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Unfortunately due to being understaffed we presently can't offer binary installers for Ubuntu, Debian and the like. Contributions are extremely welcome! | Unfortunately due to being understaffed we presently can't offer binary installers for Ubuntu, Debian and the like. Contributions are extremely welcome! | ||
There's also the [http://flightgear.org | There's also the [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21029 forum thread] regarding the Linux/Windows software. | ||
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=== Soaring Instrumentation Toolkit === | === Soaring Instrumentation Toolkit === | ||
A new project has started for bringing improved support for soaring instrumentation to FlightGear. The soaring instrumentation toolkit is a small library written in [[Nasal]] code that allows the creation of glider specific gauges (variometers and glide computers) by connecting elementary blocks together (implemented in OOP). Although still in early stages of development, the library already supports TE (Total Energy) compensated, Netto, Relative (aka Super Netto) and Speed Command variometers. There are plans for supporting final glide computers as well. To learn more about the project, see the forum thread at [http://flightgear.org | A new project has started for bringing improved support for soaring instrumentation to FlightGear. The soaring instrumentation toolkit is a small library written in [[Nasal]] code that allows the creation of glider specific gauges (variometers and glide computers) by connecting elementary blocks together (implemented in OOP). Although still in early stages of development, the library already supports TE (Total Energy) compensated, Netto, Relative (aka Super Netto) and Speed Command variometers. There are plans for supporting final glide computers as well. To learn more about the project, see the forum thread at [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=21020] or directly follow the progress in galvedro's fgdata/soaring-sdk branch [https://gitorious.org/fg/galvedros-fgdata]. | ||
=== Getting involved as a programmer === | === Getting involved as a programmer === | ||
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For ideas on starting to contribute to FlightGear, you may want to check out: [[Volunteer]]. | For ideas on starting to contribute to FlightGear, you may want to check out: [[Volunteer]]. | ||
To learn more about how the project works, please see [http://flightgear.org | To learn more about how the project works, please see [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=15267#p149971 this short essay] written by Thorsten, for a more detailed article see [[How the FlightGear project works]]. | ||
=== Call for volunteers === | === Call for volunteers === | ||