Please feel free to add new initiatives and place your name w/ a bullet underneath initiatives you wish to take part in.  That said, please add new initiatives.  if your initiative would easily fit as a Task within an existing initiative, please add the Task and work with the people already interested.  Help us stay focused.

Tasks:

• create forums for Indie job listings, contracts, freelance opportunities, resumes
• provide Indie networking opportunities, avenues for business partnerships
  
• mentor, in Indie fashion, those who are not in the industry yet, or who want to get out of the mainstream industry
  
• moderate the forums, so that they remain professional
• challenge the IGDA SIG policy manual regarding perceived fears of studios having their employees poached.  We are Indies, without many big studios, and our labor practices are different.
• repository of legal boilerplate licensing and contracts for Indies, building upon IGDA legal resources
• track who's got what various distribution deals?
  

Interested Members:

• Christina Beard
• Nathan Runge
• Michael Lubker
• Trey Tomes
• Tyler Trevell
• Peter Jones
• Jim Perry
• Hélder Gomes

Mozilla-like indie incubator

By Mozilla Incubator, I meant an incubator similar to the way Mozilla works, they have the non-profit Foundation which actually does the development, and a corporation which gets funding when it's needed for a project. Basically an indie grant system of some sort as well as a fundraising system, maybe similar to kickstarter.com or public television but for indie game projects.

Tasks:

• Work with sites like kickstarter.com and organizations like PBS to provide non-profit fundraising for indie game projects.
• Incubate indie game projects.
  

Interested Members:

• Michael Lubker
• Peter Jones
• Nathan Runge
  
• Tyler Trevell
  

Player Evangelism

Tasks:

• Evangelize indie games to players.
• Make a top-100 indie games list yearly to showcase new indie games that year.
• create a "redefining AAA" or "defining III" marketing campaign?
• track Indie game sales (external partnership)
  

Interested Members:

• Michael Lubker
• Trey Tomes
• Nathan Runge
• Tyler Trevell
  
• Hélder Gomes

Public Relations

Tasks:

• come up with a more focused slogan
• design a snappy logo
• implement decent webpage aesthetics.  Avoid amateurism.  Waiting for IGDA web update on August 19th.
• remove dead links on SIG website
  
• ensure that professional Resources on SIG website are actually useful to professionals
• Advertise the SIG in events.
• Make Press Releases about SIG actions
• Provide a forum for indies to put out their Press Releases for free.  Moderate this forum.
  
• Work with game industry Press Releases sites to provide cheap/free access to indie developers.
• Organize public events in behalf of the SIG.
• Outreach to gamedev.net, tigsource etc to find out what indie-dom needs and wants
• Get feedback on definition of indie
• Help other Indie groups gain confidence in the IGDA, especially with regard to recent issues with the IGDA Board.
• add good RSS feeds and/or a blogroll of indie developers
• ensure that listed Companies actually represent Indie-dom according to SIG definitions and common perception
• implement non-member polling system, to get opinions from general Indie-dom, raise Indie awareness of SIG actions, and recruit members
  
• highlight the various "screw clauses" typical of publisher contracts, using the IGDA whitepaper "The Business and Legal Primer for Game
  Development"
• get Indie developers to speak at various local events.  Help both Indie speakers and local events get in contact with one another.  Make a list of interested Indie speakers.
• Organize, or provide organization guidelines for, chapter meetings related to indie game development.
• Evangelize with Chapter admins to spread Indie-focused meetings to all chapters.
• campaign for Indie-centric candidates for the IGDA Board of Directors
• identify IGDA Board of Directors candidates that are demonstrably hostile to Indie interests and oppose their candidacy
• highlight the work of the IGDA Voter Guidance Committee, so that SIG members know what an IGDA Board member is and does.  Add SIG specific concerns, if any.
  
• educate SIG members about SIG offices and governance, when we have that formalized
  

Interested Members:

• Michael Lubker
• Hélder Gomes
• Peter Jones
• Tyler Trevell
• Brandon Van Every
• Corvus Elrod
• Mike Rubin
• Grant Shonkwiler
• Nathan Runge
• Jim Perry
• Trey Tomes

Monthly Communications

Tasks:

• Write and/or interview in order to create an article(s) or podcast(s) for the SIG. We need at least one article or interview per month.
• Pull together updates to the SIG that happened during the quarter and put a nice message about the SIG atop it (most likely, a message from the Chair and/or board member(s). This group would also manage the Annual Report required by the SIG guidelines.
• Research on, and keep track of calendars for the game industry, in order to provide an event calendar that is indie specific. Festivals, conferences, etc.
• Keep the Wiki up to date.  Remove dead links.  Reduce clutter.  Create a webpage for each major Initiative area.
• create at least one "hard moderated" forum or mailing list for SIG feedback and governance issues, where all posts are screened by a moderator for civility before they are sent out
• create a good polling system
  

Interested Members:

• Michael Lubker
• Christina Beard
• Peter Jones
• Nathan Runge
• Tyler Trevell
• Josh Arkey
• Jim Perry
• Mike Rubin
  

Conferences

Tasks:

• Liaise with GDC and other conference management teams to allow the Indie SIG a presence at their conference.
• Include GDC Austin and others, not just the GDC SF conference.

• Indie Developer Forum - Do required tasks to create an actual conference for Indies under the purview of the IGDA (similar to the IGDA Leadership Forum which has occured in SF twice now).

• Man the booth, sessions, awards etc.
• Get into the IGF judging panel.  (What's stopping anybody now?  - Brandon Van Every, ex IGF judge)
• Organize game jam events

Interested Members:

• Michael Lubker
• Corvus Elrod
• Mike Rubin
• Grant Shonkwiler
• Jim Perry
  
• Tyler Trevell
• Nathan Runge

Tools Group

Tasks:

• coordinate with the external Indie Game Tools site
  
• maintain listings of tools deemed suitable for commercial Indie game development
  
• maintain listings of open source, homebrew, hobby, and freeware tools
• create forums with particular themes; for example, freeware development, hobby development
  
• write programming tutorials
• interview Indies, get them to say "how they did it," dispense sage wisdom, postmortems
• negotiate with companies for indie license pricing on Autodesk, Adobe products, etc.  Similar to licenses offered by Unity or GarageGames; not free, just cheaper.
  

Interested Members:

• Michael Lubker
• Josh Arkey
• Judy Tyrer
• Peter Jones
• Jim Perry
  
• Tyler Trevell
• Corvus Elrod
• Ryan Ploetz
• Phil Knoll
  
• Robc
  
• Hélder Gomes
• Mike Rubin
• Nathan Runge