[Kde-games-devel] Open Source Go server and software

[Ian Wadham]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 01:24 am, Paul Broadbent wrote:
> But there is also the NNGS ( http://nngs.sourceforge.net/ ),
> which is open source and looks to be the kind of thing you are looking
> for, but I don't know much about it. I'm not even sure if there are
> many NNGS servers running or if they have just made the software for
> an open source server. Is that the languishing project you mentioned?
>
It is indeed.  Quotes from the guy who organised our Go BOF but had to
cancel attending our conference at the last minute, more's the pity:

"(NNGS) first release in sixteen months turned up in February last year.
I am not aware of any major Go community that uses it ..."

"There's rather a lot of wishful discourse on Sensei's Library about freeing
the infrastructure, but that conversation could really use a hefty infusion
of experienced FOSS hackers."

> Do you know what's gone wrong?
>
> If there is something that needs doing I'd be very interested in
> helping out, but my time is quite limited so I'm not sure how much I'd
> be able to do.
>
It's time I got back to my guy to find out more.

Cheers, Ian W.