On Friday 22 August 2003 11:01 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Randy Locklair writes: > > My name's Randy Locklair, I'm a student pilot and a long time developer > > and I joined the list to find out a couple of things. > > Hi Randy, > > > First of all I'd like to know what the status is of the MacOS port. > > I mainly use os X lately and I'd like to get involved. If no one is > > running the show I'd be happy to take over. > > The last Mac OS X build that I'm aware of was for version 0.8.0. > Right now we are at version 0.9.2 for the most recent official > release, but I haven't seen a Mac build yet. :-( > > We have had a couple people working with Mac OS X, but my sense is > that there hasn't been a lot of recent activity. It would be great to > get more Mac developers involved and get more activity going on the > Mac side. > > I know that one thing that would be nice would be to make FlightGear a > little more Mac friendly, and perhaps bundle up the result in a more > mac friendly way. > > OSX is unix underneath, but I get the sense that most Mac people view > the keyboard as a useless appendage (kind of like unix people view the > mouse) :-) I once tried to go through installing the 0.8.0 Mac OS X > build with a knowledgable Mac guy here locally. I'd say stuff like > "make a directory, cd to such and such, now run tar to extract some > file", etc. etc. He would click and drag and click and drag and copy > and paste, and drop icons into text windows and other sort of strange > behavior after some effort (and apparent magic) the task would get > accomplished. > > So I think what I learned from this experience is that even though Mac > OSX is unix underneath, it still might be worth some effort to make > the Mac build a little more mac friendly. Even with OS X, being a mac > expert doesn't necessarily mean being a unix expert. > > > Also, I read somewhere about you guys being at the .org pavillion at > > LinuxWorld. I don't know who organizes that or if anyone is > > planning to for January 2004 in New York, but I'd be happy to > > organize/help with that too. > > We missed the most recent SFO linux world, but if we can get someone > to head up a booth in NY, that would be great. I think there are a > couple other developers in the area as well. We did a booth out there > one year. My wife will be very pregnant about that time so I don't > think I'll be able to help much myself, beyond offering tips and > suggestions. >
Actually '01 and '02. I didn't see any indication registration opened up for '04 yet. It's a pretty good bet JIm Wilson will come down. If somebody else wants to be boothmeister, just give me a heads up so we don't get the fine folks at IDG confused. The paperwork end isn't a real big burden, you just have to stay on top of dealines. > I will say that it is a blast to do a booth ... you get to talk about > FlightGear all day long. What could be better?!? :-) > Sign up to give a conference session, they feed you. > The flipside is that it is also a lot of work, and hauling equipment > in and out is not necessarily an easy task. > Javits Center is a lot better than Moscone in that regard. The main issue is anything with wheels is supposed to be handled by a union member. > The FlightGear booth is usually pretty popular. People walk around > and see a lot of nicely packaged stuff, but most of it is "static" > ... maybe a tiny computer that can run linux, or some PC vendor, or > boring business software, or some sysadmin tool that looks best on a > 80x24 xterm, or some big name like IBM which has a big fancy booth > that is well staffed by people in matching shirts handing out cool > pens, but still, usually nothing too fun on the computer screens. > > Then people walk by the FlightGear booth and see linux being used as a > platform to run a cool 3d application. It's very visual so after all > the other "boring" :-) booths, we can come as a nice change of > pace. :-) > > Regards, > > Curt. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
