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en.html -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Spott
Hello Curt, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've added a very short entry in our events section on the FG web site. Feel free to expand on that a little bit if you like and send me the results. Or if you are happy with the current text we can just leave it alone. Thank you for adding the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-13 Thread David Megginson
On 13/03/06, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, they have a nice portofolio of sim-related controls and instruments, if only the price tag I wonder what a _real_ set of Cessna pedaly would cost me if I build an appropriate frame on my own, That won't help you much -- the pedals

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-08 Thread Detlef Faber
Am Freitag, den 03.03.2006, 17:45 + schrieb Martin Spott: Detlef Faber wrote: I would like to do some scenery work, but as I don't live in Wiesbaden I might do some generic models of rhine bridges or Highways. Also I like to put some AI ships on the rhine. Finally, what do you think

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-06 Thread Robicd
Hi Detlef, I would like to do some scenery work, but as I don't live in Wiesbaden I might do some generic models of rhine bridges or Highways. Also I like to put some AI ships on the rhine. Finally, what do you think about a Ju-52 in a Linux Tag livery? I know there is some scenery object

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-05 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Friday 03 March 2006 22:53, David Megginson wrote: On 03/03/06, Matthias Boerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next one: I know how it feels to fly a real aircraft but I've never used a yoke or pedals with FlightGear. Sometimes I've use other people's equipment with M$FS but I wasn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-04 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: To my experience power stations are most useful when you fly over the clouds and don't want to bother with radio navigation. Simply follow the cloud-'towers' that break through the 'regular' cloud layers and you're done :-) OK, so we need to add cloud to the cooling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Yesterday evening I was confirmed that we _will_ get a free booth on the LinuxTag show (3rd to 6th May). Now several things come into my mind that would help us to make our presence on the show a success and that we probably won't find the time to do everything ourselves.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Detlef Faber
Am Freitag, den 03.03.2006, 07:40 + schrieb Martin Spott: Martin Spott wrote: It's pretty likely that we're going to have a booth at the Linux-Tag exhibition in Wiesbaden on May 3 - 6, 2006. In order to present the local area to the visitors it would be nice to have an online-map

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Robicd
We already triggered Ralf and Ingrid to try to prepare detailed scenery for the show so that the guests of our booth could fly around over the local entourage. Now as I realize that much progress has been made regarding the Scenery Objects Database and that there are lots of skilled designers out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Robicd wrote: I started posting the Wiesbaden Neroturm Tempel to fgfsdb.stockill.org maintainers. I'd like to have more pictures and dimensions of the relevant buildings in order to build something realistic at all. I'll do some more 3d stuff but that needs more data which I still can't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Detlef Faber wrote: Finally, what do you think about a Ju-52 in a Linux Tag livery? A Ju-52 in any livery would be an awsome addition. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
maps.google.com has detailed satellite imagery for portions of Wiesbaden. That might help at least with positioning objects and seeing their top-down footprint. Curt. I already explored google maps, Wiesbaden is not detailed at all :-( I don't know what you mean with that. The area

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Yesterday evening I was confirmed that we _will_ get a free booth on the LinuxTag show (3rd to 6th May). Now several things come into my mind that would help us to make our presence on the show a success and that we probably won't find the time to do everything ourselves. So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Roberto Inzerillo wrote: maps.google.com has detailed satellite imagery for portions of Wiesbaden. That might help at least with positioning objects and seeing their top-down footprint. Curt. I already explored google maps, Wiesbaden is not detailed at all :-( I don't know what you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Curtis L. Olson schrieb: I'm not familiar with the area so I don't know where Wiesbaden stops and surrounding towns start. I'm sure you are correct in everything you say. I just noticed that there is detailed imagery near by that includes a detailed image of the airport. Perhaps that is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Curtis L. Olson schrieb: I'm not familiar with the area so I don't know where Wiesbaden stops and surrounding towns start. I'm sure you are correct in everything you say. I just noticed that there is detailed imagery near by that includes a detailed image of the airport. Perhaps that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Detlef Faber wrote: I would like to do some scenery work, but as I don't live in Wiesbaden I might do some generic models of rhine bridges or Highways. Also I like to put some AI ships on the rhine. Finally, what do you think about a Ju-52 in a Linux Tag livery? Oh, that would be a great

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Roberto Inzerillo wrote: There's also ETOU airport at high resolution (is that civil or military?). ET?? is always European military, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-03 Thread Matthias Boerner
Hi Martin, --snip Next one: I know how it feels to fly a real aircraft but I've never used a yoke or pedals with FlightGear. Sometimes I've use other people's equipment with M$FS but I wasn't satisfied. The pedals I found there had a spring that centers the pedal position much too hard - but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-03 Thread David Megginson
On 03/03/06, Matthias Boerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next one: I know how it feels to fly a real aircraft but I've never used a yoke or pedals with FlightGear. Sometimes I've use other people's equipment with M$FS but I wasn't satisfied. The pedals I found there had a spring that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: I think there have been objects added for that area, but the screenshots I've seen seem to indicate that a lot more are available. The power station data for Germany was added this morning, so that'll give a few hundred more objects when it's exported tonight. Just a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag; Was: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-03-03 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 03 March 2006 08:40, Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: It's pretty likely that we're going to have a booth at the Linux-Tag exhibition in Wiesbaden on May 3 - 6, 2006. In order to present the local area to the visitors it would be nice to have an online-map showing