[games_access] Some Changes Afoot at AbleGamers.com

[Mark Barlet]

I wanted to take a few moments to send a message to this group, many of whom
I  know personally, and share with you some of the good news the staff at
AbleGamers wants to share.

A New Beginning.
So, spring is here, and as the trees, plants, and flowers wake up from their
long winters nap, AbleGamers awakes too. There has been hints of it here and
there, but I want to formally announce that the mission of AbleGamers has
been reborn, and a site that was for a long time a labor of love has given
birth to something new, The AbleGamers Foundation, Inc. a non-profit
cooperation to further our current goals and expand our mission to better
server our community. Our package has been accepted by the IRS, and we await
a determination on our non-profit status (this is rarely  an issue, it just
takes the IRS time, they are slow). The change of status will mean that we
are no longer just a website, but we are an organization with a board and
advisory committee that will help steer us to bring to life our mission; to
help insure that people with disabilities can fully participate in the
digital entertainment marketplace.

The AbleGamers Foundation was founded on Fed 27, 2009. We held our first
board meeting on March 9th 2009. A new site will be stood up over the next
month or so for the Foundation, AbleGamers.com is not changing at all, so
don’t worry.

Happy Birthday.
I also wanted to let you know that this is AbleGamers 5th year! We are 5
years old! That is like 297 trillion years old in web years. In our history
we have had to rebuild the site 3 times, once because of a major tech change
(we moved from PHPNuke to Mombo) and twice because the cheap hosts that we
used went out of business one day and forget to tell us!

Lastly I want to share with you some news (I posted it on our forums) that
is a huge milestone for all of us, AbleGamers has for the first time in our
history reached 1,000,000 (1,024,843 to be exact) real hits in one month.
Just to put that into perspective, at this same time last year the site got
61,436. We are on track to top that in the month of April. While I know a
lot of this has to do with GDC, I still think it is great to see that
AbleGamers has broken the million hit mark.

I want to invite everyone here to come on over and check out all the great
things that are going on, we have an active community and we are always
looking for new and exciting voices.

If you have any questions about the AbleGamers Foundation, or any other
things, please drop me a line, mark at ablegamers.com

Thank you all for your time
Mark Barlet



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Mark C. Barlet
Editor-in-Chief
AbleGamers.com
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