[games_access] SIG update!

[d. michelle hinn]

Hi everyone,

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Instead I've been 
fighting the IGDA along with a lot of other SIG chairs over their new 
web system that will "do away" with this list in favor of a list that 
goes with the new web system. The thing is? Every single person on 
this list will have to individually sign up as users of this new 
system before they can sign up for the list. Non-paying members will 
have all access to our SIGs stuff (other SIGs have chosen this as 
well) so it's not a payment issue. But the new system WILL NOT be 
google-able (I think I just made that word up).

Another issue is that we will lose our list archives to date. Not 
good. So many of us are having to save our archives to post on our 
wikis, etc, etc, etc

Anyway, it's a VERY nasty battle at the moment and we HAVE to change 
to this system. And, no, I have no clue what it even looks like yet 
-- remember that system that was supposed to "roll out" last summer? 
Well, it's now "next summer" only they intend to make this change 
hyper fast.

Anyway, a few other SIG chairs and I are fighting to stay off the 
system and it's taking up a lot of time. Being a part of the IGDA 
gives us a lot of street cred with developers and we cannot lose 
that. But as we know...a lot of our list members are not developers. 
So we're fighting the good fight now. As I said, several other SIG 
chairs are furious about this so we'll see where we go from here. 
I'll keep you up to date as I learn more.

And as soon as I can, I will schedule online meetings for the summer 
so we can reconnect using MSN and we can talk about our current 
projects and our plans for the near and distant future (yes, that 
includes the book!).

Don't worry -- we will still exist. That's not in jeopardy. It's just 
this pain in the neck online system that we're trying to fight. And 
do I know if it's accessible? No...as I said, I haven't even seen it 
yet.

Sigh. Anyway...onward to bigger and better things and hopefully this 
listserv stuff will go away because it's a REALLY bad idea to move 
active lists in a non-automated way.

So let's get back to talking about game accessibility! :D

Michelle