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August 05, 2008
Call to Action: Game Preservation SIG White Paper brainstorming!
Henry has summarised the start of the White Paper effort we intend to get done this year. Read on for his words...
1) The discussion about methods for collaborating pretty much bogged down. (I will reserve comment on the odds of a successful conclusion on any topic to discussion of meta-issues.) We do have a group of volunteers to work as a kind of committee for the project, plus we have the entire group. So, let's just get started.
2) In that spirit, I have set up a "White paper brainstorm" page.
Have a look, and get busy! And if you do contribute, please consider adding yourself to the contributors page, which will then identify our de facto editorial committee.
3) IGDA has just opened up a fund for internal funding or projects. In the next weeks, I will submit a proposal for a modest level of funds to produce a print version of the white paper. If we are both good and lucky, we may have this to distribute at GDC 2009. If not, well, we'll find a way to get it out there.
4) Keep in mind: This first paper is a "call to arms" effort. It will focus on goals, benefits, reasons for worrying about this. We need passionate and compelling arguments, good examples of positive efforts and painful losses, etc. We can get into solutions with a second white paper on practices, which perhaps we could finish for GDC 2010. However, if somebody would like to get us started now on the second text, no reason not to -- just set up a page for brainstorming!
5) Feel free to muck around with the wiki pages I set up for us to get started. That's what a wiki is for!
Posted by AndrewArmstrong at August 5, 2008 05:23 PM