It's a tad ironic in running around shooting people with the Ubuntu tag above your head [?]
Still a good idea though. But for it to be effective, I'd think the tag would need to be [UBUNTU], because people might associate [UBU] with anything. We aren't part of a clan for the clans sake, we would be part of a clan to advertise gaming in Ubuntu (like the linux mint exaple).. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Ben Crisford <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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