[Gllug] GLLUG at Olympia, October 2008

[Calvin]

The legality of WoW is questionable :P
Emulated servers arn't illegal. But connecting to one using the WoW client
does break the EULA.

Second Life is a good idea. I didn't know it was possible to host your own
servers. Seems someone has reverse engineered an emu-server and made it open
source. I'll have a look at OpenSim and see how it is.
The specifics of the game isn't important, just the idea. Hosting a game
server and a client machine, for people to see/play with Live. I was just
trying to think of something extremely popular, and WoW fits the bill.

Autodesk do offer a free version of Maya for non-commercial use. So that
shouldn't be a problem.

I don't think Gimp is over rated, it really can do a lot. But again it's not
the specific package that's important. More the idea of doing a demo of a
FOSS alternative to an Adobe product at a Mac Expo. That would be cool, no?
=]
If you're an Inkscape fan, maybe you could do something like Inkscape vs
Freehand/Illustrator?

Calvin


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Caroline Ford <
caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/23 Calvin <mail at lordcalvin.co.uk>:
> >
> > Games Servers:-
> > I know some of the members have a load of servers just laying around. I
> was
> > thinking we could have one running a game server - maybe World of
> Warcraft
> > (most popular MMORPG).
> >
> > Gaming Machines:-
> > If we did run a WoW server, we could have a desktop machine running the
> game
> > client, so people can have a little play and see that 1) WoW works on
> Linux,
> > and 2) they can have their own private server running at home, on Linux.
> > [WoW runs on pretty low specs, so that shouldn't be a problem.]
> >
>
> I think Wow servers are illegal, aren't they? Think you are only
> supposed to use Blizzards.
>
> Wow runs under wine - there are native linux games and clients out
> there. Second Life is a good one and is actually open source.
>
> > Stuff like Maya, Inkscape and of course Gimp.
> >
> Maya is expensive!
>
> > Regarding the .org village itself, another thing we were discussing was
> the
> > posibility of having sit-downs.
> > I think this would be really cool. From a non-technical side, what if we
> had
> > someone who knows a thing or two about Gimp, showing that it's actually
> > worthy of Photoshop competition, with join-in tutorials.
>
> But it's not, and I say this as someone who does a lot of artwork.
> Inkscape is great, the gimp is overrated. Flogging the gimp at a
> MacExpo would be embarrassing
> .
> Caroline
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