• Diff for "DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2/orga"

Team

• General: nattie, pwaring, tumbleweed, paddatrapper, highvoltage

• Content: nattie, PaulWaring, acute, highvoltage

• Video: DebConf Video team

Sponsors

MDCO#1 was highly experimental, bare bones and on a very short timeline. As such, we avoided sponsors because there was some risk involved. For MDCO#2, we don't strictly need sponsors but it might be nice to have them. This would need someone to co-ordinate it, so if you'd like to be part of (or the) sponsors team, step up or it won't happen

Talks

Confirmed

Registered:

• ?AngelOnFira - "Community Game Development in Rust: A Biopsy"

• lynxlynxlynx - "GemRB: 20 years of the engine and a look forward"
• nick - "Notcurses: Making terminals do things that were never intended"
• dulsi - "Open Source Game Achievements"
• kleinkravis - "Running Windows games on Linux. A crash course"
• uso - "YIRL engine presentation"

• wallbraker - "FOSS Virtual & Augmented Reality"

• stephanlachnit - "Overview of Gaming utilities in Debian"

• thestr4ng3r - "Chiaki - bringing ?PlayStation 4 Remote Play to Linux"

• Alfred - "Godello: App development in Godot"
• Stanislas - 0AD
• ./play.it
• openmw - johnnyhostile from #openmw will try to wrangle up a speaker
• lightning talks
• emorrp1 - new game releases

Confirmed, not yet registered:

• Michalis - 'Castle Game Engine 7.0 - overview of a cross-platform engine using modern Object Pascal, and upcoming big features' or 'Castle Game Engine - overview and upcoming features'
• orama - pixelorama + games

Ideas

Tasked (still todo):

• Hedgewars 1.0 [tasked to: PhilMorrell]

Talk invites, tasked (in progress):

• Invite Ryan C. Gordon to talk (he has ported a bunch of games to Linux: https://icculus.org/) [tasked to: PaulWaring]

  • Email request sent 2020-07-18
  • Tweeted now that CfP is ready 2020-10-19

• Invite the gamemode authors to give a talk, might have lots of interesting perfomance insights that are interesting for non-gamers as well: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode [tasked to highvoltage]

  • Sent an email info@feral on 2020-09-02 - this will now be covered by stephanlachnit's talk

• Invite 0AD to give a talk (they were at FOSDEM this year and seem nice), they have formed a non-profit project and are also with SPI, might have some interesting insights in to funding a free software game: https://play0ad.com/

  • Stanislas Dolcini has agreed, they are credited for 3D Art, Map Making, Programming [tasked to: PhilMorrell]

• Invite Godot to talk, Godot is a completely free 2D and 3D gaming engine with many great features and is packaged in Debian: https://godotengine.org/ [tasked to: PaulWaring]

  • Email request sent 2020-07-28
• Invite some of our upstreams to talk: krita, blender, inkscape (which hit v1.0.0 this year!), pygame, ...
  • highvoltage sent an email to blender foundation on 2020-09-02

  • highvoltage asked on Twitter on 2020-09-08

• Invite Michalis Kamburelis, he is the author of Castle Game Engine

  • Proactively contacted PaulWaring on 2020-09-08

  • Agreed talk title: 'Castle Game Engine 7.0 - overview of a cross-platform engine using modern Object Pascal, and upcoming big features' or 'Castle Game Engine - overview and upcoming features'
• Invite notcurses [tasked to highvoltage]
  • highvoltage sent the author an email on 2020-10-13 - talk is now registered.

