[game_preservation] Improving the IGDA Preservation SIG Blog/News area

[Henry Lowood]

If the drupal installation has a plain-text editor that allows full use 
of html, then you can use the RSS feed, I think.  Henry

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Okay, great :)

>

> I've no idea if we're allowed that RSS functionality on the new site, 

> I'll look into it - it was going to be more a weekly news item, doing 

> it per item can mean a dozen or more at once I guess. This is more 

> something I'll get going once the new site is available though, since 

> I can then start embedding images and stuff.

>

> Andrew

>

> Henry Lowood wrote:

>> That seems reasonable, Andrew.  The "possibly" categories are truly 

>> optional.  BTW you can use RSS from Internet Archive to post directly 

>> to drupal sites; no need for human intervention if you want to post 

>> items received.  However, I would use a separate page for that feed, 

>> otherwise it will push other posts down.

>>

>> Henry

>>

>> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>> Hey all,

>>>

>>> I've cut back from posting historical articles on the IGDA 

>>> Preservation SIG Blog - which will get transferred over to the new 

>>> site BTW (they can import things :) ). This is from what I said in 

>>> the April roundup:

>>>

>>> The format of the news will likely change in the future. Without 

>>> help I am falling behind on the actual useful stuff to report on for 

>>> preservationists, historians and the like (no one emails me any 

>>> news, luckily I guess!). I'll probably post useful news immediately, 

>>> on techniques, events (both ones you attend, and big events like 

>>> something shutting down!), preservation/history projects and SIG 

>>> items. I will be working on the Bibliography project for more or 

>>> less interesting historical or game history articles, where I will 

>>> likely point a feed from for more regular "Updates of articles 

>>> related to game preservation and history that you might be 

>>> interested in reading", whew!

>>>

>>> Lots of exclamation marks, eh? I don't exactly have anyone editing 

>>> my work :) What I will be doing in the future:

>>>

>>> * Post all SIG related news, changes, project information

>>> * Post all memorials, in separate entries

>>> * Post important information regarding things that impact 

>>> preservation - such as laws, major events (such as things shutting 

>>> down, major donations to archives, museums opening, etc)

>>> * Post all preservation-related events (such as DiGRA), and maybe 

>>> retro computer/game events

>>>

>>> Possibly:

>>>

>>> * Post in-depth articles on special videogame preservation related 

>>> topics, which are also mirrored on our wiki or other sites (such as 

>>> some of the items we have as projects to get information about)

>>> * Do interviews with historians, developers, or related people to 

>>> the topic of game preservation

>>> * Roundup what has been added to the Internet Archive

>>>

>>> So, does everyone agree with what I'm doing? Is this better or worse 

>>> then before? Does anyone want to help or provide some tips? We are 

>>> on the lookout for more contributors for this, at least being 

>>> available for an interview perhaps :)

>>>

>>> I'll bring up the GDC-brought-up projects next week, a topic each so 

>>> we can get those discussed a bit. The bibliography is still 

>>> something I want to get done - I think there are different sites for 

>>> papers specifically (as we've checked out), but a good resource 

>>> listing videogame related topics as they come up will be good (for 

>>> instance, every GDC seems to bring up a few key topics that get 

>>> discussed by various people - this year, IGDA's QoL issues, 

>>> "Immature Game Developers", and Metacritic being bigger ones).

>>>

>>> Thanks,

>>>

>>> Andrew

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