[IGDA_indies] GDC indie-gathering

[Ben Sawyer]

Jason can correct me but what I can tell you is that as he said leaving
stuff on tables is not allowed - they send sweepers through to pick =
stuff up
so not only is frowned upon but it won't go very far.  At times though =
there
is sometimes a table that is allowed but I'm not sure if that feature =
has
been kept.

What I would do is maybe we could design a simple half page flyer =
everyone
could take and print out at a their local Kinkos and take 50 of them =
with
them to GDC.  Then what you do is just hand them out to people you meet =
who
might be interested.  I'm not saying hand them out at random just as you
meet people have something to give them.  I did this last years with the
Serious Games list and aside from my session it helped get me a dozen or
more participants.  If there were ten or more people going it would be
pretty easy for each person to hand out 20-30 just from people you =
casually
meet out there, or at parties and stuff afterwards.  There is also =
nothing
stopping people from an informal gathering at a local pub etc. if =
someone is
willing to declare a time and place. =20

At the very least talk things up - tell people it exists and get their =
card
if they're interested and say you'll send them an invite to the list =
when
you get back.  This is where relevant roundtables are useful since =
you'll
get a chance to announce you have some info for people if they're
interested. =20

Granted these things aren't as good as an official meeting or a huge =
banner
at the front of the conference center but they'll work.  It's got to be =
a
person by person effort at this point. =20

- Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: indies-admin@igda.org [mailto:indies-admin@igda.org] On Behalf Of
Tron-sama [Brandii]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:54 PM
To: indies@igda.org
Subject: Re: [IGDA_indies] GDC indie-gathering


Jason,=20

Could we, as a sig, put something together some hand-outs for the GDC? =
Would
we have to get permission from someone to do this? For that matter, who
would be in charge/eligable to submit a proposal to do an indie-sig
gathering at the GDC? I would assume, so far, Brian is the only eligable
member to do this task. For future reference, is there some sort of =
pre-reqs
we are going to place on people in such power positions for the =
indie-sig?
(I.e. - position in a company, number of commercial releases, etc.)


@>-----`--------
Brandii R. Grace
    - Just a gal looking for work :)



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> Regarding SIG promotion at GDC...
>=20
> With 70+ chapters, a dozen committees and SIGs, and many other=20
> subgroups
> and initiatives, the IGDA simply cannot put out flyers/etc, and do=20
> marketing for each one. Rather, we work on general awareness of the =
IGDA
as=20
> a whole and try to point people in the direction.
>=20
> That said, several of the above groups do have specific sessions to=20
> address
> their needs (eg, Womens Group Gather, HR tutorial, AI SIG standards, =
etc,=20
> etc). Some groups do their own stuff like hand out flyers, or create
custom=20
> t-shirts, etc.
>=20
> Last year, we had a group gathering session for indie developers. This
> year, when I was trying to put plans together, I didn't get much =
response=20
> from anyone (not pointing fingers, but I think Brian was moving that
week).=20
> Sadly, there's no GG for indies on the schedule this year :(
>=20
> Sorry.
>=20
> Jason
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