Indie game dev fund

Cool.  Seeing as they expect a return on investment, the financial aspect of it is almost certainly not applicable to a non-profit organization.  They may still be willing to donate some sage advice, which is actually what I need more than money.

Nokia, Intel and Qt

Intel and Nokia are teaming up to create a new mobile Linux platform called MeeGo, which is some kind of mutant offspring from Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin.  Anyway, it sounds cool because it will be developed with the Linux community, not behind closed doors like Android.  Since the Qt toolkit is now a Nokia product--available under GPL, LGPL or commercial license--and includes support for mobile platforms, it seems a likely candidate for their new mobile devices.  Qt also runs on Symbian, another mobile OS, which also happens to have been recently bought and open-sourced by Nokia.  Hmmm.  So although I don't like the idea of locking in to one company's product, the Qt toolkit sounds like it's going to be the toolkit for multi-platform (including mobile) development.  Soon, if not already, it will support touch-screens too.  Makes me wonder whether I should be developing in straight OpenGL or instead through Qt.

#!/bin/brain

I'd forgotten how fun it is to come up with catchy names.  Now that I have one for the blog and the first post, we can get started.  As I have written in the description, this is somewhere to blog about technology, pedagogy and freedom.  It's my grand vision to create free educational computer games, and sometimes the details of that vision get blurry or go missing, so a blog would be a nice place to keep it all together.