Just wanted to send out a last minute reminder for the meeting! On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:45, Danny Piccirillo <[email protected] > wrote:
> Please forward widely > > http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/calling-all-foss-game-artists-and-free.html > > The first Ubuntu Gaming Team <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam> meeting > was a huge success! With over *two hours* of discussion going strong, we > covered a lot of ground. One of the major topics for out next meeting, and > our most ambitious project, is coordinating the creation of a distributed > content > development<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam/Projects/DistributedContentDevelopment> > platform. > For this, we will need lots of input from FOSS game artists and free content > producers like the Blender Open Movie Project. > > The meeting will be on 9/27 @ 19:00 > UTC<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=27&year=2009&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=0> > in > #ubuntu-meeting > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam/Meetings/Minutes/2009-09-27 > Please contribute to the agenda! > > Lack of good content is the #1 impediment for FOSS games. Most developers > are not artists and the challenge of content creation is much more difficult > than code. The need for FOSS content is the same for code, but current > platforms that exist for code do not offer features needed for content. Code > is all text and much easier to handle, while content is difficult as you > cannot “diff” a picture or a blender file. On top of that, while distributed > code development has been refined since computers were invented, content is > a much newer ground, especially to apply FOSS distributed development to, > and it simply hasn't received any of the focus and effort that code has. > > We need input to help agree on a base for the platform and what features > are most needed. Additionally, we might like to look to Canonical and/or the > Blender Institute for support as they will benefit most from and be willing > to contribute to such a project. > -- > ☮♥Ⓐ - http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo > -- ☮♥Ⓐ - http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo
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