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

[Andrew Armstrong]

Okay, great :)

I've no idea if we're allowed that RSS functionality on the new site, 
I'll look into it - it was going to be more a weekly news item, doing it 
per item can mean a dozen or more at once I guess. This is more 
something I'll get going once the new site is available though, since I 
can then start embedding images and stuff.

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> 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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