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[Nicolas Zuasti <nicozuasti@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, another new one here. So to sum it up this is a team of people who will
promote the use of Linux (ubuntu as its main distro) as a gamming
plataform?.

If that's so, i would really like to know how can i help. Reffering a
previous question, i have some experience hosting lan parties (not official
ones, but with a participation of 50-100 people), since i live in a small
city (of a small country).

It would be nice to see a bit more information to clarify ideas.

Sorry for my english (its not my main language).

nz.

www.zonical.net


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ioan Calin Borcoman <iborco@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I came here via Phoronix. I was very excited by the news, but I'm a
> bit puzzled by the purpose of this group, too.
>
> I am a wannabe game developer and was hoping that Ubuntu has plans for
> something like 'Google Summer of Code' - in this case, funding and
> supporting game developers to create and polish games that run
> natively on Linux and are distributed as OpenSource, for the code, and
> OpenSource or OpenContent, for the content. Or something like
> Blender.org does where they assemble a team with a specific project in
> mind.
>
> As a game developer you need nice libs. But in order to be able to
> deliver a game, you also need nice graphics, sounds and levels.
> Unfortunately, what is really missing are these last resources.
>
> Ubuntu and the other distros that make money from distributing Linux
> could hire artists, musicians, sound effect professionals to create
> such content and make it available under an OpenContent license so
> that every potential game developer can use it.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Ionutz
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Arc Riley <arcriley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think it's been brought up before, but needs to be re-raised, this new
> > team is in need of clarification as to it's purpose.
> >
> > The team is not part of either MOTU or Debian packagers, discussion about
> > getting new games packaged and existing packages updated is great, and
> there
> > seems to be some packagers on this team, but such discussion seems
> > misplaced.
> >
> > Ubuntu is a distribution, there is some software developed for Ubuntu
> > (workflow, installation, user experience) but projects as big as writing
> > games - which would be equally useful on other Linux distros, really
> don't
> > belong here.  We're building up the Copyleft Games Group to umbrella such
> > projects.
> >
> > On the launchpad, this team is listed as part of Ubuntu Marketing.  Let's
> > focus on that - the games that we already have need some hype, building
> > player community around them, encouraging LoCos to host lan parties, and
>
> > when new copyleft games come down the pipe working to promote them as a
> way
> > to promote Ubuntu.
> >
> > Without a clearly defined scope I'm worried this team isn't going to be
> very
> > effective, just a lot of people with different ideas about what this team
> is
> > for announcing their interests but little constructive progress toward
> any
> > one goal.
> >
> >
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