Game Preservation SIG/Monthly Roundups/200911
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November 2009
Halloween, and for those in he UK, Bonfire night! Well, going a bit off topic already...anyway, we have had the new IGDA website launch, but not honestly much else I'm afraid!
Preservation SIG October 2009 Work
There hasn't been much work this month. The IGDA website however has been revamped - well, replaced entirely in fact. There is an important thing the SIG might be able to do that is preserve the old site, as it can be, externally to the IGDA's own servers. I'm going to track down this properly this month.
The new preservation SIG location is the same url as before: http://www.igda.org/preservation - and the wiki remains present (old links will redirect to it's new subdomain location).
Join the SIG there - not for much to do, since we mainly post what little we do on the mailing list, but it will be the new location for monthly roundups and news. I've looked and couldn't find an RSS feed, which will be one of the things I've got to ask about.
If you are interested in helping the SIG work you can handily volunteer for some projects, or create your own if something is missing!
Future Work for November 2009
It's mid-November. It's nearly a new year in fact. We need to perhaps think about properly rounding up the projects, putting all of the ones which are basically dead to the depths of idea-realm, and knowing if anyone wants to actually work on anything. I'm happy with things just being a discussion group, but if people do sign up for projects we might need to think about having them report it monthly, me included! :)
Mailing List Discussions
If you've not joined our mailing list, please do so. We've never tried using our forums it seems :) we stick to old-fangled email. This will eventually change when the IGDA site has some replacement for it, which won't be anytime soon.
September had me ranting about glossaries mainly, redump mentioned which we didn't discuss before, and finally the white paper was briefly blogged by someone at Wired.
I know it's a bit after the start of November but I'll get to those posts in next months roundup :)
Preservation SIG Blog Updates / Links
Have I missed anything this month? Then email it in to preservation_news @ igda.org !
- Site changeover - nothing to post.
Final Thoughts
We'll be using the wiki still to post pages - the new site is a bit anti-posting-pages, but have a look around what's up with the changes and make sure to report any bugs sooner rather then later :)
Andrew Armstrong
IGDA Game Preservation SIG Site/Blog editor
