GDC

• Summary of the ARG SIG meet up we had at the 2007 GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco in March...
• We had approximately 15-20 people turn up to the event, which was great
• A good mix of people, both PM's and non-PM's, from educators and researchers to commercial and professionals

Wiki

• we're not using it enough: "amartin: I'd like to ask everyone here to consider adding *something* to the wiki before the next IRC chat - especailly if you just have half the info, create a page with the info you have, and others can help flesh it out"
• Wendy, Andres, and John all volunteered to add something to the Wiki (we look forward to seeing what you add :))
• Evan went ahead and started a TODO page on the wiki, whilst we were still in IRC :) - http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/To_Do
• please post to the list if you add anything to the wiki so that other people can help flesh-out your ideas...
• ...we're looking into getting RSS for just our part of the wiki, but not sure it will be possible. Wendy and Adam are asking about it
• reminder: main wiki page is: http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Alternate_Reality_Games_SIG

2007 Whitepaper

• we did a whitepaper last year (available on the wiki), but it was imperfect in many ways, and we underestimated the effort and time needed to get it right. We need to make sure we have enough of both before we consider doing another one
• whoever leads the whitepaper effort will have to start by deciding what the precise format will be and how it will be put together (one big paper, lots of smaller papers, etc)
• it takes between 1 and 10 hours a week, every week (starts off small, gets much bigger towards the end), for several months to get the whitepaper done
• the work can be split between multiple people, but people HAVE to be able to commit up-front the time to do their part, and to do their bits on-time, or it all falls down
• some discussion of topics and details of volunteering in the chat-log - please read through if you're interested in participating in this; a couple of people have said they'd have some time to do it, but they'll probably need some more people to help them

Leadership Council position

• if you have a burning desire to become a council member...email arg_sig @ igda.org with some info saying how much time you can commit to it, and what you would hope to do.
• the main issue is you need to be able to guarantee your time fairly regularly to deal with all the things that come up
• we have only two people who spoke to me about doing this, and if no-one else comes forward, we'll appoint someone ASAP