[games_access] GDC 2008 -- who is going + acceptance update

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Michelle,

unfortunately, it seems very unlikely that i'll be able to to attend  
this year.

however if there are plans to publish one or more white papers or  
similar I would like to contribute.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet



On 10 Nov 2007, at 22:44, d. michelle hinn wrote:

Hi everyone,

GDC acceptances are starting to trickle in (Dec 1 is when we'll know  
everything -- some prelim sessions are already on their website at  
www.gdconf.com but these are sessions that didn't go through the main  
system and/or were invited so no one panic!).

Some good news -- I just learned this week that Reid's proposal on  
programming a dynamic [cc] system was accepted through the regular  
proposal system so I'm hopeful that this is a good sign for us! That  
was an early bit of feedback...so cool!!!! I'm not certain but I  
think this is the first time this talk has been accepted (unless I'm  
mixed up -- I'm pretty sure he's put this in once or twice) so we're  
starting to do something right! :)

On the schedule already is the accessibility arcade. We also have the  
Meet and Greet, which is being hosted by Eelke. Eelke, you are  
hosting the meet and greet. :) More info on this soon but this is the  
session that was held at the IGDA booth last year and oddly  
interrupted by PBS filming some of us eating (some of us who were so  
starved we had to use a part of that time to eat or we would have  
died!). I thought that you'd have some great ideas about maximizing  
this opportunity, especially after we talked a bit about it and the  
rest of GDC at E for All.

I need to be sure that I have everyone's name who is hoping to go to  
GDC. Please confirm this with me by emailing me at hinn at uiuc.edu (to  
avoid list excess traffic) and if you need extra passes for ADA  
purposes, let me know that too and how many you'll need. Also, if you  
require a ramp, interpreter, or other accommodation due to  
disability, please let me know that too as putting in ramps, etc do  
take additional time to arrange. I still can't promise we'll get all  
the passes we want but I'm trying. So far we have now covered three  
of us

Note that ADA accommodations do NOT effect our pass count so if  
someone requires an assistant that does not mean that we have fewer  
passes to reflect this. These accommodations are US law and CMP (the  
group that runs GDC) is VERY good at respecting that with absolutely  
no questions. Unfortunately not every conference group is as  
enlightened -- I've had to deal in the past with groups that try to  
penalize people for the accommodations they are supposed to provide.  
So it's very refreshing that CMP has always been a "no questions  
asked/what can we do to provide the best accommodations" group!

Michelle
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