[game_preservation] Game Preservation on Facebook and LinkedIn

[Andrew Armstrong]

Jason doesn't work for the IGDA anymore, so I don't know if that address 
even works now - it might be worth checking with Joe Sapp though - 
joda at igda.org, although I doubt there'd any problems with it in any case 
- I see IGDA groups in those places already.

If Henry is happy with it, sure we can create some groups. I am not sure 
who'd want to administrate them though - Melanie perhaps, since she runs 
the mailing list?

Active promotion is a good idea. Until the new site is put in place, my 
PR efforts are basically going to be near nil, I've been pretty lax to 
be honest promoting the white paper, we should get some projects going 
to get people involved though (I'm still going to post on them next 
week), and a new site would allow me to post up better pages of 
information, pictures in news posts (finally), and other things like 
creating forums for each project (which can be kept private), and other 
things.

One thing I do not really want to do is have Facebook or LinkedIn in any 
way be a form of communication for the group - I don't want the workload 
of cross-location discussion, which is why I've abandoned the IGDA 
forums for now, and I doubt I'd actively cross-post news. People who 
want to be active members need to really be in one place, so getting 
communication between groups is better done in one location - the IGDA 
location :) Since it costs nothing to get a free account, there is no 
reason to not do so.

I actually want to investigate extending our "membership" to other 
people, I'll post a quick new thread on this.

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> I'm proposing we create an IGDA Game Preservation SIG group on both 

> Facebook and LinkedIn. I don't know what the official IGDA policy is 

> towards this stuff, so I'm CC'ing Jason a copy (sorry for the 

> alternate e-mail, Jason). This can be a first step towards an official 

> game preservation network to connect people all over the world who are 

> interested in game preservation. This might be much more effective 

> than hiding in the Wiki because these sites get much more traffic. We 

> should actively promote this group in order to inform game 

> preservationists and digital preservationists out there about our 

> work. It should ultimately be our (ambitious) goal to have connections 

> through these groups from each library and archive in the world. Or 

> close to it.

>

> Currently, the Video Arcade Preservation Society has a Facebook group. 

> There are also fan groups dedicated to a particular game (such as the 

> Aliens Versus Predator Preservation group). I haven't figured out what 

> their point is. I've yet to dig through LinkedIn to see if there are 

> other game preservation groups on there.

>

> -Devin Monnens

>

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