Libre Gaming meeting minutes #2

Attending

artchad, Cesar, DeathByDenim, emorrp1, Felix, Livio, poVoq, SeanCJ, sm2n, ThinkSome, vvbudh, franzo, OptimusDU, spongy, Rampoina, freem, infrared

Agenda

• about libre games and libregaming.org
  • organisation formation
  • assets, CC, engine, NC, opengameart.org
• round of introductions
• General review of last 6 months, what is/isn’t working for libregaming.org?
  • subdomains (manual dynamic dns)
  • website - have content, server, need CMS / SSG
    • spongy working on "design language" documentation
    • sm2n interested in doing the SSG
    • co-ordination channel? - #libregaming-workshop
  • port forwarding/relay solution?
    • TCP solved - send emorrp1 your ssh-ed25519 key
    • UDP difficult, yggdrasil, miredo, ipv6 vlan, spring relayhost
    • Not aware of any UDP solution that only needs the host to manage the setup
• Chat channels: privacy, moderation, working groups, on-topic
  • Organisational space?
  • Bridging #chamber to IRC? Or another channel for high volume website chat?
  • Official Mumble server with mumble-web interface (and maybe Discord voice bridge)?
  • idea to have game-specific contacts to cross communities
• Service (de)centralisation
  • FreeGamedev.net can host stuff, but the bus factor is currently more or less 1
• provide a place and encouragement for devs to interact (freegamedev.net?)
  • A more open social media forum (Lemmy?) could be good for devs to create communities easily?
• general goals and level of ambition, as well as how “growth” oriented/cohesive
  • Keep it small intentionally?
  • Community building! Promoting niche games?
  • Organized "mobs" to promote libregaming (with devs?), similar to Gaming on Linux?
  • Long term goal: some sort of Steam like launcher & integrated game ratings + community?
• collaborative focus day with a shared todo list
  • Writing on tutorials? Outreach to specific communties to "commission" contributions?
  • hackathon kind of thing? What kind of topics?
• cross-cutting concerns: matchmaking, netdev, community management, servers, ratings

Any Other Business

• play 0ad, themanaworld, mindustry
• try to organize the next meeting before end of March. Maybe make this a monthly or at least quarterly thing?
• we did not discuss moderation in the end

Actions

• emorrp1 to fix dangling rooms and bridge discussion for website
• hribhrib to grant some git access
• poVoq to arrange next meeting unless someone else does it first
• sm2n to work on website