[game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

[Andrew Armstrong]

A lunch would be good on any day apart from the one where the IGDA hold 
their GM, which I missed last year (and as a SIG member who aims to 
record the IGDA's history at some point, should probably go listen to).

Dinner would be good for most evenings, but I'm not sure, I will be 
meeting some people on some of them - so I can't say "yes" to a date, 
apart from Friday, which will be the AI dinner which I'll go to.

If anyone is in the SF area and can't make the conference, get to the 
IGDA party as Stuart said :) - although I'll pop to the an AI one in the 
evening at some point, the IGDA one was fun enough to talk at with my 
fellow scholars (not as fun for some of the industry people I've been 
told, but each to their own), so I'd like to go for the time of it (and 
I might be helping volunteer some of my time towards setting it up :) ).

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> 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

>>

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>>     Stuart

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>>     *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org

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>>     <mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>] *On Behalf Of *Billy

>>     Cain

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>>     *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2009 4:20 PM

>>     *To:* 'IGDA Game Preservation SIG'

>>     *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] KEEP project and DiGRA2009

>>

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>>     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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>>     *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

>>

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>>

>>     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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