Online Games SIG/Conference Calls/March 8 2006

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[edit] March 8, 2006 Conference Call

[edit] Attendance

[edit] Who's Here

James, Margaret, Elonka, Daniel, Brian

[edit] Who's Not Here

Gordon

[edit] Next Call

Wed April 12th 2PM EST / 11AM PST

[edit] Publication Update

[edit] Wiki

  • Encourage people to use the wiki
  • Try to work the wiki into everything we are doing with the SIG

[edit] Quarterly

  • We have all the content together for the quarterly
  • Have 3 articles
    • Josh Hong Interview
    • Virtual Round Table (5 panelists)
      • Jonathan can help edit this if needed
    • Legal issues in South Korea
      • This may be web-only due to timing
  • If we want to do print for GDC, we need to get someone to do layout
    • Previous versions were done in Illustrator
  • Can we get extra smaller articles about using the Wiki
  • Need to put together text for wiki callout - Brian will put this on the Wiki

[edit] White Paper

  • Waiting for Post-GDC

[edit] Job Postings

  • Working with the Casual Games SIG & the CGA
  • Need to talk to Jessica about getting Online Games Jobs onto the CGA listings?
    • For now let's redirect the URLs to Jessica's site
  • The Online Games Jobs list is relatively low traffic, but don't know why?
  • Could/Should this go onto the Wiki?
  • Maybe we leave it like this given the relatively low traffic right now

[edit] Podcast

  • GameTrust has new hire with lots of history in podcasting
  • Start doing a 10-15 minute telephone interviews
    • Record straight from the phone
  • Possibly get posted onto iTunes
  • Allow users to subscribe to the feed
  • This sounds like a great idea
  • Phone interviews could be a lot easier even than doing a quarterly :)
  • Scope question?
    • For the Online SIG or the full IGDA?
  • Try to scope it as wide as possible
    • Brian will ping Jason Della Rocca to see if any other SIGs are doing this type of thing
  • FYI Shockwave.com announced they are doing podcasts for some of their shorts
  • Also Skunk has contacts with Adam Curry & his blog stuff
  • Also Justin Hall is doing a lot of this
  • Binary Revolution might be other people who can help out
  • Check out mmoradio.com
  • Go Jonathan, take the lead!

[edit] Steering Committee Membership

  • Have a couple new nominations so far
  • Everyone needs to decide if they want to be part of the SIG by Tuesday @ GDC


[edit] Conferences

[edit] GDC

[edit] Annual Meeting

  • Still to be held at lunch on Tuesday at OGSI conference room
    • James will order some lunch in for us
  • Everyone should send their contact info (including cell) to the OGSC mailing list

[edit] Party

  • 9PM to Midnight on Thursday night
  • Planning and organization is going very well
  • James is working out the exact number of drink tickets
    • Should be at least 600
  • Chips/nuts available, ala-carte menu will also be available
  • Have ~150 RSVP'd
    • Have a strict 200 person capacity
  • James will mail everyone who has RSVP'd towards the end of next week
  • Let's try to get a generic handout for Steering Committee members
    • Arrange this at our annual meeting
  • Prizes will be drawn at 10:45
  • Can we upsell membership at the party?
  • Brian will check with Jason and see if we can get any IGDA signup stuff there
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