In December 2007 Nuxified.org, TheTuxProject and Cluenet.org organized Freedomware Gamefest, an ambitious set of events involving multiple tournaments of multiple Free Open Source Games, dubbed "Freedomware" running in parallel with participants from all over the world. We acquired sponsorship agreements from Zareason computer store and TheLinuxStore.ca, and gathered donations of $400 for prizes.
We tried to do what hasn't quite been done before, certainly not in the realm of Freedomware games, which was difficult enough, but the concept was also to some extent flawed. Yet despite all of this it did happen, many matches were played, around 45 game demos recorded, and $400 of prizes handed out.
The main problems were in trying to put people from multiple continents into same matches (lag issues), overly loose scheduling of matches and the lack of focus that came from trying to run tournaments from multiple differing games at the same time. This ended up with almost perpetual postponing of certain matches to the point where the tournament was over in the middle of 2008, months after it should have ended.
This site was the primary information center for the gamefest. It currently serves as an archive to what happened and also hosts demo files of the matches that were played. In the future the site may be revamped and the best of the demos recorded into videos for easy watching.
It is also possible that there will be another gamefest, but a much simpler one, focusing on a single area and a single game at a time and learning from the mistakes of the last one. Ideally, however, we would still like to differentiate it in some manner from classical tournaments usually held by specific game communities.
If and when will such a thing be organized is at this point unknown.
