[games_access] same proposal in multiple tracks

[d. michelle hinn]

>Sweet !
>
>Cool so can I help organize /coordinate the accessibility task force
>and use my physical appearance to intimidate game developers and get
>their asses at our talks?

Hehe. Ok, but you have to tell me what an accessibility task force is 
first! And remember I'm the "accessibility evangelist" (as Richard 
dubbed me) so I'm always for multiple approaches because it spreads 
the word! Yes, I think if you stood in front of the doors to other 
talks and pointed at our room, looking super fierce that would help. 
;)

>What we need:
>- cool shirts

So as Barrie found out...Cafe Press yanked our design. I'm going to 
shop around town here at some t-shirt shops to find out cost per 
shirt and where the quantity price breaks are. Can you do the same in 
Reno? Wherever there's a university, there's t-shirt shops. Then we 
can compare prices for bulk shirt orders. And we need some place who 
will print the ghosts. :D

Should we go with the file Barrie sent? That would make sense to me. 
It might need to be tweaked in photoshop if we are going to print it 
on black, which always adds a little extra work. Richard, can you 
help us tweak Barrie's file so that it can be printed (and look good) 
on black? We definitely needs some shirts of some sort for E for All 
but I don't know where we can get them quickly enough if Vista Print 
can't do it.

>- if only we had booth babes/hunks to help us.

hmmmmm....this probably isn't gonna happen unless we figure out where 
we can find a set of really good looking people who all want to stand 
at the booth for free. :D So I guess we'll all just have to do our 
best to be as baby (babish? babelike?) and as hunky as we can. 
Hmm...I just remembered that my class is making an accessible game 
with sexual themes...well maybe the graphics guys in the class can 
make us some avatars we can make lifesize cutouts of? Lol.

>- brief concise flyers with 10 little nuggets of knowledge that can be
>pinned to a game developers cubicle and provide immediate inspiration
>on how to improve his or her game. Draft topics list (lets vote on
>what should be on here & this is in no way a promotion of my work I
>suggest we keep the number of "adds' to a minimum maybe just a link to
>the igda / accessibility sig so they can find the rest from there):
>   1. Closed captions
>   2. Customizable controls
>   3. Slow
>   4. Assists
>   5. x
>   6. x
>   7. x
>   8. x
>   9.x
>10. x

Well we have our current top ten list (it's somewhere on the wiki too 
but I'm still madly typing) -- that has a lot on it. We can update it 
though -- so far I think the ones you suggest are on the list. So 
maybe take a look at the list we've used for the past two years and 
see what can be consolidated, added, subtracted, better explained. 
And then we can start there with the addition of other ideas and then 
we can discuss/vote on what makes the cut for the flier. As you said, 
the rest can be on the sig site.

I think we're getting there for GDC -- I'm already feeling pumped now 
that we have you looking at the "what to do when you aren't speaking" 
plan of attack and I'll keep charge of the proposals and CMP stuff.

So we do both and hopefully reap the benefits of having a real plan 
in place for negotiating the talks AND the expo. There's no reason to 
drop proposals when so many get axed anyway and they are important 
too -- but networking is just as important and it will no doubt help 
get more people into our talks and visiting our booth. And it's also 
something that happens after a talk, during Q&A and when people come 
up to you to swap cards with you. So with strong proposals like we 
have and a strong marketing plan, it can only serve to help us!

Kick. Ass. :D

Michelle