[U-co] Fwd: Ubuntu Gaming Team

[Julián Alarcón]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Hollman Enciso R. <hollman.enciso en gmail.com
> wrote:

> Bueno, a todos los que nos gusta jugar, les reenvio este email :P
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo en ubuntu.com>
> Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:33 AM
> Subject: Ubuntu Gaming Team
> To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts"
> <loco-contacts en lists.ubuntu.com>, Ubuntu Marketing
> <ubuntu-marketing en lists.ubuntu.com>, Ubuntu Massachusetts Local
> Community Team <ubuntu-us-ma en lists.ubuntu.com>,
> ubuntu-devel-discuss en lists.ubuntu.com, US LoCo Teams
> <ubuntu-us en lists.ubuntu.com>, ubuntu-gaming en lists.launchpad.net
>
>
> In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, the Ubuntu Gaming Team has
> been formed of mutual benefit to Ubuntu and FOSS gaming. As of today,
> the team is now open for anyone to join and participate in. Working
> towards improving FOSS games and developing its community will turn a
> significant barrier against Ubuntu adoption into an appealing reason
> to switch.
> The Ubuntu Gaming Team will work to address the obstacles hindering
> growth in FOSS gaming such as the need for effective distributed
> content management or significant investment in free content
> development in order to promote FOSS gaming through Ubuntu and Ubuntu
> through FOSS gaming. New ideas are encouraged and appreciated.
> FOSS gaming is important to Ubuntu as a lack of quality games is one
> of the most cited reasons preventing users from switching from
> Windows. Gamers, who currently feed off of the proprietary software
> model, represent a large and valuable user base. They will not even
> begin to gradually migrate to Ubuntu until their needs are met. They
> are very capable of understanding the ideological and technical
> benefits of using a free operating system like Ubuntu, and are often
> interested in switching, but higher value is placed on high quality
> gaming and the entire demographic will not budge until the pragmatic
> advantages of open source actualize through FOSS gaming.
> The team is dedicated to FOSS gaming, and will not push for commercial
> games  on Linux as significant effort is already put into the
> development of Wine and pressuring video game publishers to port their
> work to Linux. Once FOSS gaming reaches its "tipping point", code and
> content will be easily reused to foster the development of new games
> and innovative ideas in gaming. The Ubuntu Gaming Team fills a great
> need for an organized effort to support FOSS gaming.
> http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html
> Launchpad: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming<https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-gaming>
> Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam
> #ubuntu-gaming
> ubuntu-gaming en lists.launchpad.net<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam%0A#ubuntu-gaming%0Aubuntu-gaming@lists.launchpad.net>
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> loco-contacts en lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
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Interesante, muy interesante..

En otras palabras, un grupo mundial de Ubuntu para gamers... Competencia
contra los otros LoCo Teams!!! jejeje