Nachdem der Unknopwn Horizons Server in letzter Zeit immer wieder Probleme gezeigt hat, ist das Projekt wenigstens vorübergehend hier einquartiert worden.

Das heißt natürlich, dass dieser Server deutlich höhere Lasten bewältigen muss (Unknown Horizons hat ungefär so viele Besucher, wie die andere Ladung Domains hier). Sieht aber aktuell so aus, als ob wir das bewältigen können.

Um Unknown Horizons weiter zu verbreiten habe ich jetzt ein ohloh.net Projekt angelegt und gleich noch einen Account für mich angelegt.

Ohloh lobt dann auch gleich das Projekt für ein aktives, großes Entwicklerteam und gute Dokumentation, kann also gar nicht so schlecht sein.

Ganz überrascht bin ich auch, wie weit ich es mit meinen bisherigen Projekten bereits geschafft habe ...

TODO: Einträge über NM und Debconf

Open Game Art is a newly started site for exchanging free Artwork. While one can easily get the impression that there are loads of such sites around, Open Game Art is one of the very few that actually is done right.

As a Member of the Debian Games Team and the Unknown Horizons Project I was way too often in the need for good artwork searching around the web. I've also already reported once about my trouble.

There are quite some sites like Free Sounds around offering free artwork -- but only free as in beer as the saying goes, not as in speech which of course is really unhelpfull for FOSS projects. And even most of the sites that have free content often only tell you the license on some special pice of arts details page.

Open Game Art is quite different from that. All the license you may choose as a contributor are free (both in Debian and in FSF terms) and the license is available through a search filter so you can find stuff that fits you project's licensing policy. This list, and that's another thing I really like about that site, is the availability of choice among common licenses including, next to the copyleft class of licenses a fair share of more liberal licenses like my personal favourite, the zlib License.

And because such a site is just as good as it's amount and quality of data I've started sharing some recordings. I'm currently really new to audio recording so I guess it'll take some time for me to become really good. I'm considering putting some of my experiences and stuff I've learned here.

Looking around old files I have put online ages ago I stumbled upon a Unknown Horizons Code Swarm Video I have created back in September 2009. Feeling more than a bit sad this piece of software died soon after being released. Searching the web for "Code Swarm" still finds lots of old Videos created back then.