Announcement and call into the DiGRA Assembly 2006 in Athens, Greece
Date: Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Time: c. 8 pm (after the Medi@terra conference’s Saturday programme ends)
Location: City of Athens, 100 Piraeus Street, Gazi Technopolis

All old and new members are hereby invited to take part in the General Assembly of the Digital Games Research Association. Assembly will deal with the past and future activities of the association, and decide for activities transferring the association main office from Finland to the United Kingdom (necessary for using English as the official language of the association). If decided by the meeting, there will thus be an action to effectively dissolve association as registered in Finland, followed by decision to reregister the association to the United Kingdom, and, thirdly, to transfer all remaining assets to the new association registered in the UK. The meeting will also elect the new Executive Board for 2007-2008. All members wanting to take a leading role in how association and its activities are run in the future are welcome to volunteer as board candidates, either at the web forum (http://www.digra.org/news/blogentry.2006-09-05.8499476089/blogentry_view), email to the board (newboard [at] digra.org) or even on site at the General Assembly. In vote, all registered individual DiGRA members have one vote; voting is also possible by proxy (signed letter of proof required). Welcome to the meeting!

Meeting Agenda

1. Opening of the meeting
2. The election of the chair of the meeting, the recording secretary, two scrutinizers of the minutes and, if needed, two counters of votes
3. Notification that the Meeting constitutes a quorum
4. Accepting the agenda of the Meeting
5. The Meeting is presented the accounts, the Board’s reports and the auditors’ report upon the transactions of the Association from the year 2005
6. The Assembly decides about confirming the accounts and giving discharge from liability to the Board and to others in charge
7. The election of one or two auditors and their vice persons for the year 2006
8. Accepting the financial plan and plan of action for the year 2007
9. The election of President, Vice-President, and other members of the Board, 2007-2008
10. Proposal to dissolve association as registered in Finland
11. Proposal to reregister the association into the United Kingdom
12. Proposal to transfer all remaining assets to the new association registered in the UK
13. Other matters
14. Closing of the meeting

The 2006 DiGRA Assembly will be organised in conjunction with the Medi@terra Art + Technology Festival and its Gaming Realities conference. The most likely available timeslot appears to be late in Saturday evening, so look forward to a DiGRA Dinner Buffet being offered during the meeting (subject to us being able to remotely organise this with the Medi@terra organisers). The Gaming Realities conference programme is now available in http://www.mediaterra.org/2006/en/conference.html (Medi@terra 2006 takes place in October 4-8 in Athens.)

On behalf of the DiGRA Executive Board,

Frans Mäyrä, President