by Michat » Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:54 pm
FlightGear Know your rights: To Use - To Copy - To Modify - To Share - To Flight
yourexperience is our reward |#Michat |
Strategic Plan for FlightGear : ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
#1UserRights
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Devoted to freesoftware, sinonimus of Freedom our GPL is our ethical statement. Together in freedom is better.
FlightGear runs with almost same guaranty that Privative software. Almost Nothing.
However we offer better assistance. 24X7X365 Wiki - Forum - IRC - FAQ
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#2FreedomOurStrenght
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To Use - To Copy - To Modify - To Share - To Flight - To Teach - To Learn - To build - To program
With unmatched multiplatform software capable to run on more than 6: O.S GNU/Linux - Mac - Win
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#3ImproveYourExperience
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#3.1WebPageExperience
First Look Matter, we can improve graphics without complex.
We should drive New simmers and privative Simmers web visitors
Into a funny and atractive way to discover our important message,
some feedback before install , could be important.
Visual tour, to have general idea on what people can do entering in FGWORLD
#3.2Improve1rstTimeUsersxperience
Improve the installer img
FGWizard canvas, improved FGwizard Color or Style
FG FGCOM ready. Best assistance than via chat. Mumble.
Server selection Drop Box
Offers basic adventures, flying practice, some nimitz landing, etc
Introduction flight, Interatctive fist time user demo flight
With some keyboard use hints, using Alt Text over hotspots. IA Buildings included. (messages refered to Ai interaction)
Messages about AI buildings refering to objects and tools that user can create by himself for future contributors**.
Some tips about the ksfo silicon valley area. Virtual tour mode. Some FG friendly entrerprises or orgs could give money
to FG in order to appear in our KSFo virtual tour. Why not?. We are over silicon valley. There was made the first gui flightsimulator
with terrain an objects ever. Our buildings can show AI exponsorized tags, our balloons can show sponsored logos .
#3.3Improve1rstTimeDevxperience
**Gui tools, etc, but i have no idea exactly Signmaker.
#3.4Improve1rstTimeHackerxperience
i have no idea exactly.
BugTracker - NasalTour - Cmake - GIT
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#4SpreedOurMessage
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Loudy, we are part of a culture we add free culture and common sense to our simulator and to your world.
We are not alone FSF - GPL - Blender - GIMP - OPENAL - GIT - mediagoblin - Inkscape
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#5MakeMoreVisibleOurSolidarityProgram _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Study it's efficency by tracking if there are trully results.
Be critic ourselves.
Be critic with others . i.e it seems that MSBG is sponsoring poisoned vaccines.
I would like to see that our money don't go to those killing programs.
Is better our solution?. If is true, we must to SpreedOurMessageLouder
Smile with FlightGear
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#6MakeMoreVisibleOurUniversityProgram
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Loudy, we are part of a culture we add free culture and common sense to our simulator and to our academic world.
FlightGear University Program
FGUP - Urbana Campaign - Udine - ATL - more
Hardware Discounts
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#6MakeMoreVisibleFGDIYcockpitProgram
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Loudy, we are part of a culture we add free culture and common sense to our home simulator builders.
FlightGear DIY Cockpit
777 - MD80 - Galactica - Parapent - more
FG friendly avionics
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#6MakeMoreVisibleFGMuseumProgram
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Loudy, we are part of a culture we add free culture and common sense to our FG friendly museums.
FlightGear Museum Program
CurtOlson Rc Museum - PAF - Dumont Museum - more
FGBundle Ticket + Joystick + freecopy of FG ourMuseumCustom Edition.
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#6MakeMoreVisibleFGEmbassyProgram
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Loudy, we are part of a culture we add free culture and common sense to our colaborative partners.
FlightGear Embassy Program
FG WEB Gatged - FGOrg Model Letters - Intitutions - logos - banner - MGFGMediaChannel
FG Friendly Plane Spotter Sites Be a part of it.
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#6MakeMoreVisibleFGHardwareProgram
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Loudy, we are part of a culture we add free culture and common sense to our home simulator builders.
FlightGear Hardware Program
Buy me a yoke Daddy - FGFriendly Shops - DIYDrones - Free Hardware - Arduino
FG Friendly Hardware where users, dealers, and manufacturers are connected in good harmony.
Hardware Discounts - FGBundle - Joystick + freecopy of FG - Helicopter - F14 - Classic - More
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This is my general idea of how we can improved FG. But I have no Idea about how to match those privative (minds) games users of MS-X-Plane.
I'm a simmer before MS ran its first version of MSFS, where the most significant was the name of the game and the manual. My PSION Flight Simulation, my dear Fighter Pilot from Digital Integration, my interceptor cobalt, my little access to the basic code in ZXSpectrum. I was a Simmer, yes, and a potential hacker. Thats was before Microsoft launched Flight Simulator, under DOS. Its well known that MS is more Known for to copy and close than to invent.
