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November 07, 2005
Meeting Report: October 27th 2005
Thanks everybody who was able to attend the meeting before Hari Raya at Souled Out. There weren't as many people as usual, but the qulaity of the discussions was high given the smaller, relaxed atmosphere.
A big Thank You to Hilmy from MMU for taking notes and send them to me! This post represent his work more than mine!
Academic Working Group Report
The next academic's meeting will be held on either December or January at MMU. Hilmy will arrange.
The boot camp for game developers was discussed. Need more details on who the participants will be, who the teachers will be and what material will be taught.
Yann indicates there'll be a lecturer in HELP that will give talks focusing on math and sciences.
Brett suggested an education-based forum under MGDA's control, tied in with a way to provide content for teaching game design & development. The content will be based on the IGDA game design course syllabus. IGDA Malaysia will begin development of this site and let the work help flesh out the syllabus.
Brett is willing to host; he already has the domain mgda.org.my for it. Brett prefers ASP.NET for development. Yann suggested that open source is good, however Brett cautions the use of open
source, because open source apps tend to be released before it's ready. Brett is worried that the requirement to release the code may restrict what we're trying to do. Investigation is needed.
Brett wishes that MGDA (Malaysian Game Developers Association) will be the certifying body for the accreditation project.
Brett will look into funding for this project.
Stephen will contact the .NET people within Microsoft to determine available support.
Yann will look into the course requirements for the content of this project.
IGDA Meeting Report
Thanks to Terence for AGDS.
AGDS post mortem: More than 100 ppl attended. Hasnul and the press were happy. Only ATI were possibly unhappy.
There will be a next AGDS, however the question now is where to run it: Malaysia or Singapore. Terence will provide guidelines on how to host the next AGDS, and a formal submission process for those wishing to organize AGDS (along with cut-off date).
There are hundreds of IGDA memers in Malaysia, but only a handful of paid members. This implies that we have to improve IGDA paid memberships. Terence suggests that people don't get the value of paying to join IGDA, thus somehow those values must be identified and communicated. IGDA cards and rebates were discussed.
For future meetings, Brett wishes that they will be more organized by making an agenda ready before a meeting.
Venue: need to identify other possible venues besides Souled Out. Yann and Stephen suggested their own campus locations: Yann at HELP and Stephen at TARC near Wisma MCA. Those attending suggested Souled Out is a good social gathering place, but a bad place for doing formal events like meetings and presentations. Sound tend to get drowned out.
Hilmy suggested that potential places be scouted out. Brett indicated it's a great idea, but without the follow-up of people doing the scouting, nothing will happen. Anybody who has specific ideas should table them as they would be very welcome!
Brett suggested an X'mas dinner party to bring people together, including the unpaid IGDA account. Josh will talk with the British Camber of Commerce to help cosponsor the X'Mas party. Yann says he can help organize the X'mas party.
Afterwards, there was much merry-making and discussion. Thanks again everybody!
I'm not sure what to do about the December meeting as it coincides with Christmas. If we don't have the Christmas party, an informal meeting may be a viable alternative.
Posted by BrettBibby at November 7, 2005 01:28 PM