[game_preservation] Regular SIG meetings via Internet

[Devin Monnens]

Google Hangouts will allow you to livechat with up to 9 people.

http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

With Skype, I don't think there's a limit to how many people you can add
for the audio chats... But I could be wrong. If we have a very large number
of people, we will need someone to serve as chair for that meeting to help
keep things in order.

I'm thinking we could have a basic set of things to cover each meeting:

-Recent News
-Important Topic for the session
-Upcoming events

And then the discussion could be summarized and put in a newsletter or
something for the people who couldn't make the meeting and/or upload
video/audio.

What other options do we have for software? I'm currently taking an online
class through MIT where they record a live video and then stream that. So
it could be possible to livestream from a particular venue and have people
chime in through a text chat backchannel.

-Devin


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Benj Edwards
<editor at vintagecomputing.com>wrote:


>  This is an excellent idea.  I'd love to collaborate and meet up with you

> guys more, but I can't travel much because I've got two very young kids at

> home -- and I live on the east coast anyway.

>

> I'm not familiar with how Google hangouts/chats/etc work these days.  Can

> someone figure something out, and maybe we can have a meeting on there?  I

> suppose I can look into it tomorrow morning.

>

> Benj

>

>

> On 2/19/13 7:00 PM, Devin Monnens 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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