After that, I never could see code, all along next versions 2.0. 4.0. 5.0. 6.0 fs98+fs98patch FS9 FS10., they transform a young potential programer and free simmer, into an unhappy and old MS user, 30 years later where the most interesting thing without doubt was IVAO, VATSIM, and later become a part of one of the most experienced virtual company, DC3 Airways, where I tried to spreed the word that their legacy will dissapear if they continue using MS due to format changes. Time later, MS stopped the franchise of that game (Is a game nor a simulator).
Because FSX is a frame killer, and a source of new problems, a lot of people remained in FS9 that is the standard problem edition. Those great people are getting very older and they will lost they legacy due to a game format files.
However some of them are really sensitive, some of them knew about FG health's kind properties, but finally the main flow opt by FS9 some others with X-plane, even a couple bought a fake version of FG called ProFuckSimulator. That's when I knew that some of them unmasked the fake easily, because they have heard about flightgear before. That's sound good to me, so I requested a FG section on their forum, as X-plane did. But admin didn't answer our suggestion. There are a lot of people that protect a product as owns. Its not exactly the case of DC·3 crew, but is the general perception of all only privative software users.
To me MSFS is a dark huge black hole in my life, where I did loose the time almost totally, hopefully I was the nail of the best flying group I ever found in my life, where I get my classic style, but the software, software was horrible, I still remember, that poisoned menu of MSFS, Those horrible function keys that become me in a stupid click user. The unusuable map ; Those crashes in blue screens on windows 95, 98, ME, XP. Those horrible turns, bad physics, those lost of data +reinstalling everything again, those customs scenery to crack, those hazardous installs, folder by folder, those privative dds, dll, gauges, folders, and more folders, those extra textures, those extras, and some others and others more. Once I had full equipe, my system crash, and back again, again, again and again.... and again.... I Remember how difficult to find, to connect, Old Ivao and New Vatsim Sofware, a lot of version problems, a lot of pluggins a lot of software incompatibilities, a lot of programs, a lot of windows instances openned, a lot of server adresses, a lot of privative servers, a lot of passwords, a lot of team speak and ventrilo privative accounts, a lot of famous unfinished approaches because vatsim crashed, a lot of registration procedures, a lot of unhappy people, a lot of privative minds software discussions, a lot of replicating problems, a lot of no solution available. HORRIBLE.
But I found Just a pair of jewels: FSNAVIGATOR a good example of how a privative project can be massive attacked by users with registration cracks till the dev can't support, the cost of development, web page, the cost to maintain SID STARS FIX Updates and the change of the MS format. Our google map should take magic from the nice mouse function of FSNAVIGATOR. Poor the author they must prefered to GPL they code and take donations than lost that precious jewell. Nobody told him a thank.
The other jewell is the Mid Atlantic Air museum, Dc3 Pack CD. Supported by dc3airways for the M.A.A.M it has the best dc3 and others I ever seen, with awesome panels, 2-D and 3-D (I love good 2-d panels), With radio range, sextant navigation, awesome textures, and more, many more. That CD is Only available trough the museum
and they care it.
The problem with privative software is that the small dev, must to create a digital fortress to protect their creations from the so called illegal copy. When the problem itself is to build a privative programs with privative software pending of a bigger privative program that is up to a bigger software platform. For a honest task is better to use free honest software.
I supposed that one of the reasons for not moving to FG is because they are maintaining that museum program. Well, for me the only way is using freesoftware.
In other side, I wrote more than 25 articles in spanish on the vatspa.net web site (spain vatsim ATC group) forum. At fisrt time the were against FG inclusion on their forum.
I had to call to the common sense, I had to mention that, why not? if there were fs9 fsx and x-plane forum sections. I had to negotiate hardly because they had privatives minds.
I had to show that is possible to connect FG with VATSIM, however they didn't receive the new as a good point, there are an strange sensation, they allways try to defend his status range, So I had to explain that FG is not against anybodys bussinness, not against VATSIM. So they decided to create a poll that I did't admit, why a poll to include FG? when no poll needed for x-plane. Finally I won the battle after two years, because they move their web page to JOOMLA. GPL. They were pretty happy with the results, an old webmaster come back to the group installing Joomla. It was my opportunity to explain that their new web page was only possible because use freesoftware. So they had to leave entry to FG. \O/
After 5 years writting articles of FG, I'm proud to say that the most visited section in the forum is mine. After me, are fs9 and fs10, where the amount of toppics is huge, but always refering to replicant problems.
Nowadays there are some shy boys that are requesting me how to FG, they are seeing the light at last. They specially like the short of actions that FG can do and now.
6 years later I have the key, Action is the key, they ussually are bored and angry. We are allways happy and colaborating, living the dream of Fly.
I had to spreed the message or die. However the mayority still using fs9 because is the standard for Vatsim. But they well know that FG is a simulator not a game.
We should to show all those of our atractive capabilities in fg web page.
Don't search the X, just try the F.
X means Slavery. F means Freedom.
I'm not kidding.