Your Fedora glows blue for a moment

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Mon Apr 17 19:00:37 UTC 2006


On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:52:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 13:36 -0700, Wart wrote:
> > 
> > A group of game developers, packagers, and enthusiasts have
> > gathered together as the Games Special Interest Group (SIG) in
> > Fedora Extras.  We have conspired to form a new mailing list
> > (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list) and
> > IRC channel (#fedora-games on irc.freenode.net).
> > 
> > The SIG is involved in several activities related to the
> > promotion of Games in Fedora.  We actively seek out new games,
> > game-related libraries, and game development tools to package.
> > We review each other package submissions to expedite the approval
> > process.  We strive to document the games that we package so that
> > users can get an idea of what the game is like before they
> > install and play it.  We discuss new packaging guidelines
> > specific to game packages.
> > 
> > Of course, we also tend to play them a lot as well.  :)
> > 
> > Join us on #fedora-games or on fedora-games-list at redhat.com if
> > you'd like to help out the open-source gaming community.
> 
> Great initiative. Rock on.

Seeing that what had started as only a spontaneous idea (with an
admittedly unimaginative name and acronym) even found its way into FUDCon
presentations, haha, interesting and entertaining. :)




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