Infinite Ammo » government http://infiniteammo.ca Indie Game Devs from Winnipeg, Canada Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:09:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Adventures with the Government http://infiniteammo.ca/blog/adventures-with-the-government/ http://infiniteammo.ca/blog/adventures-with-the-government/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:09:21 +0000 Alec Holowka http://infiniteammo.ca/?p=369 Ladies and gentlemen, behold our latest video blog:

[Vimeo 2974135]

A couple weeks ago, I was invited to go to the Manitoba legislative building to talk about new media government funding with other companies and the Minister of Technology. (and science and energy and mines) While the video blog is kinda goofy, the actual meeting was upbeat and sincere. The idea is to make it easier for new media companies to get off the ground in Winnipeg, and it seems like there are some folks in government who want to make this happen.

Unfortunately, governments contain a lot of slow-moving bureaucracy that is hard to control. Right now there are a fair number of stumbling blocks in the fund application process. We managed to help identify these issues and it seems like they will be fixed.

The meeting ended with all the involved parties feeling pretty hopeful about the future. All in all, it was a pretty fun and exciting morning. :)

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