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[Ryan Swart <serjndestroy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, pretty good idea :) I had a similar one a while back, just a general
cafe based on introducing people to foss and open culture (in south africa),
but I move around to much in for something like that to be feasible. It does
have many interesting aspects though, as there are lots of things that you
would be able to sell/do at such a shop, like host game development nights
or donate to a project to get your own personalized cafe game.

Definitely put things like Copiz on the desktops with demonstrations on how
to use them, that often has a very big "wow" factor..

One problem, if I recall correctly, is that Wine and LAN gaming doesn't work
too well (I might be mistaken, or the issues fixed, though). I should
actually do some tests...

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Aravind V <aravindsonly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ubuntu-Gaming members,
>
> Me and  a couple of my friends have decided to start a Ubuntu based Gaming
> cafe at Trivandrum, India.
>
> We plan to support some of the popular games as of today (mainly Windows
> based) using Wine.
> We also intend to spread awareness about Open source games and conduct
> tournaments for these games.
>
> For spreading Linux / Ubuntu, it would be apt to target the 10-25 year
> olds, which is the target gaming population as well. I believe this would
> help in spreading awareness of Linux among them.
>
> We hope to be able to give back to the Ubuntu-Gaming community some amount
> from our monthly profits, if any. :-D
>
> This is a prototype model. Could you please share your thoughts with us as
> both Gamers and Linux users on this approach.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Aravind
>
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