[arg_discuss] A possible way forward? - first steps - catch-up 2

[Christy Dena]

Here is a recap of the initiatives with updates on who has put their hand up
for what, and which ones need people:

* Annotated bibliography - Colin McNee (colinmcnee at yahoo.com), Christy
Dena...
* ARG Developers - Michelle Senderhauf (varineq at gmail.com), Jan Libby ...
* History of ARGs - Michelle Senderhauf (varineq at gmail.com) ...
* Antecedents to ARGs - Bryan Alexander (Bryan.Alexander at nitle.org) ...
* ARGs in Education & Training - Alex Moseley (am14 at leicester.ac.uk) ...
* ARG Design -
* ARG Research - 
* Business Models -
* ARG player demographics -
* ARG definitions - 

Also, if anyone has any links or ideas they would like to suggest, they can
email a person directly or ping the list if the initiative doesn't have a
volunteer. Perhaps with a subject line like 'ARGOLOGY - Defs', or not!

Best,
Christy

-----Original Message-----
From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org] On
Behalf Of Christy Dena
Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 00:23
To: 'Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG'
Subject: Re: [arg_discuss] A possible way forward? - first steps - catch-up

Great!

OK, here is your catch-up/storysofar/recap email. :) 

On the 25th April I was surfing the web when I stumbled upon...nah. hehe. 

1) DOMAIN NAME
Thanks to all the ace folks who dreamed up a domain name: Michelle
Senderhauf, Jan Libby, Bryan Alexander, Adrien Marie and Marc Williams. I
know many of you have put in your votes through email but I've created a
poll. The reason being I figure that more people may vote if it is
anonymous, and we can have a set structure and end time for the poll. This
will come through in an email following this one. Let me know if I got
something wrong on it! 

2) SOFTWARE + HOSTING
Great! We have three offers to host (well 4 actually, as I was going to be a
back-up): John Evans, Ivan Askwith and Adam Martin! John was first off the
rank and so looks like that is a go. [Adam, DH has ssh & ftp & sftp access
etc with the ability to set privileges for different users so should be OK.
But John can confirm.]

3) INITIATIVES
I've moved, added and deleted names according to those ace people who voiced
their preferences and those who didn't. Lots more to fill!

* Annotated bibliography - Driver: Colin McNee? Team members: Colin, Christy
Dena + ...
* ARG Developers - Driver: Michelle Senderhauf. Team members: Christy Dena +
* Business Models - ...
* History of ARGs - Driver: Michelle Senderhauf...
* Antecedents to ARGs - Driver: Bryan Alexander ...
* ARG Design - ...
* ARGs in Education & Training - Driver: Alex Moseley...
* ARG Research - ...
* ARG player demographics -...
* ARG definitions - ...

4) GRAPHICS
Alex Moseley has put his hand up if no-one else steps forward instead or as
well. :)

5) LAUNCH:
Michelle "varin" Senderhauf has proposed the target date for the first
reveal of this portal/resource/thingie initiative as ARG Fest, which is in
Boston on July 18-20: http://www.argfestocon.com/. Great idea.

Onward ho!

Best,
Christy

-----Original Message-----
From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org] On
Behalf Of Adam Martin
Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2008 20:45
To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG
Subject: Re: [arg_discuss] A possible way forward? - first steps

On 02/05/2008, John Evans <btradish at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >2) SOFTWARE + HOSTING

> >As for software, I think a blog type style for the front part. (We can

> >change this anytime of course.) The blog software is pretty easy to use

for

> >everyone, enables us to have posts indicating updates and pages for each

> >initiative. Or perhaps someone recommends Moodle instead or some other

> >software? And then have a wiki and forum as well.

> >

> >Who wants to host? It needs to be either free or at low cost. John Evans,

> >did you put your hand up?


Wow - great to see not one but multiple offers of hosting :).

The IGDA hosting is free but has been less than ideal :(.

I think nearly all problems to date came down to:
 - lack of direct access to ssh/ftp install plugins and new software
 - lack of direct access to webserver root and config

Wherever its hosted we also need to be sure we can get the data out
easily, both for backups and if we ever need to move it (I've been
bitten by that before).

Similar need for access applies to domain registration. We need to
have several people with admin access to the domain and each able to
pay renewal fees. Its very hard to workaround this stuff when your
site disappears at renewal time :).

Is that possible?


> Well, I have my Dreamhost account where I host a few websites.


Cool. If you've got DB and ssh or ftp access that should be fine.

If not, I've got a spare dedicated server that's currently just
running some simple wordpess blogs and is ridiculously overpowered for
what it's doing.
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