From matthew at agrip.org.uk  Sun Jan 23 13:55:06 2005
From: matthew at agrip.org.uk (Matthew T. Atkinson)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:55:06 +0000
Subject: [AAGRS] Accessible Game Developers Portal & AAGRS
Message-ID: <1106488506.3586.22.camel@localhost>

'ello,

I know you're probably all still very busy (hence not much action on the
list) but I wanted to let you know about a development that looks set to
be taking place soon.  I'm sure most of you are aware of it already as
you follow the blindgamers list.  We're hoping to set up a community
site for developers to help each other out.  It will also contain a
mailing list for discussion between developers.

We (the people who are organising it) hope that it might kick-start some
positive collaboration between developers which can only be a good thing
for the community as a whole.

I have been wondering how this affects AAGRS lately and I think the
answer is that it may or may not, depending on what people want to make
of AAGRS and this new venture (likely to be found at agdev.org once the
domain has been registered).

If you would like to continue AAGRS as a separate project, then that's
fine.  If you would rather we join up with the new project and form a
kind of ``ratings interest group'' below it, then that is also good.  I
don't intend to disband this list overnight; I just wanted to let you
all know that there may be other ways to continue what we set out to do
here in the future.

I am still confident that a ratings system would be a beneficial thing
to have and I hope we can finally see it through to completion, whether
through the new project or as AAGRS, in the future.

Best of luck to all of you with the work your doing at the moment; I
hope that things are going well for you and also to see you on the
developer's list when it is launched soon :-).

bye just now, best regards,


-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>



From justind at BscGames.com  Mon Jan 24 13:47:34 2005
From: justind at BscGames.com (JustinFromBSCGames)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:47:34 -0500
Subject: [AAGRS] Accessible Game Developers Portal & AAGRS
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Message-ID: <003d01c5021b$42627b10$cd0ecb42@cboss.com>

I would be all for a central portal for developers to have as an information 
to products and things like that.

James North, if recalling, owns AccessibleGames.com why not see if you can 
get that domain from him I think he is simply pointing it to audiogames.net 
right now and not even using it. I think a name like that would be much more 
useful and meaningful for our industry.

Also, who is to head this up? What information is to be offered on the site?


I think the ratings system should still be a separate issue from this new 
adventure and then entegrated into it once we finish it up.
Regards,
Justin - BSC Games
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew T. Atkinson" <matthew at agrip.org.uk>
To: "AAGRS list" <aagrs at oblique.agrip.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: [AAGRS] Accessible Game Developers Portal & AAGRS


> 'ello,
>
> I know you're probably all still very busy (hence not much action on the
> list) but I wanted to let you know about a development that looks set to
> be taking place soon.  I'm sure most of you are aware of it already as
> you follow the blindgamers list.  We're hoping to set up a community
> site for developers to help each other out.  It will also contain a
> mailing list for discussion between developers.
>
> We (the people who are organising it) hope that it might kick-start some
> positive collaboration between developers which can only be a good thing
> for the community as a whole.
>
> I have been wondering how this affects AAGRS lately and I think the
> answer is that it may or may not, depending on what people want to make
> of AAGRS and this new venture (likely to be found at agdev.org once the
> domain has been registered).
>
> If you would like to continue AAGRS as a separate project, then that's
> fine.  If you would rather we join up with the new project and form a
> kind of ``ratings interest group'' below it, then that is also good.  I
> don't intend to disband this list overnight; I just wanted to let you
> all know that there may be other ways to continue what we set out to do
> here in the future.
>
> I am still confident that a ratings system would be a beneficial thing
> to have and I hope we can finally see it through to completion, whether
> through the new project or as AAGRS, in the future.
>
> Best of luck to all of you with the work your doing at the moment; I
> hope that things are going well for you and also to see you on the
> developer's list when it is launched soon :-).
>
> bye just now, best regards,
>
>
> -- 
> Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AAGRS mailing list
> AAGRS at oblique.agrip.org.uk
> http://oblique.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aagrs 



From matthew at agrip.org.uk  Mon Jan 24 13:52:43 2005
From: matthew at agrip.org.uk (Matthew T. Atkinson)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:52:43 +0000
Subject: [AAGRS] Accessible Game Developers Portal & AAGRS
In-Reply-To: <003d01c5021b$42627b10$cd0ecb42@cboss.com>
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	<003d01c5021b$42627b10$cd0ecb42@cboss.com>
Message-ID: <1106574763.3666.35.camel@localhost>

Hello,

I've just registered agdev.org, as this was the name of the mailing list
set up about a year ago that was a first attempt at what we're now
doing.  As it is specifically for developers as opposed to gamers,
AccessibleGames.com may be misleading but we could certainly look into
it once we're set up -- thanks for the info.

I am providing hosting and a few community members who're not affiliated
to any particular developer are expected to moderate it.  There has been
one step forward so far.  The discussion is taking place on the
blindgamers list at the moment.

I can put a link on this new site to point developers here so that if
they are interested they can join us.

bye just now, best regards,


-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>