[NTLUG:Discuss] Presentation Ideas

[Rev. wRy]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:21, David White wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm fairly new to NTLUG, and I thought I'd start by introducing myself - my
> name is David White, and I've recently moved to the DFW area from Australia.

Hullo. :)  you share the same name as one of my favorite indy film
developers.  This doesn't get either of you kudos on name alone, mind
you.

> I'm the lead developer of a popular Free game: Battle for Wesnoth
> (http://www.wesnoth.org). Chris has been kind enough to let me give a
> presentation about Battle for Wesnoth and Linux gaming in general at NTLUG
> in June.
> 
> In preparing for this presentation, I've realized that there are a number of
> topics which I could present on, but I'm not sure how much interest there
> would be in each of them.
> 
> I've made a list of some of the topics I'm looking at touching on at the
> meeting. It'd be great if I could get some feedback on what people think
> would and wouldn't be appropriate for the group.
> 
> The topics I've thought of are as follows:

> - Overview of the state of Free/Open Source gaming on Linux. Brief
> description of major games.

Is there any?  The gaming scene if you don't use WINE is non-existant,
really.

> - Explanation about Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org) - what it is, how it
> works.

Isn't Savannah gone as of mid April?  I could have sworn I read that it
was shut down for the GNU stuff.

> Cheers,
> 
> David

Ry
(not intentionally being an ass, really)