[games_access] Awesome Announcement Time - Partnership withFilm Victoria

[Barrie Ellis]

Brilliant!

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From: "P Hogan" <pat.hogan.a at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:15 AM
To: <games_access at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [games_access] Awesome Announcement Time - Partnership withFilm 
Victoria

> G'day everyone,
>
> This is awesome, and as a Victorian I'm proud of my state government
> for doing this.
>
> However, I'd like to point out to everyone that this particular grant
> is not open to undergrad students, which unfortunetly makes projects
> like mine ineligable.
>
> Nonetheless, this is a great achievement, and makes me very excited
> for the future.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Pat
>
> On 10/11/11, Tara Voelker (Tefertiller) <ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org> 
> wrote:
>> It's up!
>> http://igda-gasig.org/2011/10/11/announcement-partnering-with-film-victoria/
>>
>>
>> --
>>       Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson : igda-gasig.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Tara Voelker (Tefertiller) <
>> ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org> wrote:
>>
>>> JUst an FYI, the announcement post was delayed due to a typo on Film
>>> Victoria's end. They had accidently called us the Independent Game
>>> Developers Assoication, so I wanted that to go ahead and let them fix 
>>> that
>>> before we had tons of people looking at our site and theirs. The typo
>>> should
>>> be fixed today, and the announcement will hit out website and such soon 
>>> to
>>> follow.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>       Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson : igda-gasig.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Tara Voelker (Tefertiller) <
>>> ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Everyone!
>>>>
>>>> SO AWESOME NEWS!!!!
>>>>
>>>> I had been contacted by Brad Goblin, who runs the investment fund for
>>>> game
>>>> development (everything from tiny indie games to larger 
>>>> handheld/console
>>>> games) for the Victorian state government in Australia, Film Victoria.
>>>> When
>>>> he contacted us, they been discussing adding accessibility requirements
>>>> into
>>>> their funding guidelines, and providing appropriate funding to design,
>>>> develop and test projects for accessibility and asked for our help.
>>>>
>>>> I said we were interested, and the steering committee and I kicked it
>>>> into
>>>> overdrive to get the site updated and ready! (That's why we finally
>>>> updated
>>>> the layout and updated our top 10)
>>>>
>>>> Now I am pleased to announce that game accessibility considerations 
>>>> have
>>>> been officially implemented into their application process!
>>>>
>>>> They are very proud over at Film Victoria to leading the way in
>>>> government
>>>> funded accessible games.
>>>>
>>>> Later today I will have an official announcement on the site, as well 
>>>> as
>>>> links to the Film Victoria page and the application. Once that has been
>>>> done, this will also be on our Facebook and Twitter, and Ryan has said
>>>> the
>>>> he will post it on the main IGDA page and twitter as well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>       Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson : igda-gasig.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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