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[Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

not quite sure exactly what the goal of this "team" is, but it has
something to do with improving Linux gaming, so I thought I drop by
and give a few pointers/ideas.

Quite a few years ago I started Happypenguin GotM[1] a little project
with the goal to improve existing Linux games by focusing available
resources (aka developers) on a single game, instead of having them
spread out over many projects. That worked, some incomplete work
aside, mostly pretty well (see SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, LinCity-NG,
Windstille). The whole thing however ran out of developers and
projects after a while and thus hasn't really done any coordinated
work in a while. Some recent discussion[2] however has sparked some
interest in a restart, before that can happen I am however interested
in getting a proper overview over the whole Linux gaming situation
first. For that I have created a few (incomplete and badly organised)
webpages in the freegamedev Wiki:

 * http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Game_Tasks
 * http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Graphics_Tasks
 * http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Tool_Tasks
 * http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Engine_Tasks

The goal behind these pages is basically to collect anything that is
broken in Linux gaming, be it missing features in the asset creation
toolchain (aka Blender and Gimp), in the games themselves, the
surrounding tools or whatever. The intention is to create a list that
puts the spotlight on key issues, that, when fixed, would improve
gaming in Linux. If possible the tasks should be broken down into bite
sized portions that could be completed by a single developer, but for
the start just having the overall problem defined is ok as well.

At the moment there really aren't much clear guidelines what should
and should not go on that list, so those that have some ideas floating
around, feel free to add them, we can sort them out later.

[1] http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1243
[2] http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=2508&start=0&S=8a509c2887cb10d1fb49112c3e4c2098

PS: This is a repost, as I think my first try might have been eaten by
a spam filter due to different From-header.

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