<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
It'd be a pleasure for you to take on the project if Henry agrees :)
You'd need to have an IGDA.org account to edit the wiki, which no doubt
would have the IGDA's information on how to get involved (for
developers) which you might need to sort.<br>
<br>
Hopefully there'll be other efforts in the future which the project can
keep up with - like Rachel's contributions, and other's. I doubt
there'd be any competition if anyone else wanted to "use the list" of
available developers - there's more developers then people working in
all the game history community :)<br>
<br>
I can check with someone at the IGDA about putting a call out in a
newsletter (which goes out monthly) or as a news piece, when the
appropriate time comes up to publicise it - you can obviously actually
write the details if we're able to do this :) Feel free to make edits
to the wiki, or suggest how you want it to work here first if you like
(I can do wiki editing as needed of course too, I do so for the other
projects).<br>
<br>
For hosting, I'd love a mirror of whatever files be made available on
the Internet Archive, we have collections for interviews, which these
would be awesome to add to. :) It'd be all credit to your team though,
and rights reserved as you'd like, of course. It mainly helps make it
available, which was one of the projects aims when initially thought
out.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
O'Donnell, Dean M wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:E439BFE543DA0F429E47C476F37FDD9A1545677A89@EXCHANGEMAIL.admin.wpi.edu"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Courier;
panose-1:2 7 4 9 2 2 5 2 4 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Courier;
panose-1:2 7 4 9 2 2 5 2 4 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Consolas;
panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
pre
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";
color:black;}
span.HTMLPreformattedChar
{mso-style-name:"HTML Preformatted Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted";
font-family:Consolas;
color:black;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
<div class="Section1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Sorry,
I subscribed and have been a bit inundated with other
things, so only noticed this when it popped up just now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Introduction:
I’m on the faculty at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute in the Interactive Media and Game Development
program. We’ve been working on an archive that focuses on New
England developers. My colleague David Finkel, and our archivist,
Rodney
Obien spearhead that project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The
Oral History Project: I work with oral histories.
Specifically, each year I train some students to collect and record
them.
I work with Jason Scott on this (he’s local to us), and he’s been
willing to host our raw footage while the students edit and compile by
person
and subject. The work has gone slowly mostly because I’m still
learning and I start with new students every year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Next
year we’ll have 6 or 7 oral histories collected,
which seems like enough to go “prime time” and set up a web
page. We’d welcome the backing of the IDGA and making it a joint
effort of the IDGA and WPI seems like a perfectly reasonable way
forward.
I have the students, the equipment, and the web hosting; the IDGA has
developers. We’ve been dealing with local developers and that can
continue for awhile (Boston has a pretty good community), with work on
how to
expand beyond our area as part of next year’s project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I
would be happy to head the this project for the IDGA as long
as the list doesn’t mind when every fall I call for volunteers or
introductions to developers to be interviewed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">____________________________________________</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dean
O’Donnell Associate Director,</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Interactive
Media and Game Development </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dept.
of Humanities and Arts WPI</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dodo@wpi.edu">dodo@wpi.edu</a></span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Phone:
508-831-5947</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Fax:
508-831-5932</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div
style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: windowtext;">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: windowtext;">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org">game_preservation-bounces@igda.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org">mailto:game_preservation-bounces@igda.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew
Armstrong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 06, 2009 2:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> IGDA Game Preservation SIG<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [game_preservation] Project Discussion: Oral
Histories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I left this open but no one has replied. Another
bump, we do
have some new members.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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...)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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
:) ).<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
Andrew Armstrong wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is coming on from our previous discussion
over spring
cleaning the SIG.<br>
<br>
<b>Oral Histories</b><br>
Status: <i>On Hold</i><br>
Currently lead by: <i>No one. </i><br>
Short description: <i>Interviews with industry people related to their
past
works. Brought up at GDC 2008, but currently has no assigned project
lead.</i><br>
<br>
Concerns raised previously:<br>
- Aims of the histories, contents, etc.<br>
- What to ask (I brought this up before)<br>
- Who can do them<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;">
<hr align="center" size="4" width="90%">
</pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>game_preservation mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:game_preservation@igda.org">game_preservation@igda.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation">http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
</div>
<pre wrap="">
<hr size="4" width="90%">
_______________________________________________
game_preservation mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:game_preservation@igda.org">game_preservation@igda.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation">http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>