Let me get one thing straight. I’m nothing really special, nothing too admirable. As much as my starting of Libervis.com and Libervis Network can be attributed to ambition and enthusiasm for something it may be attributed to laziness and desire to avoid a harsher and less fulfilling, less enjoyable, way of life. Yes, in a way, starting Libervis.com was about taking the easy road.. and it somehow always ends up being portrayed as the high road.

I gotta give it to people who work eight hours a day five days of the week, living the routine. They are at least disciplined and they usually have a way better social and love life than I do. What’s there to miss? Ah right, the independence, the freedom of pursuit. Indeed, but obviously such things come with a price, and I think I already started paying mine.

But on to the issue at hand.. how hard is it to be the news? This is something that I have, thanks to discussions I’ve had with my friend Taco (tbuitenh) realized to be perhaps the fundamental principle behind something like Libervis Network, something that promotes freedom and participatory culture. What else is it to be free and involved than to be the news yourself rather than just its consumer, to be the one who makes waves instead of merely riding them.

Regardless of this fundamental idea having so much in common with what we promote on Libervis, most of the time we simply discuss what’s going on, sharing our thoughts and helping each other formulate opinions, or helping each other just run software that is based on this freedom that we promote. In other news we aren’t “the news” very often.

And there comes the latest project on Nuxified.org, this Freedomware Gamefest 2007. It is actually something that is making news, something that we can submit to the news publications as real *news*, not just a commentary, a review or a tutorial. And it really started to feel like that in the last couple of days. I’ve actually been asked to notify of new press releases. That doesn’t happen often. :D

However, at the same time I feel slightly insecure. Perhaps, I’m thinking, I underestimated the size of this project, the requirements of experience with the gaming world and organization of tournaments etc. I find myself, at the same time, struggling with the ongoing lack of motivation (a chronic problem, on some level), an incomplete social life (which may be part of the cause of the former) AND the organization of an event of the kind I never done before… Does anyone still think I’m the right person for the job? :D

Time will show, but in any case, I’m just a guy trying to keep himself together (actually just find ways to improve things on a personal level), and incidentally a little network of sites and organization of a sort of ambitious project that might become an annual event. Woohoo. What a ride. :P

Being the news, it’s sometimes a thrill, but it’s a challenge too.

“Thank you very much Mr. Obvious.”