Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/July 2009

International Game Developers Association

Notes taken by James C. Smith 7/02/2009

Contents 1 Role Call 1.1 Who's Here 1.2 Who's Not 2 Initiative Updates 2.1 Monthly Community Chat 2.2 Wiki Based Postmortems 2.3 Quarterly Newsletter 2.4 Developer Publisher Attribution 2.5 Whitepaper Update 3 Mailing List 4 Casual connect 5 Elections 6 Conference Call Logistics

Role Call

Who's Here

James C Smith, Dave Rohrl, Kirsten Duvall, Rex Sikora, Michael Wyman, Dan Prig

Who's Not

Alex Ionescu, Alfredo Chaves, Vishal Gondal

Initiative Updates

Monthly Community Chat

Alex Ionescu

• No progress

Wiki Based Postmortems

Alfrdo

• No progress

Quarterly Newsletter

Michael Wyman / Alfredo Chaves

• no progress
• Dave contacted playfish to try to get article but they declined

Developer Publisher Attribution

Rex Sikora / Dan Prig

• Nothing to report

Whitepaper Update

Dave Rohrl

• Dave still working on getting a PR person to help promote the whitepaper.

Mailing List

• Recent "sound off" thread had many responses
• There is lots of enthusiasm out there if we can find a way to harness it
• Dave will start mailing list threat about phone chats

Casual connect

• We plan to have an in-person meeting
• We have a large room reserved and will open the meeting to the public

Elections

• Terms end in August
• Committee members should decide if they wish to continue serving
• Dave does not plan to continue as chair but would like to advise and stay involved

Conference Call Logistics

• Next call scheduled for August 6th at 10:00 AM Pacific