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The Ubuntu Gaming Team recognizes the importance of FOSS gaming for the adoption of Ubuntu and exists to give the open source gaming world a boost! Why an Ubuntu Gaming Team? This team was set up to tap into the Ubuntu community to gather FOSS gamers around promoting Ubuntu through FOSS games and FOSS games through Ubuntu.
All in accordance with the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. We are a branch of the Marketing Team.
The Ubuntu Gaming Team does NOT do packaging, development, programming, etc. We are a strictly a marketing and advocacy effort. You may be looking for the Debian Games Team or Freedesktop Games
Mission
The Gaming Team strives to promote Ubuntu through FOSS games and FOSS games through Ubuntu.
Our objectives are:
- Connect FOSS gamers on Ubuntu
- Promote FOSS gaming on Ubuntu
- Bridge the gap between users and Debian/Ubuntu Games Team or Freedesktop Games
Assist LoCo's involved with FOSS gaming
- Help organize gaming events
- Address barriers to the development of FOSS Games
strictly from and within a marketing and advocacy standpoint.
Join Us
To join the Ubuntu Gaming Team:
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming
IRC channel: #ubuntu-gaming on irc.freenode.net
Mailing list: Subscribe on Launchpad Mail us here: ubuntu-gaming@lists.launchpad.net View here: http://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gaming
If you are interested in participating in this team, please scroll down to read more.
Getting Involved
The team is always looking for more people to help out. We have huge plans to bring the wonder of FOSS gaming to the world and the more people helping to do that the faster we can make progress. Please read through the pages linked to from this page to get an idea of what we are currently working on.
See Also: ActivismHowTo
Why FOSS?
This team is dedicated to the advancement Free Software and the promotion of Ubuntu and FOSS games for that. If you believe that FOSS games have no future, or, as some of our members may agree with, that proprietary software titles running natively on Ubuntu are needed, that is fine, but simply outside the scope of this team. There is not a great need for an organized effort to promote proprietary gaming on Ubuntu as such pressure on software vendors is occuring naturally and Wine development is going strong to pick up the slack.
Founding
Inspired by: http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/linux-needs-games-games-need-you.html
Original Announcement: http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html
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