[games_access] GDC: in retrospect

[Jason Della Rocca]

Hi all,

Just taking a quick browse of the recent thread...

Admittedly, there are 100 sexier things for most mainstream 
developers to attend than eat-your-veggies style accessibility content.

The IGDA does other niche things, than are very important, that are 
just not well attended. For example, our QoL contract stuff had less 
than 10 attendees. As did our credit standards discussion. But, 
progress was made, and some new faces showed up.

So, lesson one is that quantity (ie, number of attendees) does not 
equal success in and of itself.

The GDC environment way simply be too competitive. Other 
approaches/strategies for getting developer attention are worthwhile 
to explore.

Further, a standalone dedicated conference far away from GDC may get 
the attention the topic deserves... Or, still, might not get anything 
to show up ;)

As Michelle noted, it is everyone's responsibility to step up. While 
she is technically the leader of the group, it is all still a very 
flat, distributed and collective effort.

Best to take the experience from past successes and failures and build on it!

Jason

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