[game_preservation] DiGRA panel further information

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

If the writing of a full paper can wait til June (since the conference is  
in Sept), I'd be happy to co-author with someone. It's a pretty crazy  
semester, though, so I'm not much use before then.

Cheers,
Rach

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

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:06:42 -0500, Andrew Armstrong  
<andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:


> First thing to note is the deadline, a very fast approaching Friday 6  

> March 5pm GMT!

>

> For paper one, well, it's difficult - while there are academics on here,  

> there are not, I'm led to believe, a lot (or a lot of active ones who  

> read this list at least). You might need to solicit views or a writer  

> from outside the SIG when it comes down to it, just to be honest :) (I  

> can't write it myself, I'm not an academic and it'd take a fair bit of  

> research on my part to get ideas together for the paper since I don't  

> work in a University, as such :) ).

>

> One other quick suggestion, since I'm not good on the paper writing  

> front (although I'll chip in after discussions have started here :) )  

> would, in a pinch, the SIG's white paper on the importance of videogame  

> preservation be suitable to fill a slot? I'm sure we could get it edited  

> by March.

>

> Looks good though, if I can help (and as a last resort I can help write  

> a paper or I can review some), please keep me in mind.

>

> Also, can you explain to someone who hasn't been what the format of past  

> events has been? I presume doing an hour-ish presentation on your paper?  

> or what? discussions? panels? I'm not too straight on that :) it'd be  

> nice to know before I go to it.

>

> Andrew