Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year
Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. From June 1 through the end of the year, 103,201 copies of the windows version of FG were downloaded from the main FG ftp server. You can add 25.000 Windows copies from the German mirror - plus lots of Scenery ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year
Jon Stockill wrote: I'm continually amazed by the talents of all involved, and the number of people out there lurking on the mailing lists who pop up at just the right moments with the kind of knowledge and resources that'll ensure FlightGear just continues to get better and better. Yeah, never thought of that but you are absolutely right here. Thanks everyone! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:17:53 -0600 Curtis L. Olson wrote: Looking forward to 2005 there are a few things I hope we can accomplish. 1. I'd really like to do a version 1.0 release. Other than bug fixes, what would this be like? IOW, what's missing from the feature set a 1.0 release would have? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpX2sj4lNswP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year
It's the start of a new year, so I thought it might be fun to look back on 2004 and recall some interesting FlightGear facts and events, and then look forward a bit to the upcoming year. 1. From June 1 through the end of the year, 103,201 copies of the windows version of FG were downloaded from the main FG ftp server. (The logs only go back to June '04 ...) I'm sure some of those are repeat customers or people that only tried running FG once or twice, but it makes me wonder how big the FlightGear user base might be ... (?) 2. In that same time period 9,043 copies of the FlightGear source code were downloaded. 3. In 2004 we raised $452 for charity from FlightGear CD sales. I'd like to increase that to $1700 for 2005 including $500 right now to the tsunami relief efforts. 4. In April 2004 a FlightGear based simulator received a Level 3 FTD certification from the FAA. See http://www.atcflightsim.com/ for more details. 5. In the last year we've had about 1.4 million visits to our main web site (and over 32 million 'hits'.) 6. In 2004 we added the Nasal scripting langauge, overhauled our autopilot system, added the ability to fetch live real weather on the fly, switched our audio subsystem to OpenAL, added support for SDL, built quite a few new aircraft, and improved just about all of the existing aircraft. 7. We were listed as Kim Komando's cool site of the day which increased our web traffic by 10 fold for a couple days and led to enough extra CD sales to allow us to send $500 to the tsunami relief efforts. 8. There are 491 people subscribed to the FlightGear-announce mailing list. 397 subscriberes to FlightGear-devel, and 571 subscribers to FlightGear-users. I'm sure there are many things I am forgetting, but I just to make sure that everyone knew that 2004 was a very good year for FlightGear, and 2005 looks like it will be even better. Good work everyone; it's amazing what we can accomplish when we all work together! Looking forward to 2005 there are a few things I hope we can accomplish. 1. I'd really like to do a version 1.0 release. 2. As mentioned earlier, my goal is to raise $1700 for charity through FG CD sales, I'd love to exceed that. 3. I will be involved in at least 3 more FlightGear based commercial simulator projects this year; another single, a light twin, and a twin turboprop. At least two of these will receive some kind of FAA certification (either Level 3 FTD or the newer/easier Advanced ATD.) 4. I know FG will be used in many other academic, research, and commercial projects. I'd love to hear about your efforts, please let me know what you are up to. Best wishes to all of you, let's have a great 2005! Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:17:53 -0600 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the start of a new year, so I thought it might be fun to look back on 2004 and recall some interesting FlightGear facts and events, and then look forward a bit to the upcoming year. Heh. I have been meaning to post a similar review for JSBSim. One thing that I'll mention is that December 2004 was our heaviest month yet (given the four year history we have on SourceForge) for web site traffic (averaging 100 hits/day for the month), and our development mailing list is pushing around 90 subscriptions - also a high. I'll write more on the sub list and in the upcoming newsletter. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year
Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. From June 1 through the end of the year, 103,201 copies of the windows version of FG were downloaded from the main FG ftp server. (The logs only go back to June '04 ...) I'm sure some of those are repeat customers or people that only tried running FG once or twice, but it makes me wonder how big the FlightGear user base might be ... (?) Some more numbers: There were 4756 downloads of the slackware package in 2004 (that's about 400GB). Flightgear.stockill.org.uk got 180638 hits. Over the year I've handed out approximately 150 flightgear CDs (the bulk of those being at the Linus User and Developer Expo in April - and other than at the expo where there were lots of freebie hunters the reaction has almost always been It's free? Are you sure? (luckily I now have a fast cd writer in preparation for the 0.9.8 batch :-) Good work everyone; it's amazing what we can accomplish when we all work together! I'm continually amazed by the talents of all involved, and the number of people out there lurking on the mailing lists who pop up at just the right moments with the kind of knowledge and resources that'll ensure FlightGear just continues to get better and better. Have a great 2005. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
