[DiGRA UK] FW: regional digra chapters

[Ashley Brown]

I will ask paul to email paolo ASAP.
Ashley
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From: Esther MacCallum-Stewart [neveah at gmail.com]
Sent: 13 February 2015 09:52
To: Paolo Ruffino
Cc: Ashley Brown; uk at digra.org
Subject: Re: [DiGRA UK] FW: regional digra chapters

Paolo,

This is a great idea, and happy to take up the opportunity - would it be possible to contact Paul (since this was his suggestion) and moot this?

Esther

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Paolo Ruffino <contact at paoloruffino.com<mailto:contact at paoloruffino.com>> wrote:
If you guys want to have a dedicated slot on the conference schedule, please let me know as we are currently sorting out the schedule for the 4 days of the conference.
I think it could be a good idea to have a session for regional meetings only, separated from the main DiGRA meeting.
best


On 12 February 2015 at 12:22, Ashley Brown <Ashley.Brown at brunel.ac.uk<mailto:Ashley.Brown at brunel.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hello all,

Paul Martin sent me this email earlier today and I got his permission to share it with you all. Was wondering what we all thought of it? I know in the past Hannah Wirman tried to organise similar events at DiGRA conferences- we had one last year but more informal.

Personally, I think it is a fantastic idea. I can envision quick ‘State of the Union’ type addresses with each chapter doing a 5 minute run down of current chapter activity. I also think this might be something to take to the board (which I will do now) to see if we can make it a regular thing.

Please feel free to share thoughts,

Ashley ML Brown
Lecturer in Games Design
www.AMLBrown.com<http://www.AMLBrown.com>
Brunel University London
College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
119 Gaskell Building, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom



From: Paul Martin [mailto:Paul.Martin at nottingham.edu.cn<mailto:Paul.Martin at nottingham.edu.cn>]
Sent: 12 February 2015 00:54
To: Ashley Brown
Subject: regional digra chapters

Hello Ashley,

Hope you’re well and all is as it should be in Uxbridge. I'm writing to you in relation to UK DiGRA. As you know, I’m involved in Chinese DiGRA and we’re thinking of ways for regional chapters (and their research) to increase visibility at events such as the main DiGRA conference. We were kicking around the idea of having a regular event at DiGRA where representatives of the respective chapters highlighted a number of pieces of research from their region. Is this something you think would benefit UK games research and can you think of anyone involved in UK DiGRA who would be interested in it? At the moment this is just an initial idea—I’m making contact with other DiGRA chapters to see who else would be interested.

Best, Paul

Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications
School of International Communications
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