Good news, everyone! The GDC 2016 Tech Art Dinner is definitely happening, and I'm pleased to announce that this year it's being sponsored by SideFX (makers of Houdini) and the Rigging Dojo!

As usual, we'll be meeting at Buca Di Beppo (just down the street from Moscone) after the Tech Art Bootcamp wraps up.

When: 7:30pm to 9:30pm Pacific on Tuesday, March 15th
Where: Buca Di Beppo 855 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103

Please RSVP by Saturday, March 12th on the sign-up form.

Tech-Artists.Org is now on Slack! tech-artists.slack.com We've decided to notch it up one from IRC and step into the future. Slack will allow us to have better integration, communication across the community and will work well in combination with the forums. Come check it out.

There are now dedicated forums for discussing GDC related topics. There's a forum for bootcamp planning and discussion, one for the roundtables, one for sessions, one specifically for social gathering planning, and lastly, a forum to post links, videos, and slideshows from previous tech art talks at GDC.

Our site owner and admistrator, Rob, became a father at 4am (PDT) on March 6, 2015!

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More unplanned problems. Basically, vBulletin is awful software and was creating endless temporary files which eventually caused Windows to fall over and die. In fact, I still can't delete the temp folder because Windows chokes on it!

The great news is, our backup system was working just as intended, so nothing should have been lost.

The bad news is, Windows hosting sucks, our Windows host sucks, and PHP sucks even worse than those. Maybe something we can do about that.

See you at GDC!
-Rob