[game_preservation] GDC Report Coming Soon + FileFront shutting down

[Andrew Armstrong]

I've got some notes to write up from GDC for the SIG, as well as a 
report I'll write on the status of the "State of preservation". This 
will be done next week, I'm still not back home yet :)

Feel free, anyone who wasn't able to attend GDC or who has and wants to 
comment, to bring up items to talk about here - I'll try and summarise 
my notes, but questions on "Did you discuss XXX" or "Can I suggest 
project YYY" or "Can I help since I joined the SIG from seeing your 
leaflet" or even just "Hi I'm new" are all welcome.

The main thing I want to bring to people's attention just now is there 
is some behind the scenes effort by Simon Carless, Jason Scott and 
including a few others to try and somehow get the 48 Terabytes of files 
off FileFront - check this page for the sad news that it is closing 
tomorrow! http://farewell.filefront.com/

Hopefully someone will be able to get the files in some form so they can 
be uploaded to the Internet Archive. If anyone has a contact at 
FileFront it would be worth ringing them now and seeing perhaps if the 
files can be secured somehow (or ring up/contact Jason Scott to help his 
efforts).

Andrew