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The parties are now not only self-sustaining, thanks to a $15 fee, but they have some money left over. It's just a little something different from sitting at home playing alone-even if you're never really playing alone. And that itself proves community is important. Even people who don't play tournament games come to play World of Warcraft sitting next to someone else. West said that the parties have grown in six years from one floor in a dorm to upwards of 70 people coming from all over the state. Check your power, and check your networking and cables. It sounds funny right now because you're not the one it's happening to. Remember to check the network before you're in the middle of an intense fight and everything goes down. West also mentioned that while venue isn't a big deal, other than having enough room, the available power is.

You can even try setting up a party through your LUG or at a friend's house over the weekend. Think locally-you don't need a fancy $3,000 server to get it off the ground. There people walk around and see for themselves that you're gaming on Linux.

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Then the step beyond your own PC is going public-go to a LAN party. You have the opportunity to help them get started. Because although you know you can (well, perhaps now you do having read this post), a lot of other people don't know that they can. When you're in a game, talking on the server, in between calling someone n00b and shooting somebody else, you can bring up that you're playing on Linux.

Her main point is that the outreach starts with you, the gamer. West's talk described how gamers, specifically Linux gamers, can give back to the Linux community first by appealing to those who don't know that gaming on Linux is an option. And every game system and game company has its own network. Even games that seem on the face like single-player games often have an option to play online. Video Games?' It makes perfect sense here-modern video games are largely community-based, just like open source. Blizzard definitely thinks so-they don't even support LAN gaming in Starcraft II.Д«ut it does still exist, and Kelly West of gave a talk titled 'Reaching Out With. I really thought they'd gone the way of the dodo as online gaming became easier and more popular. Maybe I'm just hanging around the wrong crowds these days, but that was the first LAN party I'd seen in years. When I got closer, they were clearly gaming. This morning when I walked down the conference hallway, I saw two tables of machines set up. People are still having LAN parties, even the Internet-disconnected kind. But these are the two relevant to this post:ДЎ.

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OK, let's hope that in a full day of Ohio LinuxFest, I learned more than two things.