[games_access] Game Accessibility Conference

[Reid Kimball]

I would love to go to Crete.

Other options in the US are Dallas, Austin or San Francisco. All three
have high densities of developers in a small area. I think that will
help get developers to attend if the conference is close to them.

-Reid

On 5/21/07, Dimitris Grammenos <gramenos at ics.forth.gr> wrote:
> Hi Michelle,
>
> As we discussed before we would be very happy to host this event in Crete.
> I guess a good time would be October - it's still very warm and nice, prices
> are cheaper and it's about midway between 2 consecutive GDCs.
>
> Dimitris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
> On Behalf Of d. michelle hinn
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:02 PM
> To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
> Subject: [games_access] Game Accessibility Conference
>
> Hi all,
>
> So I've mentioned this before but we should probably start discussing
> it for real. The IGDA would like to support our efforts in creating a
> one-day conference on Game Accessibility. Now this could be something
> attached to another conference (like GDC) or on it's own as a
> "summit" at a time where we aren't so frazzled from GDC.
>
> This is one of the things I'll be bringing up at the online meetings
> this week so I'd appreciate ideas for location, dates, how wide we
> cast the net (ie, do we personally court a person from every major
> game company we can to attend), do we want it to be small the first
> year and then cast the net wider the next year?
>
> What are your thoughts? Basically the IGDA now has a group that does
> conference/summit set ups for us so we tell them what we want and
> they deal with the registration, hotel block reservations, venue,
> some advertising, etc. So that's what make it's a very cool
> opportunity!
>
> Michelle
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