[game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

[Billy Cain]

Not to say that this is inexpensive, but you don't have to buy a big pass to
be effective. You can get an expo only pass that will let you network just
as much as you need to.

 

All other charges apply (air, hotel, food, taxi, etc.), but it's been my
experience that there are people that would split hotel rooms to save. I've
done that for the past few years. 

 

So, those are my two money-saving tips. J

 

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[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

 

Just to mention, GDC is very developer orientated. It's not academic in most
respects, and as I've noted, a percentage nearing 0 is based on history and
preservation (this year it'll likely only be our roundtable, give or take
maybe an unannounced panel or presentation by some older figure in history
like last year).

There isn't such thing as covering travel costs from anyone I'm afraid :(
You'll have to get a ticket and cover your own costs, sadly. Certainly there
is no IGDA money (I'm funding my own travel, hotel, and costs over there :)
). Speakers get a pass to enter free, but no other costs considered.

There's no absolute need to come - it would be nice, but it is short notice
(the late sign up date is VERY soon!) and may be money wasted if you can't
get much out of the event. I think Henry was more asking if anyone was
already planning on going or was planning now the project was announced :)

I'd love to see someone there representing it, but balance the money it'd
cost if you haven't considered it yet.

Andrew

Andreas Lange wrote: 

Dear Henry, 
indeed this a good idea. The schedule is a little bit tight but if it makes
sense it should be considered seriously. How would it be possible to make it
happen?  I guess that KEEP could be introduced within the roundtable meeting
of the SIC, which you chair. Is there a budget from the GDC site for
covering e.g. travel costs? 
After the kick-off meeting at Thursday/ Friday we will see clearer, what
travel efforts we must expect during KEEP. Being also partly responsible for
dissemination of KEEP, I can yield your suggestion in the discussion. The
Pro seems to me that it is good in principle, to inform potential players so
early as possible, to be able to include their suggestions in the project as
early as possible. The Con might be, that it is just to early for us and it
might make more sense to participate at GDC next year, when we know more and
maybe have a more concrete approach to the industry. 
@ Dan: What do you think? 
Andreas 


Henry Lowood schrieb: 



Dan, 

do you think anyone from KEEP will be attending GDC this year? 

Henry 

Dan Pinchbeck wrote: 



Hi everyone, 

Andreas has already let you all know about the KEEP project - I'm part of
the UK team working on the project, focusing on metadata standards and
front-end. 

One of the things we've talked about is how to launch the project within the
games research community and there may be a really good opportunity for both
this, and highlighting preservation work, coming up this year. The DiGRA
conference is being hosted by Brunel University in London in September, and
the call for papers, panels, etc is currently up. I think it would be a
really prescient idea to suggest a preservation panel for the conference.
We'd look for 3 -4 presentations within this, one of which would be KEEP and
the state of emulation in relation to games. It would be great to also have
another of these being directly about the work of the SIG and it's key
members, leaving two papers open for whatever the SIG thinks is most
appropriate. It would also be a great opportunity to get together those of
us who can't make GDC and to look at how we can draw in the research
community as a whole into this part of the field. 
To put it in context, there wasn't a panel like this at the 2007 conference,
and only a single paper dealing with preservation at all at the 2005
conference, so it's long overdue. 

Any thoughts would be very welcomed. I'm happy to put together a draft
proposal and circulate it to the SIG to formalise things. The deadline for
proposal is 6th March 

All the best, 
Dan 

Dan Pinchbeck 
Advanced Games Research Group 
School of Creative Technologies 
University of Portsmouth, UK 

www.thechineseroom.co.uk 

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