[game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009
Henry Lowood
lowood at stanford.edu
Tue Feb 10 01:10:13 EST 2009
Hi Devin,
Dinner will be tough for me, as I already have three scheduled!
However, lunch is free any day except Monday.
Henry
Devin Monnens wrote:
> Is it possible to have an IGDA Preservation SIG dinner? I mean,
> different SIGs and chapters do this, why not schedule one the night
> after the roundtable?
>
> BTW, if anyone is going and doesn't have a hotel yet, let me know. I
> know someone who might be able to share a hotel room (if I'm going,
> I'll be staying with him, but if we can split it three ways it's even
> cheaper - only a half mile from the convention center, too).
>
> -Devin
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stuart Feldhamer
> <stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.feldhamer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Or you could do what I did last year, just go to the IGDA party J
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
> <mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>
> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
> <mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>] *On Behalf Of *Billy
> Cain
>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2009 4:20 PM
> *To:* 'IGDA Game Preservation SIG'
> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
> <mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>
> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
> <mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>] *On Behalf Of *Andrew
> Armstrong
> *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2009 1:20 PM
> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG
> *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
>
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