[game_preservation] Our Membership

[Andrew Armstrong]

I forgot to add, those identifiers are a bit board. "Game historians" 
include, of course, Mobygame contributors, book writers, people running 
websites, and even possibly historical game blogs (who produce more news 
then olds, ho ho ho)

I'll probably get on with contacting different groups and outreaching - 
while doing so I'll ask them what they'd want from a gathering of such 
dedicated people. I realise this is the IG*D*A, and these won't be all 
developers, so we'll have to get on getting more developers involved at 
some point, at least contributing their history :)

Andrew

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Yep, you are one of those few, certainly to cover multiple groups. Any 

> thoughts on what more people like you (DB contributors, collectors, 

> emulators :) ) would get out of the SIG, or why they might join? If 

> there is any point in joining that is...

>

> I personally don't have a clue, since I basically currently only fall 

> into the historians, and partially into the archivists categories, and 

> most of my work on projects is to improve information about these 

> areas :)

>

> Andrew

>

> Mike Melanson wrote:

>> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>> 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 think I fall into the first 3 categories you listed. I'm sort of an 

>> eccentric game collector as I love to focus on obscure stuff that no 

>> one else could possibly care about. I'm a game historian as evidenced 

>> by my contributions to MobyGames.com. And I'm intensely interested in 

>> emulation as well, primarily from a technical perspective. In fact, I 

>> used to maintain an NES emulator (tuxnes.sf.net).

>>

>> Just so you know where I'm coming from.

>>

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