[arg_discuss] ARG SIG Conference

[Anthony F. Saad]

Wendy

I agree whole heartedly with your comments. Having been to one argfest  
as well I agree that that the community is focussed and has a great  
sense of family that is way and above what might be found in an  
'industry conference'.

An idea you might wish to consider is to take the SIG on the road to  
specific conferences for publishing, game Dev, television, etc. You  
know, bring the mountain to them rather than wait for them to turn  
up / catch up.



-T

Sent from my iPod so there maybe typos


On 6-Aug-09, at 4:52 PM, "Wendy Despain" <wendeth at wendydespain.com>  
wrote:


> Hey Burcu,

>

> We're definitely excited about this idea and hoping for input from

> everybody. We spent a lot of time thinking about how this idea impacts

> ARGfest, and whether we should try to combine, or not.

>

> Our conclusion (and one of the people on the SIG leadership council is

> an ARGfest organizer as well) was that these really should remain two

> different conferences.

>

> Unfiction is really a tight-knit community, and ARGfest is really

> their opportunity to get together in real life and cement those online

> relationships and celebrate ARGs. I've been to ARGfest (sadly, only

> once) and it's a great conference, very focused and unique.

>

> But this conference run by the ARG SIG is really reaching for a

> broader audience. Everyone from Unfiction is certainly included in

> that audience, and we hope they'll attend, for sure. But we're also

> hoping to include everyone who is vaguely interested in anything

> ARG-like - not just people who have been building relationships on

> Unfiction.

>

> We're hoping to make it a meeting between the creative side of ARGs

> and the business side. While this may be fascinating to a lot of

> Unfiction members - others at Unfiction prefer to remain as players,

> not peeking behind the curtain so much. And we want to allow Unfiction

> to go on celebrating and growing ARGfest without trying to get too

> many cooks in the kitchen and diluting their focus.

>

> Does that make sense? I really think we're talking about two very

> different events. ARGfest has a great homey, community vibe. I'm

> hoping our SIG conference (whatever it's called) has more of a

> professional, business,

> my-employer-paid-for-this-trip-so-it-better-be-valuable vibe.

>

> I think ARGfest would lose something if we tried to shoe-horn it into

> a conference like that.

>

> And I think our large ARG-related community could really use a meeting

> of the minds between television producers, book publishers, ARG

> creators, advertising studios, etc. All the people and businesses ARGs

> touch, but who may not be as invested in ARGs as the Unfiction

> community is.

>

> Does that make sense? I hope so! Like I said, we definitely want to

> hear everyone's thoughts on this, but we've already looked at it from

> quite a few angles, and we've come to the conclusion that this is the

> way to go. If we're wrong, we definitely want to know! But I hope

> laying out our reasoning helps to explain where we're coming from on

> this.

>

> Wendy Despain

> ARG SIG Leadership Council

>

>

>

>

> On Thu, August 6, 2009 12:40 pm, Burcu Bakioglu wrote:

>> Andrea, what a great idea! From my extensive experience in Second

>> Life Community Conventions, I recommend that we combine ARGFest and

>> the ARG sig conference under one roof so the participation would

>> increase on both events. Otherwise people would choose one over the

>> other and neither would be too well-atended. It would needlessly

>> introduce a separation between acadeic topics and community related

>> topics and weaken both events. Right now I am in ohio going back to

>> Indiana, but I can write a more extensive email on this upon my

>> return tonight. We don't want to weaken ARGFest and undermine

>> unfiction. Also this joint venture would bring in more investors and

>> make financing easier...

>>

>> Two cents...

>>

>> *hugs* to all missed you already :)

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Andrea Phillips <andrhia at gmail.com>

>> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:48 PM

>> To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG <arg_discuss at igda.org>

>> Subject: [arg_discuss] ARG SIG Conference

>>

>> Behind the scenes, your SIG leadership has been hard at work scheming

>> up new schemes and plotting new plots for the benefit of all ARGkind.

>> Our newest brainwave is this: Let's hold a conference! But we need

>> your help in establishing what would be a good time and place for  

>> such

>> an event.

>>

>> To that end, could you please spend one minute answering two simple

>> questions on this teeny-tiny survey?

>>

>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YXlKrEov0jt_2bHyY8ZVpuCg_3d_3d

>>

>> Thanks bunches!

>>

>> --

>> Andrea Phillips

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> Wendy Despain

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