Agenda:

• Previous Meeting Notes:
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o27PSrmBC4RSRRP41XzCaYMRHp7ByHzKUGtAfzBXmVY/edit
• Latest on Schedule - in person show or not?
  • Devops not bringing up reggie instance until Sept at earliest
  • Decision expected from BoD by end of August
• Sub-Departments update
  • Combine some sub-depts and rename / make new?
  • Current list:
    • Judging
    • Volunteers
    • Layouts
    • Information
    • Tournaments
    • Obelisk and other cool shit
    • Award$
    • Tech Group:
      • MIVS App
      • MIVSFit
      • Website
      • Guidebook
    • Indie Services
    • Versus Liason
    • Social Media / Outreach
    • Department Heads
• Alumni Penalty - have enough time to start a discussion
  • Penalty Experiment Spreadsheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10IEXeNQnubAh__jg3-f3je3ux3wbo73A/view?usp=sharing
• Web reorg
  • indie-games → list for mivs, indie arcade, mits, etc
  • department specific pages (/mivs)
• Next Meeting:
  • Sunday September 6th at 6pm EST (Memorial Day Weekend)
  • TODO: Jesse send notice

MIVS 08/08/2020 Meeting Minutes

Kotey, Marc, Jacob, Jeremy, John, Kat, Tyler, Lauren, Jesse, Joel

Schedule/Submission opening

• Reggie won't be up until sept at earliest
• BoD said to make decision by end of August

Virtual submission process

• video
• preflight to verify
• demos download required?
• we do a small internal vetting process?
• featured list of games
• misc games that are barely over the bar
• streaming via mag tv twitch
• alphabetical list / category list
• tags of genre
• resource constraints on mag / mivs sides

Virtual Awards

• public voting?
• abuse
• staff only voting

What is MIVS Streaming?

• start this discussion
• and then can get into fine details
• how do we hook into MAG TV?
• and what MIVS content gets shown?
• time slots to speak with dev?
• ACTION: Start a confluence doc
• ping DH if can't access confluence
• ACTION: Start another confluence doc for other virtual events/notes
• 30 minute beverage stream

Theme:

• Did anything happen with the gaylord doom map?
• MIVS.wad!

Sub*Departments:

• Judging
• Volunteers
• Layouts
• Information
• Tournaments    * Versus Liason
• Obelisk and other cool shit    * trophies
• Award$
• Tech Group:    * MIVS App    * MIVSFit    * Website    * Guidebook
• Indie Services
• Social Media / Outreach
• Department Heads

• Sign up on slack

• info on confluence: https://docs.magfest.net/display/MIVS/MIVS
• update the confluence page

Alum Penalty:

• originally, to show again, needed to have significant changes
• this didn't scale, so the penalty was created
• the goals are to:    * be simple to implement    * fair / applies to everyone    * and allow a few revisits to mivs    * but want to keep it fresh
• we like alumni
• alumni allotment?
• alumni are easier? to manage and provide wisdom to new games
• 25% alumni, 75% fresh?    * base this percentage based on round 1 submission count
• backfilling with alumni for any drop outs from initial acceptance round
• what was the ratio of new to alumni in previous years?    * 2020 had 35 alumni (total)
• do we take highest score over the years? tastes change?
• New System:   * ACTION: Lauren takes point to write the process and we will comment on it   * ACTION: Jesse try to pull data from other years

Web reorg: https://super.magfest.org/indie-games

• indie-games → list for mivs, indie arcade, mits, etc
• department specific pages (/mivs, /pancakes, /mits)

next meeting:

• Sunday September 6th at 6pm EST (Memorial Day Weekend)

Action Items: