[DiGRA UK] Update on last week's meeting

[Esther MacCallum-Stewart]

Hi all,

Here is the report from last week's meeting. If anyone has anything to add
to this, or it's not clear, please let me know. We will then get this and
the previous proceedings onto the main website. I will start a separate
strand for committee volunteers; please feel free to come forwards and
suggest your area! as discussed, these might be very specific (eg. Bristol
and Avon), or much larger (South West England) according to need and
density. It may also be that people want to share this role in some
instances. I will then pool these and add all the nominations / volunteers
to a Survey Monkey.

DiGRA UK meeting.

The group discussed the findings of the workshop (see previous mail), and
agreed that a more open approach to events than simply seminars was a
useful way to proceed. This will also enable us to support different
aspects of gaming in the UK, and to support scholars through a variety of
means.

Membership.

Several options were discussed, with the conclusion that Institutional
membership might be a viable option for institutions that wished to host
DiGRA events. This would also enable non-members to attend (at present the
chapter wishes to encourage as many people as possible to attend, and to
broaden our network).

Action: EMS has mailed DiGRA in order to ascertain who is covered by
Institutional Membership (the place or the people?)
Action: ME has investigated the possibilties for a bank account and related
financial requirements.

The Committee.

The committee will be responsible for making decisions regarding
forthcoming DiGRA events and other matters as arising

The committee needs to comprise a relatively flexible group of people,
including the current host institution, who will be responsible for
chairing each meeting.

Committee members will be formed from area representatives. These may be
relatively specific, since games studies groups often cluster together, and
individuals should feel free to propose their own / negotiate with others
to provide appropriate coverage of the UK.

We will solicit applications for this shortly and will use a Survey Monkey
for voting.

Other roles are also required, and again we will solicit these via the
newsgroup and Facebook page.

Mark Eyles has volunteered to become Treasurer, and is currently acting in
this role.
Nia Wearn has volunteered to become Secretary and is currently acting in
this role.
Ashley Brown has volunteered to manage the website and is currently acting
in this role. Ashley also currently sits on the International Board.
Esther MacCallum-Stewart is the current acting Chair after the first event
at the DCRC, and is also happy to work to diffuse e-mails and other
correspondence as necessary (this is primarily because it is coming through
me at present).

Dissemination.

It was agreed that all DiGRA events should produce proceedings in some
form. However, the mode of this was up to the host organisation and
therefore might comprise of video, streaming, written proceedings, reports
or presentations as appropriate. Again this is to enable a variety of
outputs to emerge in line with the requirements of each host organisation.

It was also agreed that expanding the profile of DiGRA UK is of key
importance at this point, in order to develop the profile of games and Game
Studies in the UK.

Since the meeting, we have reconnected with the DCRC DiGRA UK website which
was purpose built in 2012. This needs some updating but is available as a
resource, should we need it.

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Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Senior Lecturer: Games, New Media and Online Communities (The University of
Surrey)
Research Fellow (Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE)
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