Excellent...ravidrathDecember 15 2004, 19:34:16 UTC
Excellent - expect my application soon.
I hope that you're talking to the IGDA, because a partnership between GameWatch.org and the IGDA could help a lot in allowing the IGDA to create its QoI workplace certification program.
Also will be sending this link around so that the media covers this, too. :)
Re: Excellent...ea_spouseDecember 15 2004, 19:39:58 UTC
Thank you again, Peter. =) Your regular contributions to the discussion and the information you provided throughout it are very much appreciated.
I am talking to the IGDA, and I'm hoping that we can combine efforts to some degree. I did feel it was important for a future watchdog organization to be independent -- the IGDA is a great organization, but its primary focus is "the industry" and sometimes that gets divorced from the notion of the actual people who work there. But a partnership as you mention would be mutually beneficial, I think.
Re: Excellent...ravidrathDecember 15 2004, 19:43:09 UTC
While the IGDA is focused on the industry, I think it sees the current QoI issue you started up as its defining moment.
I kind of see it as an information sharing thing - you collect the data on GameWatch.org and the IGDA uses it help determine which companies are truly good places to work.
Re: Excellent...ea_spouseDecember 15 2004, 19:49:26 UTC
An apt point. I do see Gamewatch as a sort of huge data trove and feedback engine for the industry. The IGDA likely would be best suited to taking the cream of that information and creating something official with it. Like most of the industry it seems a delicate balance, though; in looking out for the industry as a whole, the IGDA has connections to the larger structures that support it (corporations), though I noted recently that the IGDA is splitting from CMP -- it will be interesting to see what effects that has. It doesn't take much to see that corporations are not going to be very happy about the notion of restructuring for worker benefit, though. All we can do is go forward and hope that it (Gamewatch) has some effect.
Re: Excellent...casvale_aznableDecember 15 2004, 23:41:11 UTC
I think that this is a clear step in the right direction. The IGDA has done well at protecing industry rights, but one body cannot possibly handle all of the issues that are present in the industry. Within the industry itself (with less regard to the court battles the industry has with the government), it seems that some sort of body concerned with the standards of employment and dissemination of relevant information would be extremely useful. Inevitably I believe it will result in the formation of a union, but perhaps that would only be a good thing with the state of the industry as it is.
Kudos to you for doing the right thing! It takes a lot of guts to go through with what you're doing, but it needs to be done!
Lookin' Good!ravidrathDecember 16 2004, 16:53:12 UTC
NeoPong... What is that? Built in QBasic, perhaps? Good show! Still working out of mom and dad's basement? Got you website's Flash on? Don't worry, EA has no interest in your armature adventure.
I hope that you're talking to the IGDA, because a partnership between GameWatch.org and the IGDA could help a lot in allowing the IGDA to create its QoI workplace certification program.
Also will be sending this link around so that the media covers this, too. :)
-Peter
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I am talking to the IGDA, and I'm hoping that we can combine efforts to some degree. I did feel it was important for a future watchdog organization to be independent -- the IGDA is a great organization, but its primary focus is "the industry" and sometimes that gets divorced from the notion of the actual people who work there. But a partnership as you mention would be mutually beneficial, I think.
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I kind of see it as an information sharing thing - you collect the data on GameWatch.org and the IGDA uses it help determine which companies are truly good places to work.
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Kudos to you for doing the right thing! It takes a lot of guts to go through with what you're doing, but it needs to be done!
Sincerely,
Charles Galyon
NeoPong Software, Inc.
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