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How to turn Ubuntu into a Gaming platform?

Shane Fagan - 12 hours 21 min ago

I was thinking about this issue a lot. Games have a hard time on Linux with multiple sound architectures, different package management systems and not many ways to deploy their app easily. So the answers to these are use pulse audio, make a few different packages for different distros (which is expensive) or just deploy it on Ubuntu (which would piss off other distros) and deploying it at the moment is hosting it on your own website as a download.

In maverick we are getting a marketplace in the software center to sort out the deploying part and i presume thats going to have a centralized payment system so thats good for the game developers. My idea is that we can take this further. My idea is make something like like battle.net or steam (kinda).

Ok for those who don’t know steam is the payment management and distribution system for games and battle.net is just a payment management system for blizzard’s games.

So we have an SSO and now a marketplace, distribution and centralized payment system for maverick. Why not expose some info to games developers? The info that is needed depends on the game but if its something like WoW you would need the account info and if they paid for the game to log you in.

The idea is kind of a win win situation, the user wins because there is no login and its a simple system to handle everything for them and the developer wins because he doesn’t have to code a complex login system and he gets the payments handled too.

Thoughts?

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OssBarcamp Ireland - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 16:35
Sponsors Array Array Array Array Saturday TimeTable * Talks are 45 minutes long and a 5 minutes change over between rooms * Landsdown Hotel Has been booked from 18:30pm onwards and finger food at 19:00 * Please add your Name and Topic Title in a time that suits you. * There will be a demo room running all day Saturday open to everyone! Talks, demos, discussions, Bofs!

The motivational drivers and barriers of volunteers in open source communities Part 2

Laura Czajkowski - Thu, 02/09/2010 - 15:27
I blogged a while back about Barry doing his Masters Thesis on The motivational drivers and barriers of volunteers in open source communities which looked at the Ubuntu Community, he handed it in yesterday and I know some folks were curious about results so I asked him to write a small piece for the blog: Barry [...]

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Shane Fagan - Wed, 01/09/2010 - 21:00

Ian Howl +1!

timetable - Added a talk about open source usage in IBM

OssBarcamp Ireland - Wed, 01/09/2010 - 14:49
Saturday TimeTable * Talks are 45 minutes long and a 5 minutes change over between rooms * Landsdown Hotel Has been booked from 18:30pm onwards and finger food at 19:00 * Please add your Name and Topic Title in a time that suits you. * There will be a demo room running all day Saturday open to everyone! Talks, demos, discussions, Bofs!

start - Updating logo sizes / order

OssBarcamp Ireland - Wed, 01/09/2010 - 10:38
Sponsors Array Array Array Array OSSBarcamp is an Open Source themed Barcamp aimed at all levels of interest. Following the success of the previous 3 events, this one is a 2-day event. OSSBarcamp is a free software unconference style of event organised by volunteers who are involved in the Ubuntu Ireland local community.

LoCo Team banners for Approved teams

Laura Czajkowski - Tue, 31/08/2010 - 16:36
Following on from my post  last week regarding the up to date conference packs and the new banners for APPROVED teams, we have created a new wiki page we need the team contact to fill in. Again, a big thank you goes to Canonical for making this possible! The wiki pages lists the teams at present [...]

timetable - Added Talk

OssBarcamp Ireland - Tue, 31/08/2010 - 15:05
Saturday TimeTable * Talks are 45 minutes long and a 5 minutes change over between rooms * Landsdown Hotel Has been booked from 18:30pm onwards and finger food at 19:00 * Please add your Name and Topic Title in a time that suits you. * There will be a demo room running all day Saturday open to everyone! Talks, demos, discussions, Bofs!

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OssBarcamp Ireland - Tue, 31/08/2010 - 09:46
Saturday TimeTable * Talks are 45 minutes long and a 5 minutes change over between rooms * Landsdown Hotel Has been booked from 18:30pm onwards and finger food at 19:00 * Please add your Name and Topic Title in a time that suits you. * There will be a demo room running all day Saturday open to everyone! Talks, demos, discussions, Bofs!

codingdojo

OssBarcamp Ireland - Tue, 31/08/2010 - 09:23
Sponsors Array Array Array Array On Saturday the 25th of september we are running a code dojo (ie not a competition per se) its more about learning and less about competing According to CodingDojo Wiki, a coding dojo is “a meeting where a bunch of coders get together to work on a programming challenge. They are there to have fun and to engage in Deliberate Practice in order to improve their skills.” So, basically we'll split into small groups and resolve challenges ;) using a test driven …

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OssBarcamp Ireland - Tue, 31/08/2010 - 09:17
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OssBarcamp Ireland - Tue, 31/08/2010 - 09:16
On Saturday the 25th of september we are running a code dojo (ie not a competition per se) its more about learning and less about competing According to CodingDojo Wiki, a coding dojo is “a meeting where a bunch of coders get together to work on a programming challenge. They are there to have fun and to engage in Deliberate Practice in order to improve their skills.” So, basically we ll split into small groups and resolve challenges ;) using a test driven approach.

