[game_preservation] Improving the IGDA Preservation SIG Blog/News area

[Henry Lowood]

That seems reasonable, Andrew.  The "possibly" categories are truly 
optional.  BTW you can use RSS from Internet Archive to post directly to 
drupal sites; no need for human intervention if you want to post items 
received.  However, I would use a separate page for that feed, otherwise 
it will push other posts down.

Henry

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Hey all,

>

> I've cut back from posting historical articles on the IGDA 

> Preservation SIG Blog - which will get transferred over to the new 

> site BTW (they can import things :) ). This is from what I said in the 

> April roundup:

>

> The format of the news will likely change in the future. Without help 

> I am falling behind on the actual useful stuff to report on for 

> preservationists, historians and the like (no one emails me any news, 

> luckily I guess!). I'll probably post useful news immediately, on 

> techniques, events (both ones you attend, and big events like 

> something shutting down!), preservation/history projects and SIG 

> items. I will be working on the Bibliography project for more or less 

> interesting historical or game history articles, where I will likely 

> point a feed from for more regular "Updates of articles related to 

> game preservation and history that you might be interested in 

> reading", whew!

>

> Lots of exclamation marks, eh? I don't exactly have anyone editing my 

> work :) What I will be doing in the future:

>

> * Post all SIG related news, changes, project information

> * Post all memorials, in separate entries

> * Post important information regarding things that impact preservation 

> - such as laws, major events (such as things shutting down, major 

> donations to archives, museums opening, etc)

> * Post all preservation-related events (such as DiGRA), and maybe 

> retro computer/game events

>

> Possibly:

>

> * Post in-depth articles on special videogame preservation related 

> topics, which are also mirrored on our wiki or other sites (such as 

> some of the items we have as projects to get information about)

> * Do interviews with historians, developers, or related people to the 

> topic of game preservation

> * Roundup what has been added to the Internet Archive

>

> So, does everyone agree with what I'm doing? Is this better or worse 

> then before? Does anyone want to help or provide some tips? We are on 

> the lookout for more contributors for this, at least being available 

> for an interview perhaps :)

>

> I'll bring up the GDC-brought-up projects next week, a topic each so 

> we can get those discussed a bit. The bibliography is still something 

> I want to get done - I think there are different sites for papers 

> specifically (as we've checked out), but a good resource listing 

> videogame related topics as they come up will be good (for instance, 

> every GDC seems to bring up a few key topics that get discussed by 

> various people - this year, IGDA's QoL issues, "Immature Game 

> Developers", and Metacritic being bigger ones).

>

> Thanks,

>

> Andrew

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