IRDC 2008

IRDC - Rgrd Meeting 2008

Name:  IRDC
Time:  Saturday, September 20.
Place: Berlin, Germany
Venue: bootlab.org
People: 8 (more?)

TODO

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

Presentations

• "Major mistakes of roguelike developers" -- Kornel Kisielewicz (title subject to change)
• "Tutorial - roguelike development in c (for beginners)" -- 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!).

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:

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

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?

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 & 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