Hi,
I'm a developer of the PenguinPlay project (http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/). We will have an IRC meeting next weekend and would love to see you there.
The meeting is scheduled for Sat, 08.Aug.1998, 21:00 GMT on EFNet, channel #gamedev
We'll log the meeting and provide a summary and transcript on the PPlay homepage about one day later. The URL will be: http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/irc-08.aug.1998.html If you want to be notified when it becomes available (e.g. so that you can put a copy on your homepage ASAP) please tell me (warewolf@mayn.de)
The Meeting will consist of two parts:
First we want to get all people involved in Open Source game development to meet each other, find out more about the other projects and discuss how our efforts can be coordinated better.
This invitaition (the thing you currently read) is being sent to representatives/mailing lists of the following projects:
If you know someone/some project we forgot, please forward this mail to them (and if possible notify us so that we can keep our lists up to date)
We hope at least one person of each of these projects will be able to join us. Apropos joining: It would be nice if you could say what project you're from when you join the meeting. This makes recordkeeping (for the summary) and communication much easier.
Ok, now for the second part.
We think it's time to get open source developers and commercial game developers together to learn why the game industry hesitates to make games for linux, to ask them what the Linux environment lacks for supporting games and to discuss how this situation can be changed best.
We want to use our smaller meeting (the one this weekend) to discuss about this big event - what we have to do before, how to approach the commercial guys, what exactly to place on the agenda etc.
These are the things we planned so far:
The main announcement for the meeting will be posted about one week in advance on
It will contain
In addition the commercial developers have to be invited personally via mail about one week before the announcement is posted. These invitations will have to contain the main announcement plus some more items:
Notes:
I'm not sure whether our mailing list (mailto:penguinplay@sunsite.auc.dk) accepts mail from non-subscribed people. If you cannot send your comments etc to it, please try my personal mail account (warewolf@mayn.de). Thx
Ok, I think that's it. See you at the meeting :)
Cu
The PenguinPlay Team