IRDC 2008

IRDC - Rgrd Meeting 2008

Name:  IRDC
Time:  Saturday, September 20.
Place: Berlin, Germany
Venue: bootlab.org
Chat:  IRC: QuakeNet #rgrd
News:  rec.games.roguelike.development
Wiki:  http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Rgrd_meeting (you are here :-)
People: 9

TODO

• Fon: Get cellphone numbers for better communication in town, maybe buy prepaid SIMs
• Goals: Define some goals. (Code, Docs, Fun, Learning.)
• Map: Get short URLs for location
• Map: Accomodation (where is everyone staying?)

Food for Thought

http://xkcd.com/91/ :
Welcome to text-only Counterstrike.
You are in a dark, outdoor map.
> GO NORTH
You have been pwned by a grue.

Comment by the author of the cartoon:

I'm sure a discussion of the reason for the disappearance
of adventure games in favor of RPGs would be fascinating.

Discuss! ;-)

Communication

Summary: Communication is mostly done by chat, some by private email, and via this wiki page.

Chat

IRC: QuakeNet #rgrd

Mail

rec.games.roguelike.development

Web

Wiki: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Rgrd_meeting (you are here :-)

Presentations

• "Major mistakes of roguelike developers" -- Kornel Kisielewicz (title subject to change)
• "Implementing stealth using explicit facing" -- Ido Yehieli (aka Joe6pack)
• "Batteries included - introduction to writing your game in Python" -- Radomir Dopieralski (aka The Sheep)
• "Context and Meaning in character based roleplaying. A communication scientist's view on roguelikes" -- Mario Donick
• "The Discretization of Space and Time: Role in Roguelike Design" -- JeffLait

Participation

please enter the dates of your presence, your name and origin (point of departure), and possibly some contact info (email address, irc nick, icq number, cellphone number!).

a bold face means "todo" - or "to decide". to confirm your presence simply change the bold face on the dates by changing the exclamation mark '!' to a pipe '|' - thankyou!

Calendar:

Sep18 Thu

Sep19 Fri

Sep20 Sat

Sep21 Sun

Sep22 Mon

Sep23 Tue

please add an email address so broadcasts are possible! where exactly are you guys staying in berlin? these info would make it easier in looking for a suitable place for the convention. adding a phone number will certainly make it easier to stay in touch with each other. more info, guys!

Participants - sorted by last name.

18	19	20	21	22	23	Name	Origin	Remark
18?	19	20	21	22?	23?	Brandt - Christopher Brandt	Germany	Will have a place to stay (or maybe even my own flat)
---	---	20	21	---	---	Donick - Mario Donick	Rostock, Germany	don't need a hotel; sleep at my mother near Berlin
18?	19?	20?	21?	22?	23?	Dopieralski, Radomir User:Sheep	Origin	got a place to crash already
---	19?	20	21	22?	---	Dorn, Andreas - adornno1@web.de	Germany	partially live in Berlin
18	19	20	21	22	23	Hartmann, Chris - roguelike@gnarg.org	Germany	Berlin, invited you to bootlab
---	19	20	21	22	---	Ido - ido - ido.yehieli@gmail.com, +43-664-5585708	Vienna, Austria.	can stay at youth hostel or something of that sort
18?	19?	20?	21?	22?	23?	Kisielewicz - Kornel Kisielewicz	Origin	---
---	19	20	21	22	23	Lait - Jeff Lait until Tue!	Origin	intend on locating hotel relatively near event location
---	19	20	21	22	23?	Milesss - Milesss - milesss at interia dot pl, (+48)791461054	Poland	staying at hostel

Equipment

Who takes care of what?

Hardware	File Server	who?
Hardware	Video Camera	Jeff Lait
Misc	Batteries	who?
Misc	Cables	who?
Misc	Power Extensions	who?
Misc	USB Sticks	who?
Net	Access Point	who?
Net	Internet	who?
Net	Hubs+Switches	who?

Venue

bootlab
http://www.bootlab.org
Oranienburger Strasse 54, 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
http://tinyurl.com/5vcbut (google maps)

The bootlab is part of the 'Kunsthaus Tacheles':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Tacheles

Public Transport (BVG):

BVG Local Map
direct: Tram:   M1+M6     U-Oranienburger Tor
direct: UBahn:  U6 (N6)   U-Oranienburger Tor
  near: Bus:    147       Friedrichstrasse/Reinhardtstrasse
        Bus:    240       Torstrasse/ U-Oranienburger Tor
        Sbahn:  S1+S2+S25 S-Oranienburger Strasse

Voting

Status: [2008-08-14 All votes have been completed.

Vote#1: Place: Berlin.de

Status: done.  Berlin, Germany!

To vote add a your name next to the city/month and update the counter. City:

• Berlin, Germany (9 votes): ido, RotateMe, Kisielewicz, JeffLait, the_ru, Radomir Dopieralski, purestrain, I_Own_The_Letter_O, Mario Donick
• Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2 votes): njerpe, Almafeta
• Cracow, Poland (1 vote): Jakub Debski
• Stockholm, Sweden(1 vote): Bj????rn Ritzl
• Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1 vote): Mingos

Date:

• September 2008 (6 votes): Almafeta, Bj????rn, Mario Donick, Mingos, ido, the ru
• October 2008 (2 vote): RotateMe, purestrain

Vote#2: Date: Sat Sep20

Status: done.  Sep20!

To vote add a your name next to the date of the first day and update the counter:

• Saturday, September 6
• Saturday, September 13
• Saturday, September 20 (3 votes): ido, the ru, Mario Donick
• Saturday, September 27
• Saturday, October 4

Vote#3: Venue: bootlab

Status: [2008-08-14] bootlab!

• bootlab - winner! :)
• c-base
• Chaos Computer Club

Thanks Gregoa, Chris & Sven! (also: Bfoo, Bine, Ric and the others)

Vote#4: Name: IRDC

Status: done. IRDC 2008!

• [1] IRDC 2008 (3 votes): ido, Jeff Lait, Mario Donick
• [2] TRICoRD (0 votes):
• [3] SARGE (0 votes):
• [4] AMPHORA (0 votes):
• [5] DUPRE (0 votes):

Meaning (expansion of acronyms):

• [1] IRDC = International Roguelike Development Conference 2008
• [2] TRICoRD = Tailoring Roguelikes: International Conference on Roguelike Development
• [3] SARGE = Society for the Advancement of Roguelike Games and Endeavors
• [4] AMPHORA = A Multinational Populace Helping to Orchestrate Roguelike Awareness
• [5] DUPRE = Developer's Union for the Promotion of Roguelike Endeavors