Development by Davis: “Creating better art for open source games” plus 3 more

Creating better art for open source games
Using open source for disaster response planning
AMD Invests in CiiNOW to Usher in Next Era of Cloud-Based Gaming
POSSE 2012: Where true open source project problems and solutions arise

Creating better art for open source games

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT

For those of you that missed it, the Liberated Pixel Cup is a gaming contest where the goal is to make free software art and free software games that use said art. It was sponsored this past June and July by Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, Open Game Art, Mozilla, and many individuals.

While we're still waiting on the actual results and winners of the contest, this two-part article will take a comprehensive look at the assets produced (Part I) and the games developed (Part II).

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Using open source for disaster response planning

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Peak hurricane season is always a reminder that natural disasters are never easy to handle. If there's anything we can take away from them it's that planning and preparedness can save the lives of those risk. The World Bank and OpenGeo find themselves at the unique cross section of disaster management and enabling technology. OpenGeo's software is built to share information on on the web, which is a critical component of any disaster management plan. Various implementations of our software have been used to facilitate strategic disaster management planning.

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AMD Invests in CiiNOW to Usher in Next Era of Cloud-Based Gaming

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an investment in CiiNOW, a provider of cloud gaming technology that enables game publishers, retailers and carriers to tap into the growing video game market expected to reach $81 billion by 2016¹. AMD, through

POSSE 2012: Where true open source project problems and solutions arise

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT

POSSE (Professors Open Source Summer Experience) is a week long introduction to the FOSS community and its tools, development and instruction that has been offered and sponsored by Red Hat since 2009. Over 70 participants (mostly faculty, but with a few staff and grad students at some iterations) have attended sessions in the U.S., Qatar, South Africa and Singapore.