[games_access] SIG update!

[Mark Barlet]

Michelle

Thank you for all your hard work, you are doing a great job for the  
sig. I am glad you are on our side.

Please know that you have many here that will do what needs to be done  
to further the cause.

Fight!

Mark Barlet, DMus
AbleGamers.com

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On May 20, 2008, at 5:34 PM, "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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