Online Games SIG/Conference Calls/June 21st 2006
International Game Developers Association
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[edit] Notes from Conference Call 6/21/2006 11am PST / 2pm ET
[edit] Attendance
[edit] Present
James Hursthouse,Elonka Dunin, Larry Mellon, Jonathan Greechan,Michael Steele
[edit] Alumnus Extraordinaire
[edit] Apologies
Brian Robbins, Jay Moore, Peter Freese,Daniel James,Michael Welles
[edit] Next Call
Wed July 12th - time to be confirmed after consultation with Paul Kim at GoPets. Probably 4pm PST / 7pm ET / 8am KST
[edit] Wiki
40% of our committee has yet to create a profile in the Wiki. Those without profiles are tasked with creating one by the next meeting at the latest.
Go to IGDA.org/wiki log in using regular IGDA username and password Go to IGDA profile to enable your wiki access
[edit] Transfer of 2004 PW Whitepaper to Wiki / 2006 Whitepaper
The decision was taken NOT to proceed with the transfer of the previous whitepaper to the Wiki as a priority as this would be counterproductive to the creation of the new Whitepaper. Rather than morph the previous publication, the committee felt that starting afresh and pulling in content from the previous whitepaper where appropriate is a more sensible plan.
Larry Mellon agreed to be editor in chief of the 2006 Whitepaper and will begin work on a framework for its content. Thanks Larry!
We have decided:
- We will not convert 2004 to the Wiki as a priority.
- Next meeting's agenda will include a postmortem of the 2004 Whitepaper. What worked? What didn't?
- Larry will set up the '2006 Whitepaper Intro / Contents Page' in the Wiki to become the basis for our discussions on the content / framework for the 2006 Whitepaper. Probably one week before the next meeting.
- Discuss new topics / framework at next meeting
- Next meeting will be July 12th - 6pm > 8pm ET / 3pm PST /
- Confirmed 2006 Whitepaper contents outline up on Wiki by July 19th
- Larry will present plan for contributions
[edit] Quarterly / Newsletter
We decided to move from the Quarterly format for communication with the community to a new format - either monthly or bi-weekly email newsletters to the community.
- More regular communication will lend well to Podcasting plans (see below)
- Online format will lend itself to promoting forums / wiki / other content through direct links
- Less intensive work compared with multi-article printed Quarterly
- May consider 'almanac / anthology' in printed form as outreach activity but can collate best articles from monthly newsletter
- Switch to this format means better grasp of 'mailing list' v. 'IGDA member' v. 'IGDA member + OGSIG member' - more elegant upsell from mailing list subscriber to IGDA Member
[edit] Podcasts
- Plan is for regular podcasts - who are we going to interview?
- Need list of potential interviewers / interviewees
- Discuss podcast on the forums / tie in with e-newsletters
- Gordon - will need to create a backlog.
- How long?
- Transcripts is an extra burden of work - how about teaser sentences?
- Good mic and software.
- Jonathan does the wrapper for continuity.
- Jonathan will create an area on the Wiki to coordinate / plan - by the end of June 23rd, 2006
==Website / Member DB== (notes from subsequent meeting with Peter Freese)
- Peter volunteers to be responsible for updating www.igda.org/online . If we plan to push people to the website and wiki from our e-newsletters, the content on /online needs to be up to date and useful. We need to highlight the Podcasts and other new content.
- Peter discussed mailing list management with Jason Della Rocca. Report on IGDA planned system as follows:
- Self selection when someone signs up for IGDA membership - i.e. there will be an OGSIG tick box that they can tick.
- Users can create an IGDA Profile without paying dues. So IGDA Profile + OGSIG tick box will be our current 'mailing list only' members
- As a SIG we get access to our own mailing list for steering committee use.
- Will be easy to identify list containing IGDA members who selected 'OGSIG'
- This system is expected to be online "this year."
- We will continue to use the current Yahoo mailing list for now. Yahoo has apparently recently improved the functionality of its mailing list and JH will check this out.
One other IGDA plan is the closing of IGDA forums to non-paying members. Peter will clarify whether this is entirely closed or whether non-members have 'read' but not 'write' privileges.
[edit] Paul Kim
Paul Kim (VP of Business Development / GoPets, Seoul, Korea) was approved as a new steering committee member. JH to communicate with Paul to involve him in the next meeting / check suitable meeting times etc.
[edit] AOB
Mike Steele suggested that IGDAOGSIG is not the best name for our group and we should perhaps think of something snappier (eg. Terra Nova).
