[IGDA_indies] GDC indie-gathering

[Jason Della Rocca]

Hi all,

Great to see the imaginative discussions re: GDC action.

Bottom line, you guys can do what you want - as long as you have the 
time/energy to do it. As Brandon mentioned, SIGs are meant to be fairly 
flat/organic groups - whoever wants to step up, usually can.

A few points:

- don't bother with flyers. They'll get binned faster than you can hand 
them out. Remember, GDC is info overload and developers get handed tons and 
tons of stuff. I would say simple word-of-mouth, and post-GDC follow-up 
would be most effective (ie, a PS in a follow email saying "hey, don't 
forget about the SIG I mentioned")...

- if you feel the need to hand something out, I'd suggest a business card 
format "flyer". Go to Kinkos buy a small pack of printable/tearable card 
sheets. Print the logo, the url, and 3 bullets of what the SIG is. Then 
hand those out to seemingly INTERESTED PEOPLE (of course, in addition to 
your usual business card). What's better with biz cards is that people 
usually hold on to them during/after the show and they usual go through 
them when the get back...

- in terms of a SIG gathering on the schedule, it is too late. I goofed and 
was not able to get things together (ie, find a volunteer) before the 
deadline several months ago...


- be sure to look over the schedule as I believe there are several indie 
oriented sessions on the list (eg, "secrets of successful indies" is one I 
remember)

Regards,
	Jason

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