In theory, I'm in, though TBF I've been doing comparatively little 'noth stuff over the past year due to various Real Life™ stuff. Depends on holiday as well.
tsi > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:47:55 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wesnoth-dev] gaming dev room at FOSDEM2012? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everybody! > I wanted to bring up an old question on the list that was talked about on and > off during the last FOSDEMs. What do you think of going for a "Open Source > Game Development" room at the next FOSDEM? In the previous years we always had > our WESDEM during FOSDEM and just got us "some" seats in one of the hacking > rooms. We often talked about trying to get a whole dev room dedicated to open > source games. Since I'll be at the GSOC Mentor Summit in a little more than > one week and there will be other open source gaming related projects around, > this should be a good time/place to discuss with other projects what they > think of the idea. > Of course you now face the question what a dev room would mean: > FOSDEM is a meeting of open source software developers that happens during the > first weekend of February at a University campus in Brussels. There tend to be > several thousand devs of *many* projects. Over the last 4 years we always had > a "european wesnoth meeting" there with at least 8 to 10 of us wesnoth devs > attending. A dev room at FOSDEM would mean that we are giving talks eg about > how the AI in a TBS game can work and be made to act modular. Or an artist can > show in a live session of to create artwork for games and talk about possible > problems that you usually have to face. It might be nice to have some > collaboration with other projects to see how they handle things like eg a good > approach to version control for the various aspects we got to handle. > So what do you think, should I push for the idea during the mentor summit and > go for applying for a dev room[1]? I'd have to fill the application during the > mentor summit weekend since I'll spend some holidays in San Francisco downtown > afterwards and won't be back home before the submission deadline is over. > In case you are a dev for another open source project and following this > mailing list: please feel free to respond with what you think of the idea of a > centered effort for a gaming related dev room during FOSDEM. > Cheers, > Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic > > > [1]http://fosdem.org/2012/call_for_devrooms > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk6TWfsACgkQfFda9thizwWDFgCgiGmVKQDQIelQyJdU2EgsgUCH > LgQAnjDNAwUHxfYekh4UkTynUWgBkBzH > =aS4P > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
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