[games_access] Announcement

[Barrie Ellis]

Good luck with your PhD, Richard. Some of my thoughts....

I'd like to see www.igda.org/accessibility stay as our web-address. It's nice and clear, and easy to remember. www.GASIG.org is a bit of a splurge in my mind.

I hope www.game-accessibility.com will never move addresses. Personally I've made a lot of direct links to specific forum threads that I think are very useful not to loose track of. We need to strengthen the threads we've made already as well as fill in the gaps.

I'd like the see the www.igda.org/accessibility front use clear English and really importantly, not be cluttered. This should definitely be open to all and not be a subscribers only thing. The news blog should be open to all too. We should continue to use the Game-Accessibility.com forum as this is becoming more and more established and will be open to all.

Content should be broken down into Public Info - Members Info so the free stuff is easy to get to (if we have to go down a closed route).

Any idea how long this is likely to take? WIKI's are okay-ish - but I don't think they are particularly quick and easy to navigate - they tend to be so cluttered to my mind.

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: AudioGames.net 
  To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:08 AM
  Subject: [games_access] Announcement


  Hi folks,

  I have an announcement. As you may know I temporarily quit work at the Accessibility foundation to finish my PhD by working at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU - my other job for the past 3 or 4 years). Here I have been offered a research job, which I decided to accept. This means that I have now officially quit my job at the Accessibility foundation. This doesn't mean that I'm going game audio all the way, however, since game accessibility remains one of my big interest areas. Although for the next couple of months my main focus is on game audio design, after I finish my thesis I have the chance to setup projects related to audio and game accessibility, but now at the HKU and still in collaboration with Accessibility. I might even have more room for setting up projects where I work now then before.

  One thing to think about, as I already discussed with Michelle, is www.game-accessibility.com. Accessibility wants to change how the website is run, partially because the foundation has too little manpower, partially because we want to make the website available for more people. The foundation proposes to set up a Projectgroup Game-Accessibility.com in which the website is made available to the GA-SIG to basically do to it what needs to be done, and make it (to an extend) GA-SIG Resource Website*. This is just a first plan, if someone has their own ideas, please speak up. 

  Greets,

  Richard


  * As I've understood we're in a tricky spot at the moment with all them websites. I personally would like to simply have a website http://www.gasig.org and put all SIG related stuff on it (which includes IGDA SIG and DIGRA SIG stuff). This could BE the IGDA website as far as I'm concerned, just with an extra URL. And then use GA.com for resources (papers, articles) and community (forum, mailinglist) only. 



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