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Org News & Site Updates
Event >	IGDA Leadership Forum: program/speakers posted, open for registration <Jul-25>
Web >	July Newsletter: Leadership Live, NPD Goodness, Design Chapter <Jul-25>
Event >	Member Discount: $50 off for Austin GDC registration <Jul-10>
Web >	Culture Clash: Endgame - Enjoying the apocalypse <Jul-08>
Web >	The Games Game: The Millennial Dude <Jul-07>
Event >	Trip Summary: Paris GDC, and IGDA-Paris meeting <Jul-04>
Web >	Famous Last Words: Getting Started as a Games Lawyer <Jul-03>
SIG >	Game Developer Memorials Project launched <Jun-23>
( News Archive • Newsletter • )

Chapter Updates
Meeting >	Perth: GO3 Social Event
Meeting >	Perth: Jayeson Lee-Steere, Technical Director - EA Florida
Report >	Perth: GDC Post Mortem
Meeting >	Japan: How develop application for iPhone, Aug 1
Report >	Japan: Online Game symposium report ”Why virtual singer succeed? Potentiality of UGC” (4Gamer article)
Report >	Malaysia: IGDA Talk Session
Meeting >	Philadelphia: Game Demos and Telepathic Controllers at Drexel
Meeting >	Sao Paulo: Game Education in Brazil
Meeting >	Shanghai: ChinaJoy party by IGDA Shanghai
Meeting >	Pittsburgh: Lightning Talk Show & Tell
( More Chapter Updates • All Chapters • )

Latest Members
The following folks just became (or renewed as) part of the IGDA's 13923 strong membership:
>	David Christie (krispo)
>	David Cruz (TEKGOD)
>	Derick Eisenhardt (zephyrxero)
>	Robin McShaffry (RobinMcShaffry)
>	Jason Gill (shiftyninja)
>	Kent Ward (KentWard)
>	James Allen (JamesAllen2)
>	Philip Bourke (phil.bourke@tippsoc.ie)
>	Robert Madsen (rmadsen)
>	Yasith Aparajitha Abeynayaka (yasith)
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IGDA Leadership Forum: program/speakers posted, open for registration

Massive turn out for IGDA-Shanghai party at ChinaJoy

750 developers come to play at annual IGDA-Austin picnic

New IGDA Developer Memorials initiative recognizes passing of Erick Wujcik

Leadership Forum 07 DVD and web vids

Frontlines deconstructed in Jersey

Board Results: Jen MacLean appointed to chair; Brathwaite, Buscaglia, DeLoura and Train new directors

Student Scholars report on amazing GDC experiences