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OssBarcamp Ireland - Mon, 30/08/2010 - 16:42
Sponsors Array Array Array OSSBarcamp is an Open Source themed Barcamp aimed at all levels of interest. Following the success of the previous 3 events, this one is a 2-day event. OSSBarcamp is a free software unconference style of event organised by volunteers who are involved in the Ubuntu Ireland local community.

Au Pair needed for 3 cute Irish Monkies in Toronto

Laura Czajkowski - Sun, 29/08/2010 - 20:39
My closest and dearest friend left Ireland 2 years ago due to the construction industry recession over here.  She packed up her bags and 3 kids and headed west and landed in Guelph Toronto and hasn’t looked back since.  She has 3 lovely kids Saoirse 10 and twins Alannah and Cillian who are 4.5. She’s looking [...]

Ubuntu Global Jam Ireland a great success

Laura Czajkowski - Sun, 29/08/2010 - 11:51
Thanks to the folks over at Tog who kindly offered us space to meet up and work on Ubuntu Global Jam.  It was I think the best one so far for us. 8 people turned up over the day and we worked on different areas and helped one another.  It was great to see two [...]

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OssBarcamp Ireland - Sat, 28/08/2010 - 18:23
Saturday TimeTable * Talks are 45 minutes long and a 5 minutes change over between rooms * Landsdown Hotel Has been booked from 18:30pm onwards and finger food at 19:00 * Please add your Name and Topic Title in a time that suits you. * There will be a demo room running all day Saturday open to everyone! Talks, demos, discussions, Bofs!

Spring Cleaning the wiki over UGJ Weekend

Laura Czajkowski - Fri, 27/08/2010 - 20:53
There is an enormous amount of useful information on wiki.ubuntu.com however there is also a lot of duplicate triplicate and redundant material on there also.  This weekend why not get your loco reviewing a section of the wiki and help to clear up some of the pages.  I’ve noticed sometimes that a page was created in lower [...]

Quickly vala template starting to take shape

Shane Fagan - Thu, 26/08/2010 - 15:52

Hey all I just thought id give a little update about my Quickly Vala template. Firstly the code is here.

I have the project stuff mostly working but its no where near what the python template is yet. At the moment its just one main window (I dont have the preferences or other windows that the regular quickly projects have) a simple run to compile and run the project’s code. At the moment if you use other libraries other than gtk+-2.0 and gmodule-2.0 and the auto imported glib you have to edit the run.sh file manually and add “–pkg “. This isn’t the greatest system but the problems with vala’s package imports is hard to get around. Ill look into it better later.

So the create and license should be working at the moment and instead of running “quickly run” you go ./run in the project directory.

Oh and no get text support just yet ill fix that sometime this week.

It still hasnt been pushed to the main quickly directory as its not quite ready yet but progress is being made.

If you want to help out you can email me or message me on #quickly on freenode IRC. If you know Vala well id be happy for the help.

Update: Initial gettext support is added now so it generates a pot now but isn’t being used in the code properly yet im working on that now though. Also there is a big bug with it getting every string in the Vala code for translation and if some of them are translated it would break the project.

Also I made a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/quickly/+bug/626315 add to it if you have any features I should do or find any bugs.

Maverick Meerkat Release Parties

Laura Czajkowski - Wed, 25/08/2010 - 15:31
Not long left till Maverick Meerkat aka 10.10 is released with that in  mind it’s time for loco teams to start to plan for their release party.  I’ve added the global event to the LoCo Directory Maverick Meerkat is scheduled for  release on the 10th of the 10th 2010. To celebrate 10.10 LoCo teams have [...]

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OssBarcamp Ireland - Wed, 25/08/2010 - 08:20
Saturday TimeTable * Talks are 45 minutes long and a 5 minutes change over between rooms * Landsdown Hotel Has been booked from 18:30pm onwards and finger food at 19:00 * Please add your Name and Topic Title in a time that suits you. * There will be a demo room running all day Saturday open to everyone! Talks, demos, discussions, Bofs!
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