We are a community dedicated to playing and developing [libre games], that is videogames and board games with free/libre software and algorithms, and free/libre artistic assets (models, musics). We believe [software] and [culture] should be free as part of a global struggle for freedom and equality online and offline. We aim to become a meta-community that can bring closer smaller communities. We don't want to become a big central organization, but rather a network of organic initiatives scattered throughout cyberspace.
For example, we'd like to bring players alongside game developers and designers, as well as contributors to [libre games launchers] like [Athenaeum] and [GameHub]. We believe this approach can enrich and empower the entire libre gaming ecosystem.
We are just getting started. Feel free to contribute new ideas and feedback by [contacting us]. Check out [the preliminary notes] to our first meeting, as well as the [first] and [second] meeting's minutes.
- **Domain name:** following a [public poll], we went with `libregaming.org`, see also [previous name poll]
- **Privacy:** While we defend privacy online, our chatrooms are public spaces and may be logged accordingly
- **Moderation:** We defend free speech, which means we believe no government can tell you how to think/feel, but [doesn't mean you can engage in abusive behavior]; nazis, harassers, and other abusers are not welcome in our community
- **Color scheme:** We use <spanstyle="color: #FF8F23;">**Orange**</span> (#FF8F23) and <spanstyle="color: #4FBAD5">**Blue**</span> (#4FBAD5)
If you would like to take part in the community, please see [contacting us].
- A website with information about libre games (maybe cooperate with [LibreGameWiki]), and links to various related communities, as well as tutorials to selfhost your own libre game servers
- Tooling/scripts to make it easier to selfhost libre game servers
- Subdomains on libregaming.org for new projects to get started; only for libregaming projects, because we don't want external projects to technically depend on libregaming.org?
* object to Discord on principle of non-libre, centralised, compromising ideals, so shouldn't pro-actively bridge channels from here to there
* aware that some libre games have their official communities on Discord, and sadly they may not see anything wrong with that, e.g. strong network effects
* popularity isn't everything, it's ok to be a small cohesive community, but advertising libre stuff on non-libre platforms is ok for outreach
* not everyone agrees with the statements above :p
[Discussion (long) about Discord]: https://matrix.to/#/!qLhNfILESSCaasbRWB:freedombox.emorrp1.name/$pES_yrnhm4kjonxfnrPmqV2dv3CmAyWBH2eadKgZ4wM?via=freedombox.emorrp1.name&via=matrix.org&via=nordgedanken.dev