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October 01, 2008

[Monthly SIG Updates] October 2008

October has been a month of back-end work for me and others. Someone started the Whitepaper brainstorm, which I've yet to add mine and Devin's comments too. We'll hopefully see it updated more this month!

Preservation SIG Updates

In September the main update will have been the Contributions/Donations page (I might rename it shortly), encompassing a grand total of 6 (yes, six!) different organisations who might be willing to accept your old videogame material, especially developer items. I'm trying to search further afield (such as Asia, the rest of Europe, and so forth) - if you can translate any language into English and be a go-between, or know of any possible archive or museum outside of the USA and the UK, please please contact us since this is really something I'd like to complete this century!

Secondly, the Whitepaper has got off to a start - and yes, I've not had the time just yet to update it with my contributions or Devin's who have sent it to me, but I'll try and get that done this month. Henry said he'll have a look at it too, so hopefully we'll get going somewhere. If anyone has any off hand contributions to make, add them to our mailing list.

Thirdly, the Memorials project has an entry for Laura_Geneder.

On the Internet Archive front, I've uploaded some interesting bits and pieces, as has the Virtual Worlds project. See new interviews (such as pre-current generation console launch interviews with the big 3, and WillTV for some Will Wright philosophy) and videogame footage (the entire collection of Pure Pwnage, the Red Alert Cutscenes and other bits and pieces).

October Preservation SIG Work

The whitepaper still needs brainstorming. Anyone who has a thought to add, please do so. I'm still working out how best to update the information lists we have, and might resort to doing it on a proper database rather then the wiki. In addition, if I can get further museums added for the contributions page we'll try and get it launched at some point as a resource point for advocacy!

Mailing List Discussions

If you've not joined our mailing list, please do so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to old-fangled email. September has been pretty dead, apart from Devin posting up a proposed entry for the new IGDA Journal which he requests comments for. It's a worthwhile project, so put your input in while you can.

Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links

Note: Have I missed anything? Then email it in. I really should get a "Preservation newsdesk" email setup, there's a lot more I simply don't know about which I keep missing. If anyone wants to help with the blog, you can become a blog editor by contacting us! This is all the updates not included in the previous newsletter (most recent first):


Final Thoughts

A lot of work needs doing on the whitepaper, and possibly it'd be nice to get more members even just posting on our mailing list - someone did join this month, hooray! Perhaps we can double that figure next month.

Also; I will attempt to do some actual journalism regarding the various museums and archives I can visit in the UK, certainly to add the information to the wiki but also interview those involved if possible. We'll see if I can get around to that this month.

Thanks all,

Andrew Armstrong

IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor

Posted by AndrewArmstrong at October 1, 2008 10:50 AM

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