DC Metro

I'm sorry to have to do this, but I'm going to cancel our meeting tonight because I don't want people risking life and limb to get to GB which itself might even be closed.  Since the roads are already pretty bad and we anticipate getting up to another 9 inches, let's hold off on this meeting.  The venue has served us well for the past 5 months but given the growth of our chapter and its forays into other activities (like the Global Game Jam), we are reconsidering our meeting strategy.  Look for another meeting to occur at GMU later this month, the date of which will likely set the course for the coming months' meeting schedules.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)
is the leading-edge conference for real-time 3D computer graphics and
human interaction, and this year it's in our neck of the woods.  I3D
brings together the efforts of developers and researchers, and is a
venue for the presentation of many new and interesting algorithms and
methods in interactive computer graphics and visualization.   The
conference will be held February 19-21 at the Hyatt Regency in

DC Metro gamers,

We invite any and all gamers to come on out and get to know one another.  Since we haven't yet found another venue, we will meet at Gordon Biersch in Tysons Corner, as we have for the past four months.  However, we will likely have another meeting later this month at GMU which will serve as a Postmortem for our involvement with the Global Game Jam, and we will likely be the meeting date going forward (as our present date, the month's second Tuesday, will directly conflict with GDC).  Come to talk shop, enjoy the food and drink, and bring your ideas for the group to be involved this year.

The Global Game Jam is coming up at the end of January and I wanted to gauge our chapter's interest in participating.  I spoke with Norb and Jerry a couple nights ago at the Games Gateway meetup, who are a couple members of the chapter from before the Big Collapse of 2007, and they mentioned some contacts from the local SIGGRAPH group who might be able to offer space for participating in the GGJ.  I took part in this last year at MIT and it was a lot of fun; is anyone else interested in participating?

Greeting DC & Vicinity members,

Well, we had a pretty good turnout on Tues, 10 Nov 2009 when we met at Tyson's Corner for some beers and food at Gordon Biersch.  Thanks go to Trey Reyher for keeping the fire lit from the last meeting while we all caught up and also to Ross Dannenberg for help in "sponsoring" the event.  Many topics were discussed as we witnessed a traditional Redskins autograph signing during the evening.  Our next meeting is being scheduled for around 8 Dec 2009, but details are not set yet.