[games_access] GDC S.F preparation, status.

[d. michelle hinn]

Thanks Thomas!

What a relief! Thank you so much! I've been getting pumped full of IV 
antibiotics and all kinds of stuff to try and get this under control. 
There's a rather alarming documentary on the disease at:

http://www.openeyepictures.com/underourskin/index.html

I could hardly watch the trailer because I am so freaked out that we 
didn't catch it early enough (every day matters with this thing). So, 
Thomas, I absolutely don't mind you stepping in to assist AT ALL. 
Perhaps you could help sort out some ideas beyond where I am now (see 
below). I think that I have three solid ones that I think will get 
accepted but I need some people to commit to those sessions now so 
that I have descriptions of EXACTLY what tech talk solutions we'll 
have, etc etc. So people -- now is not the time to ignore the call -- 
these are our GDC passes for this next year!! Please let both Thomas 
and I know, off list, which ones you want to help out with as I'll 
need to get bio info, etc for when I put them into the system.

Thomas -- I'll send you my files sometime today or tomorrow so that 
people can read and give feedback on them. Luckily I have three that 
are almost done (see below) before this happened so I feel pretty 
confident that we'll be able to get this done with no one spending 
days at a time awake (me..hehe).

So...

To be brief (since I still can hardly type), my plan was to put in 
the (1 Accessibility Arcade again only updated, (2) put together an 
Accessibility 101 session where people could get a "crash course" in 
an hour (I'm basing this on the feedback we are now getting that 
people want us to explain accessibility more after seeing the 
arcade), and (3) a "tech talk" panel on solutions for programmers 
(this is the Advanced course for accessibility for those who complain 
that we don't give them solutions). So those are the three that I am 
focusing in on for my part of the writing and planning and they are 
mostly done - just need editing.

What other suggestions do people have for other sessions?

What suggestions do people have for "must haves" in the arcade this 
year (companies to sponsor us, devices to show, etc)?

Who wants to be on the "tech talk" panel and what will you talk 
about? This should be about 3-4 people giving super fast "solutions 
that work" demos along with the technical bits behind it.

For a fourth option, we could try to put together a "community" panel 
with those with disabilities talking about their experiences, etc.

This last one is going to be hard to get accepted so if there's 
enough interest in it from the list, we need to really make that 
write up spectacular. I said this because I know now how conservative 
GDC is becoming the bigger it gets. But if someone wants to take the 
community idea and have a go at putting it together, we definitely 
should. I can help on that one but I'm hoping someone else (Mark 
Bartlet? This might be up your alley!) can sketch out the plan (who 
would be a part of it, why it's an important session to be at, etc, 
etc).

Ok, back to not typing. That was an impressive amount for me given my 
track record lately...

M

>Hello Michelle and all,
>
>I want to help out preparing for GDC but I don't know the status of 
>the content so far, i.e what people have submitted to Michelle (have 
>asked Michelle but I guess the Lyme disease is stopping her writing)
>
>(Michelle, I hope you don't mind I take some action managing this, I 
>just want to do something so you don't end up doing it yourself, 
>especially now with the disease).
>
>Putting stuff on the wiki came up earlier this week (or last week?) 
>and as Michelle has the Lyme disease I have offered to help out 
>editing the wiki.
>
>I suggest that we all put our stuff up on the wiki so Michelle won't 
>have to manage it all by herself. I have begun to do so myself 
>(sketchy version up right now, easier to write offline). If we all 
>follow the GDC guidelines for submissions it should make the process 
>smooth. I have yet to do so for my stuff :).
>
>Final deadline is August 11, so if all could please upload texts by 
>August 6 it gives me a few days to edit. Thank you.
>
>Have a nice weekend,
>
>Kind regards
>Thomas
>
>
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