[game_preservation] Reminder: Roundtable is Weds. at 3.30pm

[Henry Lowood]

Just a quick reminder about our SIG roundtable at GDC.  Weds., 3.30pm in 
the IGDA meeting room.  I will have my laptop and will try to send out 
video via Google+ hangouts.  Friend me in Google+ and I'll put you in an 
IGDA group.  I'll send out invitations that way.  Assuming anyone wants 
to video conference into the sesssion.

Anyway, here's the info:

*SPEAKER/S:*Henry Lowood () 
<http://schedule.gdconf.com/speaker/Henry-Lowood>
*DAY / TIME / LOCATION:*Wednesday 3:30- 4:30 Room 112, North Hall
*TRACK / DURATION / FORMAT / AUDIENCE LEVEL:*Advocacy / 60-Minute / 
Roundtable / All
*GDC VAULT RECORDING:*No Vault Recording
*DESCRIPTION:*

The Game Preservation SIG will recap discussions and projects of the 
last year, including the improvement of the SIG wiki and blog, the 
memorial pages project, follow-ons to the White Paper, reviving the 
Digital Game Canon, the Preserving Virtual Worlds II project, and 
initiatives brought by members and participants, e.g., developers, game 
collectors, journalists, and institutions such as Stanford University, 
the MADE, the Strong Museum of Play and the National Videogame Archive 
in the UK. Attendees should be prepared to discuss their own projects 
and ideas.


*TAKEAWAY:*Take away knowledge about practices that will help you 
preserve your own game materials, manage your collection of games or 
game artifacts, or work on the creation of an exhibit or museum/ library 
collection.
*INTENDED AUDIENCE:*Anyone involved in game design, production, asset or 
software management, or marketing, as well as collectors, archivists, 
museum curators and anybody else interested in game history.
*ELIGIBLE PASSES:*All Access Pass 
<http://www.gdconf.com/attend/passes.html#34133>, Main Conference Pass 
<http://www.gdconf.com/attend/passes.html#34134>

-- 
Henry Lowood
Curator, History of Science&  Technology Collections;
    Film&  Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

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