I am glad to see this as I am sure others are that this is happening not only for this site but for other long term beta sites that are part of the Stack Exchange Community. I am looking forward to when the backlog gets to our site and we can work on a new theme and everything else that comes with graduating from beta.
I also hope that initial graduation process and removal of the beta tag can help spur growth of the community and possibly lead to partnering with other websites that are part of the large board and card gaming community around the web.
As a side note I would like to thank the hard work of the moderators and all the community members for the hard work in maintaining this site. While I am not sure of the election process for moderators I hope that all of the current ones are asked to stay on as they have done an amazing job over the years!
A side question, outside elections when are we scheduled to get other graduation benefits such as being able to migrate questions to other sites?