well... I'm not sure what pulled me to the site...
I had just installed Ubuntu on my laptop, then I put the Enlightenment (e17) desktop on it.
it was too cool for school. but it needed some games. so I searched.
I have always loved RTS, such as: Warcraft, Age of Empires, Battle Realms, C&C Generals, Star Wars - Galactic BattleGrounds, and Empire at War.
so I browsed the web for open source RTS games.
I found Glest. at first I thought it was ...eh... but the more I played the more I loved it.
So I guess I really found out about Glest on the Wikipedia directory of Open Source games.