[game_preservation] Game Developers Conference 2013
Alex Handy
alex at themade.org
Tue Feb 19 19:08:03 EST 2013
I'm game. We all need to start coordinating better, anyway.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we need our own roundtable at GDC? I mean, it's a conference where
> everybody goes, but it's expensive and kind of a pain if you don't live in
> San Francisco and can't get funding to attend.
>
> Why don't we just have our own regular panels via Google Video Chat or
> something? (Skype will charge money if you want multiple video channels, but
> Google has the bandwidth to spare.) We could do these anywhere from one to
> four times a year, and that way we can get people from Europe and Japan as
> well.
>
> -Devin Monnens
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Frank,
>>
>> Unfortunately, no. IGDA's call for sessions went out only a couple weeks
>> ago, with very short notice to reply, and I missed it. In previous years,
>> this happened months in advance, with a formal process. As it was, only 4 or
>> 5 IGDA panels made the cut for the program and they all will be on the same
>> day. (I hope I got the details right.)
>>
>> That's the bad news. The good news is that there will probably be a panel
>> on game preservation, sponsored I believe by IGDA, on the 29th. Likewise,
>> the call for this went out just a couple weeks ago - with one day to respond
>> - but at least I saw the invitation for this one in my in-box.. So I will
>> be on that panel, which I believe Brenda Brathwaite and Kate Edwards are
>> organizing. Not confirmed yet, but I think it will happen. We could have a
>> meetup on the 29th.
>>
>> You probably know more about the reasons for the trend than I do, but it
>> seems like the IGDA presence at GDC has been gradually cut down over the
>> last 4 or 5 years. That figured in the demise of the Digital Game Canon,
>> for example, when IGDA lost its sponsored track. I am sorry not to have the
>> full roundtable this year.
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>> On 2/18/2013 6:55 AM, Frank Cifaldi wrote:
>>
>> Are we not having the normal roundtable this year?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> As other folks were discussing meeting up at conferences:
>>>
>>> At GDC, I would like to host a meetup for preservation people at or
>>> exhibit space. We're not 100% sure where it will be yet, but I'll let
>>> ya'll know when we are certain. It will be somewhere in Moscone West,
>>> at GDC proper.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on days, times that might work best? I was thinking
>>> around 5 or so one of the big days of the main show.
>>>
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Alex Handy
Founder/Director
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
610 16th St.
Suite 230
Oakland, CA 94612
Dial #0230 to be buzzed in
http://www.themade.org
http://blog.themade.org
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