Instead of thinking of this as working "at a distro level", think of it as simply organizing around the well established ubuntu community. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:41, Caroline Ford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com">caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Improving FOSS games at a distro level? Why not just participate upstream?</div><div><br> </div> <div>Also are you going to work with the Debian games team and work on packaging?</div><div><br></div><div>Caroline<br><br>Sent from a mobile device.</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 24 Apr 2009, at 09:33, Danny Piccirillo <<a href="mailto:danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><div>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.</div> </div><a href="http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html" target="_blank">http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html</a></div> <br>Launchpad: <a href="https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming" target="_blank">https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming</a><br> Wiki: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GamingTeam</a><br><a href="http://java.freenode.net//index.php?channel=ubuntu-gaming" target="_blank">#ubuntu-gaming</a><br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-gaming@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:ubuntu-gaming@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">ubuntu-gaming@lists.launchpad.net</a> </div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>-- </span><br><span>Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a></span><br> <span>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a></span><br> </div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br>