Hello,
Alex Perry will be speaking about FlightGear at an IEEE meeting in September. Alex has at SCALE multiple times, and his talks have been quite popular.
If you are interested in learning more about the FlightGear project, please consider attending this event. I am including information on location and URLs bellow.
Regards, Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo
The Coastal Los Angeles IEEE Section Computer Society Chapter presents ...
Introduction to the FlightGear Flight Simulator September 12, 2006 at 7:30pm Alex Perry, Google, 604 Arizona, Santa Monica, CA 90401
FlightGear is a GPL open source flight simulator that runs on a wide range of platforms including Linux, MacOS and Windows. The simulation itself, the worldwide scenery and the aircraft models are free to download from www.flightgear.org and its mirrors. This talk will provide an introduction into the project, its goals, getting started, and a demonstration of the system in action.
IEEE membership is not required to attend this talk; we're always looking to grow our membership: http://www.ieee.org/membership/join/ Computer Society: http://www.computer.org/ Section Home Page: http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/coastal_la/ FlightGear project: http://www.flightgear.org/ Directions / Map: http://tinyurl.com/gba8u