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DC Area Mobile Collaborations

A conversation and an initiative to encourage collaboration on mobile projects and platforms among local area museum, tourism, and cultural organizations.

If you’d like to host a DC area mobile meet-up or join our mailing list, let us know!

Meetings & Minutes:

17 Aug 2011: Notes from the Big Game meet-up at the Smithsonian’s Welcome Wednesday

Collaborators so far: National Archives, Postal Museum, National Zoo, National Museum of Natural History, Crime and Punishment Museum, Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Building Museum

Goals:

  • A platform to connect DC cultural institutions and enable collaborations and knowledge-sharing
  • A fun way for visitors to engage with the fundamental issues, challenges and aims of collecting institutions by experiences processes of selection, collecting and preservation of key objects, concepts and information for transmission and interpretation to present and future generations.
  • A learning opportunity to develop problem-solving skills and knowledge in key STEAM areas.

Questions being addressed:

  • Branding and marketing
  • URL
  • Setting up admin access to the game’s backend for participating organizations
  • How do the other challenges and check-ins on SCVNGR play into the game? The narrative helps make sense of these, incorporating them into the natural “collecting” activity and experience of the game.
  • Bringing teachers into beta-testing and further development of the game.
  • NAMING THE GAME: please email Rachel or add your suggestions here; suggestions so far include: Dystopia, The Big Game, FindersKeepers (and misspelling variants)

The Game is also looking for volunteers! If you’re interested in getting involved in testing, content development, community management, or technical support for the game, let us know!

15 Aug 2011: GAME ON! The Big Game is kicking off on 9 Sep 2011 with a beta at the National Zoo. We are looking for game testers and other museums and attractions in DC to join the networked game, which uses the SCVNGR platform, mobile and fixed web. For more info or to participate please contact Game Master, Rachel Meskin. Many thanks to our volunteer webmasters, Chris Ubik, and to the AAM Media and Technology Committee for hosting the game’s website!

14 June 2011: 12-1:30pm, National Zoo: Rachel Meskin at the National Zoo has kindly offered us a meeting space in their Visitor Center on Tuesday 14 June for a brownbag lunch meeting from 12-1:30pm. On the agenda are the latest ideas on the The Big Game (download a synopsis here) you may remember our discussing at the end of last year, and also hear of any other new projects or initiatives people bring to the group.

Directions to the Meet-up: The meeting will be in the Zoo’s Visitor Center, by the Connecticut Avenue entrance. When you enter the Zoo, the Visitor Center is the first building on the left. From the main lobby, take the first set of steps on the right (do not take the longer set of stairs to the second floor) and follow the hallway until you reach the classrooms. We will be meeting in Classrooms 1 and 2. RSVP to Rachel

3 November 2010: 2 PM at the National Archives and Records Administration.  We’ll be discussing pan-DC gaming/experience ideas, including: The Big Game Proposal and Halsey Burgund’s “Scapes”. To join us, guests should meet at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and proceed through security to the lobby.  Please be sure to bring a photo ID. To RSVP, please respond to Jeannie Chen.

28 September 2010, National Museum of Natural History, meet at Constitution Ave entrance 4pm & RSVP Sarah Banks. Topic: Foursquare, Gowalla & SCVNGR – how can DC-area cultural attractions work collaboratively on these platforms?

17 September 2010, 1-3pm at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Minutes from this meet-up…

4 August 2010: Kick-off meeting at the Newseum hosted a mobile fair and meet-up, organized with the Smithsonian. Minutes from this  meet-up…

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