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Important Announcement
{{{Hi, Ben here, founder/maintainer of prince.org, with an important announcement. I’ve accepted a great job offer that advances my career, but it means major changes of scenery. In fact, my beautiful wife Valerie and I will be moving to Barcelona, Spain at the end of the month!}}} What does this mean to “the org”? Well, probably not much. Prince.org will continue to operate just as always, and service shouldn’t be more than slightly interrupted. If prince.org maintenance does suffer a bit during our move, please understand: the site isn’t going anywhere, we are just making adjustments, and possibly relocating the server. I know the moderators (Matt, Ian, Kevin) will take up as much maintenance slack as they can. I’m very thankful for their efforts!
The only bad part of all this is how much we’re going to miss all the wonderful California friends we’ve made in the Dream Factory, BayNPG, and Bump Squad groups! We certainly look forward to returning to California to visit the many awesome people we’ve met through the Prince fan community. When we leave California, we'll be leaving most of our best and closest friends behind, and don’t want to lose touch with any of you! At the same time, we’re really looking forward to traveling around Europe, and making new friends with fans there--that’ll be great.
I’m excited about the career opportunity, and I think we’re really going to love living in Spain. Speaking of that, you might be interested to know that we’ve never spent much time in Spain, and don't know how to speak Spanish! We could use any assistance local org’ers might be able to provide (advice, etc.) once we get there… Val would love to meet up with other graphic designers and artists in Barcelona, for example. We’ve often “relied on the kindness of Prince fans” and have never been disappointed; so, if you happen to live nearby and want to drop us a note, please do! (You can mail ben@prince.org.)
I guess that’s about it! I wanted everyone to know the “news”. Val and I haven’t even told all of our regular family yet, but we couldn’t let our prince.org family go any longer without knowing about this exciting new chapter in our life! European fans—see you soon! US fans—see you at the next Celebration! And everyone—see you online!
Ben Margolin
Founder, prince.org