I'm totally agree with you, I didn't know FG was placed on Ebay too, for such a wonderful price-value rate.
Low Fly by price
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Is a good idea to GIT from USB, a lot of people can't GIT and can be easy differentiated from the standard general FG packet.
I think is a pretty good good idea the usb key, but only for Linux?? There must be a license reason...
There are new ideas rounding freesoftware, I meet on internet a shop that sells freesoftware logos t-shirts, and I think objects too. They are doing great, giving good ideas for freesoftware project and buyers. They are giving culture, I mean cult object t-shirts and objects. No boring mugs just more culture against typical merchandising.
Free software is not a product now, whenever it's sold in horribles webstores or in software centers, now the product is the result of the sume of that freesoftware culture and effort. Smart, Cult, intelligent, fancy, fun, free, open, independent, solidarity and gently freedom.
http://www.zazzle.com/free+software+tshirts also see postals (postcards)
I believe in the freesoftware freehardware inter-cooperation. Good idea include GImp and others. There is a great value freesoftware family out there, we must improved that relations creating or becoming part of that freesoftware high value applications circuit.
My experience in FG tells me that about 90 % of new users are good teenagers mainly (future is FG) whose after no more than a month in FG they buy joystick for the first time.
I believe that FG can be a part of a joystick bundle promotion.
Hardware brands can benefit entering in a new market niche. FG give the software, and received money or promotional discounts. Is there a freehardware company selling jokes?.
Another strategic idea is that FG devs can share 3d models to use with the freehardware 3D printer
http://www.lulzbot.com/ giving prestige and connection to both projects notoriously, and perhaps parts pieces for Curt's aircrafts
Of course those models can also be shared on a mediagoblin federated server, so it could be seen rendered via web.
https://gobblin.se/FGFreeEmbassy foreign office. There is a free world out there. It's up to us, create better relations and released in coordination.
I vote for create a poll, not a typical poll if one change is approved or not, the truth is not democratic, I mean and intelligent and complex poll, lets try to:
1# create a poll for newbies after FG install, short, simple and gently, anonymous feedback is good. Web and or Forum.
2# create a strict poll detecting specific points of the general FG experience, pilots devs, fly, favorites planes, Bla Bla why, where, why, what, who..... and so on.. no personal data just experience.
More ideas please.... Comment....