In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team
has been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of
today, the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in.
Working towards improving FOSS games and developing its community
will turn a significant barrier against Ubuntu adoption into an
appealing reason to switch.
The Ubuntu Gaming Team will work to address the obstacles hindering
growth in FOSS gaming such as the need for effective distributed
content management or significant investment in free content
development in order to promote FOSS gaming through Ubuntu and
Ubuntu through FOSS gaming. New ideas are encouraged and appreciated.
FOSS gaming is important to Ubuntu as a lack of quality games is one
of the most cited reasons preventing users from switching from
Windows. Gamers, who currently feed off of the proprietary software
model, represent a large and valuable user base. They will not even
begin to gradually migrate to Ubuntu until their needs are met. They
are very capable of understanding the ideological and technical
benefits of using a free operating system like Ubuntu, and are often
interested in switching, but higher value is placed on high quality
gaming and the entire demographic will not budge until the pragmatic
advantages of open source actualize through FOSS gaming.
The team is dedicated to FOSS gaming, and will not push for
commercial games on Linux as significant effort is already put into
the development of Wine and pressuring video game publishers to port
their work to Linux. Once FOSS gaming reaches its "tipping point",
code and content will be easily reused to foster the development of
new games and innovative ideas in gaming. The Ubuntu Gaming Team
fills a great need for an organized effort to support FOSS gaming.
http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-
team.html
Launchpad: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam
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