[simpits-tech] F-15sim.com on Userfriendly.org

[Rob Hommel]

Stig

A reply from one of the regular suspects is always welcome. Prohm has done a
great job of getting the site to the stage that someone with a bit of html
experience could take over, as far as the writing side goes that task is not
a real problem for most folks but seeing as to how most of the list
membership seems to have crippled their hands in some kind of freak power
tool accident. I just don't know where we will find the person capable of
doing the simple stuff.

If a list member a month would take the time to write up an article on some
aspect of cockpit building we would have over 20 years of articles. If a
list member a month would write an article entitled How I spent my Summer
Vacation we would still have 20 years of articles.

Only Simpitters know what it is like to say in casual conversation, I spent
my weekend working on my 747 or my F15 like everybody on the planet does
this. What we don't do is tell each other what we did or how we did it. Our
commercial members whom we love are the ones most guilty of this. They have
resources most of the membership would kill to get a hold of but they don't
tell us how they manage to accomplish various tasks they think in terms of
company secrets and borrow from Simpits all of the time. Shame on our
corporate members how about a couple of you pitch in with  a couple of
articles?

Stig, I know that you were not planning on being the poster boy for excuses
unlimited but when can we expect to see an article from you on How I spent
my Weekend?

Keep 'em flying
Rob Hommel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stig Joergensen" <stig.joergensen@clearsky.dk>
To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 12:35 AM
Subject: RE: [simpits-tech] F-15sim.com on Userfriendly.org


> Rob,
>
> I hole heartly agree with you, but i can understand why so many of our
> members is quite silent (my self included) esp. about maintaining the
> web as an editor of some sort - it alone requires a heap load of time,
> some talent not only in words, but also in the graphics department - and
> to complicate things even further - english might not be there native
> language, so to sum-up this, i for one would love to help, but i fear
> that i don't have the time - the english part i think i could manage
> without to much screwing up, writing is not my strong side, ohh and
> graphically im 3 years old - all this and i can barely find the time to
> "play", as we must keep a fulltime dayjob (my guess is most of us are
> IT-pros of some sort, and the IT business is not a 9-17 job) to support
> our - how to put it- passion - dosn't leave much room for anything else.
>
> Anyway i still think that we could expose the community a bit more, i
> try to do my part, when ever im in a conversation about electronics,
> mechanics, engineering or mathematics i try to put simpits.org in there
> and sometime talk takes a spin and ppl find it fascinating what we are
> doing - this is the least we could do - and to all of you that have a
> homepage, why not go and download a patch and link to simpits.org its
> simple and takes 5 minutes at the most.....
>
> just my 2dkk
>
> /Stig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Hommel [mailto:rhommel@tacoma.net]
>
> There is so many talented people among this list group there is no need
> to
> list them by name we know all of the usual suspects by pedigree. When we
> look at the other groups involved in simulation and the following they
> have
> attracted, I can see no reason why Simpits is not the most sought after
> web
> group and site for information on how to do. While it is not our intent
> nor
> our desire to be another site for the latest patch or skin for the
> leading
> flight simulator companies nor our desire to be the news agency for
> these
> companies we do need to make ourselves a voice in the community. We need
> to
> be able to have the companies that manufacture Sims allow us to have
> what we
> need to get our Sims to attach to them. We need the voices of all 200+
> members and we need to show that they care about this hobby.
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