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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]>* 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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