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.)
- 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
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