Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-29 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:28 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Philip Wyett writes: > > > It could. Maybe additions of: > > > > - List of participants. > > https://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30862 > > > - A collecting of the more useful links to get you started from the >

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-28 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:14 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Philip Wyett writes: > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Teams/Games > > > > This old and defunct page is very lacking. > > The page currently reads: > > , > | THIS TEAM IS NOT ACTIVE ANYMORE > | > | There is currently no active M

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-28 Thread Philip Wyett
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:07 +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Martin Owens wrote: > >> Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The > >> team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu > >> issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distribu

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-27 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 08:02 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > > > Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The > > team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu > > issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distributions to > > make th

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-27 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:34 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Danny Piccirillo writes: > > > It's already a problem? Really? The problem i think you're trying to say is > > simply confusing the packaging team with this team. Firstly, i don't see how > > people would be so confused. > > Let's see

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:50 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Danny Piccirillo wrote: > > 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.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:02, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Top posting fixed. Ugh. > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:40, Scott Kitterman > > wrote: > > > >> First, apologies for the off topic cross-posting to many lists, but it > >> was > >> really hard for me to tell which one to drop. > >> > >> > I

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Could a solution be to simply link to Debian/Ubuntu games team for packaging? It may have caused a tiny bit of confusion with the announcement, but i really don't foresee any other confusion. If it becomes a problem then it'll definitely be worth changing, but i don't think it will be. thanks, .da

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Close, but not quite. Here is some nice insight on "what FOSS gaming needs": http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/foss-gaming-needs-distributed-content.html You can find even more in the comments, or following the post into reddit =] On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:31, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il g

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
In response to Oli, isn't your first argument like comparing Windows to Ubuntu? Maybe Ubuntu is a little bit ahead compared to FOSS gaming versus proprietary games, but that's what this team was set up to change. We understand the arguments for porting commercial games to Linux, and don't deny that

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Instead of thinking of this as working "at a distro level", think of it as simply organizing around the well established ubuntu community. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:41, Caroline Ford < caroline.ford.w...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Improving FOSS games at a distro level? Why not just participate up

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
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