Summary

Explore a light sponsorship tier by providing one-week hosting of Minecraft game servers by SpigotMC, an open source Java project

Background

Minecraft is a popular video game. Even if we in Fedora might prefer to play Minetest, it is likely that some Fedora contributors have kids or share a household with someone who has a Minecraft account. To encourage a casual gaming experience for Nest to Fedora, SpigotMC could host the servers if Fedora provides moderation and management for the week.

I like this idea for these reasons:

1. It provides a casual way for Fedora contributors to collaborate and work together on things other than Free Software
2. It allows us to invite families and folks who share a home with a Fedora contributor to participate in the conference (and maybe provide more "local community incentive" to participate in Flock :smile: )

Ideally this costs Fedora a logo sponsorship on flocktofedora.org and some volunteers to run a game server for a few days. It would be nice to feature SpigotMC on the Flock website as a service or open source sponsor. My bias is that I am a former staff member of the project. I can help facilitate this engagement if there is a pathway for this kind of sponsorship in Flock 2020.

Details

I need a green-light from a Flock 2020 organizing committee or the Fedora Council to pursue this sponsorship.

I can connect folks from SpigotMC to the Council to work out any formal details or paperwork, if needed (not sure what this process is like normally). This is not a financial sponsorship, but a donation of services for the week of the virtual Fedora conference.

From there, we can work out logistics on organizing volunteers to help with this. I can start in the Fedora Community if anyone is interested in helping. Otherwise I could ask around in the SpigotMC Community if any folks there would like to help volunteer with this. But I want to green-light this sponsorship before working on volunteer outreach.

Outcome

• SpigotMC gets great recognition and acknowledgement in Flock sponsorship materials
• Fedora contributors have a fun and informal way to play and work together on building blocks instead of packages (or blog posts, or IRC meetings, etc.)