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Some quick
snapshots from the convention this weekend, to give you guys who aren't gamers
some sense of what it's like. Click on a picture for an enlargement.

The Card Hall, where all card games occur
during the convention. Yes, this is completely full at times. This pic
is about 1/3 of the total hall.

Another
view of the Card Hall. To give you some sense of scale of the convention,
there are at least 2 other rooms this size being used 24 hours a day (one
each for miniatures games and board games). That doesn't count the Role-Playing
areas that are scattered around.

Another
view of card game playing…some of the crew I hung out with all weekend.

The
guards at the doors checking to make sure you had a badge to enter the
Exhibit Hall were stormtroopers, complete with mic'd helmets and loudspeakers
to give them the right sound for it.

By griffey

Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.

He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.

Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

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