<div dir="auto">Thanks Will.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The way it was described to me was to "keep track of original game data." I would also continue what I've been doing to research and acquire alternate releases of games over different editions, different countries, etc. Typically I would add detection entries, update the wiki and clarify code documentation as necessary, and of course provide whatever information the devs need if they decide to add support for a new variant.</span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 6:05 PM Will Herrmann <<a href="mailto:wjherrmann@gmail.com">wjherrmann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Glad to have you join us! <br></div><div><br></div><div>What exactly will be your role as an Archivist? It sounds like something that is useful, I'm just not entirely sure what sort of things you'll be doing.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 12:53 PM Sean Patrick Brody via scummvm-devel <<a href="mailto:scummvm-devel@lists.scummvm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">scummvm-devel@lists.scummvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-8231837390541347283gmail-m_1883711374813931280gmail-docs-internal-guid-e7d174f0-7fff-e6bb-4201-2fcca5d63dcf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello devs,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I'm Sean, or trembyle on Discord and GitHub and such things. I popped in a few years ago when I was playing with Mac KQ6. sluicebox happened to be around and was excited to help out. Soon after, he encouraged me to try compiling my own build. I've learned a bit more coding since then, and occasionally I even submit some minor enhancements, although I still maintain that I'm not really a developer.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Also since then I (and others) have come to realize that I have a knack for research and preservation. I can be extremely persistent when I want to find some specific software or even just the answer to a minor question. I'll try to add that info to the wiki and add detection entries where possible, such as the hundreds of Director games I've added.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For that reason I have been offered a new position on the team as Archivist. At the very least it means that you folks don't mind having me around! I'm excited to join such a talented team and look forward to working with you.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sean (trembyle)</span></p></span></div>
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