Hey !

1. Next Monday, we'll be meeting for our monthly drinking get
together, the play and mingle drinking event will be at Monday March
17th at 19:00. at Leo Bloom's in Ramat Hachayal, Tel-aviv.
More Details at the event :
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7211879938

2. Our largest annual conference, Israeli game day 2008 will take
place on April 17th 2008, In Herzelia, and we're forming out the
lecture line-up. We are accepting last minute talk proposals and we
will announce the conference's agenda shortly.

Please send us :
Your lecture's title.
A short summary of your proposed lecture.
A short bio of yourself.

Please email us your proposals before Monday March 17th, to
GameDayLectures@...
This is our final deadline for proposals and we will no be able to
include lectures that will arrive after that time.

Some ideas for lectures:
Hardware and add ons
- creating successful peripherals for PC and consoles
- Consoles as the living room center

Content Creation
- games as platforms, games as media
- designing for mass market and user generated content
- Design: Rock, paper, scissors - where it all began


Independent Game Developer
- What is Indy Game Dev ?
- Breaking the entry barriers
- Putting yourself out there, marketing for indies, Indy showcases and
competitions
- Independent game development in Israel
- Experimental game design

Services and tools
- Feeding the food chain; distribution, publishers and developers
- Revenue channels in online markets

Business development
- How do I start ? The starve up & the start up
- Publishers facing the online phenomena
- Financing

Research, education & analysis
- Research groups looking at the interactive sector
- Serious games


Thanks, and see you at both the events
Oded Sharon, IGDA Israel chapter co-coordinator.
and the rest of the organizing teams.