[game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History MuseumKickstarter short on funds

[Andrew Perti]

There's no doubt in my mind that the VG History Museum will hit their 
$30,000 mark.  I wish them all the best and can't wait to see what comes 
from their kickstarter campaign!

I haven't been able to track down any of the members yet but I'm hoping 
they will be at PAX and able to join us for lunch.

The first annual face-to-face meeting of The Consortium of Interactive 
Media Preservation Logistics, or CIMPL, will be on Sunday, August 28th 
at 12:30 at the Cheesecake Factory a block or two away from PAX Prime.  
We will do lunch and an hour+ brainstorming session to discuss avenues 
for collaboration and universal best practices development for Museums, 
Libraries, Archives and private collectors.

Some of the areas to be discussed are storage environments, 
shelving/storage taxonomies, data migration/integrity, analog to digital 
capture, international nomenclature glossary development, artifact 
acquisition methods, money and much more!  We hope to have an alpha 
doctrine published within 6 months with a new revision published every 
subsequent 6 months.

Please consider joining us and invite others who may be interested.  
We'll be in the main lobby of the convention center at 12:00 with a 
CIMPL banner and will leave for lunch at 12:20.  I have about 10 people 
from various disciplines confirmed attending and the reservation is for 
20 people.  More than 20 are welcome though!  I'm sure they can fit us 
in.  The place is HUGE.

Website and incorporation are to follow shortly but unfortunately not in 
time for PAX.

See you there!

Andrew Perti
Founder | Seattle Interactive Media Museum
andrew.perti at thesimm.org | www.thesimm.org
Mobile: 518 653-5864


On 8/21/2011 12:13 PM, István Fábián wrote:

> This sounds like something we'd really need for SPS... funding, that 

> is, clearly there are people willing to help.

> www.softpres.org <http://www.softpres.org>

> Can anyone recommend what forums to address?

> Kickstarter.com, what else?

>

>     ----- Original Message -----

>     *From:* Ryan Arndt <mailto:ryan at igda.org>

>     *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG <mailto:game_preservation at igda.org>

>     *Sent:* Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:41 PM

>     *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] Kotaku: Videogame History

>     MuseumKickstarter short on funds

>

>     Jack has posted their kickstarter page up on the IGDA kickstarter

>     page here: http://kickstarter.com/igda

>

>     I just tweeted and fb'ed it up this morning.

>

>     Ryan

>     On 2011-08-21, at 10:56 AM, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

>>     http://kotaku.com/5832999/its-not-looking-good-for-the-videogame-history-museum

>>

>>

>>     Following up on this earlier report, the Videogame History Museum

>>     project begun by Digital Press is not meeting its goal of $30k.

>>     Is this something that the Game Preservation SIG should be

>>     involved in with trying to promote? It's not like they've

>>     contacted the list or anything about this...

>>

>>     On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com

>>     <mailto:fcifaldi at gmail.com>> wrote:

>>

>>         Right now they're just trying to get a space so they can get

>>         started, other projects would follow. I don't know what their

>>         ultimate ambitions are, but I do know that these guys are big

>>         champions of digital preservation and of providing a place to

>>         conduct research. They once helped Activision out with one of

>>         its compilation packs by providing assets and data, and

>>         they'd like to start doing more of that sort of work. They

>>         also want to host events and talks like CGE.

>>

>>         Sent from my iPad

>>

>>         On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Martin Goldberg

>>         <wgungfu at gmail.com <mailto:wgungfu at gmail.com>> wrote:

>>

>>         > Collection and display.  They're basically interested in formal

>>         > presentation of their personal collections (a portion of

>>         which they've

>>         > been showing off at CGE and E3 all these years).

>>         >

>>         >

>>         > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Devin Monnens

>>         <dmonnens at gmail.com <mailto:dmonnens at gmail.com>> wrote:

>>         >> Digital Press is taking donations for The Video Game

>>         History Museum, which

>>         >> first showed an exhibit at E3 this year as well as at the

>>         Classic Gaming Exp

>>         >> in Vegas.

>>         >>

>>         >>

>>         http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/07/digital_press_veterans_kicksta.php

>>         >>

>>         http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760848975/the-videogame-history-museum

>>         >> http://www.vghmuseum.org/

>>         >>

>>         >> They're looking to raise $50k through Kickstarter, which

>>         actually seems to

>>         >> me like a very small number. Do you suppose they're

>>         looking more for

>>         >> collection and display rather than long-term preservation?

>>         I recently read

>>         >> an article about how museums are less interested in

>>         long-term preservation

>>         >> (i.e. making sure the thing works) than with having

>>         objects on display, so

>>         >> whether the data on a floppy disk is readable is kind of

>>         irrelevant. The

>>         >> curators pointed their fingers at libraries and archives

>>         as those

>>         >> responsible for the task of information preservation.

>>         >> --

>>         >> Devin Monnens

>>         >> www.deserthat.com <http://www.deserthat.com/>

>>         >>

>>         >> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>         >>

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