[game_preservation] FDG2009

[Rachel Donahue]

Anyone from the sig attending? I don't know a soul and it would be
lovely to meet up if you are!

On 2/6/09, Rachel Donahue <donahrm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew --

> If my survey generates any "yes I'm interested in follow up questions"

> responses, I'd be happy to conduct an oral history with them. Given my

> piddling grad student budget it will probably have to be by phone, but I

> can

> see if anyone would be willing to have the interview recorded and podcast.

>

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Armstrong

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:

>

>>  I left this open but no one has replied. Another bump, we do have some

>> new

>> members.

>>

>> This project is, really, a bit too practical for the SIG to do "by

>> volunteer work" as all SIG's operate (with most of our work going on

>> online). With no money, and no one seeking out sponsorship, donations, or

>> funding, we don't have any equipment (nevermind manpower and transport)

>> to

>> do this actively, even though it is an excellent idea, and we'd likely be

>> able to find interested developers to participate.

>>

>> So, perhaps it can help by cataloguing other efforts in the area,

>> preserving them on the Internet Archive, and helping logistically and

>> with

>> advertising the service. If anyone also did want to do histories through

>> us

>> somehow, having the final result freely available online or in an archive

>> would be invaluable. This is tough to setup without people who are in

>> industry available to be "on call" or to sign up, and without people who

>> want to do the recordings in the first place! It's a lot of work on both

>> sides (finding time for both, and possibly major travelling, preparing

>> and

>> researching, equipment, post-production...)

>>

>> Therefore, this project is going no where with no active interest. I

>> personally can put forward weekend time and possibly take days off to

>> record

>> things, but since I have no videocamera I can't help directly. I would

>> like

>> to investigate setting up a signup form for both sides - the interviewers

>> and interviewees so we can get a good list of people (and their location,

>> what they did) to do interviews with, and who to send, and get people

>> talking this way. There is a possibility that this is better done

>> informally, however, or maybe through the new IGDA site which is mainly

>> forum based (with mailing lists possible, just really being forum posts

>> being sent to accounts, with replies being allowed), and thus developers

>> would easily be able to get involved with the SIG and discuss it on

>> forums

>> or via. PM's/email.

>>

>> There was some possible interest from Dean O'Donnell from WPI, who is

>> running an oral histories project with student help. Other then this I

>> know

>> of no proper active oral histories project, save Jason Scott's GET LAMP

>> documentary, which is basically edited oral histories (which I hope he

>> puts

>> online in full :) ).

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>

>> This is coming on from our previous discussion over spring cleaning the

>> SIG.

>>

>> *Oral Histories*

>> Status: *On Hold*

>> Currently lead by: *No one. *

>> Short description: *Interviews with industry people related to their past

>> works. Brought up at GDC 2008, but currently has no assigned project

>> lead.

>> *

>>

>> Concerns raised previously:

>> - Aims of the histories, contents, etc.

>> - What to ask (I brought this up before)

>> - Who can do them

>>

>> Someone to work on this or start organising a team of people would be

>> good.

>> Logistically this is the hardest project to manage, and technically we

>> have

>> no resources to fund it at all, meaning it requires heavy volunteer work.

>>

>> People suggesting information, examples of existing histories done, ways

>> to

>> get this going, and so forth are welcome. Basically bring whatever you

>> like

>> to the table, it's an open discussion.

>>

>> Andrew

>>

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 Rachel Donahue
 Graduate Assistant
 Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
 University of Maryland, College Park
 College Park, MD