• Invite the Unvanquished team to talk about freeing all their code & assets [tasked to highvoltage]

  • highvoltage couldn't find any real contact details, but asked on their IRC channel on 2020-10-13
• Libraries/technologies like proton/wine/dxvk
  • highvoltage has asked smcv on irc if he knows anyone who could talk about this
• Minetest 5.0 [tasked to highvoltage]
  • highvoltage reached out on #minetest-dev on freenode on 2020-10-14
• Invite krita [tasked to highvoltage]
  • highvoltage reached out on #krita on freenode on 2020-10-14
• Game library managers such as gnome-games

  • highvoltage reached out to adwait who worked on it for GSoC on 2020-10-14

• Invite someone from Relativity (open source/open hardware VR headset)

  • highvoltage invited max on 2020-10-14, max is keen

• Pollo says also https://packages.debian.org/sid/openmw

  • highvoltage poked them on #openmw on freenode on 2020-10-18

• ./play.it

  • highvoltage sent Antoine an email on 2020-10-18. Antoine can't speak, but will check with mopi if they can.

• invite Guus Sliepen to present their 2016 talk about DFSG, source code/data and games

  • pabs asked if they have considered presenting on IRC on 2020-10-25.

Talk tasks (concluded):

• Invite chiaki

  • highvoltage sent an email on 2020-10-19, florian is in.

• Invite these people: https://gemrb.org/2020/08/24/the-gemrb-project-celebrates-20-year-anniversary-with-a-new-release.html

  • highvoltage sent Jaka an email on 2020-10-18 - they are in! has submitted a talk to the site

• Invite Jason Rohrer (@jasonrohrer on GitHub) to talk, he makes a lot of interesting non-traditional games, including art games

  • highvoltage emailed jason on 2020-10-14 - Jason unfortunately won't have the time this time around

• Invite https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama [tasked to highvoltage]

  • highvoltage sent them an email on 2020-10-13

• Invite someone from LibreGames

  • highvoltage poked them on #libregames on freenode on 2020-10-18, not sure how active the project still is, I think I'm leaving this at that.

• Invite author of Godello for a talk, https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello [tasked to: highvoltage (asked him on twitter)]

  • Godello is in, needs to register talk

  • Poked Alfred to register on the site one 2020-10-19

• Lutris, Piper, ?MangoHud, gamemode, vkBasalt, GOverlay, vkdevicechooser, OpenRGB, Oversteer, ?GameHub

  • All the above basically covered by StephanLachnit's talk proposal

Not yet tasked

• Some notable recent upstream releases:
  • Supertuxkart 1.0

  • pygame 2 (pabs asked in the HN thread)

• Debian specific tools like game-data-packager,
  • mostly smcv working on this, although I think if he talks about wine that might be more interesting (time is tight but maybe this talk might easier if time doesn't work out for the wine talk)
• A talk about Debian games team, who they are and what they do and how to get involved.

• Invite Kenta Cho (@abagames on GitHub etc) to talk, he makes a lot of interesting shoot-em-up games

  • Looks interesting but mostly Windows games? --highvoltage

  • Lots of their games are in Debian, mu-cade for eg --PaulWise

• Invite Burning Knight author to talk about freeing the game

• Invite someone from GamingOnLinux

• Invite folks from the Fedora games group (and other distros?)

• Invite pygame

Schedule:

• Debian Games bug day during DebCamp? Have a day where we pay some attention to bugs in game packages in debian.

• Have a schedule for minidebcamp, we can watch some previous related videos, or use this to demo games. Suggest having it sparsely populated to leave time for hacking / talking / playing games that were demoed / fixing bugs in games / etc.

• "L"AN party in the camp/conf "evenings" mostly polled/scheduled in advance to give time for players to sort out installation/setup hosting. [?tasked to: PhilMorrell?]

Places to promote

Places to send the CfP to once it is ready, and to publicise in general.

Completed:

• Gaming on Linux - Debian Linux is planning an gaming-focused event online in November (also tweeted)

• Ubuntu podcast - PaulWaring

  • 2020-10-03: tweeted

  • 2020-10-08: show notes

• Reddit

• This Week in Linux

Tasked:

Not yet tasked:

• Twitter - which accounts? - Debian press team has accounts and can publish what you give them.
• Debian mailing lists - which ones are relevant?

Useful info for speakers

Maybe add this to main page?

• Have run this event online before (track record)
• Have our own Jitsi instance (reliable)
• 200-300 "attendees"
• Videos recorded and available afterwards