Instead of thinking of this as working "at a distro level", think of it as simply organizing around the well established ubuntu community.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:41, Caroline Ford < [email protected]> wrote: > Improving FOSS games at a distro level? Why not just participate upstream? > > Also are you going to work with the Debian games team and work on > packaging? > > Caroline > > Sent from a mobile device. > > On 24 Apr 2009, at 09:33, Danny Piccirillo <[email protected]> > 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. > > 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. > <http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html> > http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html > > Launchpad: <https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming> > https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming > Wiki: <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam > #ubuntu-gaming <http://java.freenode.net//index.php?channel=ubuntu-gaming> > <[email protected]>[email protected] > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > >
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