1. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SGS The Serious Games Society General Assembly President Annual Speech 1

2. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 Topics Assets –SG VRE –LLs –Publisher –Journal –Website –GaLA webiste Blog SIG showcases Strategies –Community building –Penetration in application domains Communication –Promotion 2

3. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 VRE SG Knowledge Management System –Operational since october 2012 for inserting and viewing SG semantic data –One UniGe person engaged in the development Few bugs removed Now working on the public query interface –Online since june 2013 Further step: SG analytics –Online since october 2013 (presented at the GaLA 2013 conference) –All GaLA partners Have to insert their year 2 SG study data (just very few have already done this) Have to prepare the year 3 SG studies and insert their data in the KMS 3

4. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 Living Labs Update by Jannicke –Bremen, Coventry, Madrid, Paris Virtual Genova –Target: LL for elementary/middle school students Tablet PCs boughts Tests foreseen in may in schools SG service catalogue –Being developed in UniGe –Who is interested? –Maira (UniGe) will ask input on the service classification metadata (this week) 4

5. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 Publishing activity Books –Update by Igor MOOCs –One on entrepreneurship basics being developed by ESADE Journal –Next slides 5

6. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SG Journal Priority set by GaLA reviewers and a prospect main asset of the SGS A working group has been established –Others want to add? We need to define precise responsibilities (teams) Publishing model: open access gold Scientific areas –Responsible have been proposed –GaLA outsiders needed to cover some areas Proposals? Editorial board –Related to the scientific areas 6

7. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SG Journal Buy publisher ISBN –Useful also for books, etc. Commitment by GaLA partners to submit high quality papers soon Publicity chair and team Final editing team needed –Accepted author management - from proof reading to copyright Webiste –To be set up and managed Workflow –To be explored solutions such as PKP –Initially, we can start with easychair as a temporary solution 7

8. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SG Journal We aim at a first issue in july or ASAP –In order to exploit the GaLA critical mass Quality is the target Targets –Peer reviewed –Indexed in Scopus, ISI web of science –IF 8

9. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 GaLA conference Paris, October 23-25, Dassault Systemes www.galaconf.org CFP will close on may 31 –Workshops, april 26 –Tutorials, may 31 2 panels –Learner tracking, assessment and feedback provision in SGs –Roadmapping SG application domains Other ideas? Some keynote speakers and panelist yet to be defined Need for advertisment 9

10. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 SGS website Seriousgamessociety.org Being migrated from wordpress to joomla platform Gala blog feeded into Portal to services –VRE, Service catalog, Journal, Conference Leaflet to be prepared? 10

11. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 Community building Are stakeholders aware of GaLA/SGS? Have stakeholders needs been considered? Are stakeholders being contacted? What is the status of the directories? What infratsructure is needed? –Who develops it? GaLA has resources We have a wShop on this on Tuesday afternoon Promotion in conferences in which we participate –ECTEL, ECGBL. iCalt, ACM MM 11

12. Madrid April 15 th, 2013 Strategies Exploiting SGS asset –To be improved Free and premium services –Different levels of services –Discounts for SGS members Involve users and stakeholders How to penetrate the various domains –Know the stakeholders Target quality 12