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Popular cover boxes for 0 A.D. on eBay 0 A.D. is an epic free and open source real-time strategy game. Download 0 A.D. For Free Here Download for Mac OS X and Linux . You don't have to pay for 0 A.D. These downloads are completely legal. About this post As explained in a recent news post by the 0 A.D. team, You Do Not Need to Buy 0 A.D. on eBay . It would be ideal if the teams behind open source projects would have people working on selling the game in an ethical way that would support their work and the people working on the project. Ethical would for example mean that it would be clearly stated that the game can be downloaded for free, what kind of physical box to expect (if at all, I remember that SuperTuxKart would often be sold as a "digital download" product) and laying out the distribution of income transparently. This would turn the purchase into a donation (whether that is an acceptable word to describe it needs to be checked with eBay terms) and there are likel...

Matt Raykowski , aka sfb, is a community herder for the Ryzom Core project and Summer of Code mentor. Some people may not be familiar with Google's Summer of Code. Annually Google hosts two programs: Summer of Code and Code In. Google Code In (aka GCI) is a contest for 13-18 year olds to engage them in open source that features a variety of tasks and projects for them to complete for points. Google Summer of Code (aka SoC or GSoC) is a program to encourage college students to participate in open source development. It is a 3 month long project that pays USD$2500 per evaluation period - there is a mid-term and final evaluation. You can find a detailed timeline on their site and a complete list of organizations . The student application period begins on March 26th, 2012 and ends on April 6th, 2012. The actual programming portion of the project is between May 21st, 2012 and August 20th, 2012. In years past Google hasn't given a lot of love to open source games in its Summer of ...

Clipart! - Thanks Tranberry ! A survey was started to explore the potential of open source gaming business. It consists of 20 detailed questions about how you would fund games and what acts of commercialism you consider moral for free software. Time to fill it in ! Survey 'preview' The questionnaire has been created by Andrew Fenn, lead dev of Hardwar (a Hardwar remake ^^), who announced it in the FGD Forum and later, on his blog . The survey was inspired by a similar one by evit, which unfortunately was not well formulated and rather Linux-centered, than free software-centered. Another drawback of evit's survey is that the results were not published. Andrew's survey's results will be published on his blog (and will not contain any critical data like IP address of course). So as I said, take your time to participate . Also: support the survey through digg and fsdaily ! :)