On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:21:42 -0800, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the wiki page, someone suggested that we have a game of Killer during > the warm-up weekend at the Spring conference. > > For those who don't know, it's a game where you sign up with a photo, > everyone gets a target card created with their name, photo & weapon of > choice on it, and then the cards are shuffled & handed out to > contestants. During the conference, you have to kill your target, and > take his card. His target becomes your new target. The game finishes > when there's one person left. > > To get to the point: I don't like the game, or the metaphor of killing > people, and I don't think it's appropriate or good for a conference. It > works well during "rag week" in college, but during a technical > conference it would be a distraction for participants, and an annoyance > for those not participating. > > I don't think we should have a game of killer during the conference > warm-up or during the conference.
I think many of the key sponsors would be rather upset if we endorsed or promoted a game like this. So we should politely point out that this is not welcome. /D -- Dirk Hohndel Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
