Re: [libreplanet-discuss] LibrpePlanet Gaming Team brainstorm!

[Mark Holmquist]

(This message was originally sent this morning to dpic. There is a 
severe need for a reply-to field on this list.)

> We need more ideas! And this is where you come in. Please suggest
> campaign ideas and consider what we can do to further free software in
> the gaming arena. I'll start things off.

I'd like to jump in quick and say that, if any of us are available to 
help people make changes or additions to free games, that might be a 
helpful start--actually showing people how changing a game can be really 
beneficial is definitely in line with the mission of both LibrePlanet 
and this group in particular. We could easily pull together a group of 
hackers and advertise this volunteer group on various social sites.

Idea--would LibrePlanet or the FSF be able to sign off on community 
service, if high school/college students wanted to use something like 
this for an academic requirement? Maybe that's an entirely different 
thread, but it's definitely worth pursuing.

> I think we should collaborate with Open Game Art and the Liberated Pixel
> Cup. We could offer to use the winning game as our first game for the
> weekly gaming nights and to play it for x number of weeks (4?). Other
> collaboration ideas are welcome!

I like the idea of using games from the LPC, but I'm not sure limiting 
to one game for the weekly gaming events would be good, because it might 
drive away folks who don't like whatever game is being played. In the 
interest of having everyone interested in free gaming join all the time, 
I'm sure we could have multiple games per night, possibly with different 
sponsoring organizations per game server. We could definitely talk to 
some hosting providers (Linode? Dreamhost? Others?) to get servers up 
and running.

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Mark Holmquist
Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur@member.fsf.org
http://marktraceur.info