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
Ideas
Tasked (still todo):
- Invite krita [tasked to highvoltage]
- Invite pygame [tasked to highvoltage]
Hedgewars 1.0 [?tasked to: PhilMorrell?]
Tasked (done / 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
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 author of Godello for a talk, https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello [tasked to: highvoltage (asked him on twitter)]
Godello is in
- 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
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
Lutris, Piper, ?MangoHud, gamemode, vkBasalt, GOverlay, vkdevicechooser, OpenRGB, Oversteer, ?GameHub
All the above basically covered by StephanLachnit's talk proposal
- Libraries/technologies like proton/wine/dxvk
- highvoltage has asked smcv on irc if he knows anyone who could talk about this
Invite https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama [tasked to highvoltage]
- highvoltage sent them an email on 2020-10-13
- Minetest 5.0 [tasked to highvoltage]
- highvoltage reached out on #minetest-dev on freenode on 2020-10-14
Not yet tasked
- Game library managers such as gnome-games, athenaeum
Recent gnome-games blog entry: GSoC final submission,
- Some notable recent upstream releases:
- Supertuxkart 1.0
Debian specific tools like game-data-packager, ./play.it
- A talk about Debian games team, who they are and what they do and how to get involved.
Invite these people: https://gemrb.org/2020/08/24/the-gemrb-project-celebrates-20-year-anniversary-with-a-new-release.html
Pollo says also https://packages.debian.org/sid/openmw
Invite Jason Rohrer (@jasonrohrer on GitHub) to talk, he makes a lot of interesting non-traditional games, including art games
Invite Kenta Cho (@abagames on GitHub etc) to talk, he makes a lot of interesting shoot-em-up games
Invite Burning Knight author to talk about freeing the game
Invite someone from GamingOnLinux
Invite someone from LibreGames
Invite folks from the Fedora games group (and other distros?)
Invite someone from Relativity (open source/open hardware VR headset)
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)
2020-10-03: tweeted
2020-10-08: show notes
Tasked:
Not yet tasked:
- Twitter - which accounts?
- 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