FlightGear Newsletter April 2015: Difference between revisions

The move from Gitorious to SourceForge is now complete. A historical read-only record will remain at [http://gitorious.org Gitorious.org], as well as other public locations.<ref>http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33832698/</ref> In addition, hooks have been added so that every commit to either the [http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ FlightGear], [http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/simgear/ SimGear] or [http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/ FGData] repositories will (hopefully) send a message to the [http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/flightgear-commitlogs/ flightgear-commitlogs mailing list].<ref>http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33827961/</ref>

larger than this get sent over to the list moderator.  That may be why some<br/>

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    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-19</nowiki>

  |I have just added a the relevant documentation to the wiki:<br/>

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Autopilot_configuration_reference#State_Machine_.3Cstate-machine.3E<br/>

I have also fixed a related bug in SimGear, so make sure you have pulled up<br/>

to this patch:<br/>

http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/simgear/ci/fd740959391ac4c54012fe101bf872eddb9ee303/<br/>

If someone with a better wiki-fu can beautify my addition, that'd be great.<br/>

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! Screenshot !! Code

| [[File:Canvas-svg-support.png|thumb|screen shot demonstrating how the scripted Nasal-based SVG parser can be used to dynamically turn SVG files into OpenVG instructions understood by Canvas]]

FlightGear will be a featured project of the week on SourceForge's front<br/>

page. There are a variety of inputs into the selection process and it<br/>

should be some nice exposure for our little project.<br/>

We should expect some increased traffic and a few new visitors taking a<br/>

look at FlightGear for the first time.  Please keep this in mind if we see<br/>

more new questions on this list or on the forum than usual.<br/>

Fly on!<br/>

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    |title=<nowiki>[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear will be one of SourceForge's projects

of the week</nowiki>

    |author=<nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki>

    |date=<nowiki>2015-04-10</nowiki>

   | I'd like to set up a dedicated web site for those of us with any disability to have ways to get around Flight Gear.  I was also thinking even maybe we could find some developers who are disabled who would be interested in helping us set up Flight Gear for all disabilities?  I think we can do some of this on Source Forge.  If we have some developers here on the FlightGear list who would like to help if I could get names that would be helpful so then I have a list.  I would be happy to help develop some as well.  I am unfortunately not a Java programmer but can do html type stuff and the Nasal stuff doesn't look to terribly bad to learn.  I’d also like to see if we can make packs for speech like in our turns so we know what direction one is going as they turn.  There are many more things.  I have to be honest Flight Gear is a platform for me to become familiar with what I will also need for actual flight.  I plan to attack flight lessons myself and FG gives me a good foundation to handle some of these concerns for a bigger project I may have later.  I’d like to personally thank everyone who answers and would be willing to help.