Free Culture Gaming - 1st game night Saturday 8pm EDT

Writes Nelson Pavlosky on our blog:

Some folks from [Free Culture at Virginia Tech][1] came up with and,
more impressively, actually started a [Free Culture Gaming][2] club!
Every week Free Culture Gaming will get together to play free games
online with other free culture aficionados. All of the games we play
will be 100% free software and free content, as per our [standards][3].

When I asked Conley Owens, Free Culture VT founder, why he thought FC
Gaming is important, he responded:

> Because it's FOSS and it's gaming… what could be cooler?

>

> Because gaming drives computing. It's the reason why graphics cards
are so great and cheap, because of gamers. And if gaming can drive
hardware, it can drive software. Right now I have tons of computer
scientist friends who only use Windows because they can't play their
favorite games on GNU/Linux. If free games were more prevalent, perhaps
they would switch. If you get the software development (and game
development) community switching to a free platform, they will in turn
help switch the world to freedom.

>

> Play free games, free the world!

Hopefully that is enough motivation to join FC Gaming :)

Free Culture Gaming will be holding its first game night [this Saturday
August 2nd at 8pm EDT][4] (tomorrow night), and we hope you will join
us. For this game night, we will be playing [The Battle for Wesnoth][5],
an excellent turn-based strategy game. Sadly the Wesnoth web server is
currently down, but I think we should give them support anyway during
this trying time for them. You can still download the game from [the
Wesnoth SourceForge project][6] for Windows, Mac and Linux, and you can
still play multiplayer games if you go to Multiplayer->Connect to Server
and choose the 2nd (or 3rd) option instead of the official server.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please use version 1.4.4 of Battle for Wesnoth, or at
least another version from the 1.4 series. Older or newer versions will
not work well or at all.

Meet us in the Free Culture Gaming IRC channel at #fcgame on
irc.freenode.net to coordinate with us ([go here for details][7]), or
just join the 2nd alternative Wesnoth server and find us there. Hope to
see you then!

   [1]: http://vt.freeculture.org/

   [2]: http://game.freeculture.org/

   [3]: http://game.freeculture.org/standards/

   [4]: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day
=2&year=2008&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=263

   [5]: http://libregamewiki.org/Wesnoth (Wesnoth)

   [6]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/

   [7]: http://game.freeculture.org/irc/ (IRC)

URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/08/01/free-culture-gaming-1st-game-night-saturday-8pm-edt/
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