[game_preservation] Regular SIG meetings via Internet

[Benj Edwards]

All great ideas.  Maybe we should have a virtual show of hands of who 
might be interested in participating in these online gatherings.

Benj

On 2/19/2013 7:51 PM, Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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>>         Henry Lowood

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>>            Film & Media Collections

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>>     Devin Monnens

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>>

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