[game_preservation] Our Membership

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey all,

 From Devin's post, I meant to get around to discussing at some point if 
it would be worth looking at how to get different members - I'm not sure 
what our current breakdown is, actually, which makes it hard to see who 
we've already attracted, and for what reasons!

In any case, should we look to getting other interested people involved? 
And why would we want to? (If we even do...). One thing is that there is 
no international group dedicated to videogame (or in fact, computer) 
preservation, we could try and fill that gap.

There are, as far as I'm aware, few people from these groups:
- Game collectors, enthusiasts
- Game emulator creators
- Game historians
- Game history press
- Librarians, other general archivists

(I'd say we do have game preservationists, archivists, and some 
historians/developers on here :) ).

We're relegated, not necessarily in a bad way, to a small niche of 
computer history. I doubt general computer historians are that 
interested in joining for that reason.

So, anyone think expanding membership to these groups would be a good 
idea? Any opinions?

I'll be starting to gather information on the areas of preservation - 
emulation, collectors, museums, and also seeing if people are interested 
in joining the SIG, but I'd not want to start inviting people if they're 
not welcome, or if in fact we'll have nothing to do with them.

Thanks,

Andrew