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[Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just wanted to send out a last minute reminder for the meeting!

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:45, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Please forward widely
>
> http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/calling-all-foss-game-artists-and-free.html
>
> The first Ubuntu Gaming Team <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam> meeting
> was a huge success! With over *two hours* of discussion going strong, we
> covered a lot of ground. One of the major topics for out next meeting, and
> our most ambitious project, is coordinating the creation of a distributed
> content development<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam/Projects/DistributedContentDevelopment> platform.
> For this, we will need lots of input from FOSS game artists and free content
> producers like the Blender Open Movie Project.
>
> The meeting will be on 9/27 @ 19:00 UTC<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=27&year=2009&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=0> in
> #ubuntu-meeting
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam/Meetings/Minutes/2009-09-27
> Please contribute to the agenda!
>
> Lack of good content is the #1 impediment for FOSS games. Most developers
> are not artists and the challenge of content creation is much more difficult
> than code. The need for FOSS content is the same for code, but current
> platforms that exist for code do not offer features needed for content. Code
> is all text and much easier to handle, while content is difficult as you
> cannot “diff” a picture or a blender file. On top of that, while distributed
> code development has been refined since computers were invented, content is
> a much newer ground, especially to apply FOSS distributed development to,
> and it simply hasn't received any of the focus and effort that code has.
>
> We need input to help agree on a base for the platform and what features
> are most needed. Additionally, we might like to look to Canonical and/or the
> Blender Institute for support as they will benefit most from and be willing
> to contribute to such a project.
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