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[Ben Crisford <bcrisford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is a great idea!

I would love to help out in anyway I can.  I play many games but mainly Cube
and CSS under Ubuntu.

Of course you must remember however that creating and managing a server is
quite a big workload.  So I would suggest we tackle it as Ubuntu does for
IRC channels, and we elect Operators, and have a gaming clan council for
each of Americas, EMEA, Asia/Oceana.

Because many people (including myself, although I wouldn't mind quitting for
this) are in other clans - I would suggest we make it a community *and *clan,
but the user does not have to be in both, perhaps giving them seperate
names.  For example:
*-|T9|-Wolf [UG]* Is in tango 9 clan, but is in the ubuntu gamers community.
*[UBU]Wolf* *[UG]* Is in the ubuntu gaming clan, and ubuntu gamers
community.
NOTE; They are not name suggestions, merely examples.

Regards,
Ben Crisford


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Khalid Rashid <khalid.rashid@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Greetings all
>
> I think it's time that our team to make a concrete step towards its goal:
> marketing ubuntu through gaming.
>
> Several different approaches has been suggested, and I think most of them
> have been good! But right now we need to do what we can with what we have.
> To truly market ubuntu through gaming we need an active gaming community: a
> clan (or  "herd" to make it sound ubuntuish).
>
> The herds long term goal would consist of several things:
>
>    - being able to provide a server for linux gamers to play games on, and
>    maybe raise activity on some good but under-populated mutilplayer games
>    (like blood frontier).
>    - arrange fundraisers monthly for a game project of choice. This could
>    give games a small push forward. I don't expect astronomical numbers to be
>    donated, but they'll hopefully at least give a warm fuzzy feeling to the
>    developers and make them feel appriciated.
>    - arrange coordinated matches versus other gaming clans on other
>    distros. If we could make debian, fedora, opensuse etc to create gaming
>    teams of their own and arrange linux-gaming tournaments where you're
>    fighting for your distros pride... Now if that dosen't bring attention to
>    linux gaming, i don't know what will ;-) (note: this does not mean by any
>    way mean that only pro players will be accepted at the herd - all, including
>    casual players, should be welcomed).
>
> This is of course the best-case scenario, but first things first.
>
> We need to create that herd. I propose that there will be 3 herds based on
> timezones. Drawing inspiration from the ubuntu boards, the three herds
> should be created: America, Europe/Middle East/Africa and finally
> Asia/Oceania, with one coordinator on each.
>
> what do the good people on this list feel regarding this idea? Do we have
> volunteers that would like to take on part of the responsibility to create
> this community?
>
> *Khalid Rashid <khalid.rashid@xxxxxxxxx>* My PGP public key ID: BFC11F5F<http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xCC9370B757DE41F0A9B35496A8F1137DBFC11F5F>
>
>  *"In the middle of every difficulty
> lies opportunity."* -Albert Einstein
>
>
>
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