Danny Piccirillo wrote: > In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has > been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today, > the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in. Working > towards improving FOSS games and developing its community will turn a > significant barrier against Ubuntu adoption into an appealing reason > to switch. > > The Ubuntu Gaming Team will work to address the obstacles hindering > growth in FOSS gaming such as the need for effective distributed > content management or significant investment in free content > development in order to promote FOSS gaming through Ubuntu and Ubuntu > through FOSS gaming. New ideas are encouraged and appreciated.
So is not about taking in part in code development? > > FOSS gaming is important to Ubuntu as a lack of quality games is one > of the most cited reasons preventing users from switching from > Windows. Gamers, who currently feed off of the proprietary software > model, represent a large and valuable user base. They will not even > begin to gradually migrate to Ubuntu until their needs are met. They > are very capable of understanding the ideological and technical > benefits of using a free operating system like Ubuntu, and are often > interested in switching, but higher value is placed on high quality > gaming and the entire demographic will not budge until the pragmatic > advantages of open source actualize through FOSS gaming. > > The team is dedicated to FOSS gaming, and will not push for commercial > games on Linux as significant effort is already put into the > development of Wine and pressuring video game publishers to port their > work to Linux. Once FOSS gaming reaches its "tipping point", code and > content will be easily reused to foster the development of new games > and innovative ideas in gaming. The Ubuntu Gaming Team fills a great > need for an organized effort to support FOSS gaming. Or is it? "Code will be easily reused..." Is this team planning on doing things like set up a Ubuntu Wesnoth game server, create campaigns/scenarios for Wesnoth and then get Ubuntu users to use the Ubuntu game server/campaigns/scenarios and establish an Ubuntu gaming community? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
