[games_access] GDC + IGDA Tech Migration

[D. Michelle Hinn]

This is only available to IGDA members, correct?

On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Joshua Caulfield wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> In reading this it occurs to me that this group may not be aware  
> that the IGDA now has webinar capabilities.  It's not the highest  
> end webex you can buy, rather it's a standard gotowebinar instance,  
> but I am currently putting together schedules of speakers.  If any  
> of you were planning on doing a presentation at GDC and it got  
> turned down and you would like to run it for the IGDA membership, I  
> am happy to get you into the line up.
>
> Please email me if you are interested.  I like to keep webinars to  
> no more than 60 minutes (45 is preferable) with availability for  
> 20-30 min of Q&A.
> Also, just so not one is surprised later on, my hope is to find  
> sponsors for these webinar programs, so there may be a sponsor  
> underwriting the presentations.  When we get to the point where we  
> actually have interested sponsors, I will absolutely allow the  
> speaker to decline to participate if they feel that a sponsor  
> doesn't represent them for some reason.
>
> Anyways, I wanted to throw that out to this group, as it sounds  
> like you need a venue, and I have one that is readily available to  
> you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Joshua
>
> Joshua Caulfield
> Executive Director
> IGDA
>
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> From: games_access-bounces at igda.org on behalf of D. Michelle Hinn
> Sent: Wed 10/7/2009 7:41 PM
> To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
> Subject: [games_access] GDC + IGDA Tech Migration
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Unfortunately all of the proposals for game accessibility for GDC SF
> 2010 were turned down. I was wondering if anyone on this list got
> anything in? There's a diversity "hearing" in the works within the
> GDC itself, as it seems that every proposal we know about having to
> do with diversity issues were eliminated in the first round. I'm just
> double checking to see if everything was axed on our topic. If you
> have not yet heard about the status of a proposal you may have turned
> in, count it as rejected. They've already sent out the acceptance and
> are now just sending out the funeral notices. :(
>
> In other news, this weekend is the big "tech migration" to the new
> IGDA site so if you have been having trouble posting to the list,
> that is why I've just learned. Please email me at hinn at uiuc.edu with
> any questions of concerns.
>
> Michelle
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