Online Games SIG/Conference Calls/February 15 2006

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[edit] February 15, 2006 Conference Call

[edit] Who's Here

Brian, Gordon, Elonka, James, Margaret, Daniel

[edit] Who's Not Here

Jonathan (notified in advance)

[edit] Next Call

Wed March 8th 2PM EST / 11AM PST

[edit] Publication Update

[edit] Wiki

  • Notes from this month's call will finally get added
    • We should also post these to the mailing list
  • Not much has happened with the Online SIG section
  • Other sections are getting attention, so we need to figure out how to get people involved
  • Ideas for getting more people involved?
  • Start encouraging others to post to the Wiki too
  • What about biographies?

[edit] Quarterly

  • Made a bit of progress since last call
  • Theme will be alternative business models
  • 3 articles in progress
    • Virtual roundtable on advertising in games
    • Items sales business model
    • Legal issues in Korea surrounding virtual item sales
  • Hope to have 1st draft by end of month
  • Jonathan will help edit/prune content
  • Can we have this printed for GDC?
    • Have an edited down printed version
    • Could include other SIG announcements
    • Can include information about the party
    • James will get in touch with Wade to see about getting last year's files

[edit] White Paper

  • See if we can get someone to run this
  • Fresh Blood from new steering committee members?  :)

[edit] Job Postings

  • Margaret has talked to Jessica Tams about Casual Games Association job postings website
    • That site is receiving job postings
    • The Casual SIG figures we should all work together
  • Use the URL's that Brian has purchased to redirect to her site
  • Share logos, put it in frameset, or something like that?
    • Margaret will send out URL for us to look at
  • Potentially need a volunteer designer to help with this
  • Margaret will talk to Jessica this weekend and figure some of this out

[edit] Steering Committee Membership

  • Brian needs to send out call for nominations
  • We will go over nominations at GDC meeting and select next year's steering committee then
  • Brian will not be continuing as Chair. Will need to select a new chair at that meeting as well.

[edit] Conferences

[edit] GDC

[edit] Party

  • 9PM to Midnight on Thursday night
  • 90 S 2nd St
  • IBM is a big sponsor so they will fund food/drink
  • Still finalizing details with bar, they didn't ask for a minimum
  • They haven't heard of GDC yet :)
  • Each ticket will have ~$5 value, should give us about 600 drinks
  • Door prizes
    • Have a great prize from Emergent Game Technology
    • May have a few smaller prizes too
    • Also have a massage area to give back rubs. Funded by OGSI.
  • How wide do we want to spread invites?
  • A couple minor changes to the invite and then James and Brian will work to get it posted

[edit] Annual Meeting

  • Brian will work with Jason to arrange a room, unless we can use OGSI conference room
  • Held at lunch on Tuesday (12:30-2PM March 21st)
    • Update - We will have our meeting at the OGSI office (100 Park Center Plaza, Ste 365)
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