Spring RTS Engine

I'm going to present two talks in FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels.
The first one is about the process of preparing for Zero-K's release on Steam and how it affected the entire ecosystem.
The second one is about open source game projects in general and why some succeed in bringing contributors while others disappear.

If you're around Brussels between 31/01 and 02/02, feel free to come listen, say hi and/or meet up over beer.

They are being recorded right? Can't wait to watch! <3

They are...

Wish i could be there.
Can we support your talk in any other way?

food for thought (or for talk):

- "some succeed in bringing contributors while others disappear". What is "success"? How much does it really correlate with number of contributors? Projects may have few users and lots of contributors or with few contributors and lots of users, or few of both, and each kind may or may not disappear over time regardless.

- standards, shared tools, ecossystem convergence / divergence

- managing contributors, consistency of goals ("herding" contributors)

- managing the broad community ("herding" users)

- project ownership, money/resource issues

- timing, context issues


(I don't claim to know much about any of these, just that they're potentially interesting topics)

We where promised video, hoko, live and in colour. Free tomatoes, and eggs. All you can throw!

For those who haven't seen the live stream, videos will be uploaded somewhen in the future.

It was great meeting you guys @hokomoko and @malric
Not been active in the community but Spring is still something I will drive a few hours for.

So the first talk I messed up a bit, finished early and forgot a bunch of things I wanted to say.
The second, however, I think is much nicer, and while you probably know most things there, you might enjoy it.

Thanks malric & Tim for coming!

Really good talk, especially the one thing about dev burn out.
I guess if you work towards the real, the final goal of ultimate archievement, you can overdo it.
Thanks hoko for telling it like it is/was and allways will be.

I've only seen the second one so far but I enjoyed it a lot. You did a great job!

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/events/

They ve uploaded all the other talks too.

Hoko, did you catch the 0AD one? Our closest frenemies!
https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ ... _pipeline/

Saw both videos, liked them a lot. Good insides.
Thanks for sharing.

Nice videos!