Casual Games SIG/Conference Calls/June 2009
International Game Developers Association
Notes taken by James C. Smith 6/04/2009
Contents |
Role Call
Who's Here
James C Smith, Dave Rohrl, Kirsten Duvall, Alfredo Chaves, Rex Sikora, Alex Ionescu, Michael Wyman
Who's Not
Dan Prig, Vishal Gondal
Initiative Updates
Monthly Community Chat
Alex Ionescu
- Alex hass been looking for free ot low cost conferencing solutions and not having muhch luck
- James Sugested TalkShoe.com
- Dave sugested using free conference call serivice with 99 lines or anything simple that will let us voice chat or even text chat such as IRC
- Allex will look into those options and report back within two week
- Once infulstuctire is setup, James will work on content and pormotion
Quarterly Newsletter
Michael Wyman / Alfredo Chaves
- Michal was too busy to produce this issue of quarterly
- Dave send some article requests and got no response
- Looks like there will be no print quarterly for Casual Connect
Developer Publisher Attribution
Rex Sikora / Dan Prig
- Nothing to report since Rex is busy with life cycle issue
Whitepaper Update
Dave Rohrl
- Dave still working on getting a PR person to help promote the whitepaper.
Casual connect
- We plan to have an in-person meeting of the steering committee
- Rex will try to reserve a PopCap conference room for us
New "Crowd Sourcing" Direction for SIG
- Dave identified our recent "Pain point" as finding time for SC members to generate contains for large page count documents
- Strength: Comunity sharing info
- New Goal: Transform information initiatives to utilize community
- Community contributed postmortems on wiki
- Alfrdo will work on tech for how to post
- James will solicit content
Conference Call Logistics
- Next call scheduled for July 2nd at 10:00 AM Pacific
- Alfrado will send meeting request directly to each attendie
