[IGDA-NYC-announce] Game Dev Bar Camp in Boston this weekend

[Wade Tinney]

There's an interesting event happening up in Boston this weekend. There's a
note from one of the organizers below. I thought some of you might be
interested enough to jump on the Acela. Also, I've talked to a few folks
about organizing a bar camp in NYC, so hopefully this will get people
thinking about that. 

Cheers!

Wade


Begin note from Darius Kazemi: 

Scott MacMillan and I are putting together an all-day event on Saturday,
August 23rd at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab that we're calling
GameLoop.  It's a self-organizing game conference: people show up and, if
they have a talk they'd like to give or a roundtable they'd like to
moderate, they throw it up onto the board.  There are rooms for people to
meet in, and a big board to coordinate it all.

We've seen this style of "un-conference" in action at BarCamp earlier this
year, and it was great - pretty much the single highest signal-to-noise
ratio in anything I've gone to.  There's no entrance fee, but we will ask
people to donate $20 or so to help us cover costs, if they're willing.  Our
plan is to also get some sponsorship for lunch, and if possible to get
sponsorship for a videographer to record things.  That night, groups of
people will probably head to dinner to hang out.  And as a side note - we're
limiting attendance to industry professionals. Academics and students who
have worked at game companies are considered professionals, but basically we
want this to be a by devs, for devs event.

If you'd like to RSVP, drop us a line at bostongameloop at gmail.com, and we'll
add you to the list.  We've set up a wiki at www.bostongameloop.com with
more info on things - please feel free to take a look.  We'd also love to
get some possible talks up on there - if you're interested in speaking on
something, just let us know.

We hope you can make it!  We also hope you'll pass the word on to other
industry types that you know.

People are always complaining (ourselves included) how there are never any
industry conferences in Boston.  Hopefully this summer we will change that.